Just Chat! :D

[Saelethiel]

Because smiling and being cheerful is the most annoying thing they could do at that time. I'm not a fan of teachers. Haha.

 

[hannabanana]

I have been homeschooled in a co-op last year and this year will be doing the same part time with a few online courses. When growing up in the community I grew up in the women and leaders would be our teachers and I don't remember every glaring at any of them.

 

[Saelethiel]

Were any of them psychotic, 70-year-old, swear-they've-been-smoking-something, temper-issues spanish teachers? Lol. No offense intended, of course.

 

[hannabanana]

Nah, none of them were like that.

 

[Saelethiel]

Exactly lol. You're lucky.

 

[hannabanana]

Well not entirely because up to last year my schooling was very strict.

 

[Saelethiel]

Small town school, in the panhandle of texas. Bigger the school, stricter the rules, but the more you can get away with.

 

[hannabanana]

I was born into a community called The Twelve Tribes and the children were taught by some of the women and some of the leaders of this group. It was quite strict on the amount of work both schooling and labor that I had to do. I left the group at the age of 18 last year in June, but my parents are still members of the community and my dad is pretty high up. I have come to know through research now that what I lived in my entire life was a cult and now have been looking and searching for some truth.

 

[Saelethiel]

I hope you find or have found that.

Technically I don't count as christian anymore; I still believe in God and worship and all that good stuff but I've adopted beliefs of other religions... Cults are interesting though. Not Charles Manson's but yea lol

 

[hannabanana]

I hope you find or have found that.

Technically I don't count as christian anymore; I still believe in God and worship and all that good stuff but I've adopted beliefs of other religions... Cults are interesting though. Not Charles Manson's but yea lol

Like I told some other people from an outsiders visting our communities you would think The Twelve Tribes community were a bunch of always happy, friendly, helping group of people and yes in some ways they are, but from the inside and growing up there you see a lot more such as the power that the leaders have over others, the women and girls not being able to sit other than on the dirt ground during that time of the month. The slave type labor. The punishments if you dare to ever doubt any interpretation from one of the leaders(confinements, forced fastings). Those things you do not see. Belive me, cults are not good.

 

[Saelethiel]

*grin* I always knew there was a reason I wasn't born into one of those. I don't put up with stuff like that.

 

[hannabanana]

There isn't much you can do about it when your parents are part of it as well until you turn 18. That is what I had to wait for.

 

[Saelethiel]

Even then...no offense but if my parents were part of something like that and were still staying when they had me as soon as I could take care of myself I would have been gone. Instantly. Either that or I would have been beaten to death.

 

[nesichah]

I was glaring

because he managed to say the the following in 5 min

i love you
your special
drop one class or i will kick you out
how do you feel about that
your one of the smartest kids
why are you not happy?

 

[Saelethiel]

oh. haha. I hate it when they do that.

 

[hannabanana]

It is not really that easy.

 

[Saelethiel]

I'm not going to get started on this; being overly rebellious has it's issues, and I tend to irritate people. But why didn't you leave sooner?

 

[hannabanana]

For one thing, I was a minor. Also when you are taught one thing all your life and really have no other belief system it is really hard to turn away from people that you have trusted and also your own parents. And what if I would have run? To where would I have run. The place where I grew up was pretty darn secluded. That would have just led to worse conditions. Also all of my friends that I grew up with are there. I really have no one else on the outside. Yes I live with my Grams & Gramps and have one Aunt & Uncle and two cousins, but I really don't have any friends.
So I waited till I was 18 and by law they could not force me to stay anylonger.

 

[Saelethiel]

You would trust people who did that? And I would rather be starving in the wilderness than be under that much control...

 

[hannabanana]

You don't understand. When that is all you know you second guess what is right and what is wrong all the time. I still everyday second guess leaving, especially knowing that my parents are still there and I there only daughter have let them down.