#ex-members

[whatisonthemoon]

2nd Gen Research in Japan

Another post taken from a thread made by Twitter user @nowwarmom https://twitter.com/nowwarmom/status/1642383646848962560

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Morsko and the team of 2nd-gen former Unification Church members have compiled, mapped, and published a database of information on election candidates whose relationships with the Unification Church have been reported in the media. The data includes → 

candidates for governor and ordinance-designated city mayor, as well as candidates for prefectural assembly member and ordinance-designated city assembly member. It also provides links to media reports on what kind of relationship the candidates had with the Unification Church.

More info (in Japanese):

https://twitter.com/morusukochan/status/1642000925232594944

#second generation #ex-second generation #ex-members #former members #former moonies #unification church in japan #japanese politics #politics #japan #ex-blessed children

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Warning For Second Generation: Potential Incoming Outreach to “Inactive” “Blessed Children”

via WIOTM

Did you know that UC has a new president? Demian Dunkley was appointed the end of May when church held an inauguration in the New Yorker the end of May. Dunkley was president of UC about three years ago then Mrs Moon sent him to what the church refers to as Asia 1 (India, Thailand…). He was also pastor of Las Vegas church during In Jin’s Lovin’ Life time. You can’t deny Demian has a charismatic guy. He has this blind faith and unbiased devotion to Mrs Moon. He also has relationship and respect of many second generation and members. He has the expectations of not only Mrs Moon but membership that his leadership will bring a new wave to the dying church. In his speech he referred many times that the UC will now be referenced as -The Witnessing Church. Dunkley was leader of Vegas church under Lovin’ Life under In jin during which LL was able to organize the second generation and unite them under ball room dancing, sports festivals, mega church, rock bands, etc. She created a vibe for the church with hopes to witness to younger people. I get the feeling that Dunkley will use some of these tactics for the new witnessing push. During the inauguration speech he introduced 6 of twelve “sisters” that will be witnessing leaders. To seal the deal each woman received a special sweater from Mrs. Moon’s own wardrobe. These “sisters” were all second gen. It seems like every three years the church dusts off its witnessing campaign and part of their plan of action is to target inactive and ex members to bring them back. So-second gen. be warned— if a church friend calls you to invite you to picnic, dinner, sports festival or whatever. It’s not because they want to talk, spend time with you but more like they have a quota to reach.

Related

Demian Dunkley Admits Fraud - from the twitter of ex-Moonie podcast Falling Out

Demian Dunkley on Steve Hassan

‎Falling Out with Elgen Strait: S4 E9- The Empress' Old Clothes on Apple Podcasts - dissecting a recent fundraising video by Dunkley

#ffwpu #Family Federation for World Peace and Unification #leadership #leaders #unification church #unification church in the united states #american church #witnessing #ex-second generation #second generation #ex-members #former members #former moonies #ex-moonie

[weaver-z]

Does anyone want my analysis of why Aziraphale Said That after the confession? Context: I am an ex-member of a fundie church/borderline cult.

#i know the exact thought process so well that for a while i didn't get why fans ''didn't get it'' tbh #like i think people forget neil's an ex-cult member. there's a reason it's something he does rather well. #ineffable husbands #good omens #good omens spoilers

[zivazivc]

What do the band mates look like now?

Hed's a dad, and Les finally found a shirt that fits him

#technically this isn't 'now' either because the kids are already a little older in the present #i just love drawing babies #liv and flea disappear from my brain when they leave the band so idk what they look like now lol #trolls #dreamworks trolls #ex bandmates #trolls oc #les #hed #hed's kids #my art #answered #hed's hair is basically just a bit longer and he let his undercut grow out #and no more goatee #and les wears his bangs and dreads pushed back and grew a long ass beard #(it was inspired by wayne static. i just love his insane hair and beard it was such a cool look. guy just had troll hair irl. rip dude) #the kids designs aren't final because the girlfriend's design isn't final yet either #the gf is basically the last member of the band who joins after floyd leaves

[willthespy]

do you ever just sit in a group and realize everyone is some flavor of homo. that’s how i feel reading anything rick riordan. fuck, not every one of them is friends, but that just makes it more accurate

