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Date Posted: 21:31:53 08/13/11 Sat
Author: George
Subject: Re: Goodbye
In reply to: Joanne Chapman 's message, "Goodbye" on 19:15:56 08/13/11 Sat

>Mamusz,
>
>I thought maybe this might be a good place to have
>conversations. But it appears to be a private board
>between George and Lois. Here's a clue: as long as
>peoople cannot carry on mature conversations here this
>forum will not grow. It's a shame because it doesn't
>have to be a place of argument and hate. You are the
>only that frequents here that is mature enough to know
>that we can have a difference of opinion and still be
>able to discuss things that really matter to us
>without being insulting and immature.
>
>Jo, I was invited here or would not have come. Since
>I am not welcome here I will not stay.
>
>My Email is still the same and I am on FB if you ever
>want to chat.
>
>George and Lois, enjoy your private board.
>
>Shalom,
>
>Joanne

Joanne, when Lois and I came here, the board was several years old. Since the first day I've been on it, no one from the institutional church has ever posted who isn't an ordained member of the CofC priesthood.

The parallels between the CofC and our current political administration are amazing. You know, with our country in free fall toward third world status due to "administrative approval" haivng been given to certain things, the president and his supporters still claim that people don't like him as president because he's black?

I'll give you back the same advice you gave Lois: You need to get over your naive growing up period, when you could still pretend to yourself that the riots at the 1968 Chicago convention were all about peace and love, and that the "inspirational poster" of Jane Fonda isn't the mug shot of a detainee picked up for drug smuggling and assault on a police officer -- with the prisoner number and the charged neatly snipped off by the publisher, of course.

We are very close to seeing the fruition of all that was instigated in the 1960's, both inside and out of the church. So when it comes, enjoy the nostalgia, and thank the First Presidency for assisting -- assuming that there is any extant means of communication.

But I have already done you a favor, Joanne. I will not be coming back to Fairbanks, ever. I loved everybody there, and still do, but the local congregation is just bait for what's in Independence. And you can enjoy your exclusive political action committee on homosexuality without any interference from me.

George

"Will you riot for peace?"

--line from a Community of Christ litany.
(is that bad translation, or what?)

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  • Re: Goodbye -- john, 10:03:18 08/20/11 Sat
  • Re: Goodbye -- George, 12:55:00 08/20/11 Sat
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