On 2006-04-18 13:26:00, tommyfromhyde1 wrote:
The pressure goes a little deeper than that. When I was there in '76 Hyde used to advise parents to throw you out of the house if you didn't like Hyde.When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=william+blake' target='_new'>William Blake
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Oh, that's always been a part of it. W. the Seed and Straight, though, they had direct ties w/ law enforcement and the courts, so they'd first try to use that. They actually extradited me from Georgia to Florida for the "crime" of being a runaway in Florida (17 was the default age of emancipation in Ga in those days)
But, when all else failed, they did exactly that; change the locks, advice all friends and family to shun the kid and offer no support, material or otherwise, unless and until the kid "reached bottom" and "saw the light" and came back begging to be reprogrammed in exchange for that hots, cots and the fools hope of actual familial love.
It was bad enough for someone who only took a short tour through the Twilight Zone. Much harder for someone like me because my family had been in the cult for 12 years already by the time I got out. All of my older brothers and sisters scattered and I had no other friends except for school mates, teachers and such who all had been convinced that I was a heroin addict and deplorable person.
Kicking a teenaged kid out of the house is one thing. Scorching their earth for a number of years first, that's simply sadistic.
The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
--Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese and Spanish explorer
