Which Reminds Me

Someone has reminded me that during college I was seen greeting or conversing with Gary Easley, a college music major who, as it happens, was from the Church of Christ denomination. Don't I know that Easley has mentioned they do not allow musical instruments played in their church, only vocal music? How odd that seems to us, so accustomed are we to indiscriminately accepting music of whatever kind into our sanctuaries. Easley's appearance at our college was a strange anomaly. You should not be judging us by his example alone. And yet what virtue was there in fingering a clarinet and yet having no personality to speak of, yourself being nothing but a milquetoast wimpy band member named Darren Drake? In fact, the band members that I can remember were a bland and boring sort. Yes, it would seem that harpie Karen kept herself quite busy flirting with the guys in the band but I did not share her enthusiasm for such band geeks. Music was disappointing. You are just a boring cog in a sideshow, nothing more.

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Yes, there was a time when Pentecostals prided themselves on being a growing spiritual movement while the mainstream denominations such as Methodism were dying. That would have been more true in the mid-20th century, after modernism had its devastating effect. Still, we are all Christians. Some Methodists were vindictively persecuting Pentecostals to avenge themselves of some perceived slight. Yet we are all Christians. You should not be confusing us with the Church of Christ people who think that only they are saved. We are not that simple-minded as that. It is complicated than that but I don't have all day to talk about it, especially since you never asked us any questions. You just jumped to a lot of questionable conclusions without asking us.

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Research reveals that there was a missionary named Bob Hoskins who was a Methodist Episcopal missionary at Cawnpore, India, but he died in 1903. So obviously I had never heard any mention of Bob Hoskins in connection to India nor do I see any reason for all of these surly humorless references to him in connection to India when obviously I never knew anything about this in the first place. Some people are much too vindictive and vengeful to gain admittance to the Dictionary game.

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I recall a time many years ago one day we were watching television and Jimmy Swaggart was on there preaching and foaming at the mouth talking about the problem of girls who wear shorts and saying that mothers should teach their daughters not to wear shorts. My mother said to me, "He has a problem." My mother thought that a normal man would not be strutting across the platform and working himself into such a frenzy on such a topic. I am just saying what my mother said. Of course that was long ago, when we had newly arrived in Florida and long before Jimmy got so famous. Which is why it is so hard for me to understand the fascination that some people have with such a problem man. I am just saying what my mother said.

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Yes, they are hitting my account and I did not even think of writing a book about India. Helen Calkins, MK-India, did that but it was never published. I cannot imagine why not. Anyway, I never saw that or knew of its existence. Also, I was never in India or ever thought of going there so obviously I would not be able to comment.

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Shortly after college graduation I was working at Vida Publishers in Miami and one day Mr. Rentals was visiting there and that was where he mentioned to me their staffing needs at Red Stick but I did not apply there. Oh, did Alice the receptionist overhear that conversation? I really don't remember very much about that. Or maybe I mentioned this once or twice to whoever. Yet somehow it is interesting to note that later I was hearing messages from the Hoskins who imagine themselves having bought me a slave property to be used for their own family benefit. I find the Hoskins' slave joke utterly insipid and I do appreciate an opportunity to drive a stake through the empty heads of those involved. There is a hollowness there.

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Anyway, I wasn't expecting to hear from Harry ever in this lifetime. Harry is just a stupid cameraman as far as I can tell. Just because the college hired Harry to video your performance for the college, that did not give Harry any right to take that video out of the archival vaults and forward it to TBN offices where it could be held up to public ridicule by that gang of lunatics. As if. I don't really know whether Harry actually did that but that is one hypothetical scenario that has suggested itself to our minds given the idiotic rantings emanating from TV-Land. The videos didn't belong to Harry and it was none of Harry's business. Nobody asked Harry for his fully unsolicited opinion.