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2025-09-12 Since the Bruer issue opened the floodgates, a number of internal people and groups set out with well-meaning projects to make the 2x2 fellowship a “safer place,” hoping to reduce the risk of abuse—especially for children. But it seems to me, that the best of those who were seriously involved in these efforts have now given up. The few reform groups that remain appear to be satisfied with "going nowhere" ... or have “sold their souls” to organizational leadership and seem content with pretending, In my view, the danger has only increased. Many from membership who possess genuine honesty, integrity and moral purpose have already left, or are wisely in the process of leaving the 2x2 organization behind — seeking a better purpose elsewhere. (as we have done) This has left behind a smaller circle of people clearly willing to disregard the seriousness of sexual abuse, turning a blind eye to the disgusting, illegal, and immoral behavior among active workers and leadership — All in order to preserve the tattered claim that 2x2ism is the only true representation of God on earth. As the number of good, honest people with courage and integrity continues to shrink, and as those with real moral backbone thin out from the fellowship, the remaining remnant risks a return to the Bruer era -- and continuation of the risks and developments from there.
2025-09-11 Just a thought!! The system has traditionally used 2 ways to explain away folks that choose to 'move on' -- Neither one of them seems to work so well for them today. 1- They will just ignore the fact that anyone is gone!! It would seem that now with the highter volumes of 'fall outs' today it gets harder and harder to ignore this reality -- although workers still try to minimize its significance. 2- The system will just try imply that exes are just 'bad people' -- worldly --- unwilling -- bad spirit -- failures -- bitter --- caught up in the vices of the world etc etc. The success of this explanation has been built on the fact that lost 2x2 contact often meant they also lost all visibility to membership as well. And wouldn't be tracked. With the social contact nets of today and media oppurtunities .. The system efforts to trash the life capacity of those who leave, and to diminsh the well being and life satisfaction of exes is harder for workers to maintain. Today, anyone basically interested can quickly check the truth of such 2x2 implications.
Seems to me to be a quickly growing number of folks that are chosing to distance themselves from the rituals and reputation of 2x2ism. Good honest folks with integrity and courage, demonstrating the inner moral backbone to defy the call for organizational loyalty within the group. Folks who understand that this inbred loyalty demand obviously betrays the very core values of honor and decency. Am I right?
Religion would try to arrogantly claim ownership over everything that lies beyond our current understanding. It would try to explain and possess even the many unseen forces that shape and influence human existence—claims made more out of self-interest than truth. Yet, life’s most profound unseen forces in daily life exist entirely outside the tangled bonds of religion. Take something as simple as a smile: it cannot be measured or weighed, but its impact is undeniable—real, wonderful, and empowering. Simple acknowledgment and goodwill, freely offered to others, carries a quiet but powerful energy for good. There is a deeply undervalued strength in honest, genuine humility—one that can soften the chaos and conflict of daily life. Small acts of kindness can awaken us to new ways of caring for others. Generosity, given in unexpected places, can still the storms of self-importance. Hospitality, offered to strangers and the overlooked, expands the heart. Selflessness can ease the loneliness that hides behind arrogance and self-praise.
Sexual trauma is much more than dealing with the blow of a hammar The painful issue is trying to get lifes pieces to fit comfortly together again.
A key term in recent discussions about 2x2 moral issues is "allegation." An allegation is essentially a well-founded and shared suspicion/suggestion of some form of misconduct. It does not necessarily require forensic evidence. When evaluating an allegation, the burden of proof need not rest on the identified victim but more on the alleged offender. The term "allegation" then remains active until the matter be conclusively resolved
Guilt can correctly be placed on perpetrators -- and obviously on a leadership that has knowingly allowed this horror to go on in such large scale -- for such a very long time .... However today major blame also lies with the broad group of ordinary membership that cowardly have closed their eyes to obvious bad calls, and then even today continue to disregard the existance and seriousness of well published moral deviation that has been life destructive for so many. Such folks that knowingly continue to participate and underwrite this organisational 2x2 system share major guilt along with the perpetrators and their protectors
2024-04-20 An infection that has plagued 2x2ism for years is the "under the bushel syndrome" .. genuine moral determinations by individual members must not be shared openly — kept private! For instance ..no one agrees with the moral seriousness of the countless organizational dress code infractions for women that are part of the system .. or the condemnation capacity for the possession of a TV … or the evil declaration of a glass of wine for dinner etc etc -- Yet open enlightenment as to honest personal feeling regarding the idiocy of these 2x2 identifiers is surpressed "under the bushel" - Don't want to offend leadership!!! This appears to me to make 2x2ism the king of hypocrisy … far greater than other groupings. This is also a major factor in the development of the CSA scandal of today.
2024-04-18 Inspite of the well documented systematic moral deviation that 2x2ism has clearly hosted and defended the last 100 years or so .. it is interesting to note that the group still self-righteously claim that they have a monopoly on the "favour of God" – That they alone still alone represent 'Gods people' on the earth. …. A they still arrogantly believe and preach that the only true ministry in the world are those appointed and serving the 2x2 seniority system.