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gone_to_pa (gone_to_pa)
11-25-2005, 06:32 AM
HI ALL,

As I watched the landmark 70k posts go by, I was pondering. What has been accomplished and learned here? I wasn't around in the beginning to see what this place has done for others, but I know that it has helped more than the expected "Target Group" I learned that there are really people out there who give a crap. I don't mean this in anyway negative at all. There are folks that post here who possess a love for their brethren that I too long to possess one day. That is a long way for me because this place has taught me for one that I can sure be an a$$hole at times. Buttons can get pushed pretty easily over here and I'm not real pleased with that.But me and the Big GUY are working on it, (not you Phil) I also learned from others who have posted here. I listened to testimonies that truly set me free in some area's of my life as I'm sure it did others. I learned never to give up, no matter who is against you, you have to keep pushing to reach your goal. One of the goals here was to expose corruption in a Religious System and people held that banner no matter how hard or long it took, they would be heard. I learn from stuff like that. I also learned that others can be just a big an poop head as I can be, but still are much like me, in that after they are sorry and we learn to get along. I have watched people literally drug thru the mud and the stench of someone else's fleshly outburst, and come out on the other side telling that person they understand and welcome them and pray for that person. I learn stuff from people like that. I have watched the battered and confused come here and find hope and the life of Christ and a family of sorts that will take them in and let them feel welcomed and be a part of something they have nothing to do with anyway. I believe that this place has caused untold damage to a ministry that marks those who disagree with their doctrine, which is another Gospel anyway, as they brag about never being defeated or stopped. If I was them, I wouldn't speak to soon. To say that if it is of God, it can't be stopped reffering to themselves, then the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Muslims could say the same. God doesn't like bragging, especially when it hurts others. We have not bragged here, but have told the truth to the best of our abilities. We have opened up our hearts and our very lives to the world, so that all could see the hurt caused by following man and not God. If those who read this think this was easy for us, they need to think again of those who told stories of abuse untold before this forum, which must have been relived in the telling of the truth. Many read here but never post, as someone said, they are the greatest numbers. They don't post for many reasons and we will respect them for their want of privacy. Some that don't post, but do read are those who have lost something to this ministry that brags of all it's great accomplishments. We would like to know if there is anything we might do to expose more than what has been exposed. You can e-mail us, we will keep your privacy in tact. So many different people from all sorts of different backgrounds and lives have come here with purpose. Please if reading here, consider what it is like for us who do post, who put our name out there for all to read. Many of us still have family and friends in this same ministry we seek to uncover. Why would any of us go to such great lengths to expose a ministry such as this. Why would we allow our privacy to be invaded? Could all of us,which isn't just a few by the way, plus the 70 Pastors and their families and their congregations, could all of us have gotten together and concocted such a web of deception as to think we could fool all of you who read here? NO WAY, Some that post here aren't even on this continent, yet have seen and heard and experienced the same as the many here have. This place did not come about by hate, on the contrary it came about by love; love for the brethren. Many here would jump into a boiling pot before they would want you to go through half the stuff they experienced at the hands of the Instititution. We were taught at GG that other ministries were inferior to ours. We had something that made us stand apart from the rest. A man doesn't make a ministry. The Lord does. Men make ministries that are off.Jesus Christ said He would build His church and the gates of Hell would not prevail against it. To hear told, this ministry was the vision of a man, and he is given adoration upon adoration for something that in all reality, he should have had nothing to do with, but again only if Jesus was the One doing the building. If Christ Jesus be lifted up, He will draw all men unto Himself. We need to learn to give ALL our adoration to the only ONE worthy of all our praise. We must learn to decrease, so that HE may increase. I can't comment for all who post here, but as for me, the one thing that convinced me that truth was being told here was the sincerity of the poster. Oh yea, once in a while you will witness a dispute over some nonsense or the other, but we don't claim to not be human. What you see is what you get, and that can not be said for GGWO. In a way, it's kind of like the bible here in the sense that nothing has been hidden. If someone calls another a doo doo head, most likely it will be there unless it was so nasty that people decided to edit what they said. I have been guilty of that one. Please, as you read, for as long as this forum keeps going, don't knock us, don't come here telling people that they haven't experienced what they have experienced. Believe me when I say this, many have other things they could be doing. We come here out of love for our fellow man and woman. We know of something that is wrong and off and we are the heralds. We will tell the world until the cows come home if thats what it takes. Love is a funny thing isn't it? It takes a very special kind of love to come here day after day just waiting for the oppurtunity to share a piece of information that would set someone free from bondage to a Religious System, A Man or Men, a building and a Pulpit. This is what laying down one's life for the brethren is. Taking time out of our day or night, away from our family or friends, just to see if we might say something that might be just the thing, that's the straw that breaks the camels back. just that one morsel of information that lines up with something someone has seen or experienced. I didn't come to this web-site for six months because I was told at GG that I wasn't allowed to. If I did, I'd be receiving an evil report. Some cockatrice eggs might hatch in my spirit. What a bunch of baloney. I see now why they told us not to come here. We would hear stories like Jim Faucett's and Jim Lang's and Nancy Curra's and others who were marked by a ministry they gave their lives for. Not just a year or two, but 20 or 30 or 40 years invested in a man and a ministry, to find out much was a lie. Did we learn at TBS/GGWO? Yes, good along with the bad. Eat the chicken, throw away the bones. The bones started to outnumber the chicken and we began to choke and so we did some investagating of our own, or some didn't have to, they were victims themselves. The best way to see if what is being said here is truth or not, is to ask the Lord to reveal truth to you and He will. He is faithful, he will reveal the truth to you in your quest for truth. I believe many here will post 70,000 more times if it helps just one to break free. That is the heart of most here and that is why I am pleased to be a part of the GGWO thread on Fact Net. Tom Shalom.

