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Today was an amazing Saturday in California. After driving to Santa Barbara to spend the day at the beach, I drove on up to Avila Farms to buy some ollalaberry pies and some homemade bread. It was then that I decided to drive by the craptastic, superfantabulous, mind-boggling World Headquarters of the improperly named "continuing" Church of God located in Grover Beach.
I walked the very sidewalk that the Chief Overseer's sacred feet have walked upon!
Mindboggling!
The very sidewalk that the world's most amazing COG leader in the history of humankind has trod upon.
My life is now complete!
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That is the most pathetic HQ I have ever seen! I see he peddles his pills under a business name so if he is ever sued for homeopathic quackery they cant take his house and money from him. Slick move tricky dick!
Herbology, is that like Scientology of Armstrongism?
'Herbology': The study, analysis, and refutation of Armstrong theology
"... Homeopathy... "
That alone tells you all you need to know about the level of rational inquiry we're dealing with here.
The business is called Doctors' Research, plural. Does Thiel have a partner in the business?
Are all the bars on the windows to keep people out, or rather to keep Thiel constrained???
What a mindset! Bob being a goof makes homeopathy bad?? It was just reported that another vaccine manufacturer J &J has been fined for deceptive practices. Let's lap THAT up!!
His light is on. Did NO2HWA drop in and say how-di-doody Bob?
@ 6:08 AM, what does J&J's corporate criminality have to do with the scientific/mathematical impossibility of homeopathy?
There are really just two ways to explain why homeopathy sometimes seems to work for some people. The first is the well-known placebo effect, in which some otherwise ineffective remedy convinces the person to let his body's natural healing powers do their work. The other possibility is more like what Hahnemann, its originator, taught, that there is some kind of occult "healing essence" that remains in the homeopathic solution even after no more molecules of the original ingredient remain.
Put plainly, an Armstrongist homeopath is either a quack or an apostate. Based on what Armstrongism teaches about medicine and the spirit world, homeopathy is not something a Christian ought to be messing with, either in deceiving people with quackery or in subjecting them to spirit forces not understood by man.
@8:14
Spoken like a true man of "this world". Sorry I questioned your scientific genius!
Doctors' Research, plural
Remember, Bob has a PhD and a ThD!
Where's the banner for CCOG?
Well, business first, sideline next. Like HWA's office door in Portland, Herbert W Armstrong in big caps, and Radio Church of God in the small print.
Doctors' Research, plural
Remember, Bob has a PhD and a ThD!
Where's the banner for CCOG?
Well, business first, sideline next. Like HWA's office door in Portland, Herbert W Armstrong in big caps, and Radio Church of God in the small print.
So Bob is a quack in two fields, medicine and theology. When will he add Phrenology to his offerings? Maybe exorcisms will be next.
Bob Thiel is a doctor is good but he might make more money if he dropped his pastor career to be a doctor.
Bob the double doctor doesn't know the Hebrew calendar very well. Today sunset is not the start of the month of Tammuz, but today is the 17th of Tammuz, Yom Tamuz, start of "three weeks of mourning".
"Just reported"? That's over a year old, if you refer to the baby powder suit.
"Bob Thiel is a doctor is good but he might make more money if he dropped his pastor career to be a doctor."
Bob is just as much a fake doctor is as he is a fake pastor. There is nothing pastoral about the guy. Vomiting out endless facts and pseudo-facts is not pastoral. He has no empathy because he is self-centered. It's all about him all the time.
Bob is just as much a fake doctor
Bob's PhD is legit, it's his ThD that came under question. You notice he never uses the ThD in his by line on his CCOG material.
ThD - total harmonic distortion?
Anon 839 - That reminded me of a snippet from my school daze family humor, where PhD was a "fud" or a "Phuddy duddy". Perhaps in this specific case, ThD is not a "thud", or "Thuddy duddy", but "Thoroughly Delusionsal". Other variations are up for consideration!
Banned has again upset Bob, who again felt he needed to repeat his account of his being appointed a prophet and his subsequent departure from LCG. Maybe Bob should have a separate website just for rebukes...
@ 8:31 AM, do you notice that Bob has in that link given his explanation of why he left? It was because of "a letter calling me names." Such a delicate and sensitive fellow, our Bob! How will Bob react when the Pope calls him a poopy-head? Actually, we know the answer. He'll get all weepy when the Pope doesn't even bother to notice him or comment on his pathetic little African charity with its 299 first-worlders supporting a few thousand needy Africans.
"a letter calling me names."
Bob's links to links to links and eventually back to links you already linked to... it reminds me of old R/WCG literature - when you get a book/booklet/article/reprint, there will be at least one reference to another book/booklet/...
But, yes, you find why Bob left, because he thought LCG "lost it" - no longer "has the mantle" and isn't "Philadelphian", an he thinks he was given the mantle, is the remnant Philadelphian short end-time work, etc.
In Ralph Orr's classic article on HWA and CG7/BI, he made a statement about HWA that seems applicable to Bob: HWA set criteria on which to determine the "true church" and "true doctrine" - but, he asked, was HWA actually qualified to set the criteria and make a legitimate assessment?
Anyone who lives that close to Bob should talk to him in person.
Hoss, you probably already know this: I see where Bob amended his Tammuz remarks to mean the start of the 17th of Tammuz, not the start of the month of Tammuz.
Of course it is next to a Natural Health store probably run by him or a member as medicine is so evil!
Anon 930 - Belated thanks for mentioning the correction - I still think Bob needs a proofreader!
His "Any Ramifications?" didn't seem to touch on how the period from 17 Tammuz to Tisha B'Av has Jewish prophetic significance. For Bob, Mayan and Catholic prophecies seem to rank higher than Jewish interpretations of their own scriptures!
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