tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527290527259065845.post5904350322553680469..comments2023-11-22T02:21:50.062-08:00Comments on Francie's Excellent Adventure: Villa Maria 1971 - 1972franciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202587699308601873noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527290527259065845.post-56239651288352558432022-03-11T06:44:31.344-08:002022-03-11T06:44:31.344-08:00It is amazing how memories are triggered, isn'...It is amazing how memories are triggered, isn't it, Wendy? I wish I could gather everyone's memories (my family and yours) and record them here. We'd probably run out of gigabytes or megabytes, or whatever they're called - storage.<br />There sure was a lot of hypocrisy - and here is what I think: I think that the rules were so over the top and insane - a way of controlling the people - that people who had 1/4 of a brain figured out that it REALLY wasn't wrong to watch TV or wear a skirt just to the knee, or like Maria's shirt --- and so, privately, they would watch TV or wear" clothing. Fear is quite the motivator, isn't it? In our case, it was #1, the fear of francis schuckardt, and #2, the fear of God.<br />I am so grateful that I got out of that mindset and discovered, ONLY IN THE PAST 4 YEARS, that God, our Father is the opposite of everything I was taught.<br />franciehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17202587699308601873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527290527259065845.post-51097467458120008342022-03-10T20:50:55.790-08:002022-03-10T20:50:55.790-08:00"But, on the bus ride, we had to fold our han..."But, on the bus ride, we had to fold our hands up next to our hearts, and keep our eyes FIRMLY CLOSED. If we were caught with our eyes open looking out the window, the punishment was mean. We'd be rebuked verbally and LOUDLY by a "bus monitor", and sometimes that person would go so far as to create a blind fold, or blinders for the offender to wear so that they couldn't see out the window. Outside the window of the bus was the world and all its evil temptations."<br /><br />I remember being on the bus and told not to look out the window because we might see sinners showing their immodest knees or their devil behavior that we should not be exposed to.<br /><br />I'm glad that our dad got us out...but I always in my mind carried around a fear of this sinful world. And now some 48 years later still avoid tv and some of the things that maybe they weren't that wrong about [The Devil Box!!] ...or maybe it's just the cult mindset that seems to always be carried about somewhere in the back of my mind; or maybe with mom agreeing that it was a devil box... but I do you recall being at my mom's (PeeWee's) On Friday nights when she would have us for our weekend custody...and the first thing she would turn on was the Devil Box to watch Dallas.<br /><br />HYPOCRISY....THE RULES...were to be obeyed in front of cult people...but then when y'all were at the Hart Hill house that one summer...and smoking was against the rules... I also remember mom smoking ...BUT WHEN THE Courdelane people were coming she would run through the house with a can of Lysol....<br /><br />Like NO ONE CAN NOW TELL THAT THIS HOUSE HAS BEEN SMOKED IN....NOT NOW that it smells like cigarettes' covered up by Lysol!!!!<br /><br />Or when she'd cover the photos where there had been any immodesty. Or the time grandma got a hold of Maria's brand new navy blue half shirt--and due to it's immodest nature. Grandma/your mother sewed the ugliest color of mauve brown to the bottom of it to make it into a full shirt that MARIA NEVER AGAIN WORE... BC it was so ugly...once that change was made to it.<br /><br />We are not to look out the bus window at the bad sinners... but destroying clothing of people is fine!! Go figure!<br /><br />WendyOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11926227526388637329noreply@blogger.com