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Originally Posted by Mr. Smith
I read your story. My commendations for the way you have handled it.
Can I just say that I believe your ordeal is similar in offense, but different in dynamics, to what many experience. I don't believe you suffered the ungodliness of "THE SYSTEM" but rather, an out-of-control nut case.
And I believe there's a MAJOR difference.
There are many out there.....thousands and thousands, who have been swallowed up, chewed up, and spit out, but THE SYSTEM and its policies, and that is what makes people run the most. If it's ONE GUY, there seems to be an escape. But when it's the ENTIRE SYSTEM...you just can't get away from it without leaving completely.
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I agree that I was not victimized by "the system". I reject the notion that "the system" is ungodly or evil or victimizing. That is your issue and those of you who make a lifestyle out of hand wringing and shouting about how evil the system is, do neither yourselves nor anyone else any favors.
Most of that “system” stuff is your own inability to simply be who you are and walk away from what you have changed your mind about.
I do realize that is a hard thing to do. While I will not get into any detail, in my first post, I point out that while I am pretty much on board with UPCI DOCTRINE I am not so on board with a lot of its application. That has led to a good deal of looking at me and making big boy decisions. Where I have chosen to apply different standards (how’s that for a pun?), I have owned my own actions. There are those who don’t approve. I don’t care. They may talk about me (I know they have). I still do not care.
There is no “system” problem. There are only reactions to the system. You own your own reactions bro. Regardless of what you may think, the system has done nothing. There may be some who like the system that become an issue for you, (please refer back to my linked story). But the system is nothing more than a framework that existed before you were born.
It is no different than having a job. If you worked for some company that one day you wake up and decide you don’t like what they are doing, you can’t show up and start yelling at everybody about how awful they are. You’re going to lose that job if you do. The system isn’t the issue. YOU are. When you walk away, don’t expect those who still love their jobs to choose you over the job they love. You aren’t putting bread on their table.
The same with the “system” that is the UPCI. The day you wake up and realize they are a bunch of Godless heathens, is not the day the UPCI members decide you are their prophet. You are the one who changed. You cannot and should not expect them to like your change, agree with your change or act like you have not changed.
I think this is the real heart of my issue with so many on AFF. Nobody wants to own their own actions. It’s the “System’s” fault. It is the UPCI’s fault. Some just blast away. Others work really hard at dismantling every doctrine taught by the org in Quixotic fashion. Whatever. Its tiring. And silly. Be who you are and have the guts to allow others to do the same.
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