tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803233417008181456.post4417418922258717717..comments2023-11-02T08:19:33.962-07:00Comments on Thriving Reality: If It Walks Like a DuckKristen Skedgellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06509248930351727695noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803233417008181456.post-19671322431360160852010-10-15T08:46:01.300-07:002010-10-15T08:46:01.300-07:00Thanks Kirsten,
It takes a long time and a lot of ...Thanks Kirsten,<br />It takes a long time and a lot of love and understanding to heal the wounds that kids receive in cults. At that time in their lives when they are looking for meaning in the world around them and their place in it, they are fed a distorted reality at their most receptive and impressionable time in their lives.<br />As adults, many of us have a point of reference, from the time before we joined our respective cults, to which we can look to restore our outlook on life and our sense of who we are and what we want for the rest of our lives....for our kids born into the cults we belonged to this point of reference simply does not exist.<br />Its a tough road for kids born into spiritually abusive, hyper authoritarian situations who now struggle to come to terms with real life.<br />Thanks for your comments<br />daveWondering what comes nexthttp://weescapedacult.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803233417008181456.post-75032571950149572662010-10-02T10:57:37.340-07:002010-10-02T10:57:37.340-07:00Kristen gives an excellent detailed description of...Kristen gives an excellent detailed description of this case. If she were responsible for handling this case, between her experience in the Way, and as a mental health professional, I would trust her calls on how to handle things as much as anyone's.<br /><br />I am not too fond of some generalizations, including specifically the use of this "If it walks like a duck.." phrase, because overuse of such a phrase (which Kristen doesn't do here) when the terminology of mass suicide comes in, lumps everything with Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, as if each group is a clone of them. Such lumping produced the fear which led to my deprogramming years ago, an event which I do not view as favorable. This even given Kristen's account of the abuse she suffered, which i accept fully, and in fact would be willing to emphatically back up.<br /><br />Ironically, I read a couple articles in my searches for information about Reyna Chicas and those with her, which illustrate other dangers of such a comparison. They referred to the group being found, and that "fears of mass suicide prove false". because they were found alive, weren't large, rich, and well organized like the P.T., and weren't flying off in isolation to some far off land like Jim Jones and his bunch did. None of these differences disprove in the least the suicide potential, given the details we know. But anyone who felt relieved after learning that this small group was found alive and well, because they are not exactly like the Peoples Temple after all, should stay on guard. In fact, I will not let up on following this case.<br /><br />So, putting this in perspective, Kristen has earned the right to use whatever terminology she wants in her descriptions of what happened to her in the Way, and related topics such as she covers here. My descriptions are going to be different, if only because my times alone (and I had a couple) with V.P. Wierwille while I was in the 8th corps were, well, less eventful(among other things, I'm male), though as I mentioned in an earlier post, I did get a very minor taste of the Way Corps sexual attitude from a couple of others. I'm simply admitting I have my own bugs (called trigger words I guess) like most people. That's why Kristen's "telling her story as she lived it" description in "Losing the Way" was right for me.Billynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803233417008181456.post-45579485435867335022010-09-27T16:43:37.356-07:002010-09-27T16:43:37.356-07:00Well said Kristen!
I hope you and yours are doing...Well said Kristen!<br /><br />I hope you and yours are doing well. <br /><br />I enjoy your blog because you often share with us how you are doing with the things with which you've been considering lately and I hope this stuff about Wierwille and cults are good for you to consider too, because I enjoy reading your perspective.<br /><br />JEFFjeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14202248619923189586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803233417008181456.post-81697680399327440272010-09-26T17:50:46.068-07:002010-09-26T17:50:46.068-07:00I agree. Something has got to be done in our soci...I agree. Something has got to be done in our society ,it is endangering to the children,I think to a point of abuse and neglect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com