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lagizma

In Which Your Author Reveals Her Past Culthood

Sep 05, 2006 20:20

I joined a Christian cult when I was 13 because my best friend was in it. The International Order of the Rainbow for Girls is "a youth service organization which teaches leadership training through community service." It's a freemason-based organization that feeds the Eastern StarsI was initiated in a white dress, borrowed from my mom's friend ( Read more... )

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missmai_chan September 6 2006, 05:12:49 UTC

Interesting.

For the first two years of my first degree I was an evangelical fundie who wrote bible quotes in chalk on sidewalks and handed out pamphlets.

Yeah.

I somewhat woke the fuck up in third year.

blozor September 6 2006, 06:48:25 UTC

Yeah, freemasonry is a pretty freaky and ultimately damaging cult. You were in the introductory stages. From what I understand is that they make their members do more damaging and bizarre acts to succeed to higher degrees and they use these acts as blackmail in order to keep their control over the political pawns they breed. Notice how neither Kerry nor Bush will discuss their time in the Skull and Bones society, and will duck the questioning so adamantly as to leave the interview if pressed. God knows what they had to do to climb the freemason ladder ( ... )

xterminal September 6 2006, 13:29:28 UTC

It's depressing how stupid the freemasons have become. Getting absorbed back into mother church emasculated them...

Then fall came and they went back to the freaky ceremonies, and my Dad gently pointed out how they were training us to be virginal ready-made-wifely people for Free Masons.

Man, I hate it when dads forget to mention that you can be part of such groups and not actually follow their tenets. I mean, it's like the freemason version of the Catholic school girl!

antarcticlust September 6 2006, 13:49:36 UTC

What a strange organization. The Freemasons still really intrigue me, because they're so...heathen, I suppose.

What a strange concept- they're hand-picking young virgin brides. Ew.

Speaking of which, have you been keeping up with the Mormon guy arrested in Utah? Fuckhead.

lagizma September 6 2006, 21:15:59 UTC

I just caught a snippet on NPR! I hate that dude almost as much as I hate Rick Santorum. I'll toddle off now to read up on the arrest...

antarcticlust September 6 2006, 21:19:33 UTC

I love that he's being kept "in Purgatory."

un_crayon_rouge September 6 2006, 14:00:28 UTC

Wow, interesting. I've alway been interested in cults and the like, mostly because I was brought up in a strictly cult-free environment and somehow felt I was missing out on something. Also, sad to see that freemasons are weird and freaky and generally not very nice. I always associate them with Mozart and Pierre Bezoukhov of "War and Peace", so I tended to think of them as rather grave gentlemen who wear funny hats and make speeches about wisdom, light and sun. Something like that.