In Reply to: River Phoenix posted by Joseph on November 06, 2003 at 05:38:34:
I pulled up a few things here for you; they definitely used this as a "scare/control" tactic.
PERSECUTION JEWELS!--No.10! DO 2907 Comp.12/93
--Given before the release of our brethren in Argentina.
James Dean & River Phoenix!
9. Our people have got verve & the Spirit & enthusiasm, they've got what it takes! Thank You Lord! They've got a cause! There was a famous movie with a famous youth idol, James Dean, called "Rebel Without a Cause." I guess he became too much of an idol & the Lord let him die in an auto accident. (Maria: We've heard that people have likened River Phoenix to James Dean. They said River Phoenix was the greatest youth actor of this generation.) No kidding! (Maria: We didn't even know that until he died, but then we heard all about him.
10. (River Phoenix had recently started acting in some pretty bad movies. He was making a movie on vampires at the time that he died, & before that he played a Gay hustler in a horrible mixed-up crazy confused movie. And he was into drugs. Apparently he'd just gone off the deep end & the Lord was quite angry with him.)
11. River Phoenix's parents led him astray. They stole him from the Lord & they lost him. They stole him from the Lord, so the Lord took him back. I'm sure they're thinking about it, especially if our folks contact them.
VIEWS ON THE NEWS!--World Currents No.71 DO 2911 Comp.2/94
River Phoenix!
125. The Lord let River Phoenix's body be taken that his spirit might be saved.--1Cor.5:5. River gives a lot of credit to his background & upbringing in the Family in these articles I've been reading about him. This is an excellent example to counteract what our enemies are saying about our kids not being prepared for the outside World. River gives a lot of the credit for his stardom to his rearing & that he had a lot of socialisation, a lot of experience & travel & learning different languages & being in show business, etc. It sounded to me like River Phoenix was a pretty good example, a good, clean-living kid, & people seemed to be surprised he turned out so well considering his parents were what they considered "bums."
126. Thank God they mentioned the Children of God in those articles every time! In some of them they said we were a "little known group." We're not little known now! Whoever put that in the paper hasn't been reading the news!
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127. River Phoenix was too much of a good role model, not corrupted or perverted enough, so the Devil had to try to destroy him. That movie "My Own Private Idaho" in which he played a homo hustler was the downfall of River Phoenix. Somebody wanted to destroy him.--The Devil!
128. I wouldn't be surprised if someone deliberately gave him an overdose. All they had to do was put it in his drink, & he came outside the nightclub & had a fit! Well, thank God he's out of that Hollywood scene. He was too good for this World. He kept up a pretty good testimony, his parents too. He always testified he had a very good upbringing in the Children of God.
129. They ought to send these news articles to our lawyers! They're real testimonials. Our enemies say our kids aren't socialised & they're not prepared to do anything in the outside World, but look what a success he was! He was a tremendous success. (Family: He said his upbringing helped him.) Yes. He actually said good words for us. So that ought to shut up some of our enemies who say our kids are totally unprepared for the System or society at large. Boy, he sure managed to adapt to it, he got to be a star in it!
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130. Watching that movie "Private Idaho" was one of the most abominable one-&-a-half hours I've spent in a long time! It shows how the Devil can get somebody so screwed up when they backslide.--And that's undoubtedly the price that his parents had to pay for leaving the Family & causing him to backslide. I bet they know it now. They were probably all thrilled with how he was becoming a great star & a good role model, a good boy, making good movies, & then all of a sudden--crash! It reminds me of what Mr. Machowsky said about how that demon Tom led him on to his total disaster.
131. That movie was absolutely the depths of degradation! I never saw a worse movie! That was designed to kill him! It was absolutely the most crazy movie I ever saw; no meaning, no nothing, insane!--Total debauchery, vulgar language & a disconnected theme of all kinds of crazy things that had no relationship whatsoever!--And just the worst kind of total horrible perversion of Sodomites & Sodomy! I guess some people don't want to confess they don't even understand it. Yet the sales pitch on the video said, "And perhaps one of his finest performances." Can you imagine that? It was horrible! That explains why the Lord took him. At first he was a good example to other movie people, but they must've gotten him on drugs & dragged him down to the absolute gutter! It was a crazy, insane movie! Horrible!
132. It's too late to pray for him now, he's gone to meet the Lord, but he's going to have to face the Lord in terrible shame. The Word says "shame & everlasting contempt."--Dan.12:2. We'll face Him with everlasting glory, others with everlasting shame. Pitiful! For some time he was a good influence on the movie community & they were praising him, how he was clean living & virtuous. But apparently he must've decided to try drugs, & they literally killed him!
133. Boy oh boy, how horrible! Absolutely horrible! Some of those fits he was having in the movie were too realistic. I think they actually caught him in drug or withdrawal fits. It looked like he was literally having epileptic, demonic fits, with a demon getting ahold of him & shaking him around, writhing & reeling & fainting. I'd recommend that movie to scare any of our backsliders if they've already turned their back on the Lord. Jesus, have mercy on poor River!
NEW GP BOOKS! Maria #331 DO 3050 2/96
--By Maria
(Regarding the “Who Said They’re Dead?” books, with the “prophecies” from the passed on:)
122. We'll probably end up with something different on the back cover, but one idea would be to give a little synopsis of some of the interesting things from the book, something like: "Marilyn Monroe talks about how she has sex in Heaven!--And how you can have it too when you get There! Houdini talks about discovering a greater Magician than himself! Elvis tells how he is preparing for the greatest concert of his life! River Phoenix tells how he got screwed by the System!--And ended it all! Nixon tells his dark secrets about Vietnam!" Well, I don't really know what Nixon is going to say, except for what the Lord said in the prophecy above! But I do know what the other four have to say, because after the Lord suggested they could speak to us, we asked them to, and they did!--And it's exciting!