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Free
| | Posted on Sunday, February 29, 2004 - 12:09 am: | 
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When the Taliban announced their capture of Kabul, Afgahnistan in September 1996 by castrating and murdering a former communist president and hanging him from a lamppost, they took over the country until US and British forces defeated them (probably drove them to Iraq; thanks, Mr. Bush).
Within days of taking Kabul they declared what amounted to an Islamic Year Zero, imposing on Afghanistan the harshest Muslim regime ever known. Their driving force was that they just didn't care about the outside world.
Does this remind you of the leaders of a certian no-name "Christian" sect:
- The Taliban revelled in isolation and snubbing Western liberalism (2x2 workers' disdain for the "world")
- Within days of its fall the capital was rewound hundreds of years (2x2 still stuck in 1895)
- female education and employment were banned (pretty much the same as 2x2)
- women who refused to wear the all-enveloping burqa (black covering of face and body) were beaten (maybe 2x2 doesn't beat, but the psychological and emotional abuse as a result of the female dress code is substantial; there's a great article about the 2x2 black stockings on one of these Web sites)
- television sets were smashed (maybe 2x2 wouldn't smash them (they may want to watch TV when the friends are away), but they may rebuke you in front of the congregation, which can be more damaging)
- tapes were ripped from cassettes (don't touch that Led Zeppelin tape of mine, Mr. Workerman please)
- cinemas were burned down (going to a movie will cause your soul to burn for eterninty)
- in the only publicity stunt they ever held, the Taliban summoned reporters to witness the destruction of the last alcohol in Kabul (alcohol tabboo, per 2x2, even one glass of wine)
As its grip tightened, the edicts became more surreal:
- high heels were prohibited lest their clicking distracted men going to the mosque (see ridiculous 2x2 dress code, designed and enforced by the men)
- men who trimmed their beards were locked for days on end in freight containers (see riduculous 2x2 grooming code)
- white paper bags were outlawed in case they were made of recycled pages of the Koran (insert here your favorite 2x2 edict)
With the eccentricity came barbarity:
- homosexuals were sentenced to death by having a wall pushed on them
- adulterers were stoned to death
To the outside world it may have seemed the Taliban were a sick joke. But they were born out of their own conservative cultural environment, and Afghans' strong adherence to Islam.
Their beliefs imbued them with the idea of recreating an Islamic utopia based on the words of the Prophet Mohammed. (Their beliefs imbued them with the idea of recreating Christ's Kingdom based on the words of the The Lord Jesus Christ.)
The Taliban may have claimed to live by a 1,400-year-old holy book, but they always drove the latest Landcruisers. Their soldiers were said to be serving Allah on the battlefield, but were often well paid for doing so. (Does anyone know how much money goes to the workers? There is no accountability.)
They lambasted their enemies in the Northern Alliance as puppets of Iran and Russia. (They lambasted their enemies in demoninations as puppets of Satan.)
Their administration was a farce. No serious attempt at functional government was made. (All those unwritten 2x2 rules of conduct; not sure what is permissible.)
Ministers would disappear to the front for weeks on end (where is the worker off to now?). All decisions had to be cleared by Omar (insert 2x2 overseer), who was not only leader of the Taliban (no-name church assemblies), but amir-ul-momineen, commander of the faithful (God's servant).
By 1998-99, all but a handful of intellectuals and professionals had fled, joining an exodus of hundreds of thousands already in exile in Pakistan, Europe and America. (That would be us, people, living in exile in Cyberspace.)
I am,
Free |
Anonymous (203.97.2.242)
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 5:36 am: |
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I am,
Free
Free of what |
vicki (63.170.58.137)
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 12:08 pm: |
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Anonymous;
Your as secret as this cult..obviously not a member of this so called CHURCH.
Let those that have ears to hear and eyes to see to find the truth from the bible not from a worker.
Third generation of this 2x2 church |
Darren (193.117.111.19)
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 1:43 pm: |
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You are seriously very imaginative, Free |
Anonymous (157.89.46.110)
| | Posted on Friday, June 04, 2004 - 10:37 am: |
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Workers can be very nice people as long as you conform to them. Some are nice on a personal level. But once you profess, they start expecting to see changes made in the living. You follow them.
SOme head workers can be really strict and close minded. They can say some hurtful things in letters or personal visits.
Sometimes the workers are more interested in enoforcing standards than showing kindness. I remember some aloof and cold workers growing up who demanded conformity.
Andrew Abernethy, Peter Hunter, and others could really be harsh and unkind.
Workers have driven younger people away from the meetings with their harshness. They try to be so cold and strict. |
Vicki (216.104.73.149)
| | Posted on Sunday, June 13, 2004 - 1:40 pm: |
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In a cult, the head leader or leaders are the person worshiped...so in truth the workers become idolised. Jesus is just a man according to the workers. Cults hide their finances...so in truth the workers do not pay taxes and do not follow the rules of the land as GOD has ask us to. The workers and FRIENDS live in our FREE land but they would not shed blood for the freedom they enjoy. The workers MAKEUP rules to live by brainwashing generations of people by keeping the real TRUTH hidden. Cults have zombies for people, with depression, mental problems. Same thing for the 2X2 cult, I know very very few people that do not have anxious thoughts about GOD and death that belong to the 2X2. Cults do not question their leaders. Don't ever question a worker you'll just get the same old cliche over and over untill it is so embedded in your brain that you start believing it! Cults have no freedon. Cults kill. The 2x2 kills...it will kill your soul!!! |
Anonymous (157.89.46.110)
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 11:14 am: |
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The workers aren't like the Taliban. But they are too close for comfort on some issues. Information control is a big concern for me. The secrecy and elevation of the workers is wrong. Harsh legalistic workers giving the friends unkind worker talks is wrong. Too much minister control in the "kingdom". |
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