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She's 29 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: thirty two years old and single, but she acts like 30 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: a sixteen year old dizzy girl. All of a sudden. 31 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: She has to check in with one of her three 32 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: spiritual advisors when she gets to the office, and when 33 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: she's heading home. She usually talks to one of them 34 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: on the phone while she's eating her punch two. In 35 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: the past seven months, she's lost weight, let her hair 36 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,239 Speaker 1: grow out, and she stopped polishing her fingernails. She told 37 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: me that nails are an attention grabber, and her church 38 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 1: preaches that women should be more in the background. She 39 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: has a churchy excuse for doing the craziest things. She 40 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: pays her bills and car note and then gives whatever 41 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: She's got whatever she's got left to the church, and 42 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: they take her grocery shopping. If she needs to shop, 43 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: they give her a church credit card with a small 44 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: spending limit. I told her that she's in a cult 45 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: and she's slowly but surely getting brainwashed, and she said 46 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: it's all kingdom business that she's tending to. She said 47 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: that her spiritual advisers call her body a temple and 48 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,239 Speaker 1: they love tapping into her energy to give them strength 49 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: for the week. I asked if it was with all 50 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: three and she said it was the first time, but 51 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: now it's one on one, so the connection can be greater. 52 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: I used to burst out laughing, thinking she was joking 53 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: at first, but now it's just crazy. She's happier than 54 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: I've ever seen her, so it must be beneficial to 55 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: let the Kingdom run through her weekly. But what I 56 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 1: don't want to happen is for her to lose her 57 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: job over this church mess she's stuck in. I can't 58 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: get through to her, so should I try talking to 59 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: her spiritual advisers? She has no common sense. Yeah, it 60 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: sounds like she has no common sense. And I have 61 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: to give you a compliment here. You are a very 62 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: good friend, your patient. You're caring. She needs someone like 63 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: you in her life right now because this so called 64 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: religion she's in that has no name or anything, sounds 65 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: like it has no foundation and God is nowhere to 66 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: be found in this. And I say that because there's 67 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: just too many ungodly things going on. For instance, you 68 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: asked her about having sex, and she says, first she 69 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,119 Speaker 1: had it with the three men and then sects one 70 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: on one with them. What does she say to tap 71 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: into her energy so they could tap into her energy 72 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: and have strength for the week. What religion is this really? 73 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: You know? Then she gives all her money to them 74 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: after her bills and rent are paid. If she needs 75 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 1: to go shopping, she can do that with the church 76 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: credit card. And she doesn't know the difference between someone 77 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: pimping her and using her and a real church. Obviously, 78 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: I agree wholeheartedly with you one hundred percent that she's 79 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: definitely brainwatched. She needs to be rescued and be programmed asap. 80 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: This is a cult. This is the has you know, 81 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: all the signs of a cult, but she can't see that. 82 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 1: And this is terrible, This is really terrible. Please stay 83 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 1: her friend. See if you can get some other people 84 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: I don't know involved to maybe talk to her and 85 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: get her out of this, because she is definitely heading 86 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: down the wrong path. Steve, this is clearly this is 87 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: some type of cult mess. This is not you know, 88 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: and once again, this is not This is not what 89 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: God is about. These are none of the requirements and 90 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: he ain't got no requirement for you to have sex 91 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,799 Speaker 1: with three men so they can tap into your energy. 92 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: They're tapping into something. It ain't your energy though, you 93 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: know this whole letter man, It's just it's a sad 94 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: letter man, because I hate to see people who are 95 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,119 Speaker 1: lost get caught up because they don't know the way. 96 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 1: And you know, when you don't know the way, man, 97 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: you can be misguided, misled easily, especially if you're looking 98 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: for something and somebody comes along at that moment where 99 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 1: you're looking for something and anything sounds right to some people. 100 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: And that's what's happened in this case. She's thirty two 101 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: years old, she acts like a sixteen year old dizzy girl. 102 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 1: All of a sudden, she got to check in with 103 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: one of her three spiritual advices when she gets to 104 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 1: the office and when she going home, and she usually 105 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: talked to one of them on the phone. She eating 106 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: her lunch. It's been seven months. Not a girl in 107 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: lost weight. She let her hair grow out, she can 108 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: stop polishing her finger nails, and then she said the 109 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: nails are an attention grabber. And her church preaches that 110 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: women should be more in the background. Him already what 111 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: we're talking about here, when this church gets started, the 112 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: women should be more in the background. Man, come on, man, 113 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: I mean anyway, I got a few more things to 114 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: say to you, but you know, I don't know if 115 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: it's gonna help kausty girl. I'd rather talk to the 116 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,280 Speaker 1: thirty two year old, but I got some news for 117 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: her friends. Though it's well. Coming up at twenty three 118 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:45,799 Speaker 1: minutes after the hour, we'll have part two of Steve's 119 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: response Today's Strawberry letters, subject common sense versus church sense. 