#barrytown

[livesunique]

Rokeby, Barrytown, Dutchess County, New York

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Hoping desperately that “it will all come out right in the end.” With all due respect, it ain’t a gonna happen.

I read with great interest the treatise on how things would have been a lot better in the Unification Movement if, instead of having short-sighted goals, they would have done better to build a better foundation. Unfortunately, to me this seems now like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The ship is going down, so no matter what you do, it’s just cosmetic. The problem is a top-down problem.  The top is rotten to the core, meaning “True Father” and “True Parents” and “True Family” are just catch-phrases to many members who have left or who are hanging on by their fingernails, hoping desperately that “it will all come out right in the end.” With all due respect, it ain’t a gonna happen. 

The internet has exposed Sun Myung Moon for what he really was. And the Divine Principle is just another theological theory which he apparently didn’t even come up with himself. So if something is based on a lie and more lies are perpetuated about the founder himself and his history and his accomplishments…well, the universe will not support a lie indefinitely. Only force can make people live a lie. The kind of force that North Korea and Communist China and dictatorships throughout history have used. The kind of force that was sometimes used in the Unification Movement by leaders who thought they were following SMM’s pattern of “tough love” which really amounted to bullying, threatening and shaming. But I, like many others, had enough and voted with my feet to leave such an organization because my spiritual freedom and right to live by my conscience instead of fear and psychological manipulation was paramount. I think I speak for many. 

So if you who are still “card-carrying members” want to make things better, you are facing an uphill battle all the way, because the leadership is still corrupt and mostly Korean, and they will not listen to you or be influenced by you one whit.

Patricia H.

[the above was slightly edited]

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Buh-Bye Barrytown Well, it’s happening before our eyes. I’m sure there will be an “outcry” amongst current members when the news is known about Barrytown being sold. I’m sure we’ll hear all the quotes from “Father” about how Barrytown is a precious historical site for the church and should be preserved forever. It’s “historical” just for the fact that the Lord of the Second Advent walked its halls! And spoke in its auditorium! And probably prayed on its grounds!!!! Yet, there it goes. Maybe it will be torn down and something else erected in its place.

Can Belvedere and East Garden be far behind? They are even more historical, because the Lord of the Second Advent and His Family actually LIVED there. A good friend told me that he visited Belvedere several years ago. He used to be the bookkeeper there and worked in “the vault” in the basement. It was actually his office. The current staff couldn’t open it and asked him for help, so he went down to help them. He happened to look in some of the rooms in the basement and there were all these “coffins” there made of steel or some other strong metal. He asked what was in them. The brother proudly told him there were scores of “Father’s” clothes. His suits, his shirts, his shoes, even his underwear. All being preserved for future generations to see in some far-off museum. I wonder what will happen to those coffins if they sell Belvedere??? Will anyone be left to build that museum? Will anyone care to visit it to stare at Father’s empty clothes? I think the handwriting is on the wall. The UC is dying. The money to fund it is drying up. The membership is dwindling and what members are left cannot prop it up much longer. Someday books will be written about how it all went so wrong. Then again, maybe no one will care. Time moves on and religious movements that were once “new” and “different” fade away. Buh-bye Barrytown. I guess your time is over.


Patricia H.   2016

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Sun Myung Moon makes me feel ashamed to be Korean

Where Sun Myung Moon got his theology

Divine Principle – The Parallels of History examined

WIOTM – It's official - UTS has been sold

[chernobog13]

ME ST. PATRICK'S DAY WEEKEND VIEWING LIST

All the films I've assembled to watch through the weekend and the high holy day. It may take me until mid-week to finish them all, but that's a price I'm willing to pay.

In no particular order (although I ALWAYS watch Gorgo first, and The Barrytown Trilogy must be viewed in sequence):

GORGO (1961)

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

THE QUIET MAN (1952)

THE BARRYTOWN TRILOGY

(all starring me man, Colm Fookin' Meaney)

The Commitments (1991)

The Snapper (1993)

The Van (1996)

THE SECRET OF KELLS (2009)

WAKING NED DEVINE (1998)

HEAR MY SONG (1991)

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (2018)

THE GUARD (2011)

There's plenty more I could add to the list, but there's only so much time. And there's always next year.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

[cillianmurphysdimples]

Time for a new read. Well, re-read. It's been a couple of years since I read this one through so it's time to pick it up again. God bless these three hilariously addictive stories.

[garadinervi]

Dick Higgins, Poems Plain & Fancy, Station Hill Press, Inc., Barrytown, NY, 1986 [Fondazione Bonotto, Molvena (VI). © Dick Higgins]

[dryndelicate]

AI Creator Challenge: Musical Inspirations

The song, with all the biting sarcasm typical of Donald Fagan's lyrics, is one of the strongest pleas for tolerance and for overcoming reservations about apparent outsiders in order to connect as human beings.

