tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11627808.post-1135300044471605882005-12-22T17:07:00.000-08:002005-12-22T17:07:00.000-08:00To get out of Flurry's hold on membership, as well as those of other WCG/HWA-based sub-cults: you really strike at the heart of it all - isolation and an alternative behaviour and lifestyle. But there must still be another element: a jolt to wake up from the deep slumber that cult membership has brought upon the person.<BR/><BR/>I have been deeply entrenched into this HWA cult's WCG from 1972 until 1994 and continue on first with Meredith's Global, and later on with a small independent home fellowship group somewhere on this planet until 2004.<BR/><BR/>I was really so turned off during that year's autumn feast when the fellowship leadership tried to take control of my emotional swings even when I woke up on the wrong side of the bed and I was in bad mood. <BR/><BR/>I have already told them many times that when I am in emotional tantrums, the best way to deal with me is to ignore me. I actually left the fellowship to eat meals alone and refused to join them in their feast activities. But they keep on insisting I join them and commenting on my bad attitude of isolationism. (Can you take that? I was in bad mood, I isolated myself from them so that they needlessly become victim of my bad temper and my irrational perspective . . . and I turn out to be in bad attitude. I can't understand why these cult groups want to control even a person's bad mood. They want you to join their activities even if your bio-chemistry says otherwise. If I am not interested to join anything, since I am a free moral agent, there is no way you can force me to join, no matter how small the fellowship is and they are wanting in manpower.)<BR/><BR/>That feast was the last time I joined them. I continued on with my isolation. I studied the Bible on my own and discovered many unbiblical teachings of the HWA cult heritage groups.<BR/><BR/>The last straw was my discovery in the Painful Truth website that Hoeh doctored Church History so that COG groups would feel at par with Catholic Church in tracing their roots to the original Jerusalem church (if ever there was any). This was the biggest fraud the HWA cult group system has ever foisted upon its faithful followers like me. This was the turning point. People remain in that belief system hoping and thinking that a baton of authority was passed into a collective group as the chosen people and to whom Biblical promises were to be fulfilled. I cried to accept the fact that HWA and all of his cohorts are charlatans, and I am a charlatan myself! All these years of remaining faithful in that cult system cannot bring me physical and spiritual deliverance. I was duped!<BR/><BR/>So I think it takes one big jolt in a person's life to wake up and realize that he is in a cult. But since I was already in isolation, an alternative lifestyle and belief system is already in place. <BR/><BR/>I am still in the slow road to emotional and spiritual healing and recovery. But being on my own nowadays, without being under slavery of HWA-heritage group, I am thankful to God for liberating me from that cult group and from the cult mentality.<BR/><BR/>I wouldn't say it was totally wasted years. I learned how to pray, I learned what it means to depend on God for our daily needs ("God will provide ...), I learned concepts of loyalty and perseverance for a cause I think is worth fighting for, etc. I don't want to look back. I don't think I will ever rejoin that small home fellowship. I am very happy I am out of that cult group! Never again!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com