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Date Posted: 20:23:22 02/28/11 Mon
Author: George
Subject: Re: Let bygones be bygones_we are different now
In reply to: Mamusz 's message, "Let bygones be bygones_we are different now" on 08:48:13 02/28/11 Mon

>Am
>I the only one who finds the Peaceable church a farce?
> They have shown their true colors. Now I am supposed
>to believe it doesn't matter what their colors once
>were, and besides, they have nothing but kindness,
>love, and charity for us. Can a Leopard change its
>spots?
>
>I feel sorry for the people who have left the
>Restoration now being drawn like a moth to the flame.
>Trust is such a fragile thing. Once it is built, it
>takes just one time to destroy it. We are to say, "We
>can trust them now. They are different now. We
>shouldn't be bothered by what occurred in the past.
>They would never do that this time." So thinks
>Charlie Brown as he runs to kick that football with
>Lucy holding it. I repeat: Trust is such a fragile
>thing. Once you kick your purring cat, does he stand
>there and let you kick him again?
>
>Mamusz
>

Mamusz, there's one rule. If something is so bad that you have to leave, you don't go back. Everyone I know (including myself) who has left something bad, only to return on the hope that things will be different has had those hopes dashed.

George

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