SPLIT THREAD - Control and Addiction in the Local Church

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by OBW

He's quite proud that he is an outsider with limited first-hand knowledge, but with a friend who feeds him all the stuff so he can dish it out.

Where was he all those years while his "gullible and infantile friend" was being "duped by the LC."

[UntoHim]

Steady as she goes me mates! Let's stay on course, shall we?

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[Ohio]

UntoHim,

Sorry, my bad.

I posted a personal testimony (possibly a more vulnerable moment?) thinking back 30+ years of my life, so that others could maybe understand some of the personal dynamics within, (considering myself as a typical LC'er) concerning these matters of "control vs. submission," hoping to get some helpful feedback from others, but ... I got caught off guard by the words "gullible infantile duped."

Thanks for the reminder.

[gr8ful]

Originally Posted by Ohio

UntoHim,

Sorry, my bad.

I posted a personal testimony (possibly a more vulnerable moment?) thinking back 30+ years of my life, so that others could maybe understand some of the personal dynamics within, (considering myself as a typical LC'er) concerning these matters of "control vs. submission," hoping to get some helpful feedback from others, but ... I got caught off guard by the words "gullible infantile duped."

Thanks for the reminder.

Ohio, this pains me, too.

I used to refer to the people who "gleaned me off the campus" as the "brothers who brought me into the church life." After many years and much inner reflection informed by experts in the area of undue influence, I realize the older men put on the campus by the church to intentionally target incoming freshmen, because they are "more open" since they're in a state of vulnerable upheaval, were my recruiters. I was intentionally recruited into the Local Church by men I considered my elder brothers, mentors, and friends. They did become friends and there was some real fellowship between us, yes, but only once the primary objective of recruiting me into their group had been achieved.

Call me "gullible infantile duped" all you (general you, not a specific you, please understand) want. The truth is: I was separated from the flock of lambs as a Freshman and sent into the den of wolves hiding in retreats, conferences, morning watch rooms, brothers houses, kingdom houses, semi-annual trainings, Full Time Training, and levitical service. The goal wasn't to get my money -- it was to get my being. And every effort was made for this to happen, and yes, once isolated from all my former friends and non-LC family (no Xmas, no Thanksgiving, no July 4th, no Lunar New Year with the family), I held on tightly to this new group -- it was all I had left.

Why mock the victims?