#did i just turn another real life experience into a rrverse reference? maybe #pjo hoo toa tsats #magnus chase #percy jackon and the olympians #i love how its still the typo #pjo #pjo hoo toa #trials of apollo #apollo pjo #yeah im tagging him first what about it losers #nico di angelo #piper mclean #will solace #solangelo #hunters of artemis #including certain ex-members #oh and leo… cupioromantic leo is real to me who tf is calypso #leo valdez #percy jackson #annabeth chase #oh guys youll love the next one #clarisse la rue #selina beauregard #yeah okay patrochilles reference… #those are sapphics if ive ever seen one. #yheres more but my brain is *poof* #alex fierro #guys please name more im like…. *fire burning feath deayh death* i have a vision but its noy visioning #pjoverse #rrverse

[rrat-king]

i love seeing people protecting kristen applebees against people hating on her character for junior year but fully not actually seeing the hate against her myself. i have created a beautiful ally beardsley loving echo chamber and i will not be venturing out

#to anyone hating on kristen. stay safe out there #just couldn’t be me #any choice that ally makes is perfect cuz hey. she’s a 16 year old ex cult member #she’s gonna be a kinda fucked up charcter sometiems and she’s allowed to be #d20 #fantasy high #kristen applebees #dimension 20 #fhjy

[jeanmoreaue]

the fact that Riko has drilled it into Jean’s head that Jean’s not only worthless, but that he’s like a bad and violent person at his core. but then despite whatever Jean’s inner monologue is saying throughout TSC, his actions show time and time again that his first instinct is usually kindness. absolutely upsetting

#i gotta say nora did a great job on researching how ex cult members adapt #i feel like at the end of tsc is almost like his rock bottom lol bc he’s finally started to acknowledge that wrongdoing was done against him #tsc #tsc spoilers #the sunshine court #jean moreau

[heuffopla]

Sapphic couple of the year!!!!! ❗❗❗

#my art #clone high #Kahlopatra #Cleo clone high #clone high frida #As an ex member of the big bazongas community I sometimes worry if Cleo's back is okay. I do this for anime girls as well

[seraphinitegames]

Will we ever get to meet the UB member who left? Or at least learn why they left?

Yes to both of those questions!

Really looking forward to writing the reunion for them! :D As well as first meetings for F and the ex-member.

Thank you so much for the ask! :)

#the wayhaven chronicles #asks #interactive fiction #unit bravo #romance #vampires #twc ex-member #backstory #choice of games #hosted games #choice script

[whatisonthemoon]

James Baldwin: History is not the present. It is the present.

A submission from Deprogramming Imperialism

And in the same spirit of the words quoted above from James Baldwin, a quote from Yuri Kochiyama: "Unless we know ourselves and our history, and other people and their history, there is really no way that we can really have positive kinds of interaction where there is real understanding.”

Our history lives us. In fact, our family's history lives in us, and even the world's history.

For survivors of the Unification Church: We cannot run away from the experiences and contradictions that constructed our lives and the world around us. We cannot simply run away from the ghosts of our trauma, or the constant ideological programming we endured under the Unification Church. These things continue to haunt how we think and act.

To untangle the chaos of our pasts, and to clearly understand our lives and experiences in the Unification Church, we need to be able to clearly understand the church's role as a tool of imperialist and fascist violence. Vital to genuinely recognizing and working through the ways the UC's abuse and ideology stick with us is understanding the root of oppression in society: capitalist imperialism. An anti-imperialist analysis is vital to understanding the conditions that birthed and sustain the Unification Church, and to understand why the majority of the world is forced to endure "half-lives". 

There is a way forward, to not just heal from trauma as individuals, but through collective struggle for a new world, we may gain our deepest sense of humanity by playing a role in the defeat of imperialism. This is not an attempt at "heavenly deception," or an impossible dream. This assessment comes from the analysis and experiences of hundreds of millions who have engaged in the past century of anti-imperialist struggle.

A quote we often repeat in our reading group comes from George Jackson, an Black revolutiionary who was murdered in prison in 1971: "Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution." 

We cannot emphasize that last part enough: "Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution."

Understanding the crisis before us is not enough. Collectively, we must face it head-on, in solidarity with all those struggling against imperialism and for a new world where there are no longer half-lives. In this struggle for a world without imperialist exploitation, we collectively reclaim our humanity from this oppressive system.

