Flashback Moment

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[AgathaL'Orange]

This week I was discussing a particular situation that is happening with my non GC church.  I wrote something in an online public forum that my priest is also a member of.  Later in the week he called me, and I was afraid to pick up the phone because I was afraid he would correct me and want to make sure I had the right story.  He was actually calling about something completely unrelated to that and couldn't have cared less about "setting me straight".  That is so refreshing, because I am most certain (in fact it happened) in my days at WCCC that we would have been set straight on the "likeminded belief" we were to share.  There was an effort to control the story, no matter what the story was.  And also a need to know all the information in an intrusive way.  I laughed with my husband how this mindset came about and how I feel the freedom to say the truth, what I believe, and be myself in my new surroundings.  I really appreciate this.

[EverAStudent]

What you called the "like minded talk" was known as the "stiff necked talk" or the "Proverbs fool talk" by some of us in our assembly.  I understand in other assemblies it was known as the "let's go for ice cream talk." 

For me, personally, it was the "garage talk," where you accompany the senior elder to his garage (for privacy) and he brow-beats you about his version of like mindedness until you are worn out, then he sends you away to contemplate your worthlessness to him.

[blonde]

This is a WOW moment for me too.  I had that happen to me too.  I experienced the same as soon as I left GCM.