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Date Posted: 20/01/10 12:31:56am
Author: Johannes Vermeer
Subject: Re: recruiting methods
In reply to: Peter Eveleigh 's message, "Re: recruiting methods" on 19/01/10 9:42:25pm

>
>>I also wonder if they would use flirting and giving
>>false hope from pretty girls to recruit. I think I was
>>a victom of this but it could be just coincidence. A
>>pretty girl showed interest in me by smiling and
>>staring at me many times during my first visit. Has
>>anyone else noticed or done this?
>
>This is what the Children of God used to call Flirty
>Fishing, but it is not something I have ever known
>used in the JA, to be perfectly honest. I do know from
>my own experience that the feeling of euphoria you
>encounter on first "coming around" (being a visitor)
>can make you vulnerable to feelings like the one you
>felt...but in a community and church which has deeply
>peculiar levels of suspicion about sex and very normal
>relations between the sexes, I think they would run
>from any kind of flirty fishing.
>
>In fact, flirting is outlawed.
>
>You say a girl smiled at you repeatedly. She may have
>been pretty, but that does not mean that the smiles
>meant anything more than simple friendliness. You are
>absolutely right that the friendliness is superficial
>and is pretty quickly taken away if you don't give in
>to their influence...and they can even turn very
>hostile....but there they are using friendliness as a
>tool, not sex.

She really stared at me a few times in church and on a few other occasions. And smiled. But I guess she didn�t do it to recruit me or the recruiting methods must have changed since you left.
But with hostile you mean they get fisical or just with words.

I noticed the way they seperated women from the men. I couldn�t live like that. I would go crazy if I couldn�t talk to women. Neither does it make any sense. What if you�re gay. Then you still can have sex with your roommates. This is so mideval.

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>> >>>I also wonder if they would use flirting and giving >>>false hope from pretty girls to recruit. I think I >was >>>a victom of this but it could be just coincidence. A >>>pretty girl showed interest in me by smiling and >>>staring at me many times during my first visit. Has >>>anyone else noticed or done this? >> >>This is what the Children of God used to call Flirty >>Fishing, but it is not something I have ever known >>used in the JA, to be perfectly honest. I do know from >>my own experience that the feeling of euphoria you >>encounter on first "coming around" (being a visitor) >>can make you vulnerable to feelings like the one you >>felt...but in a community and church which has deeply >>peculiar levels of suspicion about sex and very normal >>relations between the sexes, I think they would run >>from any kind of flirty fishing. >> >>In fact, flirting is outlawed. >> >>You say a girl smiled at you repeatedly. She may have >>been pretty, but that does not mean that the smiles >>meant anything more than simple friendliness. You are >>absolutely right that the friendliness is superficial >>and is pretty quickly taken away if you don't give in >>to their influence...and they can even turn very >>hostile....but there they are using friendliness as a >>tool, not sex. > >She really stared at me a few times in church and on a >few other occasions. And smiled. But I guess she >didn�t do it to recruit me or the recruiting methods >must have changed since you left. >But with hostile you mean they get fisical or just >with words. > >I noticed the way they seperated women from the men. I >couldn�t live like that. I would go crazy if I >couldn�t talk to women. Neither does it make any >sense. What if you�re gay. Then you still can have sex >with your roommates. This is so mideval.
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