Having missed the instruction to provide a single image, this will be the selected one. After all "Barrytown people got to be from another world".

I want all of you, from whichever Barrytown you're coming from and whatever baggage you're carrying, feel welcome here on Tumblr in our little AI community, even when my AI tool utterly fails at diversity, populating the place with all white hippies.

@synth-ai @danni-gurrl @gigiprinceton

@ai-satin-chic @softsmooth69 @fluffyfaza

@mohairmaster @mistressmaurahypno @hollyjumper

@andysfantasie @milunessence @anderii @burningpoisonroaster

[lillamolntuss]

how it feels to listen to barrytown by steely dan: 🍓🫐🏡🪴💞📯🐏💌🖼️🦋🛌🪷🪿🍎🍄‍🟫🌸🌈🫧🦡👬

[riddledsymphony]

~beside the seminary~ photos

Formerly Unification Theological Seminary/"Moonie" Education HQ/Massena Estate, Barrytown, NY.

Fall 2024

[nedison]

Joetown - XTC // Steely Dan

Standing In For Joe meets Barrytown.

[moonchild-diaries]

blog entry, god's hope for america tour, 7/15/2014, age 21

Author's Note: In the summer of 2014, the US American church did this 43-day bus tour called (deep, beleaguered sigh) "God's Hope for America." I joined the tour for about 5 days, from July 15th - 20th. The church offered to sponsor my participation in this tour, in exchange for live-blogging the journey in photos and writing.

I deleted all traces of the original blog, out of sheer cringe--and also no longer wanting to have a piece of church propaganda out there with my name on it. Because that's basically what it was: church propaganda.

The people sponsoring me and accompanying me on the bus tour seemed particularly thrilled they had a young voice representing them. The presence of young people on this tour was especially important to them. Every time the tourists would gather for a group photo, the church leaders present would shout how they wanted "young people in the front". They wanted desperately to put a young face on a dying movement.

Looking back, this all feels exploitative as fuck. Just an extension of how I felt used for my youth and energy.

I also briefly mention "Barrytown College". That's a story for another day. Basically, the Unification Church in the US wanted a college to indoctrinate its young people, and young people outside the church if it could. The problem was, the "college" wasn't federally accredited. It was funded entirely by the church, and crashed and burned after two years of existence.

The church leaders decided to shift their funding priorities elsewhere, regardless of the well-being of the twenty or so "Barrytown College" students left with an incomplete education. To give the church a modicum of credit, they tried to transition us out of "Barrytown College" and over to other colleges, offering us stipends for a few years to smooth things over. It was really the least they could do, for their young people.

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This isn't by any means an official post--just some background on how I managed to get together with this tour. For those of you who don't know, I'm a young Unificationist student of Barrytown College, and it's my privilege to tell you, day by day, all about my experience with the God's Hope for America Tour. I'm not going to be blogging about every single day of the tour, but the days I managed to tag along: July 16th through the 20th. Hopefully, through writing, photographs, and maybe video, I'll be able to capture the spirit of the events--adventurous, fun, or poignant as they may be.

But the journey hasn't really started yet, to be honest. Today, the 15th, was just a day of straight travel down from my hometown in New Hampshire. It's been nine hours, morning to evening, on a sleek Greyhound bus running through the rain. Vermont to Springfield, Massachusetts; Springfield to New York City; New York to a little corner of Philadelphia called Mt. Laurel, which is where I am now. It's funny--I guess today's trip has been a bit like the tour in reverse--same locations. The tour will travel through those same states, backwards, until I wind up again in good old New Hampshire. But instead of skimming through the cities and towns, the tour will take me to linger over the most significant locales of the northeast coast, to observe America at its heart--in a way I've never seen before.

As for the practical concerns of today, I chose to travel as light as was realistic--just an overstuffed backpack, a bag of food, a water bottle, and a pillow (thought of last-minute). Not really Spartan, but then again I usually bring my house on my back every other time I travel. I realized this time I couldn't afford to be a snail and hope to keep up with the hectic schedule of the tour.

[...]

At the moment, it seems I'm in a strange new place, with not a familiar face in sight. (Boy that was cheesy.) But really, I do feel odd right now. I'm alone in Mt. Laurel, NJ at the moment, a place I've never been before and only saw yesterday in pictures. I've taken refuge in Starbucks from the downpour outside. I'm very close to the Super 8 hotel where the tour will be staying tonight--it's only a few blocks away, but it'll be at least an hour before the tour-bus actually gets there.

