Living Armstrongism: Thank You

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Thank You

I would just like to take a moment to thank the readers of this humble blog. I am quite surprised to have gained such attention so quickly. Thank you, Mr. Gavin Rumney, for giving me such a prominent introduction (Dead link.) to the wider XCOG blogging community out there; thank you, xHWA, for your kind greetings; and thank you to all who read and make comments on this blog. Without you this blog would mean nothing.

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technosenseiJanuary 24, 2009 at 3:09 PM
Just glad you're out. How could I not want to tell people about it?

email me some time, eh?
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Tom MahonJanuary 24, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Anon said...

>>Without you this blog would mean nothing.<<

Anyone who exits a cog splinter group screaming that Mr. Armstrong was a charlatan will get a "warm" welcome by the cabal of scoffers, who post at AW blog. So please don't think that you are special or that your blog is indeed humble. Your blog, like AW blog, is another irrational rant against a servant of God.
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AnonymousJanuary 25, 2009 at 8:03 AM
Tom is just upset because his blog failed miserably. He is a die hard Herbal fan. Pay no attention to the scoffer names Tom.
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Tom MahonJanuary 25, 2009 at 10:36 AM
The Painful Truth said...

>>Tom is just upset because his blog failed miserably.<<

Popularity is not a sign of success. If it was, Jesus would have been a failure! But, then, according to the depressed Dennis, he was! What folly!
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AnonymousJanuary 25, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Tom scribes: Popularity is not a sign of success.

True old Tommy Boy! But is a sign that your blog was dis-interesting! No one was interested in the rants of a demented one track mind webmaster. You should have done a study on what sells!

You spent to much time taunting Dennis and Douglas. Shame on you! You realize that the Jews persecuted Christ who worked for the good of mankind. Why do you persecute those who try to help and nurture the poor and suffering?

You should return and re apologize to those who you slander and persecute. What kind of example are you to your children when you show raw hatred to those who oppose slavery in every form?

I am afraid Satan has you in his grips! Repent Tom before it is too late!
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Tom MahonJanuary 27, 2009 at 8:03 AM
The Painful Truth said...

>>You should have done a study on what sells!<<

Then I would have been popular! Wow!! Well, I don't have anything to sell, you may be surprised to learn. All I have is the truth to share with those who are capable of recognising the truth.

As for Dennis, he is a dog that has returned to its own vomit, and the foul-mouthed Douglas conspired to get me ban from AW blog by insulting Gavin, and signing my name to his comments. I shudder to think of the consequences of his deceitfulness.

>>I am afraid Satan has you in his grips!<<

This is a familiar refrain of my detractors. But I am in good company, for Jesus was accused of demon possession!
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CorkyJanuary 27, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Tom Mahon is the perfect example of what Armstrongism does to people's minds.
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AnonymousJanuary 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM
Tom writes, "and the foul-mouthed Douglas conspired to get me ban from AW blog by insulting Gavin, and signing my name to his comments."

Wait, how can you know Douglas did it. It may have been me. Don't you worry about the cost of slander?
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Tom MahonJanuary 27, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Corky said...

>>Tom Mahon is the perfect example of what Armstrongism does to people's minds.<<

Absolutely! It enables me to recognise that people die because of sin, and not as a result of listening to sermons.
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Tom MahonJanuary 27, 2009 at 6:33 PM
The Painful Truth said..

>>Wait, how can you know Douglas did it. It may have been me.<<

Well, if it were you, I apologise to Douglas, though he is still foul-mouthed.

>>Don't you worry about the cost of slander?<<

If you understood the justice of God, you would be very worried!!
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AnonymousJanuary 28, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Worried for you Tom. NOT!!!
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technosenseiJanuary 29, 2009 at 9:53 AM
">>Don't you worry about the cost of slander?
If you understood the justice of God, you would be very worried!!"

That doesn't answer the question, Tom. Do you understand the cost of slander? Obviously, a person who carelessly tosses around accusation doesn't understand the justice of God.

For example, let's review the 10 Commandments that you say you adhere to - and which you say are the very things that set you apart: THOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOR. Michael wouldn't bring a railing accusation against Satan, yet you bring accusation wherever the mood strikes you. (PRO. 10: 18) "Whoever hides hatred has lying lips, And whoever spreads slander is a fool" (PSA. 101: 5) "Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, Him I will destroy" II Timothy 3: 3 lists slander as a sign of the times. This is from the law which you claim to understand and keep!

Now, if I may misquote Romans 2: 13 in the manner to which you have become accustomed to hearing it from Armstrongism, "for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified".
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AnonymousJanuary 29, 2009 at 2:15 PM
xHWA,

Tom is a fool and a loser. Feel pity on him.
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Tom MahonJanuary 30, 2009 at 10:07 AM
xHWA said...

TOM>>If you understood the justice of God, you would be very worried!!"<<

>>That doesn't answer the question, Tom. Do you understand the cost of slander?<

Well, I am delighted that you have answered it.

However, the word God is like a two-edged sword, so you need to be careful you use it. By twisting the sword in the wrong direction, you could slash yourself to death.
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AnonymousJanuary 31, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Tom wrote "so you need to be careful you use it"

Tom, put your butter knife away, you may cut yourself like the way you butchered and botched your sentence above!
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Tom MahonJanuary 31, 2009 at 12:19 PM
The Painful Truth said...

