Post by Limitless Questions on Jan 23, 2009 19:18:19 GMT -5
The Internet is the great leveler of all mankind, and all get their chance to tell their truths (even if it isn't the Truth). In some cases, that freedom extends to allowing the oppressed, repressed, suppressed, beaten, bruised and battered, to reject the Truths they once held so ultimately dear.
Here I present just a short list of ex-member websites, blogs, and forums I have collected over the last year and a half. Despite the religions ranging from TM to strict Bible-based orthodoxy, they all have one common theme: Thought-reform and mind control. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and the leaders and members of these New Religious Movements all need those words from the Gospel of Philip burned into their retinae: "Men create gods. That is the way it is in the world. Men create gods, and worship their creations. It would be more fitting for the gods to worship men!"
Andrew Cohen
Conversations with an ex-Jehovah's Witness
Doubts About Eckankar
The Center for Twitchellian Plagiarism (Eckankar)
EnlighteNIXT
Ex-Christian.Net
Ex-Premie.org
ex-Transcendental Meditation
Four Corners Church: "The God of Broken Hearts"
Frederick Lenz
Hillsong: The Church With no Answers
Trancenet.org on the Wayback Machine (Domain has been hijacked by apologists.)
Join Us the Movie
Lazaris: Friend or Fraud?
Gentle Wind Project
Operation Clambake
Opus Dei Awareness Network
PLANS: Waldorf School/Anthrosophy Survivors
Testimony of Former Sister of Mary Adaja
The Family International (Children of God)
If there is such a thing as "the inbreaking of the Pleroma", surely it must be that, not only have these people freed themselves from being concerned with error (as the Gospel of Truth instructs us), they have used the best resource possible, to prevent others from becoming "too much concerned with error".
Whatever your praxis, please take a moment, to remember those who are still trapped in closed high-demand religious groups. Take a further moment to be grateful, for the spark of intellect and reason, that has made the few, the brave, and the strong, free of their pasts, and willing to examine the truths only they hold self-evident.
"In the name of the unknown, in truth, via negativa, in union and redemption, peace to all."
Here I present just a short list of ex-member websites, blogs, and forums I have collected over the last year and a half. Despite the religions ranging from TM to strict Bible-based orthodoxy, they all have one common theme: Thought-reform and mind control. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and the leaders and members of these New Religious Movements all need those words from the Gospel of Philip burned into their retinae: "Men create gods. That is the way it is in the world. Men create gods, and worship their creations. It would be more fitting for the gods to worship men!"
Andrew Cohen
Conversations with an ex-Jehovah's Witness
Doubts About Eckankar
The Center for Twitchellian Plagiarism (Eckankar)
EnlighteNIXT
Ex-Christian.Net
Ex-Premie.org
ex-Transcendental Meditation
Four Corners Church: "The God of Broken Hearts"
Frederick Lenz
Hillsong: The Church With no Answers
Trancenet.org on the Wayback Machine (Domain has been hijacked by apologists.)
Join Us the Movie
Lazaris: Friend or Fraud?
Gentle Wind Project
Operation Clambake
Opus Dei Awareness Network
PLANS: Waldorf School/Anthrosophy Survivors
Testimony of Former Sister of Mary Adaja
The Family International (Children of God)
If there is such a thing as "the inbreaking of the Pleroma", surely it must be that, not only have these people freed themselves from being concerned with error (as the Gospel of Truth instructs us), they have used the best resource possible, to prevent others from becoming "too much concerned with error".
Whatever your praxis, please take a moment, to remember those who are still trapped in closed high-demand religious groups. Take a further moment to be grateful, for the spark of intellect and reason, that has made the few, the brave, and the strong, free of their pasts, and willing to examine the truths only they hold self-evident.
"In the name of the unknown, in truth, via negativa, in union and redemption, peace to all."