In Reply to: busy, busy, busy posted by Acheick on July 11, 2004 at 12:12:12:
Wow. What a fulltime consideration raising EIGHT CHILDREN must be!
When I first went back to school, it was in Eugene, Oregon, at a community college—my math was a prerequisite for my chemistry, which was a prereq for my biology, and so forth; 21 credit hours in all! Whew.
There, I ran into my old CS form Cuernavaca, Mexico, where I’d been head provisioner (read moocher from REALLY poor people in the open marketplace!); Loammi. His name meant “You are not my people”; from the book of Hosea—boy! You ain’t kidding! He asked me why I had backslidden! Poor miserable guy had gained over 50 lbs.
Besides the occasional cultist, Eugene was replete with the ultra-liberals, and had pretty much the same effect that you mentioned on my sociopolitical point of view!
Learning to RE-LEARN was a HUGE deal for me; too! I re-learned the scientific method, learned to speed-read (2,500 wpm at 85% comprehension—it fades if you don’t keep it up; though!), learned about the philosophy of logic itself, LEARNED NON-DENOMINAITONAL CHURCH HISTORY, re-learned how to use a library, etc., etc.
Most of all—I LEARNED TO THINK CRITICALLY AS AN ADULT CHRISTIAN!!! And, that rejuvenated me, too; sis!
I’d like to learn anything more I can about Mother Eve, Sara Davidito, Alf, etc. I’d like to be put in touch with Kana and Ado, if they like, if I can help in any way.
I heard vaguely about someone going by the name of “Blanca”; I think. This was years ago, and she chose to live in an all-gay apartment complex in the Montrose area of Houston, to get away from hetero predation after her Fam. Experience.
A friend whose mom wrote The Snare of the Fowler, about his COG escape lives here, but has shut out all exers, including your truly.
A friend named Ray Meyer, who, back in the ‘80s fed the “Bridge People” and had an article done on him and his Montrose ministry with his wife Trena in Guideposts Magazine. They got kids off drugs, cleaned up GED’ed, job trained, some married OUT of the gay lifestyle, etc. Both he and Trena still came down with AIDS/PCP pneumonia and died; poor souls. He and I were working on a retreat/recovery ministry out in the country for exers that never materialized—my 1st wife left with our three kids, I went half-blind temporarily with diabetes, lost my job working with autistic, retarde and emotionally disturbed kids—a couple of hard years!
Ray had worked in Europe with TF—he said that he mostly headed a work crew that built stuff and equipped buildings for the higher-ups. He’d been in the Navy, living as a homosexual, joined TF and got saved, got married in TF and had several children, and then left TF and his wife and kids, and came back to the States, resumed his homosexual life for awhile, repented and started a ministry. He told me he battled with it off and on.
I’ve had “weird” run-ins with TF members over the years—always felt God’s presence really strongly, then—BANG—around a corner, there they were! And, I usually had something with me to give them, like Intervarsity press literature about the cult, etc. One time, I even left a job with my box of desk contents in my hands, left the building, and, right outside my building’s door, was a Fam. member!
I’d like to know more about international, as well as federal, state and local laws/statutes of limitations regarding pedophila and child molestation! Sex offenders MUST register in Texas—perhaps we could photograph them and psot their last know whereabouts on the Web? Sounds like a good idea, if a little ambitious (like “belling the cat”?)
I’d bet SGAs would really “cotton to” the idea of puttingthese people on the map, in ANY way possible; no?
Gotta go! ‘Later!