I'd check it myself, but I don't have a copy anymore. I chopped my copy up and used the paper for bedding in my hamster cage. Now my hamsters are singing in tongues.
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Was there ever a mention of Christmas trees in the original (non-sanitized) First Principles?
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AD, CA, LR, SLC, LB, S, LS, kB and all of you other posters and readers. Blessings and peace to you all this Christmas time.
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changedagain Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Craig Haworth is the pastor. Perhaps looking for a > fresh start, distancing themselves from the > baggage of Shiloh. > > > Yes, Craig as the pastor. Sheep! Prepare for a beating !
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A new LW church in Iowa City. Looks like an atempt to sanitize their outreach into Iowa City, with little or no obvious references to Shiloh.
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Perhaps those TJ's Kitty Kat cookies.
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Thank you Sarge for your honest and heartfelt posts. Really love them. For me, with the whole DR crap, I really got tired to trying to be God to someone, and direct their life. Or make them do something they didn't want to do. It was wrong! wrong! wrong!
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Wasn't Lorena about 2 years old in 1984?
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CA, your answer can be found here:
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For many, that steep waterfall will be the closing down and selling off of Shiloh. It's coming.
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One of the major income sources for the LW corporation was tape and book sales. I suspect those sources are rapidly drying up. So maybe this is why Shiloh U was invented.
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Does anyone know when the prayers for the death of Martha Stevens started? Was it 1974 or so? Or was it earlier?
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I hear that Shiloh almost burned down one year. A fire started to smolder up in the mattress room after someone stacked them so high that they touched the ceiling light bulb and started smoldering.
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...and I'll be in the mattress storage room, where the real action is happening.
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Shiloh = Gulag
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I've heard that the LW leaders tell their sheep to disregard what we ex-LW members have to say. Because, they say, we were never true disciples. True disciples would not have left the fellowship.
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Let’s not forget how good it can get to be a LW pastor. A few years ago a pastor bought a fixer-upper house. While drawing a full-time salary from the local church, he was able to work on the house during the week and do the church business on the weekend. That’s a pretty good arrangement, if you ask me. And Saturdays were often spent as a “work day” with a lot of the church members coming o
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OK then. It's time for my wheatgrass enema.
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'm so thankful to be out of the LW cult. And I'm truly thankful for this forum and each and every one of the posters here.
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Being a member of the LW fellowship for me was like an insane, never ending ride on a roller coaster. It would go round and round the circuit of track. But getting nowhere. And at various times, it would come into the station, stop, and some people got on and some people got off. But me, (like a lot of members), was too stupid to jump off. Those “station moments” for me occurred at critical
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Cheriegate, part of JRS's large library was at his home in North Hollywood. It was called the "Kling house" and was located at the NE corner of Kling and Bellflower. It was right next to the Blix house.
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FCSLC, Yes how do you explain to old friends how you just disappeared off the scene? Just vanished from everyone and hid in a cult for 30 years? Some old friends and family members I really burned bridges with. I don't think I can explain it very well. And those bridges never got rebuilt. Too much time has passed. "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969"
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Jez - I remember all those 3rd generation sloagans. Wow, some I'd forgotten too. Hubris maximus! BTW, I recently watched on Netflix a documentary film on the history of the Eagles. It is quite excellent. They talked about how Christain charismatics seemed to find the Hotel California album to be satanic. It was banned in certain church groups. The Eagles thought the whole thing was
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JezTheBella. Thank you, thank you, thank you !!! You are most welcome here. Your testimony is very valuable with respect to the mission of the RR forum. (I agree with you 100%, BTW. not that that should matter) One question. What happened in Waukegan? Any info about that church was kept from us by the LW leadership.
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Bellapond. Welcome. The old FactNet is sort of still there. As archives. try this one:
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Invisible. Welcome back. We've missed you. Your posts have reminded us again of probably the most harmful practice the LW does. I recall being told by LW shepherds that the commandment to "Honor thy father and mother" was supposed to be "spiritual father and mother". Now there's a blantant scripture twist !
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...and no mention at all of JRS.
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Here is Marilyn's obit. Interesting what is said:
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Well, I guess the rumors about the Larsens being taken out of the lead pastoring positions in the San Diego LW church are true. That local church's website now shows the Dunns as the pastors. This could be a good change for the SD sheep.
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Thank you LR and AD. All excellent posts.
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