 Posted Tuesday, May 10, 2005 7:01 PM
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The annoying thing, Nyoka, is that most of us never know what Linda does delete!
Grrrrrr.....
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Posted Tuesday, May 10, 2005 7:49 PM
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fH,
I don't like deleting posts and only do so if I consider it absolutely necessary. Examples of things I delete include the following:
-- Posts that are intended to disrupt the forum
-- Posts that violate the forum's terms of use (swearing, etc.)
-- Posts that are really insulting or hurtful to fellow posters (disagreement is allowed; open attack is not)
-- I have asked that discussion of the homosexual issue be limited to two specified threads. I did this because the issue kept cropping up all over the threads and always seemed to hijack the discussions.
Hope this relieves your mind on the issue.
Linda
Moderator
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Posted Thursday, May 12, 2005 10:16 PM
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Nyoka and I know the posting rules, Most Reverend Moderator.*
Just teasing.
*I teased Carolyne Poole years ago by referring to and addressing her as, "Our Beloved Leader," "the Founder and Discoverer of Christian Way."
(signed),
The Right IrReverend fH....
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Posted Monday, May 16, 2005 8:02 AM
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The MBE institute just looks like another avenue in which to glorify CS's "beloved leader", and try to prove how to practice CS correctly, the way it would run as if MBE were still alive. I especially felt that during the last few years that I attended the CS church regularly that more emphasis has been put on MBE and less focus has been on the bible. About two yrs ago, when I lived and attended church in CA, it seemed that every testimony people shared they claimed they were healed by S&H and recited & read verses from the text book. I think the last time it was clear to me that the Bible and S&H were treated equally was in the late 1980's early 1990's. And now it seems like the only campaign is to market, share and focus in on MBE. Frogs25 here is confused and babbling, but gets a sense from visiting the MBE institute website, that Helen in a way made another ripple in the already agitated CS pond.
Fully Relying On God for Salvation
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Posted Monday, May 16, 2005 9:21 AM
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frogs25,
Lots of us who are older noticed that in our experience of CS decades ago, Eddy was glorified to the diminuation (and even exclusion) of Jesus. We are also quite familiar with the exaltation of S&H over the Bible.
I suggest that what you are reporting is not something new, but simply something you have become more aware of, as you have become more independent, intellectulaly mature, and separated out from the CS environment.
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Posted Monday, May 16, 2005 7:59 PM
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FollowingHim
Thanks for all your contributions to these different forums. I really appreciate your feedback, and I'm eager to read more of what you have to say. I'm new here and this is the first time I have really begun to express my confusion, and doubt that I have had toward CS, since the rest of my family is very strongly CS, and because of this I am terrified to question or even communicate my issues about it all with them.
Thanks all,
Frogs25
Fully Relying On God for Salvation
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Posted Tuesday, May 17, 2005 6:37 AM
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Hi frogs,
Welcome to this forum!
As I've been a CSist for approx. 15 years "only" I don't know about CS way back, but I've certainly seen it move from a religion very much focussed on S&H - and to a lesser extent on the bible - and MBE - and to a lesser extent on Jesus Christ - to some spirituality thing with which you can heal yourself, with the help of S&H - the bible has really moved next to insignificance, and it appears to me that TMC just uses avenues which seem to work best at the moment to attract new members/sell s&H etc.
Marion
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Posted Monday, May 30, 2005 3:20 PM
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Frogs,
Do you mean to say that you do not know exactly why you are doubting CS, or that you do know, but are finding it hard to explain the source
of the doubt?
dorr
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Posted Monday, May 30, 2005 7:14 PM
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dorr,
With in the last few weeks a great change has come over me. What I needed was validation for the way I was beginning to think in terms of turning away from Christian Science. Thanks to the many people here who participate in the forums, my fiance and his family, and most recently reading Linda's book, I know with confidence now why I'm leaving. I now have specific examples from my life with which to explain the logic of it all. The connections have now been made and I am beginning to feel that sense of freedom I never had while living moving and breathing CS all the way through college.
My biggest thanks goes out to my aunt who told me the hard truth about the passing of my mother just two years ago. The story Linda tells in her book about Barbara's mother totally made the connection with me in what the situation was like with my mother.
My thoughts before regarding the Mary Baker Eddy Institute remain the same, even though it is old news to others.
The Longyear Museum provides more information regarding MBE as a religious leader and emphasizes her contributions to religious history. It is a beautiful well designed museum, but now that I see the other side, I can see how it "prettyifies" the inspired side of Christian Science.
Fully Relying On God for Salvation
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Posted Monday, May 30, 2005 9:38 PM
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Are you involved with MBEInst or Longyear? Have you been?
BTW, I believe it was the Bates & Dittemore book which TMC bought, and then destroyed the plates. Maybe TMCL has info on that. But with both Cather/Milmine and Bates-Dittemore, there are lots of stories and legends of the extravagent efforts made to suppres them--stealing them from libraries, vandalizing them in bookstores, boycotting bookstores that carried them, | | | |