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from Webel Friday, November 14, 2003 - 16:48 (Agree/Disagree?) This is horrible and very disturbing, it made me physically sick to read this! I wish I had been there to hold you in my arms and defend you against those SICK perverts! it's beggars belief on how someone could do that to their precious little girl - in God's eyes you are precious and your parents will pay for what they have done to you and your little brothers - IN FULL! I believe that life has a way of catching up with people who do evil what goes around comes around! - Get on with your life girl and forget about those people who are don't deserve to be called your parents, pursue your own happiness and your own dreams and focus on your inner healing - don't make the phone call...they are not worth dog shit stuck on the bottom of a shoe! PS it's becoming clearer that TF just provided an excuse for a bunch of psychos and perverts to run wild under the guise of being "Christians" ugh! (reply to this comment)

from farmer Monday, October 27, 2003 - 01:40 (Agree/Disagree?) This is the sadest reason I ever read & a supermighty reason, besides very many others for people to leave the family & to get miles away from adult rotten apples ...ehh, are there good ones around...let`s hope so & hopefully they protect minors, weak people & others while still in the family & while they are yet too weak to leave or should I say too puffed up in their conceited world...well that pride sure has a hard landing.. I think the least I should offer you are my prayers...and I hope, that many bright doors of help for you get opened.Thank you, for having the courage to share that with us,...I was too long someone who thought, yes, the family has many false teachings, but hopefully they are not behaving as bad, as rumors would have it...this is far worse than rumors I heard or imagined...What could individuals as us do to help?? I hope you`ll have good (nonfamily) people to share your heart with more (reply to this comment)

from farmer Monday, October 27, 2003 - 01:37 (Agree/Disagree?) This is the sadest reason I ever read & a supermighty reason, besides very many others for people to leave the family & to get miles away from adult rotten apples ...ehh, are there good ones around...let`s hope so & hopefully they protect minors, weak people & others while still in the family & while they are yet too weak to leave or should I say too puffed up in their conceited world...well that pride sure has a hard landing.. I think the least I should offer you are my prayers...and I hope, that many bright doors of help for you get opened.Thank you, for having the courage to share that with us,...I was too long someone who thought, yes, the family has many false teachings, but hopefully they are not behaving as bad, as rumors would have it...this is far worse than rumors I heard or imagined...What could individuals as us do to help?? I hope you`ll have good (nonfamily) people to share your heart with more (reply to this comment)

from Anthony Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 13:43 (Agree/Disagree?) http://movingon.org/article.asp?sID=8&Cat=19&ID=1573 (reply to this comment)

from Christy Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 20:10 (Agree/Disagree?) Geez! This is about the worst I've heard yet from an ex-member. Glad to hear you you are planning to confront him. That takes a lot of strength and courage. This is not even something for which he could use Berg's letters as an excuse. I hope you have access to a good therapist. (reply to this comment)

from Zed Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 20:39 (Agree/Disagree?) I am sorry for you. I hate your parents for you. I wish you a wonderful life and may you never have to deal with this again. If there is anything I can do... (reply to this comment)

from null Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 15:48 (Agree/Disagree?) you should prosecute your parents for doing that VLG. You have to. (reply to this comment)

from null Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 15:47 (Agree/Disagree?) that is so disgusting. I don't know what to say. Currently the most disturbing thing I have ever read on this site. They deserve to be murdered. I'll be sick for days. (reply to this comment)

from Eaglebleeds Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 04:21 (Agree/Disagree?) That is so fucked up! It really is. Unbelievable, yet it`s true. I heard of things like that going on in a family i lived with when i was 6. They`re gonna be some of the many in TF that will walk with shame wherever they end up after they die. It`s brave of you to get it out and confront. You`re in my prayers. (reply to this comment)

from Shania Friday, September 12, 2003 - 14:21 (Agree/Disagree?) That has got to be the most disturbing and nauseating articles I have ever read. I am so so sorry you experienced that horror in your life. I know that no amount of sympathy can ease that type of pain, but I want you to know that I hope your path through life leads you far far away from your parents. They should be rotting in prision. After I read what you wrote I literally felt sick. We have to find a way to make these types of people pay for what they did to us in TF. (reply to this comment)

from anovagrrl Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 13:32 (Agree/Disagree?) This is absolutely one of the most powerful survivor testimonies I've ever read or heard. You are in my thoughts and healing meditations. (reply to this comment)

from Mir Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 06:26 (Agree/Disagree?) Oh darling, I feel for you so much. You are a very very brave lady. Have you got someone you can talk to about this? If you need someone else to talk to, why don't you drop me a line? Just go to my profile in the user directory. (reply to this comment)

from a Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 04:05 (Agree/Disagree?) I am so sorry. i understand and relate. courage dear One! (reply to this comment)

from Spat Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 18:54 (Agree/Disagree?) That’s fucked up, I wish you luck with the ordeal. You must be very brave to relieve it and confront your parents, it has to be something really hard to do. I still have a hard time believing all this horror occurred in a place I called home. I love my parents, I love my mom, I love my stepfather. I will never confront my mom with my memories of sex with her. Maybe I'm a coward, maybe I think in a sick way she thought it was good for me, I don’t know. I have a hard time figuring out whether this affected my life or its just a bothersome memory in my past. I believe I’m strong enough to not to let it affect me. I refuse to believe it tainted my life forever, but I still can’t help but wonder if maybe it did. Why would somebody do this to their kid’s? Why me? Why was I a “chosen one”? What was my crime? Why can’t I hate my parents? What did my parents think? Why? why? why? (reply to this comment)

From Itbraksmyhart Tuesday, November 04, 2003, 15:24 (Agree/Disagree?) There is a huge possibility that this turmoil has caused alot of problems in your life. Please don't let yourself be deceived that you could have been sexually violated or anything else, and it not have affected your life. That group does not represent the true "love" of christ. The principals of "the family" were created on the basis of sexual immorality. Know that you are truly loved. God loves you, and the love that God has given me which is pure and that has never been defiled causes my heart to break for you as well. What "the family" represents is a jacked up version of God's love. Love does not hurt, and it is certainly not in the form of molestation. Oh, I feel so much for you and others like you. Not until yesterday, from a religion class at UNC chapel hill did I know that such a groupl exist. It is not a group, the truth is it is a cult. People have been deceived to believe something that is not true. Love is not demonstrated the way Berg depicted it. He was a sick man that has so obviously influenced many people. I could write all day about how what your parents did to you was utterly wrong, morally and spiritually.(reply to this comment)

From live_fast-die_young Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 06:48