Main Series Kitty BITE Back Episode 10: liMes, Let’s Play Mother May I... Except I don’t listen to u

And here begins my apology tour.... I have been on a hiatus for the past 2 weeks because my mental health has been ShiITTTT. And ya know what, that’s okay. I have a system of support that is helping me in the really tough time. But I wanted you all to know that I am okay; I’ve just been taking care of myself the past 2 weeks.

Anyways, enough of that sad shit; let’s move on to other sad and fucked up shit, shall we?!

This week we will be discussing the 8th component of the Behavioral Control category of the BITE Model as laid out by SAH. This component is: restrict leisure, entertainment, vacation time. You would be SHOOOKKETH to the core if you knew how controlling cults are when it comes to what members can do in their free time. Let’s lay out a list of acceptable things to do on our leisure or vacation time or for entertainment.

1. Pray

2. Listen to recorded (church produced) music

3. Listen to recorded (church produced) sermons, services, and revivals

4. Read the Bible

5. Go on vacation solely to visit an approved church (cult) in the area

6. Fellowship with other members doing anything listed above

All other activities are considered “worldly” and of the devil. Some of the main things that are NOT allowed for leisure, entertainment, and vacation:

1. Consuming anything that could alter your state of thinking (drinking, smoking, drugs, ETC)

2. Watching anything (the tv is the “devil’s box” and “watching it will make you backslide”)

3. Reading anything other than the KJV of the Bible (all other writings are “of the devil” and “reading them will make you backslide”)

4. Fellowshipping with any non-members (this includes family)

5. Attending or participating in extra curricular activities (band, football, choir, ETC)

6. Attending or participating in any activities that include non-members (work parties, potlucks, family cookouts, ETC)

7. Attend or participate in any holiday activity (give valentines, Christmas parties, Easter egg hunts, ETC)

8. Go on vacations that are not approved by the cult leader with a prior approval to attended another cult’s church in the area (in short- you cannot go on vacations for any other reason other than to visit other approved cults in the area)

9. Anything to do with Disney (stuffies, movies, Disney World, Disneyland, ETC) is of the devil. In fact, Walt Disney himself “is a demon that has been frozen so he can come back later to help the anti-christ”. Fucking insane, right?)

I wasn’t going to do a story time for this episode, but y’all have been waiting so patiently for a new episode; so, here it is:

STORY TIME!

• When I was in 6th grade, I joined band. I was also one of the few middle schoolers at the time who was asked to join the high school marching band. I joined band prior to joining the cult with my mother. But it was that summer that I joined the marching band. So here I am, I’m in the marching band until my junior year Of high school. 6 years, that‘s a long fucking time to put into something!!! So whenI I was a junior, I was asked to play the flute at church. The cult leader knew I was in the band and marching band and was screaming at me about it on a near weekly basis. So he told me that I could play “on the pulpit” for services. I was very excited. So I start playing. He tells me on the second week of me playing at services with everyone else that I have to quit band and marching band. That my soul is in jeopardy of burning for an eternity with my skin and flesh rotting off from a fire that never burns me up completely but will consume me for the rest of time. The was screamed at me, fists slammed on a wooden podium, grabbing my face and shaking me until I was crying and finally agreed to quit band and marching band. This was done... publicly. The whole congregation watched as a slid from my seat to the floor as the cult leader stood on the pew, baring all his weight on my head and shoulders while he shook me, relentlessly, until i obliged. My mother was included in the people who watched this happen. She was right next to me. No one did anything. Because this form of torture, coercion, was done in the name of god. Another time, the cult leader and his elders came to my mom’s house and threw our tv, stereo, DVD player, and entertainment stand out in the road in front of our house. It was late, 2-3am? Church had ended, we had gone out to Hometown Pizza for dinner around 11pm. My mom‘s best friend at the time, the woman responsible for introducing us to this cult, ratted my mom and I out and told the cult leader and his elders that we had a “devil’s box” and “all the attachments”. She told the cult leader and the first thing he did was drive to my moms house, were I was sleeping and my mom was up ironing clothes for school the next day, and beat on the door until my mom finally answered. It wasn‘t the screaming that woke me up (I hear screaming in my sleep all the time just from the constant screaming from the cult leader); no, it was the sound of the TV being thrown into the road. The crashing and breaking sounds of plastic and glass Is what woke me up. So I came downstairs to see what the fuck was going on and I see the cult leader (blind with fury and rage) and 3 of his henchmen who follow his every command, ripping cords from the walls and floors, carrying out a large solid oak entertainment stand and a stereo/record player combo from the 70’s and throwing it out into the middle of the road. All I remember doing was sitting on the couch, silent. Nothing else is more demeaning that someon physically taking things from your space “in the name of the lord”. I’m done.

This one was rough y’all. I have soooo many more stories. Like about how the cult members filled up half of a plane to go to TX and visit a church for a week just so the cult could get money for a

new piece of property. Like damn y‘all, shit was rough.

Do you or someone you know have restrictions placed by a leader on what you can and cannot do during your free time? If so, please get as far away from them as possible. Call me, call a friend, call the fucking police. But above all... GET SOMEWHERE SAFE!

HERE is SAH's list of resources that his organization, Freedom of Mind, has gathered.

https://freedomofmind.com/resource-links/

Please use this information and share it with those who need it. It could save a life.

Until every little kid gets to go to Disney World, may the skin of your flesh burn for eternity.

-Jezebel Freedom