| Author | Message | ||
| Leigh Registered user Username: Leigh Post Number: 213 Registered: 2-2003 |
Hi everyone, I came out of lurking mode to share this link http://undermuchgrace.blogspot.com/ with the video excert from The Marks of a Cult. The picture is what caught my attention, though. leigh | ||
| Sunnimoreno Registered user Username: Sunnimoreno Post Number: 17 Registered: 10-2008 |
Everything described in the video was demonstrated by the leaders of the church were I was disfellowshipped. I'm happy to have been guided to that site. Thanks Leigh. Phil | ||
| Mommamayi Registered user Username: Mommamayi Post Number: 742 Registered: 12-2007  |
Thanks for that Leigh! I have enjoyed Vision Forum's catalogs for a number of years, but always had a bit of a guarded feeling. Of course we as former adventists sometimes have a tendency to be attracted to other cult like organizations, and I have only been out of adventism for a little over a year. I was just thinking today about the song we learned in craderoll "When a mother says (cluck, cluck, moo, moo, me-owww, etc.), all the little (chicks, calves, kittens....) come running" as part of the "first time obedience", and "unquestioned submission" training. Interesting thoughts to ponder... | ||
| Leigh Registered user Username: Leigh Post Number: 214 Registered: 2-2003 |
Mommamayi, I know what you mean! I liked the catalogs, too. Although the last time i got one,I realized that my daughter would not fit the Vision Form image. She had a fort up in a tree! Sometimes (speaking for myself here) we are still looking for that nice little package like we had in Adventism - the "perfect" church, oganization, or philosophy that seems to be doing everything right or "biblical" as they like to say. I found myself ignoring the little red flags because "it's not as bad as Adventism." | ||
| Mommamayi Registered user Username: Mommamayi Post Number: 746 Registered: 12-2007 |
You tell her to come right down out of that tree and put on her Priscilla Mullins outfit.  ha ha Although I always loved feminine dresses and longed to be able to wear jewelry and read fairy tales, I loved climbing trees and our neighbors had a 3 story tree house. I used to pride myself in running or skating faster then the boys and finally had to have a talking to by my mom that I was getting too old to participate in wrestling matches. My daughters have all the dress up clothes for themseles and their Liberty doll. My son has a number of the Vision Forum items for boys too -throwing knife, sling shots, a sword, the wooden guns that shoot ping pong balls, etc. My word, we even have the mixing bowls and mother daughter aprons. Fortunately I've never sprung for ordering the audio CD's that delve further into their philosophy. |
