Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "People of Praise: Former Member of Group Tied to SCOTUS Front-Runner Amy Barrett Calls It a “Cult”" video.

  1.  S S  Okay. Someone who states she has given birth, and has written and published a memoir claiming she gave birth, is actually lying, and is transgender, and no one noticed but you just now. Is that the correct narrative? Sure it is. Anything is possible. In fact, it has to be true if you feel it's true. Of course.
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  2.  S S  Is she lying about births and miscarriages?? Or are you biology-challenged?
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  3.  S S  What? A person who escapes a cult, has the presence of mind to keep her family's whereabouts secret, and writes a book about her experiences is a "victim?" No, when she meekly obeyed cruel and senseless orders and permitted herself to be denigrated, then she was a victim. Now, she is a VICTOR. Write your own book. We'll see how you do.
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  4.  Deborah Hennessey  People are much crazier than we think they are. Sobering.
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  5.  S S  You're the one living in your own fantasies. I'm not a liberal by any stretch.
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  6.  S S  Sure, okay. Moreover, she does not label the group as a whole a cult, she describes the cult that she dealt with. She can only speak about her own experience in one small city. She does not try to broaden her conclusions. Her experience gives us reasons to ask questions about other chapters of the same organization. The same could be said of the Boy Scouts, Alcoholics Anonymous, and pretty much any religious organization, among many others.
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  7.  S S  Anyway, you skirt the point. A person who writes and publishes a book about an ordeal is not a "victim." Far from it.
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  8.  @gigin9774  The "take responsibility" nonsense is designed to let perpetrators off the hook.
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  9.  S S  Anyone who is concerned about saying something actionable, or too revealing (such as anything that could reveal where they or their children live), and anyone who is simply a nervous speaker, especially a formerly traumatized one, would use a script. Ask how the book was vetted. That would be astute. Autobiographies have in the past proved to be less than perfectly truthful. (Who has forgotten "A Million Little Pieces?") The "scripted" business is irrelevant. It supports the story of trauma and fear, if anything; in no way does it undermine her claims.
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