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River
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Username: River
Post Number: 6543
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 10:29 pm: |     |
No, no blood and guts/slashing and stuff in this one. Its along the line of a Stephen Kings sort of story. But I won't give the story away and spoil it for you.
It is my plan to personalize each book I send out to formers this time around.
River |
Bb
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Username: Bb
Post Number: 770
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 5:56 am: | |
Skeeter, I wrote a note to him also, and got a response today! He said he would like to join in on the discussion and clear up some misconceptions. Very interesting! |
Skeeter
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Username: Skeeter
Post Number: 913
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 9:55 am: | |
Yes, I got a letter from him today also. He seems like a really nice guy and it turns out he uses his past experiences in "Sadventism" for many of his novels. He also has done other works that are not in the "horror" category.
He mentioned one book using EGW where he called her "Egg White" LOL I guess some SDA's were not too happy with that.:-)
Anyway, after hearing back from him and seeing he has not turned into the Devils offspring or something.... I think he will be a nice addition here :-) I think he and River will get along quite well :-)
Francie |
Jeremy
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Username: Jeremy
Post Number: 3342
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 11:33 am: | |
The thing that struck me as very interesting was that he was able to accurately label Adventism as "an end-of-the-world pseudo-Christian cult," something that most of the "cult experts" are not able to, or refuse to, do!
Jeremy
(Message edited by jeremy on August 16, 2010) |
Surfy
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Username: Surfy
Post Number: 677
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 12:51 pm: | |
I'm afraid to read the linked article. Probably make me relive too much stuff. Kinda of like the movie Footloose.
Surfy |
Nowisee
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Username: Nowisee
Post Number: 483
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 6:45 pm: | |
True horror story: 12 years old, with two younger siblings. Visited a cool wax museum (Madame Toussaude's(sp) in Vancouver. Great museum. Went downstairs to the rest of the exhibits--all exhibits of historical ways to kill and torture people. We walked through it. People hanging, alive, on big meat hooks, the rack, a huge scene of the guillotine with bloody heads in baskets, etc. Mother saying, "This is what the last days will be for us.." |
Hec
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Username: Hec
Post Number: 1269
Registered: 3-2009
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 7:20 pm: | |
Nowisee, of course, you're joking, aren't you?
Hec |
Helovesme2
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Username: Helovesme2
Post Number: 2513
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 7:30 pm: | |
Doesn't sound like a joke to me. We didn't go to a wax museum, but I heard plenty of gory details about how torture devices work, and where they were hidden, and just which groups would be first to use them on us. |
Skeeter
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Username: Skeeter
Post Number: 920
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 9:11 pm: | |
"We didn't go to a wax museum, but I heard plenty of gory details about how torture devices work, and where they were hidden, and just which groups would be first to use them on us."
Now that brings back memories of MIL telling about torture devices in basements of Catholic churches, also I remember hearing how the Catholic nuns were having sex with priests and when they would get pregnant they would have self induced abortions and bury the little babies bodies in the cellars of the Catholic churches :-( Did anyone else hear that stuff ?
Anyone else get cassette tapes passed around warning about the "Illuminate" (sp) and how they were witches, warlocks and would take over all the monetary system worldwide and help to bring on the end ? |
Colleentinker
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Username: Colleentinker
Post Number: 11574
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 9:14 pm: | |
Nope, doesn't sound like a joke to me, either. That's how I grew up as well. Sabbath-keepers would be TORTURED, and the torture would be worse than any other torturing in the entire history of the world.
Colleen |
River
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Username: River
Post Number: 6547
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 9:33 pm: | |
It really amazes me that they prize themselves so highly.  |
Flyinglady
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Username: Flyinglady
Post Number: 8448
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 9:42 pm: | |
Skeeter, I heard that about Catholics and it was not from adventists. It was my Mom telling me what her grandmother said to her uncle when he wanted to take Mom to Mexico with him when returned there (he was her godfather and her parents had died when she was less then 2 years old.).
Diana L |
Nowisee
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Username: Nowisee
Post Number: 488
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 9:48 pm: | |
Hec, that is absolutely true. My mom didn't know that stuff was in the basement, but we still saw it. The people hanging alive on meathooks is a visual that is hard to erase.
It was the same trip that my mom let me know to hide my Nancy Drew book from my strict sda relatives while we were staying with them. I was puzzled by this, but didn't let them see it.
My sister (the youngest) was so traumatized by 'last day events' that it took her over 40 yrs. to talk to me about the issue. And I wouldn't consider us a 'strict' sda family by any means...we were an average Calif. family in the sda culture.
I have shared this before, but she told me how she was terrified one Sabbath morning when we were kids and a uniformed policeman walked into the lobby of the church for some reason. She thought that he was coming to arrest us and take us to prison for keeping Sabbath. She was only a little girl! She only told me about this recently. She is still angry that my parents sat through the same scarey sermons about end times and that it never seemed to bother them, while she was scared to death. They would just go home and go on about their regular business and never mention what had been said. You would NEVER know this about her--she is a professional woman, appears strong. Her husband doesn't believe in God any more after he found out the sda church had been lying about EGW, etc. |
1john2v27nlt
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Username: 1john2v27nlt
Post Number: 86
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 8:00 am: | |
Skeeter,
I heard all that you are mentioning, sitting listening to the adults talk on Sabbath afternoons. Yes, there were cassette tapes being circulated & talked about. I remember that supposedly the nuns put the babies in lime pits (??) under the monasteries so that everything would dissolve & be no traces left. This would be the era of 1955-61 as I remember.
J9 |
Skeeter
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Username: Skeeter
Post Number: 923
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 8:49 am: | |
J9,
It was later when I heard all that garbage.
My oldest son was around 7 or 8 years old at the time so that would have been around 1975-76 and off and on over a period of probably about 5 years or so. There seemed to be almost a "feeding frenzy" as these tapes were passed around.
I didnt listen to all of them, but enough to become very worried. I remember thinking that the world would surely not last long enough for our children to grow up (our oldest Grandson is now 19).
In all honestly I dont think that the cassette tapes were put out by the Denomination. Because as I remember they all seemed to have either hand written or typed out labels on them. But the SPEAKERS on those tapes were SDA and as I recall were people who were well respected in SDA circles. It was so long ago that I cant remember the name of a single one now, but I remember the overall messages were very frightening.
I am SOOOO glad that the ones I did listen to I listened in private so my children did not hear any of it. |
Hec
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Username: Hec
Post Number: 1271
Registered: 3-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 12:52 pm: | |
All I can say is, "God have mercy"!
Hec |
Nowisee
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Username: Nowisee
Post Number: 493
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 11:00 pm: | |
I never heard any of those tapes, Skeeter...the Great Controversy was scary enough for me...a truly
frightening book. |