120 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 1: We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening, 121 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 1: all right, Steve. Come on, let's recap today's very sad 122 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: strawberry common sense versus church sense. See, this is a 123 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: letter about a person who's lost. It's looking for something, 124 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: and somebody saw her looking for something and filled in 125 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: the blanks with some mess. Because that's all this is 126 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: a mess, and I feel sorry for this little sister 127 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: right here. It's got these three spiritual advisors that she 128 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: talks to when she gets to the office, when she's 129 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: heading home, when she eating her lunch. They didn't have 130 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: told her to. She didn't lost weight, she letting her 131 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: hair grow out. She didn't stop polishing her fingernails because 132 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,239 Speaker 1: she's saying nails are an intention grab and her church 133 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 1: preachers that women should be mowing the background. She's got 134 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: these churchy excuses for doing the craziest thing. So here's 135 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: what's happening. The girl pays her bills and her car 136 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: note and then gives whatever she's got left to the church. 137 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: They take her grocery shopping. If she needs to shop, 138 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: they give her a church credit card with a small 139 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: spending limit. Now, the girl told her that's a car. 140 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: That's exactly what it is. And she's getting brainwashed. But 141 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: she said, it's all kingdom business. Now, I don't want 142 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: to say what I've heard that religion is, but I'll 143 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: just leave that alone. She said, it's all kingdom business 144 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: that she's tending to. And she said her spiritual advisor 145 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:26,679 Speaker 1: called her body a temple, and they love, tapping into 146 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 1: her energy to give them strength for the week. Now, 147 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: a girl asked her girlfriend, is that for sex, and 148 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 1: she said, it's a lot greater than sex. See they 149 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: temple tapping. See, so that makes it greater than it 150 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,319 Speaker 1: sex were temple tapping, were tapping into your temple. We're 151 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: not just having sex. And then she asked it was 152 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: it with all three and she said it was the 153 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: first time, but nis one on one, so the connection 154 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: can be greater. Now, a girl's say she used to 155 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 1: bust out laughing, thinking she was joking at first, but 156 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: now it's just crazy. She's happier than I've ever seen her, 157 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: So it must be beneficial to let the kingdom run 158 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 1: through her weekly. But what I don't want to happen 159 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: is for her to lose her job over this church mess. 160 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: She's stuck in that this is not the most important 161 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:23,320 Speaker 1: concern her losing her job. The bigger problem is she 162 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:27,559 Speaker 1: losing her soul. Damn your job. You can get another job. 163 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: You got one soul. So she's been deceived by this trickery. 164 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: Got the nerd to call it a church, but it 165 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: is really a cult. I can't get through to her soul. 166 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: Should I try talking to her spiritual advisors. Wow, little girl, 167 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: what are you gonna say to them? They they won't 168 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: started this mess. That the one that is perpetrating the mess. 169 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: That the one that's pulling off the mess. They the 170 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,080 Speaker 1: one that's involved in the mess. What you're gonna say 171 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: to them? She has no common sense. What I would 172 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: do if I were you, I would report this institution. 173 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: I really would. Now, people have the freedom of religion 174 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: and all like that, but I would put them on notice. 175 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: I mean, there are some things you could do to 176 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: unravel this stuff, because this like really is borderline really 177 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: some dangerous stuff. When you're turning over your entire check 178 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: to a group and they're giving you a small church 179 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: credit card with a limit on it, and once you 180 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: start passing our church credit cards for them to buy 181 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: stuff with collections, getting into some tax situation, I would 182 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: report them. I would go down to somebody that's some 183 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: people that go and save and rescue people from groups 184 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 1: like this, and I would get some help with it, 185 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: because something's wrong here. When they get through using and 186 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: abusing this girl, they're gonna throw her out. She gonna 187 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: either run out of money or she gonna run out 188 00:10:56,160 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: of attention one or the two. So how does this 189 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: religion explain to her having a family, How does this 190 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: cult group explain to her about having a husband children? 191 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: Or she just group property? Now who are these men 192 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: that get to decide who sleeps with this girl and 193 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: how often they get to tap into her energy? This 194 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 1: is the happiest she's ever been because she's been lost 195 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,839 Speaker 1: for so long. Now she thinks she found. But if 196 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: this is your idea of being found, this is ridiculous. 197 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 1: Right here, I would report it. I would find a group. 198 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,559 Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. I have no idea, 199 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 1: but there are some help groups out there for anybody. 200 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:39,679 Speaker 1: But they got you know, you can look into this 201 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: right here. Man, this don't have to be I would 202 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: try to help my friend that way, get some attention. 203 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: Some eyeballs on this organization here, so they don't just 204 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: exist and you know other people. Yeah, a lot of 205 00:11:53,920 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 1: eyeballs got put on this Christian Scientology organization cause a 206 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 1: lot of stuff that's Ronne or Hubbard Biss. It's a 207 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: lot of eyeballs got put on a lot of other groups. 208 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that's a cult or nothing. I'm not. 209 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, a lot of eyeballs got put on 210 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: this group, and a lot of changes came about, and 211 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: it's continued to come about. I would look into that 212 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: myself if I were you. This is hate. I don't 213 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: like this letter because I feel sorry for this thirty 214 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:27,079 Speaker 1: two year old girl. She's my daughter, somebody I know. 215 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: I go up in there with all the advisors as 216 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: let's start right there. Yeah, we're really talking tapping again 217 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: all this shit, man, get out of here. I'm gonna 218 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: I'm tapping everybody when I get that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 219 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:51,319 Speaker 1: but it'll be a different kind of tapping. Your turn, brother, Steve, 220 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 1: we probably yeah all right, Um, leave us your comments 221 00:12:55,960 --> 00:13:00,119 Speaker 1: on Today's Strawberry Letter on Instagram, at Steve Harvey FM, 222 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,719 Speaker 1: and check out the Strawberry Letter podcast on demand now 223 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: coming up at forty six minutes after the hour, we'll 224 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: have some sports talk with Junior right after this. You're 225 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 1: listening to this Name Harvey Morning Show.