Strong City Cult Escapee Finds After the Truth

An ex-member of the Strong City cult contacted me:

Dear Post-cult-compadre,

I'm impressed with your website. Thank you for taking the time to maintain it. I realize how much effort and time that it takes to keep meaningful and useful things online, in a manner that is easily accessible.

Being a Strong City escapee, your notes and those of the contributors on your site have special significance. The insights you all share are very helpful. They reflect experiences/thoughts/processes that are similar to my experience, and no doubt the experience of other former cult members, in general. This is extremely useful, for readers as well as posters, as we all work out the kinks that we worked into our lives. And I appreciate Dr. Datanah's remarks very much.

If you are interested, please take a look at a blog I have posted for keeping up with the Strong City version of the cultype. They are going through a particularly difficult time right now (kind of like what they have been going through constantly for a long time, only now the State is involved).

I was so impressed with your "Fortune Cookie For Angelo" that I'm using it on my personal page. Hope that's okay...Those quotes are right on the money...

Thank you so much for the email. A number of readers of this site have been deeply moved with compassion for those involved with the Strong City group since first reading about it. So few people can really understand what being in such a group is like (without experiencing it for themselves) or the trauma and healing that can result from choosing to leave. I'm glad to find out that this site might have helped in some way.

Also, it tickles me to death that you like the Fortune Cookies. One day someone was talking with me about the fortune cookies that Angelo used to give people at holiday functions (like Thanksgiving and Christmas.) And the idea of adding that fortune cookie to the site started as a way of poking fun at that in a playful way... but then, once I found the Lazarus Long and Solomon Short quotes, I really got into it for its own sake.

I've also taken this opportunity to update some of the external links in Elsewhere on the web to include the Strong City links.

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