Consider getting involved in our reading and discussion group. Email us at [email protected]

#unification church #moonies #imperialism #anti-imperialism #deprogramming imperialism #ex-moonies #former members #ex-members #fascism #anti-fascism #anti-capitalism #capitalism #ideology #abuse #trauma

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Some questions and reflections on the missing pieces to leaving the Church as an ex-2nd generation

Originally posted on WhatIsOnTheMoon

�� Chanyang team leading ansu in Cheongpyeong

Somebody who grew up in the church recently died. Committed suicide. This is not the first time and won’t be the last. This tragedy happens all the time in society⁠—in “the outside world.” Our economic and political conditions will surely fluctuate through various levels of shakiness and unrest from now into upcoming decades, in the U.S. and globally, and this undoubtedly means that working and poor people will struggle even more, potentially with even less access to medical services, including mental health services. It’s safe to assume that suicides are generally going to increase.

I’ve known three members who committed suicide. In some sick way, I am thankful that there aren’t more second generation who have committed suicide. Knowing how often I’ve gotten close to it, as well as others in my family and among my friends, I’m genuinely surprised there’s not more. Unfortunately, I don’t doubt that in the next few decades, there will be more⁠—and not just because of global politics making everybody’s every day harder. But because we’re getting older, and so many of us have never dealt with any of our demons, and when things in our life gets shakier, uncertain, or scary, and we hit a breaking point because of some tragedy or sudden life change, we will lose our shit.

So many of us have an endless rage we are unwilling to look at or know. We hide and lock up huge parts of who we are from ourselves and those we love. And so many of us end up clueless to the structures and voices we’ve inherited from the church that we still obey and are tormented by.

There’s so much more to the story of leaving the church as a second generation than I’ve been told. I am trying to figure it out for myself. I’ve been out for a decade and yet too often I feel so behind in my healing. I am not over it, and I feel guilty for that. I only recently detected that guilt coming from an old place in me⁠—the place that says not to be negative, the place that dismisses negative people. I’ve been in therapy on and off for the last decade, I’ve been medicated, and the past few years I’ve talked to other 2nd generation who left, I’ve been keeping up with the blogs and the podcasts⁠⁠—and none of that is enough.

What is enough? Will there ever be enough? Will I ever not have this rage following me?

Somehow, even in the safest ex-2nd generation spaces, I still feel like the violence we witnessed and endured is not taken seriously. There are so many ex-2nd generation who affirm the church being problematic, but barely any more than other fundamentalist sect. We can read HWDYKYM headlines about 6,500 Japanese women going missing after the blessing, or Moon sexually assaulting Annie Choi, or the church funding death squads in Latin America, and say, “oh yeah, the church is fucked up” and shrug. Even if we did not personally experience certain abuses, we were born through and in the midst of exploitation and abuse. It was all around us. In one way or another, we all experienced⁠ it and it played a huge role in shaping our realities and who we are.

There is so much trauma in us that we are unwilling to interact with and know. It is not normal to be in a room of people slapping themselves, with some getting bruised or bloody. It is not normal to be in a locked room where people are forced to make confessions and then get beaten. It is not normal to have your church leader pressure you to give up your child to another family. It is not normal to have your parents pressure you to go across the country, or world, at 17 or 18 or 19 years old, to have your eternal spouse chosen for you. It is not normal to have to make a sudden life change, including moving countries, due to the sudden whim of a church leader. It is not normal to be given a knife by your mom to kill yourself with if approached by a rapist. It is not normal to have to beat your spouse’s ass with a bat as hard as you can in front of your peers and leaders. Whether this was our experience, or our sibling’s, or our friend’s, or our parents’ it was all traumatic and it was our basis for reality. It was not normal, good, or healthy. That stuff takes a long time to unpack, and the messaging we received takes even more effort and humility to actually unlearn and deal with.

There’s so much to unlearn and re-learn, and I’m afraid of what that means for me, and for all of us. Going to therapy is important, even if your therapy ends up not always super insightful or mind-blowing. It helps to have somebody on the outside seeing what’s going on inside us. I’ve had some mediocre therapists, but they’ve all been helpful at some point in highlighting things in my thinking and behavior that I just couldn’t see otherwise, and reminding me of the things I always forget or dismiss. They’ve continually helped me take myself and my life seriously.

But there’s more to this than therapy. How do we reckon with ourselves? There still seems to be some missing pieces in this story. Maybe it’s something we, the second generation, have to figure out.

Everybody has their own pace and capacity, and I respect that we all have a different route for recovery and healing. A lot of us are mentally ill, dealing with CPTSD and PTSD, as well as depression and anxiety and other disorders. I know some people feel unable to even consider working through their trauma, aware that it’d trigger them in ways that they do not think they can manage, in ways they’re scared might break them. For those of us who want to actively find some sense of resolve, who want to be free from Moonie-brain, and to feel free, and genuinely be freed, from being psychologically and ideologically in the church—I wonder what else we can be doing to find whatever peace we can with our families, our past and stories, ourselves. I wonder if my Moonie-blinders are still keeping me from seeing something.

