Dark side of Gloriavale

[C_T_Russell]

Absolutley disgusting, I have to keep reminding myself of this and count my lucky stars that I was not born into this cult which is much worse than what I had to deal with.
I recently left the Jehovahs Witness cult, and thats bad enough, Ive lost all my friends and family and have virtually no-one.
So many similarities to gloriavale with the practice of shunning those that leave.

All these cults need to loose their charity status, they are not a charity, but a business and they harm lives, not help them.
But the public need to be aware of this and be educated to it or else nothing will be done, other countries are starting to wake up to it.

Had a client in the same boat as you recently, his was the Exclusive Brethren that he left.  They all seem to have the same MO,  shunning those that leave etc scientology is another.

Best move you ever made if might be bold enough to say, there is no place in a free thinking world for that level of control of people's bodies and mind...

The amount of information control we received was nuts, not allowed to research anything other than the garbage publications they forced us to study down our throat.
Yes, I know exclusive brethren people (ironically we had a bunch as neighbors) and they were even worse.

Only the ones who had the skills to think critically and question everything we were told had any chance of escaping.
Thankfully with the internet, many are slowly waking up and leaving. Their numbers are dropping.

Ah and BTW, if you want to have a good laugh, just google "bottlegate"

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Had a client in the same boat as you recently, his was the Exclusive Brethren that he left.  They all seem to have the same MO,  shunning those that leave etc scientology is another.

Best move you ever made if might be bold enough to say, there is no place in a free thinking world for that level of control of people's bodies and mind...

If it was up to me, all religions would be legally prevented from requiring their followers to wear any particular type of dress, headgear or hairstyle.
And if they were living in a communal situation such as Gloriavale, they'd be required to pay workers  at the very least an average wage, which the 'church' would have no say over. And also be legally prevented from stopping members associating with any family members who weren't involved in their church.

We had similar restrictions on dress and grooming.
Guys were not allowed beards or long hair and woman would not be allowed to wear short skirts.
It was so great to have freedoms back after leaving that we did not even understand what it was like to be "normal"
I didnt even understand what freedom meant.