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Date Posted: 14:56:27 11/26/04 Fri
Author: Chris
Subject: Re: Please continue to think some more
In reply to: Joe 's message, "Re: Please continue to think some more" on 10:14:48 11/26/04 Fri

>>If any one of those things were done to me by
>>someone in UBF, I would be out the door faster than
>>you could say "Friday Meeting."
>Why is it always about "me"? What if you saw it being
>done to someone else or heard about spiritually
>abusive behavior from a former member who was your
>friend in UBF and who abruptly left UBF due to the
>abuse, what would your reaction be then?

Yes, that was the same thought I also had. I am very disturbed about the seeming callousness of UBFers even when gross abuse is reported.

It reminds me a little bit of the Germans in WWII when they heard rumours about Jews who are killed in Auschwitz. Auschwitz was far away and they liked to believe this were only rumours. Anyway, only Jews were affected, the Germans did not experience anything bad. Instead, they experienced a wonderful feeling of solidarity among the German people, law and order, and many other good things. So, why worry? Why inquire more about these rumours? Even today, there are those people who say that there are no evidences about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. If you do not want to listen, if you do not care, if you have your fixed worldview, no evidence in the world will ever convince you.

(Just to make this clear: I don't want to compare anybody here with the Nazis, I just want to show a very extreme consequence of having a mindset of carelessness about the fate of your neighbours and of blind trust in your leaders.)

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