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Tuesday 22 September 2009

Campus nostalgia and Les' Life Lines

Elizabeth, a former Imperial student returns to the Pasadena campus, camera in hand. Some nice photographs, and doubtless some bitter-sweet memories for others. Check out her blog.

Ever wondered what kind of folks get involved with Alan Ruth's biblestudy.org ministry (the one with the weird ads)? Wonder no more, the Welland Tribune (an Ontario local paper) wants to introduce you to Les Turvey, who also runs his own pocket operation called Life Lines.

If you find yourself wondering whether Alan's BS site looks a bit like The Journal website, that's because Alan uses the same innovative design and creative genius as webmaster there too.

8 comments:

Leonardo said...

Ah, some excellent pictures bringing back some warm and wonderful memories. This was the place I enjoyed 17 years of the most formative years of my adult life - even if most of them were spent seeing the world through rose-colored glasses and in an intellectual fog.

It's good to see the place being well taken care of. I visited there in 1998 and the campus looked pretty run down at that time, but now it looks much better.

Hey, not a bad place to attend high school in, eh? I think the lower campus is being used as a private Christian high school of some kind, probably associated with the evangelical ministry organization that bought it back in 2004.

Also appreciated the pics of the Auditorium too - for several years I worked on the stage crew there. Some great memories in that place as well.

Didn't recognize the people in the pics, though - but the child is a little cutie, isn't she? I sure hope as she grows up that she'll be able to AVOID all the nonsense that entangled us for so many years.

Tom M (not Mahon) said...

About a month ago I found I could take a tour around the perimeter of the Pasadena campus with Google Street Views. But today I couldn't. Does anybody know how? It doesn't matter though, because Elizabeth's photos are better.

Baywolfe said...

"Alan's BS site"

Heh, I guess you could say that about all of them...

Anonymous said...

Its too bad that most of your readers don't believe that the "word of God is the foundation of knowledge" anymore.

Leonardo said...

Anonymous 7:07 snidly remarks:
"Its too bad that most of your readers don't believe that the "word of God is the foundation of knowledge" anymore."


And that would "too bad" because...?

Phrontistes said...

Anonymous opined:
"Its too bad that most of your readers don't believe that the "word of God is the foundation of knowledge" anymore."

Ah, there is that intellectual fog that Leonardo referred to. In this reader's mind there just isn't any other possible way of looking at it. However, it is entirely possible to believe that the word of God is the foundation of knowledge, while at the same time realizing that the word of cog is anything but. Duh!

ConnedNoMore said...

Anonymous declared...

"Its too bad that most of your readers don't believe that the 'word of God is the foundation of knowledge' anymore."

On the contrary,
It is a very good thing!

Oh so refreshing to be freed from the interminable various bogus expressions of the
alleged "word of gawd"

ConnedNoMore

Anonymous said...

"Its too bad that most of your readers don't believe that the "word of God is the foundation of knowledge" anymore."

Ah yes, there it is, that smug attitude of self-righteous superiority, so prevalent amongst Armstrongists.

I don't miss it.