This is an aspect I find fascinating. Did you really believe that all children were "scorpions and snakes" or the word 5,000 years long etc? No, probably not. And yet, if you ever taught the course or "did service" you 'traded these pebbles' with other BKs and told them absolutely strangers ... playing out as if you did believe it.
Therefore, if not you did not really actually believe, what was it that sucked you in and held you?
I am thinking right now, part of it simply boils down to human beings being programmed to be used to or require some kind of phatic communication. The BKs use that programming but overlay their programming onto your family's programming.
Phatic communication is a kind of "small talk", or conversation for its own sake, which we use a little bit like animals use mutual grooming to announce our presence, our status, express out love and affection or reinforce our sense of belonging. It means nothing really and is generally ritualised. The "Jewels" of BK "Knowledge" are as just meaningless, valueless, cliched or time-worn phrases as most examples of it, although the BKs would never admit it.
I suspect it does not really matter what they really mean, or if they have any meaning at all. It is just the use of them identifies us as part of the BK group not the non-BK group, a bit like a Freemasonic handshake ... that and a bit of hypnotically induced trance to encourage a sense of a high.
Baba Lekhraj Kirpalani sets the groupthought, the senior Sisters reinforce it, all the BK adherents follow along together enjoying the infantilised nature of it ... like repeating together the bit at the end of the Murli. Achcha, to the sweetest, long lost ... etc etc. Like any tribal lore, it probably had some specific relevance at some point, e.g. one Brahma Kumaris having hellish children which disturbed the satsang or as I also suspect Lekhraj Kirpalani's own son or child leaving him, which has been long forgotten but which has entered the collective state of mind as a universal truth which all the sheep ba-ba in unison.
Strangely enough, I do believe that there is some kind of intelligence behind the Brahma Kumaris. It would not have grown to be as big as it is if there was not. But I think it is an evil intelligence.
Has everyone met someone that was genuinely a little mad? Someone who managed to operate in the world but yet had outrageous ideas about what was going on ... who would appear quite normal and function at a basic level but then if you scratched the surface and encouraged them would go off on some mad rant?