Hey, Cee-Lo must have heard
Angela's inspirational speech!
One of the things we heard often at the Spiritual Rights Foundation is to "let go and let God". We were also told often to let go of the painful past; love yourself first, then try the world on for size; judge it today, wear it tomorrow.Angela's inspirational speech!
And this profound homily often related by the holy leader Angela Silva: "fuck you".
If you are an SRF-ie, I am sure you are wondering why a decrepit heathen infidel such as myself would dare to quote such pearls of wisdom in a derisive atmosphere such as this blog.
It is because, only in this blog is there an environment where deconstructing the pithy and unenlightened dicta vomited by the Spiritual Rights Foundation leadership is possible. Besides if you are reading this blog as a current SRF-ie, I'll just borrow Angela Silva's inspirational homily: "fuck you".
Have any of you noticed that the down to earth homilies we ex-culties endured were applied so rigidly to we underlings but not so much to the leadership?
Ever notice that we got hammered hard if we said anything even slightly critical about a fellow member? Meanwhile any of the leaders could say whatever they wanted to whomever and at any time.
Do any of you remember being embarrassed, demeaned or insulted in front of everyone? And who was the one doing it? Can you see their faces?
Did the leaders judge you? Did they ever hold against you what they held against others who look, sound or resemble you in some minor way?
When did any of them "let go and let God"?
Did they ever take their own advice? Did they ever live by the same principles they wanted us to live by?
Or did they often say "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" as they threw insults at you and rummaged around your pocket for lunch money?
Ever catch them lying? Ever hear incomprehensible and nonsensical justifications for their bizarre actions?
Yeah, so it's not much of a deconstruction. But I'm not in a deconstructing mood tonight, I think.
But how about it? What kind of hypocrisy and double-speak do you remember coming from the current leadership? How about leaving a comment describing that?
Let us know what those are. Or, maybe reminisce and reflect on your own. Either way, if you look at those crazy statements as I have, you will probably have one of those moments. Like that time when you realized girl in sixth grade didn't come to your house because she was interested in you, it was because she wanted to copy your homework.
Hmmm, let me see. Many memories come to mind. But I guess the strongest one is the one about prosperity. All the information at the Academy, the classes, teaching and techniques were suppose to be a gurantee to having unlimited prosperity......well that is if you use them right. There was allways a hitch.
ReplyDeleteIt allways bothered me when I saw all the members there take class after class, meditate day and night, do more "work" then most people I knew outside of the academy and yet they were anything but prosperous. And it seemed like no one was really prospering like they were suppose to except the three leaders at the time. Why was that. Oh yeah, it had nothing to do with the fact that probably most of the "work" we were doing was bullshit and just to keep us conditioned to do as the leadership wanted, rather it was explained as our inability to have faith, to not take enough classes, to not tithe in the right spirit of unconditional giving, to refusing to listen to our wise and powerfull teachers.
I could go on and on. But we were being taught these great tools for prosperity from teachers there that had gone bankrupt, who had practiced tax evasion, who wore second hand cloths and could only afford to dress at Ross, who did'nt have a realtionship, who were disconnected from their families or origin, who did not have many friends except those at the church, who... I don't intend to be mean but it's just the truth.
It's just we were suppose to be prospereous on 4 levels right? Financial, Mental, Spiritual and Physical. For all the time and energy we put into the teaching we should have been model citizens a long time ago. But it never went that way. Someone was lucky to be prosperous on just one of these keys. It was a rarity. And we were all berated in one form or another by those that usually had less than ourselves, except for the three leaders who prospered off of our taking classes there allmost every weeknight and even then they were a mess.
It is a bit unbelievable to look at it from a clearer perspective now. I must have been brainwashed to believe all of that, looking at who was teaching us.