dancer (dancer)
11-25-2005, 06:57 PM
I just don't know. The number doesn't impress me.

Would I go back and be so involved if given the choice. Talked to reporters, called old friends, seen so much grief? In the end get myself into a situation that help ship wreck my marriage?

I see so many good intention people, so many hurt and wounded souls. I become a prophet of doom and I sure don't like that. Some of m y concerns after a few have died have come into being, Is that something I should feel good about?

I seen Pastors who did lots of good become something else in a defense mechanism that I see only in places like court rooms.

I see children watching their parents suffer, families ripped apart and worse people die.

There is not much I haven't been called. Same for my wife (estranged) and my children. etc

I woke up this morning with children around me, ones I had wanted to be set free of Baltimore and the whole lifestyle that has destroyed their family. But I can't see my own children without driving hundreds of miles and knowing their own mother is not going to see me. That her and my won believe that tearing up families is better than some other way.

I know others are going to die, many things will be ignored, and people are to busy to understand.

I fully expect this to go on for years. I expect the children of this situation to suffer needlessly.

What is sad is that I think given the choice I would have done this in a much different way.

I wonder if Carl Stevens really wants this to be his legacy? Or does he have a clue? I don't know. But for all the great has been done by Factnet ex GGWO postings much harm has been done.

I can't undo the mistakes I have made, nor can I really others to do the same. I pray and hope many people will forgive mine. I pray I can forgive me. I pray that we can do the one thing that will make this better and that is to learn to walk humbly before the Lord and go on with our lives in a way that is for the good. Not for vengance, not for a justice we will not inherit.

In His Peace

orangetwopay (orangetwopay)
11-25-2005, 11:24 PM
shat, NTL and tool agree, and i agree with them... we wish we'd gotten liquidwaves started eariler...

http://liquidwaves.blogspot.com/2005/11/happy-thanksgiving-folks.html

we're still thankful though.

gone_to_pa (gone_to_pa)
11-26-2005, 04:19 AM
WOW DANCER,
I AM TRULY SORRY YOU HAVE PERSONALLY LOST SO MUCH. I WILL PRAY FOR YOU.

david_munson (david_munson)
11-26-2005, 03:59 PM
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Dancer has lost more than we realise.
Yet,the Lord walks with him in it all.
That is why,Dancer,you cannot stop thinking about Him everyday.
That is why you weep.

Bless you my friend and brother,

Dave

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dancer (dancer)
11-26-2005, 05:29 PM
3 Friends have died this year, 1 Child which was like my own, my family lost(which is as much my fault because I didn't remove myself when I should have)I could go on and on. Two other deaths that are related that nobody else knows of yet that is very related.

I may have to declare bankruptcy on my business if things stay bad, and it has taken more than 2 years to get out of depression. And Yes I am out of it! Its obvious to people who work with me and its obvious to those who know me. I attribute that to God and 2 friends who stuck by me.

I am working on 2 crusades and frankly I never in my life thought my ministry efforts would be so good. But I decided 2 months ago to work on the things that work not constantly revisit the past.

I am fortunate in that I have moved to a place where I actually can forgive and I can also work on having a better life.

