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Scholars like Dr. David G. Bromley, Dr. Anson Shupe, Dr. Bryan Wilson, and Dr. Paul Schnabel taught me that I am an apostate, who rarely tells the truth the way he experienced it in the cult and never tells the whole truth. Apostates, like me tell "atrocity stories" that mention events that are only atrocities when using another interpretation than in the cult. So I have not become an apostate because of sexual abuse by SSB of friends and acquitainces, no, I must have become an apostate first and then tell this story of sexual abuse. Sexual abuse is not cruel according to the interpretation in the cult but a "good luck chance", "divine", and "kundalini awakening" as SSB calls it, though for some reasons or another he tells the boys and young men "not to tell the others". Not everybody has the honor of having sex with God. I was totally unaware that I was so much influenced by my personal history and socialization by the anti-cult movement that all of my writings about the subject of SSB and cults are always biased, regardless of the effort I do to write a balanced, factual article and to provide a variety of viewpoints. So I think I will have to remove "my" article about SSB from Wikipedia because I do not want to mislead the readers of German ZDF broadcasting organization that refers to this article with my anti-cult propaganda. Also, I will inform the Free University in Amsterdam that the article about SSB in their official magazine about religious movements was written by an apostate and hence misleading and biased. The good thing about it is that I am not an apostate of Prem Rawat so what I write about him or other gurus is not necessarily misleading. The only guru that I can not write a good story about is my former guru and his organization. Though I was intensely involved with him and went often to group meetings, and have read many of his discourses during the nine years that I was his follower, following many of his teachings and meditation practices, I simply cannot give complete, accurate information about him because I have become a critical ex-follower. So, may be you can write about SSB then I can write about Prem Rawat to ensure the public reads articles and stories without distortions and propaganda. What is even more interesting, is that followers of cults, sects and new religious movements in some cases do not give a detailed rebuttal to accusations such as hypocrisy by the leader, contradictions etc. but instead refer just to these general articles to support their point of view and seem to think that this suffices as a rebuttal. This is the case for followers of Scientology, Jehovah Witnesses and recently follower of Prem Rawat "yadot" here on this forum. Andries
Related link: My biased and misleading apostate's atrocity story
Modified by Andries at Sat, Feb 05, 2005, 16:10:57
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