| It is kind of awkward when you are friends with somebody and don't know if they are... like... mentally stable or not.
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| The Church's history in America fascinates me. I suppose because I find people interesting as it is, I find Unificationists even more interesting. How they came to the church and what "prepared" them is of course incredible, but how their feelings changed or evolved over time. Those members who joined in the 60s, before the great wave of members '73-75, they are incredibly interesting. Most of them left the church, like most members in general, but they were very different from the members who joined the in 70s. They were in general more intellectual and had no idea what they were supposed to make of the Unification Church. They had different conversion techniques and different groups worked independently and the Movement was very loose.
We know what happened to Doris and Dennis Orme, Philip Burley, and other great members who paved their own spiritual path, and I stand in great respect for men like Paul Werner and Farley Jones, but what happened to Gordon Ross and John Stark and John Loflin and Jim Fleming? I read in a journal of an ex-member that he had fundraised to Gordon Ross in the '70s and Gordon was no longer in the Movement but testified to Moon being Christ. Such complication.
I wish I was there back then.
Members in the 70s still intrigue me. The history of the Church in the U.S. is incredibly interesting. From Young Oon Kim, from the Denver group, from Tiger Park, from Oakland, from ex-hippies, from intellectuals, from Yankee Stadium, MFT, Kamiyama, mass weddings, from East Coast vs. West Coast... the history is filled with a lot. An eastern religion trying to make to adapt in the west. A group of kids trying to make sense of the world. A new hopeful revolution. A dying cult.
They looked at Father with such hope. Shame.
I love talking to ex-members for they all have different opinions and they all had such different ideas and beliefs that evolved so greatly. I read the journal of an ex-member recently and I wondered how such a faithful man could lose faith. I know why, of course, but it is interesting. Most of his closest friends in the Movement left as well. Such disillusionment.
Would I of survived if I joined back then? I hope not, hah. But I would at least like to watch it all. Feel it all. Do it all.
I've got Jesus, though, and He is more than to satisfy.
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| But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ |
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| "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." |
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| In this age... the reality of pikareun weighs on many hearts. People are denying the fact they have doubts and that they are scared to learn the reality of such a practice and the darkness in the Movement. I spoke to several the other night and a sister admitted it was a fear of hers to learn information about the Movement that may contradict her Unificationist belief system for her very core would be shaken. It was nice to hear somebody admit that.
In time... the Light will shine on everything. And all those who thrive in the darkness will dwindle and their days shall be forgotten.
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