Warning: Submissions include topics of suicide, sexual abuse, gaslighting, verbal abuse, and rape.. It was awful but I didn't really understand how bad it was until I turned 16. My mother was my father's second wife and also his cousin. When I was 16, my father gave me a list of men I could marry, and in that list were three of my cousins, one of my uncles, and two men twice my age. I escaped with my sister when I was 18 and when she was 20.
that believed the world was going to end May 21, 2011. They believed they could predict the end of the world using fake numerology in the Bible. My dad was the main believer and when the time came, he stockpiled a bunch of food and medicine, and built a temp wall around our house because he thought the rapture would cause chaos. I stayed in my dorm on May 21 and my mom and brother stayed at a hotel. Thankfully it all passed, but my dad still clings a little to those old beliefs.
"I joined a cult without knowing it when I was 18. They called themselves a 'living community' at the time. The leader barely showed his face until I joined. I was recruited by other people. But as soon as I moved in, he took a 'special interest' in me. The other members would spy on the few parts of my life that he wasn’t a part of and tell him everything.""They said, 'Don’t go to the doctor, God will heal you,' or 'God wants you to have that sickness.
"I was born into a cult, and so were my parents. We were taught that we were the only ones in the world who would be saved , and were all homeschooled and attended the church's vocational school from the age of 8. In the '70s, the church predicted the end of the world and several people sold their homes and quit their jobs in preparation for the end. The preacher used to go to peoples' homes to search them for computers and TVs.
Creepy as all hell that I just watched a show on these people, and recognized his picture right away.
A lot of those sound like some popular religions. I guess it’s difficult to flee a cult when an entire society believes in it.
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