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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

In the one kingdom business I had first hand dealings with I helped the pastor of one of the churches in the south work in his print shop, and the workers there didn't get paid anything other than...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

Actually I wrote another post but I think it got lost, so if it comes up I am sorry to duplicate it. But I was telling about a kingdom business that I actually worked in for a week. I was supposed to...

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Re: Long Term Recovery

JUPITER SAID:I find long-term recovery to be hard. I am emotionally stable, I am strong and self-aware, but growing up in a cult reveals the worst aspects of humanity which cannot simply be unseen. I...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

A.D.Interesting that you would bring up APCO at the sawmill. During both summers of ‘78 & ‘79, when there was always a large influx of folks visiting from outlying churches, they would...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

Yes, Shiloh can be a place you're sent as a form of punishment...or to reeducate you into God's ways. I was directed there one summer to work on a project, which I did. The fact that before I went I...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

CHANGEDAGAIN:How we loved to separate out and condemn. Obviously, the stench of your injury was symbolic of something in your spirit. They were just obliged to let nature take her course, which...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

Shiloh = Gulag

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

Changedagain, my wife was in a church before I met here where the pastor didn't believe in doctors at all. We went to a funeral of one of the people she knew when she was in that church, and I...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

I didn't ever know Glen Oswalt, but I did meet Bill Maybe and talked with him a few times. I really liked him. Once he and were standing at the front door of Shiloh, and a pig (*the four legged...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

I wasn't going to post for a while, as it seems like new people show up when i don't hog the forum so much, but I am fascinated in this hell hole slave operated sawmill. By the way, KBoy, when you...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

Typo, sorry, the above post I said: "I never liked it when anybody is paid fairly for a day's work."That of course was meant to be "I never like it when anybody is NOT paid fairly.."But then, being a...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

A.D.We regulars at the sawmill took our job in stride. Even though it was indirectly associated with Shiloh, as an ‘off-campus’ revenue source, we shared a camaraderie that had a cohesion that was not...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

Well, Kboy, I still wish I would have known it, I would have unionized all you maniacs.

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

A.D.I made an earlier reference to the raise that the sawmill workers received in early ‘79 (from $80/month to $80/week), along with the comment that the influx of new cash financed more trips to Iowa...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

kBOY Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> CHANGEDAGAIN:>>> How we loved to separate out and condemn.> Obviously, the stench of your injury was symbolic> of...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

kBOY:This went on far into the summer until word of it reached JRS, who had been absent much of the time because his divorce proceedings from Martha had forced him to steer clear of Iowa. When he...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

changedagain Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> kBOY Wrote:> --------------------------------------------------> -----> > CHANGEDAGAIN:> >> >>...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

A.D.By the summer of ‘79, the demographics at Shiloh had stratified into so many departments (Kingdom School included), that cliques were an unavoidable result. Because everyone’s work was so...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

'Squashing the fun'...if there ever is a reenactment of scenes from Shiloh in those days, I do not want that role...or anything dealing with the kitchen...or searching for missing fan blades in the...

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Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens

...and I'll be in the mattress storage room, where the real action is happening.

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