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Every field should have some.

But wait. I detect there are still some tares (weeds) amongst the wheat.

I have even submitted the names of five of them.

Apparently Someone else will have to sort this out at a later date.

Absolutely. I think that's something that keeps some of us together here.

We haven't forgotten how to smile.

Hahaha!!

Your outstanding wit shines once again, Bemused!

Your mind is amazing! (As is your memory of New Tribes culture.)

And here is me trying to forget Triber culture and you're saying my memory is very good. I should book myself in for therapy, except they ain't common in Kiwi culture

Oh hang on, FE is Bemused's therapy. . . .

Well it all started when I was very young . . . . .


It's probably like many groups who fall under the "fundamentalist" label and reach a big enough size to be able to become somewhat insular. The culture evolves and becomes a mixture of decrees from a few and trends from similar groups.

I remember thinking how weird it all seemed when we arrived at boot camp. On the one hand there was the intense piety pervading, with it's own dialect of religese and counterbalancing that was the strange immature behaviour that many adults exhibited.
Language school seemed relatively normal at the time, what was going on there only emerged decades latter, one of the leaders going to jail for his activities.
Then we arrived in PNG, oh what a culture shock! The same intense piety, but with obvious double standards and the high level of hatred for fellow humans was a real shock.

I've been pondering lately why our family didn't do what many others did and leave when it was realised that this was a very strange group. It wasn't as if we were physically trapped, but we didn't and here I is, decades latter