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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:30 pm
by dlayphoto_Archive
turnbullac wrote:OK what is JPUSA? is it like
Jesus Camp?
http://www.jpusa.org
Nina Nastasia Tour Nightmare
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:33 pm
by ironyengine_Archive
MTAR wrote:beelzebubbles wrote:some spirit of masturbation.
i'd see this band
I would only see this band if it were a Rush cover band that dressed like Turbonegro.
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:29 pm
by rayj_Archive
I would love to book a solo gig there. Power electronics. Show 'em what the 'negative' side of the 'vortex' looks like...maybe some slideshow fatality footage? Wave around some hammers? Hell, I'd do it for free, for all the volunteers...
Sorry...I'm definitely kinda immature for my age...
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:37 pm
by ant man bee_Archive
Man this just furthers the seething hatred I have for that new age crowd. They need to take thier heads out of their asses and be forced to listen to Jailbreak at full volume while eating a giant rare steak.
I don't know why that shit makes me so furious...I guess because to me it seems so forced, trite, and utopian.
fuck those people.
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:08 pm
by Johnny 13_Archive
I lived at JPUSA for a year, and I don't think it's a cult by any means.
Are these the Jesus People who had the skateboard ramp in the 80s and 90s? I met several Jesus people who worked security at a couple of Shellac shows. They were all very nice people, and talked freely about their lives, but the way the community ran freaked me out.
It has been a few years now, but my recollection was that these kids had jobs, and turned their pay over to the church, who then doled out to them what they needed. Maybe that is more commune than cult, but it gave me an apprehensive feeling in my gut to hear them talk about the way they live.
Not for me, but neither are a lot of things.
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:20 pm
by Chapter Two_Archive
Never trust a man who's real surname is Scallion.
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:33 pm
by dlayphoto_Archive
Johnny 13 wrote:I lived at JPUSA for a year, and I don't think it's a cult by any means.
Are these the Jesus People who had the skateboard ramp in the 80s and 90s? I met several Jesus people who worked security at a couple of Shellac shows. They were all very nice people, and talked freely about their lives, but the way the community ran freaked me out.
It has been a few years now, but my recollection was that these kids had jobs, and turned their pay over to the church, who then doled out to them what they needed. Maybe that is more commune than cult, but it gave me an apprehensive feeling in my gut to hear them talk about the way they live.
Not for me, but neither are a lot of things.
Yes, it is the same group of people. I was at the Shellac shows that you speak of.
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:47 pm
by rayj_Archive
They might be nice people, but christians are like republicans in my book. When the revolution comes...
For the record, most of the people who have royally screwed me over have been vocal christians and/or republicans...
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:32 am
by electrons_Archive
Jeff Macleod wrote:scott wrote:I love this story, because you guys made it out safely, so everything is alright. But it just reminds me of the time when I worked for a cult like this (just long enough to figure out what was really up, which took a few days since they ran out of a fancy office in a Chicago highrise) and the time I visitied JPUSA one Sunday.
Cults are fascinating as hell, I think, if you can just rub up against one for a couple minutes/hours rather than actually be *in* one. Out of all the stories I've heard from friends and acquaintances, and my own personal experience, I cannot think of one single time that a run-in with a cult resulted in anything other than a great story.
Glad you made it out in good shape.
I guess...Why am I so lonely then? Why do I feel a profound sense of sadness and longing for something I didn't even know existed - what a real family was like? People who care, you know?
Maybe because you grew up without
VeggieTales. Children today are so lucky.
For $12.97, its worth some answers.