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mickeycat

mickeycat

Witchfinder Sargeant said:
Really interesting on the Exclusive Brethren

www.newstatesman.com

Escaping Eden

For those who leave the Exclusive Brethren sect, separation comes at great personal cost.
www.newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com
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These guys fascinate me. There's a bit of a stronghold of them in my region but I'd never heard of them until a few years ago when a friend got a job at their school.

She said she had to wear long skirts and wasn't allowed to eat with them.

They're loaded and have these massive houses, fancy cars etc. I think they believe in spending and enjoying their wealth and not hoarding it - or something like that.

I asked my mum about them. She knew a bit about them and spoke about the 1970 sex scandal up here that caused the split mentioned in that article.
 
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MooBelle

Witchfinder Sargeant said:
Really interesting on the Exclusive Brethren

www.newstatesman.com

Escaping Eden

For those who leave the Exclusive Brethren sect, separation comes at great personal cost.
www.newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com
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Didn't realise they had rebranded themselves!
Have a small experience of them in that we had a Bretheren family on our street when I was a teenager and I briefly went to school with a girl who was Bretheren.
The girl who was at our school was very open about how restrictive their life was and was eye-opening. No telly or radio. She had to cycle home for lunch every day because she couldn't eat her lunch with non believers. Also, they couldn't share plumbing or sewerage with non believers which means most of them live in detached houses (as did the family who lived on our street) and she couldn't use the toilets at school.
Sorry, not very interesting!
 
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SamFoxStuckinaCloak

We had a guy come to build a stair rail for us, and he’d just been employed as a kind of odd job man for the Brethren (there’s a big community nearby) The guy that he dealt with wasn’t always sticking to the strict rules apparently.
 
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uberoblique

MooBelle said:
Didn't realise they had rebranded themselves!
Have a small experience of them in that we had a Bretheren family on our street when I was a teenager and I briefly went to school with a girl who was Bretheren.
The girl who was at our school was very open about how restrictive their life was and was eye-opening. No telly or radio. She had to cycle home for lunch every day because she couldn't eat her lunch with non believers. Also, they couldn't share plumbing or sewerage with non believers which means most of them live in detached houses (as did the family who lived on our street) and she couldn't use the toilets at school.
Sorry, not very interesting!
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I grew up in an area with a lot of Exclusive Brethren. AFAIK the Aussie sect is the strictest in terms of control and influence over their members, and also the global HQ currently.

There’s been tax raids recently as their business affairs are sketchy. They have a published principle called “spoiling the Egyptians” which basically means they intend to fleece all non-EB people and businesses for what they’re worth which is obviously sketchy in the context of how frequently they win government contracts for things like school maintenance.

You’d see lots of women at the local mall with their little headscarves, long hair and long skirts. And at school they’d have to go home for lunch. They didn’t continue on past the legal age for leaving school so missed out on their last few years of education.
 
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ButtonDownTheHutches

ButtonDownTheHutches

Restless Native said:
Yoga cults are massive. I listened to a bbc podcast about one. The girl ended up getting sex trafficked in Paris
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I listened to that too. Frightening how easily people can be sucked in.

I spotted a documentary called ‘Breath of Fire’ about a Kundalini yoga cult (either Amazon prime or Disney+, I forget which). Haven’t watched it yet but looking forward to it.
 
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WitchyGrab

WitchyGrab

I knew someone who died at Waco. They were a young woman who worked with my dad and used to play with me, when I would occasionally go there as a young child. She was a lovely woman and had told work that she was going on holiday with her boyfriend, sadly never returning. She was quite a vulnerable person and the cult had infiltrated her church, where she should have been safe. The horror of seeing what unfolded, then later finding out that this sweet young woman had been killed in such horrendous circumstances was mind blowing as a young girl.
 
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Warpaint

Warpaint

Just finished reading 'Unfollow' by Megan Phelps-Roper. From the docs, she always seemed to be one of the most hardline so was surprised she left. She went with her Sister so I think that helped give her the push. I can imagine even years after leaving she's still 'de-programming' as it were. The Church and family itself seems to be pretty much shattered now anyway.
 
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