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Wow! You didn't read my post. Yes, those hero prodigals of my childhood that prayed into the next morning begging for someone to lead and disciple them were all saved! I am not sure I can say that about all the people we met in some of the mainstream churches though.

Is anyone else having their mail filtered? Sometimes, if mail is addressed to me, and something about it is flagged as "mail fraud", it is not delivered. It appears that all mail is now scanned. In the morning, I get a daily report of what to expect later in the day, and some of the stuff I know...

I am learning so much from the library websites of the different colleges, especially Luther Rice. I would not understand all of these piecemeal videos and handouts if not for my former paralegal studies. I have a foundation to place most of this new information. I can do this if I just put in...

LOL. I am not sure what to think about that post count. You all have taught me so much and have been so gracious. I have grown since I signed up here. I have not just acquired knowledge; I have grown. Thank you!

In a pandemic, it is safer here than where I was. I am so grateful for being delivered from where I was, and that is continuing to deteriorate. I want to be wrong, but I have been predicting this winter since I fled my city last spring. When my relative and a friend heard what was happening...

Yes, that is why I said I need to rethink that word as being more than a mocking word. You made me pause and that is a good thing. Words are funny things: they are often wider than we are in practice of using them.

Thank you!!

Has it been out for a little bit? Did some former-child actor that did a tribulations movie do a review of it?

Not always. I know that. I do. But ... I have been harmed in the past, unnecessarily, because I hurt myself to follow scripture that never said what I was told it said.

Maybe there is not a scripture to back up everything and maybe it is not cultish to know something anyway. I am responsible for my own walk and to answer to the Father, even when my siblings think I am wrong. Losing my faith was partly wrapped up in just that. If I did not have the skills to...

Before I lost my faith, I prayed to be "useful". That is a far more dangerous prayer than for "patience". "Useful" can get you landed and trapped in a place that others think you should vacate immediately.

God sometimes leaves people in places longer than we think He should. We are children; He is the Father. We think trapped within the small context of children; He thinks within the context of all his attributes that are uniquely His and that we do not share.

I think there are Christians in Mormon groups that lead others to Christ. I have seen it with my own eyes.

I refuse to make that jump without a very specific memory of hearing them say it. I won't. Ever.

I think God is big, and reaches seekers in the darkest corners of the earth, no matter what their leaders are professing at the time. Some groups change over time: fringe/cults are not the most consistent groups in their teachings.

I think it might have been, but I don't want to put words in their mouths when I cannot remember that for a fact.

I bristled at "fool". I have loved people who have fallen into messing with that stuff. Maybe the term fool is not always meant as a mocking word. There are people who lead this stuff with a heart to gain power and to harm, but some of the followers are purest of heart and my childhood heroes.

I am in a slum that is quite large and actually the geographic center of a large city, not at the edge. It is a weird place like no other on earth, I think. I joke that I could write a great science fiction story about a space station or colony, using this place as inspiration. To mention the...

One of my parents was a drug addict and got saved in a cult. This group packed up and moved out into a desert and started a commune, and my parent did not go with them, thankfully. I am slow to label a group a cult, but ... I think ... it best to call this group a cult. BUT, this group gave me...

I was poking more around the Luther Rice site, trying to access more of the R&W videos and instruction. In the bookstore, you can see which textbooks are used in the classes. The texts for the general education courses are all big name secular texts, even the R&W texts. My Courses Professor...