tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post3847525025490690622..comments2024-03-12T11:58:24.510+13:00Comments on Otagosh: Spanky's 83 minute Swansong?Gavin Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17965552923012880262noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-53099213580437813402011-11-05T10:37:34.403+13:002011-11-05T10:37:34.403+13:00Heh, this got me thinking, though --- I remember t...Heh, this got me thinking, though --- I remember the year in Victoria when we had Spanky <em>and</em> Waterhouse for the Feast.<br /><br />Those were some pretty looooong days, let me tell you; that was the same year the Baptists picketed us, yelling at us that we were all "going to hell." Charming, what?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-46364009839097839292011-11-02T12:55:46.811+13:002011-11-02T12:55:46.811+13:00>>I believe the eye surgery was to repair a ...>>I believe the eye surgery was to repair a detached retina. One justification for it was that this surgery was "corrective", so it was allowable. Isn't all surgery "corrective"?<<<br /><br />Yes, and that was the approach the Canadian Church took, between the years of 1976, and 1987, the bulk of which I spent in and out of hospital. I knew friends, young and old, all races, ages, and economic statuses in the congregation, who used medical intervention, or even worked in the medical field (again, PRIOR to the changes).<br /><br />So, anyone that says Senior "changed the healing doctrine in 1988" continues to promote an egregious falsehood, in my direct experience of the Church a decade before this alleged "change" took place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-84111281026968906182011-10-26T09:15:23.902+13:002011-10-26T09:15:23.902+13:00Dick looks a lot like a 1960s version of HWA these...Dick looks a lot like a 1960s version of HWA these days. Probably eating too many salty potato chips.<br /><br />Funny how Rod gives the same sermon each time, Greco-Roman wrestling with his boy friend, boxing, long distance running, and the same old stream of consciousness of his 4 years of AC. AMERICAN KABUKIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11064036099785125749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-56266486001701737322011-10-25T15:32:38.652+13:002011-10-25T15:32:38.652+13:00The picture of Roddie with Herbie in the backgroun...The picture of Roddie with Herbie in the background is very telling.<br />Both, in old age, look amazingly similar.<br /><br />I found one of the comments in the John Tuit book Gary published over on his website to be very salient. In a discussion amongst themselves, the Tuits noted that the verbiage of HWA's own autobiography exceeds all that is written in the Bible about Jesus Christ. That's an example just about all of HWA's proteges have pretty much fallen into lock step with. Without even getting into doctrine, you can almost tell what ministers have been part of the leadership of the Armstrong movement by the titles they give to themselves and how much they write about themselves!<br /><br />BTW, I watched exactly 0 minutes of Rod's opus. It was bad enough having to listen to him every day in AC Bible class back in the '60s!<br />However, I am curious about one thing. Is he still preoccupied with the topic of masturbation?<br /><br />BBByker Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602697337552385535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-13806010823801582752011-10-24T09:06:53.945+13:002011-10-24T09:06:53.945+13:00I believe the eye surgery was to repair a detached...I believe the eye surgery was to repair a detached retina. One justification for it was that this surgery was "corrective", so it was allowable. Isn't all surgery "corrective"? Does anyone have surgery for recreational purposes? Many in the church were angry because others (less important to the work) did not have such surgery and suffered. How many suffered and died because of RCM's false teachings? Did his first wife die from cancer without any treatment, curative or palliative? What hypocracy!Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13570223670843596667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-44282693641380311512011-10-24T07:34:21.540+13:002011-10-24T07:34:21.540+13:00And I suppose too, that it was never mentioned tha...And I suppose too, that it was never mentioned that Meredith as being over the ministry in the United States ever said or did one thing to stop the date rape of Ambassador College Coeds by Garner Ted Armstrong?<br /><br />Incompetent to know what was going on, a gutless wonder who was too fearful to correct the evil before him or was he just plain complicit and therefore DID commit major sin after his baptism -- made worse because he was supposedly in a position of authority do something about it?<br /><br />And the Fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace... no wait! He exhibits only the works of the flesh, near as anyone can tell. II Timothy 3: works well in this situation, speaking to the heady, high minded, boasters... "from such turn away", it concludes.<br /><br />But here we are, people embacing the #2 False Prophet of British Israelism instead of "beware of false prophets". Fifty years is a long time to be a false prophet -- it's sort of like the Energizer Bunny.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-31557979620287304072011-10-23T15:45:54.637+13:002011-10-23T15:45:54.637+13:00Well at least you made it all the way through! I ...Well at least you made it all the way through! I shut it off after 45 minutes. It was stomach turning for me. The longer I watched it the more agitated I became. <br /><br />I watched this man in action in Pasadena for years. Hell would have to freeze over before I would ever follow the man!NO2HWAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02018654662518613623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-55371674809964063372011-10-23T13:53:52.535+13:002011-10-23T13:53:52.535+13:00"The Work"...that's pretty funny too..."The Work"...that's pretty funny too, considering that 2,000 years ago the self-appointed apostle, Paul, said that it was a short work (Rom. 9:28.<br /><br />Of course, Jesus said the same thing but it seems that Xians don't know the definitions of short, shortly, at hand and stuff like that. Short work means long work and shortly means a long time and at hand means thousands of years to the Xian mind.<br /><br />But, not to the doomsayers like HWA and RCM - it means, 5 or 10 years. Of course, it was 5 or 10 years about 70 or 80 years ago too but they make adjustments for that.<br /><br />Wouldn't you like to give "the work" a great big "push" right now? I know I would.Corkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15894537940881776504noreply@blogger.com