Our cousins believe the assassins found a way to mess with Magufuli's pacemaker remotely.
My opinion (as a Christian) is that the Unification church is a cult, so I don't know what to think about that connection. A commenter (Margaret Anna Alice - who has her own Stack) had posted a link to James Corbett's Stack who has asked his subscr…
Our cousins believe the assassins found a way to mess with Magufuli's pacemaker remotely.
My opinion (as a Christian) is that the Unification church is a cult, so I don't know what to think about that connection. A commenter (Margaret Anna Alice - who has her own Stack) had posted a link to James Corbett's Stack who has asked his subscribers for open source info about Abe's assassination. I think Michael has intimated in this post that he's suspicious of this event. Maybe we're all turning into conspiracy theorists after the past two years, but I question everything these days.
Or a New Religious Movement as Prof. Eileen Barker has described the Unification Church. The UC is a Unitarian Church so its classification as a Christian Church depends on whether Unitarians are to be regarded as Christian.
There's a thin line between a "new religious movement" and a dangerous cult. All religions are a type of cult but sometimes they become dangerous (and sometimes just a profit center but that's another issue).
In the 1970s when people went to the Moonies's invitation dinner In Berkeley they reported that they were fed brown rice and broccoli. Some people think that the macrobiotic diet makes people easier to control.
Rev. Moon's mass weddings also seemed strange to a lot of people.
The Unitarians have been controversial for centuries. Personally, I don't care if they are Christian or not. It's the cult aspect that matters. And I have never heard of a Unitarian church trying to recruit people or feed them a special diet or buy a newspaper publisher.
I had quite a few meals with the Moonies in the late 1970s and early1980s and I have to say that I never once was served a macrobiotic meal. What was served seemed to depend on the nationality of the cook, so I've eaten Japanese, Spanish, Italian and British food with the Moonies and here I am, over 40 years later, still an Anglo Catholic. I doubt that a macrobiotic diet would convince anyone to join any new religious movement and whatever criticism may be levelled at the Unification Church, I can't fault the food I was served.
The macrobiotic diet itself isn't intended to convince. It's intended to make one pliable.
Rice and broccoli were on the menu in Berkeley for everyone that I knew that went. Maybe it was too expensive for them to serve anything else.
Why did you keep going to their meals? I never had any interest in associating with people who were up to something.
What I found annoying about the Moonies is that they would stop people on the street at night on Telegraph Avenue and try to get them to come to dinner. Even in the 1970s, nobody wanted strangers talking to you at night on Telegraph Avenue unless you were out looking for drugs. The Scientologists hired people to hand out leaflets but at least that was during the day. The Moonies were so obnoxious.
Why did I continue to have meals with them? Well I found them to be a very pleasant bunch of people and I was interested in understanding what they taught and in discussing with them the things with which I disagreed. I've never lived in the US, but from what you tell me of Telegraph Avenue, I'd prefer to be offered a meal rather than drugs so on that score I think the Moonies win outright. Did you ever get stopped and asked to dinner?
Yes, they did stop me. Telegraph was not the safest place to be at night, especially for a woman. So I didn't like it when a stranger started talking to me.
Our cousins believe the assassins found a way to mess with Magufuli's pacemaker remotely.
My opinion (as a Christian) is that the Unification church is a cult, so I don't know what to think about that connection. A commenter (Margaret Anna Alice - who has her own Stack) had posted a link to James Corbett's Stack who has asked his subscribers for open source info about Abe's assassination. I think Michael has intimated in this post that he's suspicious of this event. Maybe we're all turning into conspiracy theorists after the past two years, but I question everything these days.
“Conspiracy theories” now = spoiler alerts….
Yes, the Moonies were certainly known to be a cult back when I was a student in the 1970s at Berkeley.
Or a New Religious Movement as Prof. Eileen Barker has described the Unification Church. The UC is a Unitarian Church so its classification as a Christian Church depends on whether Unitarians are to be regarded as Christian.
There's a thin line between a "new religious movement" and a dangerous cult. All religions are a type of cult but sometimes they become dangerous (and sometimes just a profit center but that's another issue).
In the 1970s when people went to the Moonies's invitation dinner In Berkeley they reported that they were fed brown rice and broccoli. Some people think that the macrobiotic diet makes people easier to control.
Rev. Moon's mass weddings also seemed strange to a lot of people.
The Unitarians have been controversial for centuries. Personally, I don't care if they are Christian or not. It's the cult aspect that matters. And I have never heard of a Unitarian church trying to recruit people or feed them a special diet or buy a newspaper publisher.
I had quite a few meals with the Moonies in the late 1970s and early1980s and I have to say that I never once was served a macrobiotic meal. What was served seemed to depend on the nationality of the cook, so I've eaten Japanese, Spanish, Italian and British food with the Moonies and here I am, over 40 years later, still an Anglo Catholic. I doubt that a macrobiotic diet would convince anyone to join any new religious movement and whatever criticism may be levelled at the Unification Church, I can't fault the food I was served.
The macrobiotic diet itself isn't intended to convince. It's intended to make one pliable.
Rice and broccoli were on the menu in Berkeley for everyone that I knew that went. Maybe it was too expensive for them to serve anything else.
Why did you keep going to their meals? I never had any interest in associating with people who were up to something.
What I found annoying about the Moonies is that they would stop people on the street at night on Telegraph Avenue and try to get them to come to dinner. Even in the 1970s, nobody wanted strangers talking to you at night on Telegraph Avenue unless you were out looking for drugs. The Scientologists hired people to hand out leaflets but at least that was during the day. The Moonies were so obnoxious.
Why did I continue to have meals with them? Well I found them to be a very pleasant bunch of people and I was interested in understanding what they taught and in discussing with them the things with which I disagreed. I've never lived in the US, but from what you tell me of Telegraph Avenue, I'd prefer to be offered a meal rather than drugs so on that score I think the Moonies win outright. Did you ever get stopped and asked to dinner?
Yes, they did stop me. Telegraph was not the safest place to be at night, especially for a woman. So I didn't like it when a stranger started talking to me.