When I have raised so much noise about those hurting and even named it, it was because I really saw it coming. The same is true with the last death. My worst fears have been realized with that family. Think anybody will stand up to the plate here or there. No! But God somehow has a plan.

gone_to_pa (gone_to_pa)
11-26-2005, 06:24 PM
Dave and Dancer,

I really don't know the details of what you speak so I have no roght to comment on them. I do know some that their marriage loyalties as far as GG and another ministry are divided. I also know of parents that are out while their children are still in and vice versa. this is one thing I am qualified to speak on. God deals with us in love. Many times it's a love I certainly can't understand or comprehend, but i know He can not deal with me, especially in His sovereignty outside of love. It has taken me much to understand and to realize that. As I look back at the instances in my life where I was asking myself, "Where is the Lord in all of this?" I realize He was there all the time, right beside me, closer than I ever knew. Though my circumstance overwhelmed me at the time and blinded me to the fact that love was right beside me, it was no matter my feelings. God's love for me, in my mind, is constantly evolving. Notice I said "in my mind" I learn new things about His love constantly. I wish I didn't put myself through the things I do, before I come to some of the realizations that I do. I don't think I will ever know God's love in it's true essence until Him and I are face to face. But again we have " What manner of love is this, that we should be called the children of God?" Also hard to grasp, so I will always keep in my mind that He has my best interest at heart, even though it doesn't appear as so many times, I will trust that He does, and He will make decisions based on a love I can't understand about me, concerning a wide variety of things i go through on a daily and I will trust Him in it all. No matter if it makes sense to me or not. I have learned with the Lord, it doesn't always have to make sense to me as long as it makes sense to Him. God bless the both of you guys. My heartfelt prayers are with you Dancer for your bussiness and Dave, you already know I pray for you. Shalom Tom.
P.S. Did all of what I just said make any sense to anyone?

david_munson (david_munson)
11-26-2005, 11:42 PM
Yeah Tom,
the most common and shared experience in every believers life,
("I wish I didn't put myself through the things I do, before I come to some of the realizations that I do.")
LOL,which of us can't identify with that.


Dave


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gone_to_pa (gone_to_pa)
12-03-2005, 07:00 AM
DAVE,
IT SURE WAS NICE TO SEE THAT AT LEAST YOU COMPREHEND SOME OF THE THINGS I SAY. I MIGHT CHANGE MY NAME TO THE JOLLY GREEN THREAD KILLER.
signed Gone to kill another thread. LoL.
GTP

gone_to_pa (gone_to_pa)
12-08-2005, 04:08 AM
WOULD SOMEONE SAY SOMETHING PLEASE. THIS IS RUINING MY AWESOME REPUTATION AND MY HIGH STANDING IN THE FACTNET COMMUNITY. WHO WILL RESCUE ME FROM THIS AWEFUL FEELING THAT I HAVE COMMITED A MOST HENIOUS ACT. I HAVE KILLED A THREAD. THIS SIN'T REALLY THE TRUE ME. I USUALLY LOVE THREADS.
IT STARTED LIKE THIS. ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS THIS THREAD. IT WAS LONELY. IT WAS ALL ALONE SO I CAME AND TOOK IT OUT OF OBSCURITY. I NURTURED IT. I FED IT WITH LOVE AND WORDS AND EVENTUALLY IT GREW. OTHERS CAME AND WATERED IT. WORDS, WORDS AND MORE WORDS. THE THREAD GREW LIKE A WEED. CALM DOWN YA'LL, I KNOW I SAID WEED, BUT THIS ISN'T THE 60'S ANY LONGER. FINALLY AFTER A MONTH OR SO OF GROWING, IT BECAME A GROWN-UP THREAD. AND LOW AND BEHOLD, IT FOUND ANOTHER THREAD TO LOVE IT AND THEY WERE MARRIED.
THEY HAD BABY THREADS AND BEFORE LONG, A P[LACE CALLED FACT-NET OFFERED THEM A JOB. AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER. IF YOU HAVE AN OUNCE, YOU WILL LET THIS THREAD SPREAD IT'S WINGS. CHANGE THE SUBJECT MATTER. WHATEVER. IT'S JUST A BABY THREAD. IT DESERVES MORE THAN THIS. PLEASE, SHOW LOVE.
A TEARFUL "JOLLY GREEN THREAD KILLER" AKA GTP, AKA PASTOR TOM, AKA YOU PR..K, AKA BIG PAPPA, AKA DADDY, AKA DUMMY, AKA BIG JOHN,
AKA BIG "T", AKA TOMMY SALAMI,
THANK YOU FOR THE LOVE

david_munson (david_munson)
12-08-2005, 03:59 PM
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Well Tom,
maybe this thread needs a needle.LOL

Yup,still can't resist.

