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| Lrcrabtree Registered user Username: Lrcrabtree Post Number: 72 Registered: 1-2007  |
Okay, having been out of adventism from 1972 and not following any of it's rules, news, 'progress', or developments, I was curious when I read a brief post on another site about the 'Weimar health reform movement'. Recognizing "Weimar" as an area nearby me in the Sacramento, CA, general area, I googled it and this page popped up: http://www.spectrummagazine.org/articles/campus_news/2008/07/02/weimar_academy_and_college_get_a_%E2%80%9Cnew_start%E2%80%9D I'm very curious what the Weimar health reform is / was; and what is going on now? Is it physically located in the Weimar area of California? Larry | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 6048 Registered: 3-2004  |
Larry, I just googled Weimar Health Institute. It is about 45 miles from Sacramento in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. It is SDA. You can guess what they teach. Diana L | ||
| Jrt Registered user Username: Jrt Post Number: 34 Registered: 10-2008 |
Weimar, self-supporting college and academy and health institute was recently taken over by Amazing Facts . . . I'm not sure if they are running the college this year . . . Yes, it is located above/north east of Sacramento. The place is on prime California property and used to be a place for turberculosis patients. They, Amazing Facts, is currently using Weimar as a place for training Bible workers and people to present Daniel and Revelation seminars . . . It also is a well-known health institute where people go . . . no oil, sugar, or dairy is used in their cafeteria. . . | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 6049 Registered: 3-2004 |
http://www.weimar.org/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx This is the home page of the website for Weimar. Check it out. Diana L | ||
| Surfy Registered user Username: Surfy Post Number: 429 Registered: 11-2007 |
This is a typical put your head in the sand, hire people to run the program that have absolutely NO idea what they are doing and basically treat people in a very unChristian manner. Usual adventist stuff. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Surfy | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 9059 Registered: 12-2003  |
My in-laws used to work at Weimar. It is a "back to the blueprint" health conditioning center the specializes in treating heart disease and diabetes with diet. Those aren't the only ailments treated, but those are the two BIGGIES. The cafeteria serves typical Weimar food; one of the things that stands out in my memory--perhaps symbolic of the whole menu--was that instead of butter or margarine they served a whitish, gelatinous mass based on millet. It is (needless to say) very conservative. In the chapel on the grounds (they do not actually have a church that meets on campus; the "Weimartians" attend local churches) has a picture hanging on the front wall right behind the pulpit. It's an enlargement of a picture of the early Adventist pioneers in a circle, more or less, praying in a living room, and Ellen is prominent in the picture which depicts her having a vision. When Richard's aunt died a few years ago, her funeral was there because she was then director of the education department. We were already "out"--and it was pretty horrifying to sit in a chapel and face Ellen in vision. I'm suspecting it will be better funded now that Amazing Facts has taken over... Colleen | ||
| Bb Registered user Username: Bb Post Number: 295 Registered: 7-2004 |
I remember a self supporting place in Florida. I wonder if it is still there? My friend at Forest Lake was sent there by her parents. She was such a pretty, happy girl and sweet, not bad. I went to visit her and out in the hot sun they were playing kickball with long skirts over their pants. It was a horrifying place. She said that they had to sit through hours of tapes about the end of the world. The food was disgusting and the people even more so. I felt so sorry for her! The feeling at the place was so dark and depressing. | ||
| Benevento Registered user Username: Benevento Post Number: 238 Registered: 4-2005 |
I went to a wedding of Weimar employees there and they had "healthful" rolls in teirs for the wedding cake, it was qite creative. The groom asked the blessing and I'll never forget the gist of the prayer about how "we have tried to please you God with our diet, please accept what we have prepared" it was almost fearful pleading for acceptance, and nothing about the joyful occasion of celebrating marriage! Horrifying!! Peggy-- | ||
| Dennis Registered user Username: Dennis Post Number: 1540 Registered: 4-2000  |
Someone suggested an appropriate slogan for Weimar Institute; namely, "Weimar--salvation by food!" My wife and I knew some "Weimartians" while we were still Adventists. The last we heard from that family was that they literally starved their children to illness. The whole family looked very unhealthy while talking about food unendingly. It was very sad to see the children suffer with being underweight for their age. Moreover, the wife and mother had serious medical ills from trying to follow the Weimar lifestyle as well. They were always trying to get other people to adopt their stringent lifestyle. Weimar was notorious for being a place where you could supposedly prevent needing an open heart by-pass surgery by following their regimen. Interestingly, their president reportedly had open heart by-pass surgery in spite of all their talk. Truly, legalism and fanaticism is never consistent. Dennis Fischer |
