tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post7657266246061967235..comments2024-03-29T07:07:46.875-07:00Comments on Banned by HWA! News and Observations About Armstrongism and the Church of God Movement: Dennis Muses: I'm just sayin'....NO2HWAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02018654662518613623noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-3738347581115735072013-10-05T19:26:39.642-07:002013-10-05T19:26:39.642-07:00Anonymous 6:12, I'm glad you hit on that. One...Anonymous 6:12, I'm glad you hit on that. One of the hangovers from Armstrongism seems to be the belief that every living person is "with" (as in "under the influence of") some particular teacher. That doesn't hold true for independent type people who read widely and learn from a variety of people. Because most followers of HWA "drank the Kool Aid", the people still with the groups assume that when you leave, you've now found someone else's Kool Aid to drink.<br /><br />Sharing a bit of personal experience, I have borrowed meaningful little tidbits from an eclectic group of prominent or successful people. The group includes widely disparate individuals, such as Albert Einstein, Eric Clapton, Darrell Waltrip, Dale Carnegie, Zecariah Sitchin, Josephus, Robert Mitchum, Mother Teresa, I mean, the list could go on forever, and they are all over the map. My point is that no single one, or group of these humans is dominant in my life. My influence consists of an amalgam that I have largely selected and controlled.<br /><br />This has caused humorous disconnects in times past. In dialoguing with current ACOG members, sometimes when I've quoted non-Armstrong theologians, I've been flippantly asked, "Oh, so is he your guru now?". I'm thinking it would take a mighty small minded individual to assume that one of the basic human needs is a guru to which one must single source his spiritual or philosophical guidance. I guess these people should be forgiven for their judgmental standards, because single source is precisely what was repetitively and compulsively pounded in on the drum by HWA and his imitators. It's another one of those Armstrong shibboleths.<br /><br />BB<br /><br />Byker Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602697337552385535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-82019596080823779782013-10-05T19:05:57.782-07:002013-10-05T19:05:57.782-07:00So what's your point? If you can't keep up...So what's your point? If you can't keep up why read? <br /><br />Sharon: do you have to act like a shrew and snipe at everything? Grow up. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-49019173780306890272013-10-05T18:12:47.404-07:002013-10-05T18:12:47.404-07:00On all the problems between the groups, the minist...On all the problems between the groups, the ministers, members and others say you are with a certain CoG or another. Claiming you are with some other group, usually would indicate you are against the one from the person making that claim that you are 'with' the other. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-19543293208696588252013-10-05T18:11:17.908-07:002013-10-05T18:11:17.908-07:00The woman in the picture looks a little like Tammy...The woman in the picture looks a little like Tammy Tkach, funny when you think about all this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-36061906035647040132013-10-05T15:07:11.379-07:002013-10-05T15:07:11.379-07:00DB said: “So hold the past, remember it: Just don&...DB said: “So hold the past, remember it: Just don't attach emotional baggage to it.”<br /><br />This is good advice and I will add that it works both ways. By this I mean good or bad emotional baggage. I speak from experience when I say this. Like it or not past experiences are the building blocks that have built what and who we are today and will make an important contribution to whatever future existence we may have. <br /><br />There are two categories involved in the development of human life; one is ethics and the other is spirituality. Ethics relates to our relationship with our fellow human beings and spirituality relates to the source of human life. One of the problems existing today is the inability of uniting spirituality and ethics. We have religious people who are unethical (crooks and thieves) and we have nonreligious people who are squeaky clean (fine, upright) people.<br /><br />I believe that properly understood the biblical objective is to unite these two categories in a way that builds a faith and hope that rises above the problems experienced in human relationships. When separated these categories both lose their value in human development. <br /><br />A. Boocher <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-58402158508075873702013-10-05T12:34:23.363-07:002013-10-05T12:34:23.363-07:00So what's your point? If you can't keep up...So what's your point? If you can't keep up why read? If the looney birds in the various COG's would stop saying such stupid things there would be no need for this site.Sharonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-68004574116938480562013-10-05T12:00:39.934-07:002013-10-05T12:00:39.934-07:00There is so much stuff being written on this site ...There is so much stuff being written on this site I don't have time to keep up. I just skim a lot of it and even then I can't keep up. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-54606199357004043792013-10-05T11:29:06.807-07:002013-10-05T11:29:06.807-07:00don't get mad; just get even<br />don't get mad; just get even Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-52042436544263874292013-10-05T11:10:59.894-07:002013-10-05T11:10:59.894-07:00"The Apostasy". Why does every cult of X..."The Apostasy". Why does every cult of Xianity presume an apostasy from "the truth" happened in early Xianity and had to be re-discovered by their guru?<br /><br />Did Jesus and the apostles predict an apostasy or was the opposite predicted?<br /><br />Hmmmm. Either it's a false prophecy or a contradiction, take your choice. I reckon if opposites can be believed at the same time it can make perfect sense or nonsense.<br /><br />I predicted that Mitt Romney or Barack Obama would be elected President and I was right!Corkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15894537940881776504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-62534856900899279642013-10-05T10:39:39.437-07:002013-10-05T10:39:39.437-07:00I found some nuggets in that.
What has been inter...I found some nuggets in that.<br /><br />What has been interesting to me, is that after one has experienced healing, shed the bitterness and anger, after one has forgiven others, and transformed from a retaliatory lifestyle, one becomes aware of the next phase. One becomes aware that there is plenty left to absorb one's attention in the present, and one wonders how one did not see all of these "new" details before. It's a whole different reality.<br /><br />The word "enlightenment" has many implications, and has always sounded deeply philosophical. But, basically it's what happens when you shine a light on something, making it possible to see that thing, defined in graphic detail, possibly for the first time. That can't help but change everything.<br /><br />Men such as Ron Weinland, Dave Pack, and some of the other bit players exposed around here are anti or counter-enlighteners. If you listen to them, they will use their false teachings to take you into darkness. Once you realize that this has been done, the anger and bitterness automatically come to you, and will consume more precious portions of your life. It's all part of the package of damage which false teachers can bring into your life. Waste and uselessness. <br /><br />As for the future, one reality is plain. What we do in the present can influence, for good or bad, many aspects of the nature of our future. And, the future will be immeasurably better if we do not allow false teachers to have power over us, either to take control of our lives, or to allow the badness they have brought into our lives to have a lingering presence. Better to walk away clean and to let it all go, or as my hypnotherapist used to say, release it and just blow it all away.<br /><br />BBByker Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602697337552385535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226103369043606765.post-28634535838504072142013-10-05T07:29:53.029-07:002013-10-05T07:29:53.029-07:00Following God is like using science: You must be w...Following God is like using science: You must be willing to go where ever the truth takes you.<br /><br />Unfortunately, people would rather rely on emotions and feelings instead of objectivity and valid reasoning: Most of the time, people just don't <b>feel</b> like they want to follow the truth where it takes them. They'd rather live with the pretty illusions of lies.<br /><br />Past experience builds to the present day. Everything we choose today casts a shadow on the future.<br /><br />In the scheme of things, it just seems to be better to accept truth and know what's what, rather than being happily delusional, because one of these days, if you don't accept truth, it will come back and bite you.<br /><br />Unfortunately, people like Pack attempt to steer people away from the truth because it just absolutely ruins their present and future, and most of all, they just don't feel like telling the truth because lies make them feel better (and by getting you to forget the past, they can play their little scams and get away with it).<br /><br />Still, in the long term, science wins and we're still at a 100% mortality rate in spite of what the cultists claim.<br /><br />So hold the past, remember it: Just don't attach emotional baggage to it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com