From a comment on facebook in response to this post:

Thank you for re-sharing it, when it was posted i was also dealing with the loss of someone i grew up with to suicide. this piece jolted me awake and out of my individual trauma to the need to be outspoken, the need to process in community and heal from this wild wild shit, and to start to imagine and work for a new world without punishment, without control, without hierarchy. how many more of us will die for this, how many more will live half-lives, how many more of us will have to work through complex trauma? even one more victim is too many

#second generation #ex-members #ex-moonies #recovery #trauma

[locusfandomtime]

due to the events of limited life, decked out and some running jokes we now have enough information to make a canonical “your crush / you” meme with the hermitcraft cast

#i could have gotten more indepth if I wanted to #family tree coming soon! #this doesn’t follow the typical format of the meme but it has crush. family members of crush. ex. current lover. so I condsider it the same #locus fandom time #shitpost #hermitcraft #hermitblr #not included: “their ex’s current lover” (image of bdoubleo’s real mother) #what do I even tag this with #zombie cleo #mcyt #I’ll tag cleo but nobody else #hermitcraft memes

[robbietech]

Volo arrives on Pasio at last.

If you use it, please credit me!

#pokemon #volo #pokemon volo #pokemon masters ex #ginkgo guild member volo #pokemon legends arceus #my gifs

[snowshinobi]

hear me out: divorce ceremonies. divorce cake and divorce outfits. toasts to the uncouple spoken by the Worst Man and Maid of Dishonor (gender neutral). separate piles of gifts for the freshly parted, stuff like nice sheets and Target giftcards and cookbooks. marriage gets to have all this ritual attached to it and by god divorce deserves some of that action

#this would only work for people who are actually planning to be friends or at least neutral following their separation #but like cmon how fuckin funny and cathartic would this be. i would go to a divorce ceremony. fuck i would throw one #something something humor is what gets you through the dark times #something something humor is the reason why court jesters could speak truth to power #why get torn up about your ex when you can throw one last good time party with them where y'all get the closure you need #surrounded by loved ones who support you on your parting of ways #like isn't that sorta beautiful? and awkward as all hell #im not kidding i really think this could be cool. but yeah both members of the uncouple would have to be down with it #if you get it you get it. if you dont then its fine just get divorced the normal way with minimal fanfare (ideally) #divorce #snowswords #i am once again divorceposting #it will happen again

[angelsdean]

people will say stupid things abt dean winchester everyday. the good thing is we can just say "that's dumb" and keep on being so good and sexy at media literacy. and loving dean winchester.

#sorry but why are people projecting their personal experiences with shitty family members onto dean winchester ?? #all while ignoring canon and people literally pointing out that their takes and interpretations hold no weight #like everyone is entitled to their Headcanons. but that's all they are. and no one is required to share your personal (bad) interpretation #and also ppl need to understand that no one is going to bring their headcanon into actual analysis and discussions abt canon #also analyzing canon thru your headcanons and trying to twist canon to fit what you believe while ignoring anything that contradicts it #is bad media analysis point blank. and people having actual discussions abt canon are gonna rebuttal #and debunk your claims if you have a weak argument with little support #again. headcanons are fine. do whatever you want forever in your personal sandbox. #but don't bring unsupported headcanons into discussions abt canon and present them as fact. #because they're not #and also stop acting like dean winchester is your shitty dad / uncle / brother / ex / whomstever #vic.txt

[greenlaut]

welcome! 🌱

#wolfwood just wanted to check out the tiny hole-in-the-wall plantshop... #((wolfwood n livio are ex-cult members of eye of michael #wolfwood is struggling to look for jobs n walk-ins #one day he saw this tiny plantshop squished between two buildings #he passed it by and thought he saw an angel???? #barges into the shop #vash: welcome! #wolfwood goes home that day and told livio he might need glasses now.. #vashwood #vash x wolfwood #wolfwood x vash #DO NOT TAG AS OTHER SHIP #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun stampede #tristamp #trigun #trigun vash #vash saverem #tristamp vash #my art #hey uuuhhh remember that cryptid plant seller vash? #cryptid plant seller vash #<<thats the tag for this now #buckle up lads ive written 2 pages of lore at one 2 am night #we are doing this now #tristamp modern au #trigun modern au #trigun stampede modern au