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xfundy

(5,105 posts)

5. Consider yourself lucky.

Reply to rug (Reply #4)

Sat May 23, 2015, 08:02 PM

May 2015

It was like being in a coliseum full of robots, each rapt in attention, each being reprogrammed simultaneously. Local church choirs and probably the 'institute's' own choirs performed nightly. The man is a scammer from way, way back.

This was when I was about fifteen, still years away from becoming an ex-fundy.

Going through that site now, thanks.

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Did anyone here ever attend one of the Bill Gothard seminars? [View all] xfundy May 2015 OP

Glad you escaped the cult AndreaCG May 2015 #1

Thanks! xfundy May 2015 #2

I am so sorry that you were forced to do this. cbayer May 2015 #3

If that's the best you can do as an apology for attacking me originally, xfundy May 2015 #10

I am sorry if you feel I attacked you originally. cbayer May 2015 #12

Thank you. xfundy May 2015 #13

I never heard of him. You prompted me to look. rug May 2015 #4

Consider yourself lucky. xfundy May 2015 #5

I did encounter some similar grops, but not at 15. rug May 2015 #6

I tried to get out of it. xfundy May 2015 #7

There's no need to go into it. rug May 2015 #8

One's experience of religion can be completely different from another's. xfundy May 2015 #9

Same here. Not that there's anything wrong with an occasion howl. rug May 2015 #11