Dave

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boss_martian (boss_martian)
12-08-2005, 08:50 PM
What have I learned?

If you REALLY want to fool/take advantage of people, do it in God's Name. From participating in pyramid schemes for juicers and vitamins, to getting people to sell their home and giving all your money to upstanding people like Benny Hinn or Carl Stevens, all the way to strapping on explosives and blowing up a bus with everyone on it, the best way is to say it's God's Will.

I have also learned that people will go to any extent to try and paint their cult experience as a positive one. I've been referred to the stories of Dachau survivors who found something positive in their experience and stories of GGWO members who found their spouse in a cult. My question is "would you recommend that a loved one join a cult to meet a spouse or get interned in a death camp to learn the meaning of life?"

I've learned that once people have a false idol, they will call day, night, and night, day rather than face up to the fact that they worship a liar.

I've learned that men will call themselves submitted to God's Calling, yet they lack the integrity to identify evil and the love for their fellow man to warn them away from a cult. Got to keep the numbers up, you know?

I've learned that it's far more important to debate whether or not Jesus had long hair or if His Blood or His death saves us than to try and stop real and concrete evil. After all, SOMEBODY has to win the debate!

I've learned that it's more important to be called "persecuted" and "under attack" over whether or not a damn store says "Merry Christmas" than it is to find out if our country went to war for the wrong reasons.

I've learned that God is a Republican.

I've learned that you can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.

Merry Christmas.

gone_to_pa (gone_to_pa)
12-08-2005, 10:19 PM
BOSS,
THAT WAS INCREDIBLE. MUCH MORE THAN WE COULD HAVE EVER ASKED FOR.

THANK YOU TOM
I'LL GET BACK TO YA IN A BIT

isabella (isabella)
12-09-2005, 01:31 PM
Hi Boss!

Read your excellent post earlier and even though I'm late for work, I had to come back to clear something up.

God is not a Republican.

The <font size="-2">Little Tiny Men have a little tiny god</font>...that one, (not the real One) is Republican.

Merry Christmas to you my boss,
Isabella

dinaweena (dinaweena)
12-09-2005, 02:19 PM
How about God is apolitical?! Democrats do stupid/dangerous things in His name too....I should know, I'm related to some.
Breaking this down to politics is stupid. I think most Democrats I've come in contact with are antinomian/socialist selfish lemmings, but that is my OPINION and is based on nothing more than a disagreement with thier politics, not a personal dig about who they are individually. I happen to be madly in love with a great deal of Democrats and I respect thier convictions. It's insulting to constantly be barraged with anti-Repulican rhetoric when you don't know every Republican....it seems as though most don't even know what the political party stands for. Misperceptions go both ways....I don't go around with insinuations about Dem's cause I'm not one, so I don't set myself up as a judge of thier personal character...it'd be nice if that favor was returned. Geesh...
Can we keep politics where they are and let God be God?

isabella (isabella)
12-10-2005, 12:52 AM
Whoa!

I said: "<font size="-2">the little tiny men have a little tiny god...he is a Republican....</font>...Not the real God."

My Lord, Jesus, has nothing to do with politics, what-so-ever....but, their <font size="-2">little god</font> probably does, since they believe in plundering the poor, the sick and the elderly, or didn't you know that?

Thanks,
Isabella

P.S. 'Sell all that you have and give it to the poor...you will have treasure in heaven...then come and follow Me'...Remember?

You can't take it with you. Too bad for <font size="-2">them.</font>

God bless you, Dina.

dinaweena (dinaweena)
12-10-2005, 04:26 AM
Sorry Isabella- I wasn't attacking you...or at least I dind't mean to. I'm just tired of being pigeonholed because of random idiots who happen to be in the eye of the world 'representing' me (so called).
I do remember that verse but I don't think Jesus was a communist...I think He was making a point about not having money be the root of all that's important-certainly not to take the place of worship in your life. He was testing the rich young ruler who, it turns out, loved his comfortable lifestyle more than following God. I view that verse as an example to not have any idols....not as a statement against people with money (no, I'm not rich-- far from....externally anyway :-)
God Bless you too Isabella...you're such a gracious woman. Thanks :-)