Tom wrote "so you need to be careful HOW you use it"

Even an idiot could have substituted the missing word. Unless, of course, they are clutching at straws!
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AnonymousJanuary 31, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Are you judging me? Name calling also?

Such humble Christian love....
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xHWAJanuary 31, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Tom wrote "By twisting the sword in the wrong direction, you could slash yourself to death."

You still haven't answered the question.

More interestingly, you admit that you are fully aware of what you're doing. Hey... your guilt is on your head. I tried to warn you.
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Tom MahonJanuary 31, 2009 at 7:16 PM
The Painful Truth said...

>>Are you judging me? Name calling also?<<

Only if you were clutching at straws. Otherwise, no.
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AnonymousFebruary 1, 2009 at 6:28 AM
Tom wrote: "Only if you were clutching at straws. Otherwise, no."

Well I was "clutching at straws" so now you are going to judge me. Right?
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CorkyFebruary 2, 2009 at 9:18 AM
Poor ol' Tom. He never got to be a ministurd like he wanted. He never amounted to anything in the church he loved - just a nobody. I'm sure he worked hard to become a deacon but in spite of all his ass-kissing and volunteering, all he ever got was duped and conned.

He was probably one of those "pick me, pick me" kind of guys who never got picked except for some menial job like washing a minister's car.

It'd be extremely funny if it weren't so sad.
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AnonymousFebruary 2, 2009 at 2:41 PM
I ran into his type in the wcg. The guy is a wanna-be Dr. Bob.
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Tom MahonFebruary 3, 2009 at 4:59 AM
Corky

You are sadly mistaken. You are judging me by your own standards, or lack of standards.

Genuine Christians do not have ambitions to become anything. Their sole purpose is to understand and live by the will of God, you might be surprised to learn!
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Fall of Berlin Wall NOT Proof HWA was Right

It is often asserted that the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 proved that HWA was right and he really did see the future.

This of course is nonsense. Herbert W. Armstrong said that Christ would return within twenty years in his book Mystery of the Ages. (PCG has since deleted those words so someone in there knows HWA spoke nonsense.) How convenient for them to forget this.

Also Herbert W. Armstrong never said the Soviet Union would collapse. He thought it would survive intact until a few years after Christ's return. It shows how biased some many in the COGs are that they never seem to notice this. This inconvenient truth is just tossed into the memory hole.

It is true that HWA said that some Eastern European states would break away from Moscow's orbit and join the European Empire he said would arise at any moment. But he never talked of the Soviet Union collapsing. He did not teach that. Also he portrayed the rise of the European Empire to be far quicker then what has actually happened. In Mystery of the Ages Christ was supposed to return by 2005 at the most.

So assertions that the fall of the Berlin Wall somehow prove that HWA was right is just complete nonsense spread by people who, for whatever reason, are still in denial that HWA was a false prophet who merely talked out of his own "human reasoning".

Truth about Roderick C. Meredith

What sort of man is he? A man who could say things like this.

"Mr. Armstrong has reminded us again that we are to disfellowship any members who attend GTA's [Garner Ted Armstrong's] campaigns, church services or other meetings. Some of our weaker members apparently do not realize that this man is in direct rebellion against God and His government! We must not allow them, or ourselves, to rationalize about this matter, to try to "help the underdog," or in any other way lend support to one whose gross immorality, whose long standing "play acting" and hypocrisy, and whose direct insubordination to the Government of God has long been and is now a source of confusion and DIVISION among God's people. So, as per Mr. Armstrong's instruction, I charge and exhort every one of you faithful ministers of the living Christ to explain this in no uncertain terms to your members, to warn them about this cause of division and then to disfellowship any who consort with GTA or any of his fellows." (Roderick C. Meredith, Pastor's Report, May 21, 1979, pp. 1-2.)

See here for this statement's context.

David Robinson on Roderick C. Meredith

WCG minister David Robinson had this to say about Roderick C. Meredith in a letter he wrote to him on September 19, 1979.

"During the ten years I have been an employee of the Worldwide Church, you have been poorly spoken of by most of the ministers and employees I have known. I vividly remember the absolute unbounded glee that was openly expressed by a good number of respected men in the church when you were first "shanghaied." [In 1972.] I could begin by naming names, which I am sure would shock you. I was one of the few who stood, where possible, for you. Your tenure as superintendent of ministers, as I believe the office was then called, was looked on as nightmarish. While you held office during the years of growth, most of those whom I know gave you very little credit for that growth. Almost everyone whom I know, whether they be former friends of yours, or continuing foes, recalls insensitive and terrible things you have done. Without exception, at least among my acquaintances, they all credit you with an unbridled lust for power and list you as one who is willing to pay the price of gaining that power, no matter what. I have, through many of the last few years, believed you had principles you would not violate. Many a man of experience in the church assured me of my error. Events have proven me wrong and them right. Mr. Armstrong has himself been widely quoted as saying of you that you were so righteous that you were so "righteous you were unrighteous." " (David Robinson, Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web, Chapter 16, p. 207.)

Of course it is impossible for me to personally verify these assertions but people deserve to know what this knowledgeable man had to say about him.

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