For a long period, in order to control the practitioners and recruit more followers, Li Hongzhi and Minghui advocated a lot of opinions and views in family and household life against traditional virtues and values, which have profound impact on practitioners, making them behave strangely and handle family issues against common sense and social standards, causing great damages to both their own families and to the entire society.



<H3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 20pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly">1.1 Human society is but the garbage dump, and cultivator is no longer human<A name=11></H3><H3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 20pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly"> </H3>· Li Hongzhi says that the earth is a garbage dump, the human society is morally rotten and faces extermination and elimination







"Earth is but the garbage dump of the universe...The human beings in the universe who are bad fall downwards, falling to the very center of the universe – Earth."[1]







"In particular, the moral values of the human society are now declining very badly...society as a whole is declining...If you ... return to this original realm of human society, you will find even from not too high a level that today&#39;s people and the human society rather frightening! It is truly terrifying!"[2]







"In this enormous universe, Earth looks just like an apple – an apple which has become rotten inside and out. Just like every individual human being, every particle inside of this apple is rotten. Then shouldn&#39;t this apple be destroyed, thrown away, or disposed of?...Now there&#39;s a rotten apple with worms all over it in your spotless room – why would you leave it there? If you insisted on leaving it there, wouldn&#39;t you be doing a bad thing? The same goes for this universe. The Earth has already become like that. Why not destroy it? If a god didn&#39;t destroy it, wouldn&#39;t he be doing a bad thing?"[3]







Families are cells of the society; happy families serve as the foundation for the construction of a harmonious society, while a flourishing society ensures the peace of families. But according to Li Hongzhi, the earth is the garbage dump, human society suffers ten sins and is a rotten apple, facing numerous catastrophes as well as the fate of extermination and elimination. According to this logic, the families of garbage dump will also face extermination and elimination. Therefore, Dafa disciples won&#39;t manage to maintain their families and treasure their relatives like normal people do; instead, some chose to give up families and to commit suicide in order to reach Consummation, leaving their families in endless pains.







He Qun, a Falun Gong practitioner in Jiangsu Province, neglected his family for the sake of returning to "paradise" and of "getting away from all the sufferings." He was arrested for engaging in such illegal activities as printing leaflets publicizing Falun Gong. And inside the detention house, he defied the law with a fast. At the news, his parents, wife and daughter went to wise him. His mother even knelt down in front of him, crying and begging him to think about the aged parents and the young kid, but still, he showed no mercy to them ... It&#39;s true that he gave up families and affections, yet after he was sentenced to a seven-year imprisonment, his parents took over the burden of life and the debts of the family for him, as well as the blow and pains caused by the leaving of their daughter-in-law and grand-daughter. The family that used to be so happy fell apart because of this. (Please refer to Case 1)







Xu Huijun, a resident of Qiqihar City in Heilongjiang Province, used to be a happy housewife. But since she started to practice Falun Gong in 1998, her character became strange and families were nothing to her. On May 31, 1999, in order to get away from the so-called "catastrophe," she left her family behind and jumped out of the building. Another family was destroyed.[4]







· Li Hongzhi says that cultivators are extraordinary beings, for they are on the journey to divinity







"But as a cultivator you can&#39;t confuse yourself with an everyday person. To put it a bit seriously, you&#39;re no longer human...humans have various emotions and desires, and live for emotion (qing). During the course of cultivation you are gradually taking these things more lightly and gradually letting go of them until you completely discard them."[5]







"The truth is, you&#39;re no longer one of the ordinary human beings, and you couldn&#39;t even go back anymore, you really can&#39;t. The difference between you and ordinary people has grown downright large."[6]







"After all, the Dafa disciples are on a journey to divinity...That is the God arranges for you, and you are on the way to immortal."[7]







"We don&#39;t seek the things ordinary people want, but what we gain is what ordinary people can&#39;t, even if they want to."[8]







Since emotion is what ordinary human beings other than cultivators want, and since "cultivators" are no longer "ordinary human beings" and what "cultivators" seek after is those things "ordinary people" want but cannot get, then as cultivators superior to "ordinary human beings," facing the attractive paradise, how can they not look down upon "ordinary human beings" to be eliminated and how can they be willing to stay with the families in this garbage dump world?







Xiaomei used to be a good wife; but since she became a Falun Gong practitioner in 1999 for the purpose of beautifying herself, she followed strictly the teachings of Li Hongzhi and became so obsessed that she even believed in the teaching of Li Hongzhi insisting that "cultivators are no longer ordinary human being." She dumped the true love in the world and got rid of her excellent husband as a piece of garbage. She ended up with a divorce, and a happy family that so many people envied broke up. (Please refer to Case 2)







Liang Zhaofeng, an employee of Transportation Department, Guangdong Shaoguan Iron and Steel Group, started to practice Falun Gong since July 1997. After that, she changed a lot and obsessed the "practicing" so much that she no longer cared about either her husband or her son by discarding them as "ordinary human beings." Even when her husband had a car accident and her mother died of illness, she paid no attention to them at all; the family that used to be happy became miserable. Liang used to suffer intermittent headache, but after she became a practitioner, she refused to go to hospital for any medical care, holding that the illness was caused by the karma she committed during her previous life and that medical care was useless. At about 9:00 am on July 23, 1999, she committed suicide by taking pesticide.[9]