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RASSE, that is what I hope that my friend's son will not bring into his family. That sorrow lasts so long because the person is alive and yet dead to the family.

I too am sorry for your cousin. So sorry.

posted by benzinha on January 5, 2009 at 7:26 AM | link to this | reply

Re: benzinha, sorry to hear about this

Greenfields, the line between conventional thought, revolutionary thought and aberrant thought is a very thin one and difficult to discern somedays. I hope that his eyesight improves and that invisible ties become visible to him.

posted by benzinha on January 5, 2009 at 7:22 AM | link to this | reply

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rockingrector, that's the prayer, isn't it? but, it is truly up to him to see the small twinings that are beginning to bind him to the group and to pull himself free.

posted by benzinha on January 5, 2009 at 7:20 AM | link to this | reply

Re: I am with you dearest Cults are dangerous. We've all seen results.

They have been around for centuries, that I know of, Kabu, and are difficult to fight off. May this very young man see the danger and change his path, I pray.

posted by benzinha on January 5, 2009 at 7:18 AM | link to this | reply

So, so hard.  My cousin's mother joined a cult when my cousin was only 13.  Thankfully the mother left my cousin and her siblings with their father, who raised them wonderfully.  However there is still a huge hole in my cousin's heart and a bitterness toward religion-understandably so.  It is so sad.

posted by RASSE on January 5, 2009 at 6:14 AM | link to this | reply

benzinha, sorry to hear about this

so distressing to parents.  One can hope that they come out of it unscathed.  In our healin we could say 'it's something they have to live through'.  But, I now t's hard when its one of your own.  For me, the important thing is to have faith that all will be OK.  Having the faith is the thing - also the hardest part, yes?

posted by Greenfields on January 5, 2009 at 12:02 AM | link to this | reply

This sounds horrendous. I hope he comes to his senses and gets out forthwith.

posted by Rockingrector_retd on January 4, 2009 at 11:54 AM | link to this | reply

I am with you dearest Cults are dangerous. We've all seen results.

posted by Kabu on January 3, 2009 at 10:21 PM | link to this | reply

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Thanks, mousehop for reading and for writing.

I despise cults and cultish doctrines. The separation of humans over ideas and ideals is wrong, we must continue to mix and irritate each other with true reality, no?

posted by benzinha on January 3, 2009 at 7:57 PM | link to this | reply

Re: Is This Cult The Democrat Party?

No, RedStatesMan, this cult is even more insidious than the Democratic Party, can u believe it??

There is a heck of a lot of 'casting the first darned stone' going on in America right now and I want that to stop, too. K?

posted by benzinha on January 3, 2009 at 7:55 PM | link to this | reply

Is This Cult The Democrat Party?

In all seriousness, I pray that God will change things for this young man. Cults are of the devil, pure and simple, no matter what others tell you. They always have and always will. My thoughts are with you!

posted by RedStatesMan on January 3, 2009 at 6:23 PM | link to this | reply

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Just reading about this is hard.  My thoughts and prayers go out for your friend.

posted by mousehop on January 3, 2009 at 9:48 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Big hugs for your friend

She tells him that and does that a few times a day, he is the one who judges now, judges her often during each day and tells her that she is failing as a Christian and as a foster mother. Saying just mean things to a very giving and supportive woman, is his new job, I guess....

Thanks for reading and for writing, cpklapper

posted by benzinha on January 3, 2009 at 9:34 AM | link to this | reply

Big hugs for your friend

Hopefully, she is able to tell her son that she loves him and does not judge him.

posted by cpklapper on January 3, 2009 at 7:46 AM | link to this | reply