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Originally Posted by chaotic_resolve
He said waiting the extra months to allow the dues to lapse would be like watching a loved one with a terminal disease.
Apparently the one's who are remaining in the organization are terminally ill.
Sad, pathetic statement. The organization hasn't died, nor does it have a terminal disease. This analogy is used to try and make it easier to leave the organization.
Although, if the UPCI is terminally diseased (and it's not, but we'll pretend it is) it's pretty shameful to leave a terminally diseased patient to die.
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Well, you have quite a way with twisting someone else's words, don't you? There is absolutely NO way to interpret my remarks the way you did. I have stated MANY times that I hold absolutely nothing against those who remain.
I will try again, not for YOUR sake -- because you obviously have quite the agenda. Rather, I will try to explain so that others, who might actually LISTEN, will know it is not at all the way YOU have described it.
My illustration about watching a loved one with a terminal illness was speaking directly about the drift to the left which I have observed in the UPC. To me, it was as if something died with the passage of Resolution 4. It was more than a change of a decision. It was, at least to me, a change of direction.
My entire point was about waiting until the end of the year to get out. I clearly stated that, since the "death" (the passage of Resolution 4), I would find no closure until I was out. I wasn't saying (and I can't believe you actually took it that way -- I honestly think you simply wanted to try to make me look bad) that those who stay in are diseased and I'm walking away while they are terminally ill. If you want to talk about a "sad, pathetic statement," it was YOUR statement concerning me and my actions.
I have no animosity towards the UPCI. That is a fact. I am not angry, nor bitter. I am seriously disappointed. I was opposed to the use of television when the issue first came up on the 1970's. In fact, I wrote a letter to MH (when I was only 14, and a new convert) expressing my disappointment and dismay. Had the United Pentecostal Church allowed it in the 1970's, I would never have sought license in the first place. Now that they have reversed their historic stand, I will not remain.
This has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with me thinking ill of those who remain. I have heard FAR WORSE things about those of us getting out by some of you (especially YOU, CR), than what I've heard those on our side saying about the ones who stay.
I await your apology.
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