Oliver wrote:There were also stories of some BK female students ...
"Stories", "reports" or "I know of" ... can you name names or centers? Are we talking 'pukka BKs' or just a hangaround?
It's good to stick to facts we 'know' to be true, either directly or via a reliable witness who would be willing to come forward, otherwise it dilutes the forum. Anyone could write anything and then BKs would use it against us.
For example, the main trustee of the BKWSU in the West enjoys going to saunas where attractive woman go topless and spends days in a spa called Nirvana where attractive woman walk around almost naked. He's even been seen on CCTV video footage doing so. I know he jokes about 'professional' women ... and I don't mean corporate executives doing the Brahma Kumaris management leadership courses. He even sees himself as a boss of the BKWSU in his country. If that's the "boss", what does it say of the rest of the spiritual org?
I've never read 'Fifty Shades of Grey' but I am aware that it's erotic fiction. "300-pages gala of repetitive sex ... a litany of swelling breasts and spent individuals ... deploy[ing] every bonkbuster cliché in existence" to quote one reviewer. I find it difficult to believe there is any BK service value in reading it or that anyone could read it without either being stimulated by it ... whether turned on or disgusted ... or it penetrating one's sub-conscious. Any would one disgusted by the sex read all 300 pages of it?
On the other hand, withdrawing all the sex from the equation, it does seem to have themes that resonate with BK experience. Now someone tell me that it's like a 'Krishna and the Gopis' in Lekhraj Kirpalani's bathing pool for the 2010s.
... its core message being that, given enough time, you can change someone. While I don't have any problem with this if all you're trying to do is help them to lose weight or quit smoking, when you're talking about an emotionally and (dangerously close to) physically abusive relationship, sending that kind of message is ridiculous and irresponsible.
Christian is controlling, possessive, condescending, and cruel. He doesn't allow Ana to behave as she normally would, and Ana just puts up with it, insistent that if she can give him what he wants, when he wants, as often as he wants, she can eventually begin to pull his strings. Will it work?
In the books, probably. In real life? No. Almost never.
How many idiotic, weak women are going to waste their lives on some emotionally retarded ***** because they've read stuff like this and think this kind of screwed-up fairytale will come true for them? I've known women with this mentality. ... "if I could just figure out what's wrong, I could change him!"