It's imperitive to educate yourself about what you are involved in:
"In my humble opinion the most sensible way of dealing with a cult is to read as much as you can from what is available on the subject.
Read not only what the scholars, the therapists, and the reformers have to say about cults.
You should also read the postings from members and ex-members of that group on the public Usenet Newsgroups and ex-member message boards.
If there are likely to be newspaper articles, you can probably track them down with the help of the librarian at your local library"
Link to: "Books relating to cult recovery"
(Admin. Note: George was an excommunicated worker…….he would have been in the work as early as 1908 or 1909 ………how long he was in the work is unknown at this time. When George had a slight nervous breakdown, some of the "friends" put him up on a homestead on "Rattlesnake Ridge" east of Pueblo, Colorado. It was totally undeveloped, but he was supposed to "develop the land." He lived in a cave - no electricity - only light from the opening. He even lived there in the wintertime and was caught out in a blizzard once - luckily, he found the fence and followed it back to the cave. It was during this time that he did a lot of his really good Bible studies while stuck alone in the cave.
Years later, (Click HERE to read Article), written by George, became known to Eddie Cornock and other small-minded workers……….they were furious and wanted this article burned. George was extremely intelligent and as someone who knew him put it,
“He was overqualified for the work intellectually. 50 to 70 years ago, his high IQ would not have been well accepted among workers, who were by and large pretty much the opposite.”)
March 10th, 1953 ~ ~ ~ George Roszell Quotes:
We owe it to ourselves to educate and improve our minds, for they will live forever.
Every man has a moral obligation to make himself as intelligent as he can.
It is man's duty to enlighten his mind by education.
Education is the training of the mental and moral powers.
Education includes that enlightenment and understanding which an individual obtains through experience.
Education comprehends all that we assimilate in the development of the powers and faculties bestowed upon us at birth.
Education develops and straightens mental strength.
Education was not intended to smother a man with accomplishments, but rather to consolidate a firm and regular character.
Education anticipates mental order, and mental order is the sanity of the mind.
It is by education that we taste the beauties of nature.
A just education forms a man.
No inheritance can supply the want of a liberal education.
Without a liberal education neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.
How can a man be intelligent, happy and useful without education??
It is education that unlocks the prison house of man's mind and releases the captive.
As a diamond is not in any proper sense fit for use until it is polished, so a human being is not in any proper sense fit to teach others until he is educated.
The fate of a society depends upon the education of its youth.
Education endows us with qualities which time cannot destroy.
Education develops thought and stirs it into activity and growth.
Education refines the manners and makes men mild and gentle in conduct.
A proper education fixes a generous purpose in the mind.
Education is the constraining and directing of youth toward right reason.
True education is the awakening and cultivating of our best and purest tastes.
Education in youth contributes not a little to soften manners: it gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
Good-breeding is the art of showing men by external signs, the internal regard we have for them: it arises from good sense improved by good education.
Man is born barbarous: he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being educated and cultured.
The culture of a society must constantly rise. If not, the society cannot provide security for its members.
Where no interest is taken in education, insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse, and such little minds - - strangers alike to activity and meditation - - become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.
Education is not always a sign of wisdom, but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly.
To restrain education is inevitably to bring a rust upon the understandings of men.
Without education and courtesy, a thousand incivilities may be committed and a thousand offices neglected without any remorse of conscience or reproach of reason.
Education is usually connected with the formation of character.
Whatever expands our affections and enlarges the sphere of our understanding must unquestionably elevate us in the scale of being.
The prosperity of a society depends upon the number of educated and enlightened characters in it.
He who dethrones the idea of education bids chaos welcome in its stead.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the minds that are unoccupied by the varieties of knowledge.
