Friday, February 8, 2013

Kevin Owen Dean Still A Fugitive For Aggravated Child Molestation

Kevin Owen Dean, 61 and owner of Imperial Medical in Cartersville, is wanted for "running out of the courtroom" during his trial on aggravated child molestation and 12 other charges, authorities say.


Kevin Owen Dean, once considered one of the elite in HWA's inner circle, is still on the run from charges of child molestation.  I find it kind of strange that he has not been captured.  I am sure there is always the chance he is overseas somewhere, but so far his trail has disappeared.

I also wonder how many COG members are covering for him?

Suspect: Kevin Owen Dean, 61

Cartersville Dispatch

  • Description: Caucasian man; 5-feet-11-inches tall and 175 pounds; brown hair and hazel eyes.
  • Last Known: Kennesaw, but Dean owns Imperial Medical, a business in Cartersville.
  • Accusations: Dean is wanted to stand trial on aggravated child molestation and 12 additional charges. Authorities say he avoided the first trial by "running from the courtroom," an offense for which the judge issued a bench warrant. Dean is out of jail on a $75,000 bond. 
Anyone with information on Dean's whereabouts should call  BCSO's dispatch, non-emergency line at 770-382-5050, option 7.
Cartersville-Bartow County Crime Stoppers accepts anonymous information on its tip line at 770-606-TIPS (8477). It gives cash rewards for tips the lead to an arrest in some cases.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Dennis on "There's A Seeker Born Every Minute"





There's a Seeker Born Every Minute


"All I wanted, in the world, was to be a catholic priest. 
Live in a monastery, pray, serve God."
Joe Peshi-JFK


Dennis Diehl - EzineArticles Expert AuthorThose words, spoken as a line in a movie, left me sitting in the theatre with tears welling up in my eyes. Whoa..."where is this coming from?" I asked myself.  While I was not interested in being a Catholic Priest or living in a monastery, I knew what he meant so thus the tears.  I sat there thinking , "Yeah, that's all I wanted when I came into the Worldwide Church of God."  I as a weird kid and theology and all things God had a hold on me way back.  I used to listen to The Back to the Bible Hour on my transistor radio lying in bed at night.  I remember getting a little offended in college when some WCG Evangelist cracked that it was called that because they had their backs to the Bible.  I have since learned that even the Bible has its back to itself at times...


I was 14 when I heard my first Sabbath sermon in Boise, Idaho and it was on astronomy.  Whoa..a church that knew about astronomy.  My Presbyterian one didn't so much.  I was hooked and I devoured everything WCG had from age 14 to 18 and then went to College.  The rest is history as they say...


I was and always will be a "seeker."  


Sometimes I get asked why I stayed so long in WCG.  First of all transitions are messy in my experience.  Secondly...I thought that was where I was supposed to be.  After all, I had prayed my heart out to end up where I could best be what I wanted to be, a pastor, and nothing stopped me from going to WCG/AC.  I snuck my college application out under my parka so my parents wouldn't catch me applying.  I had to be there and, while I wish someone had talked me out of it, I was not going to be talked out of it.    One other pressure, at least subconsciously was from something my dad said when I called him to tell him I was going into the ministry and being sent to Minneapolis after graduation.  He got kinda quiet on the phone and I asked him if he was alright?  He said, I'll send you a letter.  In that letter he told me he had forgotten all about a prayer he made before I was born and it hit him when I called.  He said he prayed that if I was to be a son  (I was on the way) , and healthy, "You can have him God."   You see my older brother and first born son to my dad was and is blind, deaf and cannot speak.  He has been institutionalized all his life. So dad made a Diehl, I mean a deal with God and when I called it kinda got to him.  Then it kinda got to me and staying in WCG even when painful and chaotic still seemed a God thing until it didn't.  I'm not sure if I let any Deity down, but I didn't want to let my dad down. 


But I, as most I knew in both the ministry and among the membership were seekers and it seemed more correct and Biblical and that was what we were seeking.  I have found that the most sincere become your worst enemy when they feel betrayed or hurt.  It is the most sincere, who feel betrayed and hurt,  who probably rail the most on this blog.  If I had to choose, I'd still choose a church more like the old WCG, more Jewish in background than gentile but I would not allow the writings of Paul to get in.  Paul took the early Jewish Christian Church , turned it inside out , including it's own scriptures, and made Abraham the father of uncircumcision if you can imagine that.  Nice trick but it evidently didn't fool the Peter, James and John characters in the NT.  I don't think it fooled the Ephesian Church  either in Revelation, but I spare you.  


I miss church but I don't miss sermons.  I don't feel all that safe these days but I can't un ring the bells I have rung.  You really can't go home again it seems.  I am still touched by the story of the Prodigal Son but I don't know anyone like the dad in that parable and I really don't even know where home is to go home to. 


But I, like many of you reading this, are seekers.  I want to know how spirituality works and how religion gets in the way.  I want to know the good science of archaeology, paleontology, astronomy and quantum physics.  Very amazing stuff.  I see where some feel the whole ball game is just a hologram and some force or creator seems to have put us in the game to learn.  It's like we actually are the SIMS.  I finally figured out that has to stand for simulations.  I like the implications of "If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to see it, does it make a sound?"  I always thought that was a cute joke of some kind I did not get.  Now I know the answer is literally "NO!  It does not make a sound.  It makes vibrations which if not heard by a brain do not translate into sound."  Excellent!   This means the world outside our heads is totally silent!  Ask me about light  and photons someday.... :)


But again...we're all seekers and it's not nice to sucker a sincere seeker, which of course we have all experienced with the Armstrong/Tkach phenomenon.  While in hind site, I had shit for brains...back then I knew I had found something more true than the box into which I was born.  And then, I got pushed out of that one too.  I had to be pushed because historically I tend to stick around way too long anyway. 


Lots of changes and change and I have never gotten along.  My dear mom of 95 is slipping away and doesn't know me anymore much and my dad is not far behind.  He's 97 and a man few men could ever be like .  I will miss them both as is normal I suspect when that time comes in life to move along.  Buddhism hits it on the head with impermanence and the suffering that clinging and grasping can cause a person.  Letting things be as they are is just good mental health for humans.  Others hit the nail on the head with "all negativity is just some form of non-acceptance." 


But I, as I expect of most of you as well, will always be a seeker.  There is one born every minute!


"All I wanted, in the world, was to be a catholic priest. 
Live in a monastery, pray, serve God."
Joe Peshi-JFK

Joe!  You Seeker punched me!

Thanks for listening...


Prophet Bob Thiel Latest Video Condemning the Abomination of Valentines Day





Doesn't the world’s greatest doubly blessed prophet have the eyes to see how BAAAAAAAAAD his videos are?  The sets, the huge lap top screen, the flailing hands, the glare off his glasses, the pathetic plywood speakers stand......the list could go on and on.  Can you imagine sitting there in his little congregation and staring at the back of a lap top the entire time? Where is the "Ambassador" quality?  Where are the standards that HWA set for him?