Which Reminds Me

How dare you send these ghetto trash New Yorkers to scream at me and tell me to go to New York! For one thing, I don't take orders from these New York ghetto trash dogs. If you had a specific job to offer me in New York that would be one thing. But I personally had no thought of going to New York. And why should I go to New York just to be chewed up and spit out by the exalted machinery of these horrid ghetto trash New Yorkers? I could not care less about New York, actually, so you should not be sitting on the edge of your chairs expecting my arrival there. Just because I read about New York in David Wilkerson's books, that does not mean that I would ever want to go there. I feel sort of sorry for those rude and horrible New York gangster people but I am not interested in hearing from them in any kind of personal way.

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After my first year at SCC, I remember that before going home for the summer I gave my address to Heather who lived in the room next to mine. Upon returning the next fall, Heather appeared at my door to berate me for returning the letter she had sent me. I told her that I had not received any letter from her. She produced an envelope that had been returned to her stamped as undeliverable. I looked at the address and it was not mine, as I told her. It was an address that would have been a couple of blocks away from our house, so obviously the post office automatically returned it to her without ever consulting me. And am I the post office that I should feel guilty about Heather's stupid mistakes? Spare me the stupid drama.

Speaking of Dutch

I am somehow reminded of Brother Andrew. What Christian has not heard of Brother Andrew's exploits smuggling Bibles into countries that were behind the Iron Curtain. Of course, that was the mid-20th century, before the fall of the Iron Curtain. Now that the Iron Curtain has fallen, without a Berlin Wall, a tilting windmill, to battle, how will the Dutchman keep those Open Doors propped open? Someone was asking this question but why were they asking me? I am not very connected to the Open Doors organization, although I do remember hearing the stories, reading the books. Who is to say that the Brother Andrew's smuggling of Bibles, all that prayer and care, did not have its intended effect in toppling the Berlin Wall and bringing down the Iron Curtain? Who is to say what is in store for Christians of the 21st century? Which reminds that while I was working in California at Hermano Pablo's for one year, they were renting space in the building to someone connected to Open Doors. I remember that Mark Carpenter, a co-worker, was saying some things about that lady and her ministry but I don't remember anything specific. What was her name? I don't remember anything about her now, just that she was a Messianic Jew, so I really wouldn't be able to say much. Of course, Mark Carpenter was tapping the phones and taking copious notes on every phone conversation, for which he was fired later, as we heard later, so you might have more luck asking Mark.

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I should correct one point. I only once attended Dr. Schuller's church in Garden Grove, when the college choir sang there one Sunday morning. But that was before the Crystal Cathedral was thought of. That was still under construction the one time I was there, when we all attended a concert there in maybe 1980 or 1981, but I never attended church there.

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There seems to be some lingering confusion about our family. We are just human beings of Germanic and other Western European lineage who, if we are called to serve in Christian ministry, like everyone else on the planet are able to serve God in any capacity that God should call us. We do like a good steak for dinner but we are Christians so we obviously are not interested in learning more about animal sacrifices that are practiced by various witch doctors hereabouts. So all of this talk about us not being able to handle the things of God sounds very weird coming from fellow Christians. It is not like there was ever any genealogical requirement for becoming a Christian minister. Persons of many various family descents and lineages may become Christian ministers if they apply themselves to their Biblical studies. Like everyone else in the U.S., we would not want our children to think that their options for Christian ministry are limited by genealogical and family heritage considerations. That is just wrong wrong wrong. You are just Mr. Wrong.

Which Reminds Me

During my last year at SCC my roommate was from Miami and her brother was running the school newspaper. Although I heard that she later married Sergio Rivera, at that time she was dating one of those Oriental guys, Ken or Kent. Those Oriental guys always think they are so clever. One time I was talking to him and he was trying to corner me on some point and I don't remember what I said. It was just wasn't something that I could answer in so many words. Then he was acting like he had won some sort of contest even though I really didn't say anything. These Oriental people are just a nuisance and I would rather avoid them entirely so as not to have feel obligated to answer stupid questions.

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Yes, I believe I did make some comment about Isobel. She allows looks so unhappy, her face always scrunched into a frown. Yes, and maybe that means something and maybe it does not mean anything. I don't know what people are thinking. I just thought she looked very miserable and cross all of the time. That was all I said.