Lisa
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Beloved Son: A Story of the Jesus Cults
“Mechanism! Everywhere – mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.”
― The White Monkey
― The White Monkey
“all human beings have the right to protection from undue influence, a concept the law has recognized for at least five centuries.”
― Combating Cult Mind Control: The Guide to Protection, Rescue and Recovery from Destructive Cults
― Combating Cult Mind Control: The Guide to Protection, Rescue and Recovery from Destructive Cults
“If you had told me that morning on the gurney that in a year and a half, a woman would be licking a stamp in Ireland to send me a package full of candy, I would have laughed. My mom was right: You have to wait and see how your life unfolds.”
― Know My Name
― Know My Name
“One day he started a water fight between the men and women. Another time, they had a flour fight. All of them, dressed in the few clothes they owned, threw white powder back and forth, laughing and screaming as though they had forgotten how fun fun was. They were children again, but their laughter was a strange sound in the house. Even to Ummi’s own ears, her happiness sounded odd. Everyone had a good time that day, but after all the mess was made, the women were left to clean the fine dust off the walls and from between the wooden floorboards, handwash their garbs, and panic over what to eat that night since they wasted all the flour on child’s play.”
― The Community
― The Community
“I wondered if a Dwight York or a Jim Jones would have existed and amassed a following had the citizens of this country felt like citizens who could expect justice and respect.”
― The Community
― The Community
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