But as this idle hour passes by, I'm in a reflective mood. Something I noticed today was how, just by virtue of sitting with strangers on a bus for hours over strange terrain, you start to get a glimpse of your fellow travelers, a vague sense of who these people really are. It may not be a very faithful or complete portrait, but you can't help but overhear snippets of their lives. The lady sitting next to me, an older African-American woman, showed me glimpses of emotional warmth, just by the way she smiled nonchalantly when I accidentally woke her from her nap. The little Japanese boys sitting in front of me bantered and giggled quietly, shushing each other like they might be caught. There was an endearing, fascinating quality to all of them--more patient than you'd expect, kinder than you'd think and always a little surprising.

I feel like I may have a similar experience on this tour: at each location, getting a colorful glimpse of the different states, experiencing the teardrops of joy, sorrow, and hope that history has left to water the earth of this young country. I may just get to become more acquainted with the character of America.

[thedoveisneverfree]

Barrytown

[unexpected-analogues]

Thread Two: In Barrytown, New Jersey a young amateur computer hacker, Bobby Newmark, self-named "Count Zero", is given a piece of black market software by some criminal associates "to test". When he plugs himself into the matrix and runs the program, it almost kills him. The only thing that saves his life is a sudden image of a girl made of light who interferes and unhooks him from the software just before he flatlines. After fleeing his house (which is immediately thereafter destroyed) he meets Lucas, Beauvoir, and Jackie, a group fascinated by and dedicated to the recent appearance of voodoo deities in Cyberspace, who take him into their protection as they are collectively targeted by various corporate agents.

Only Seeing God When I Come - Sega Bodega (2021)

Shot by Aidan Zamiri Styled by Aga Dziedzic Makeup by Isamaya Ffrench

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

The Moonie Washington P.R. Center, Richard Nixon and Capitol Hill

▲ Richard Nixon with Sun Myung Moon

From April of 1973 until October of 1975 I was a member of the Unification Church, an organization established by Sun Myung Moon of Korea in 1954. For over two years I helped in fund-raising, recruiting, and teaching activities for this organization, as well as in public relations projects setting up large, expensive banquets honoring Moon and gaining support for him from prominent citizens throughout the United States.

In August of 1975 I was sent to Washington, D.C., at Moon’s personal request to do public relations work on Capitol Hill for him and for South Korea. The Washington P.R. Center has approximately 20-25 young men and women working full-time in this capacity. I, like all the others, was assigned a list of Senators and Congressmen which were to be my own contacts exclusively (a copy of this list is in the possession of Daphne Greene). P.R. members were to make gradual acquaintances and friendships with staff members and aides and eventually the Congressmen and Senators themselves, inviting them to a suite in the Washington Hilton rented at $54/day (although the normal rate should have been around $120/day), where dinner and films or short lectures on Moon’s ideas and “accomplishments” would be presented. All this effort is sort of an on-going program by Moon to get political support for himself and the Park Chung Hee dictatorship in South Korea. Moon uses the guise of “Christian anti-communism”, but his tactics are not at all ethical and his teachings are merely Marxist-Maoist platitudes veiled in different terminology.

Moon is using 1st Amendment protection for freedom of religion to cover his political activities. We (the P.R. members) were told to be “somewhat” vague when dealing with Capitol Hill contacts in order to protect our presence there, but we were to try to influence our contacts to support Moon and South Korea. Since I have been out of the Unification Church, I have read a State Department communique about the U.S.’s need to continue protection for South Korea and thereby for Japan – in nearly the same exact wording we were told to use to influence our contacts on this issue.

The July 1974 Prayer and Fast for the Watergate Crisis was engineered solely for political publicity for Moon. Members’ contacts with Senators and Congressmen at that time were carefully recorded and followed up by the P.R. team.

This is only one example of Moon’s ploys to gain political advantage in this country.

I do hereby attest that the foregoing is my own statement and opinion.

signed: Ann Gordon

from the Bay Area of California, March 9, 1976

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Addendum

P. R. Members now working in Washington, D.C.

Mitziko Matsuda ) Yoshiko               ) Japanese women-leaders of the P.R. Center

Nina Zedehov Bergman – married Dr. William Bergman 2/1975 Susan Bergman – sister of Dr. Wm. Bergman Pam Lee Bernice Rechlis Cowan – married James Cowan 2/1975 Lorna Skaaren Olga Silva Betsy O’Brien (her sister is Mary O’Brien Cordill – married to Perry Cordill 2/1975; he is in the US, Mary is in Ghana) Tolise Mize Lori Anteloch Chio (Japanese girl) Christina Ziegler Marilyn Cohen (her husband, Barry Cohen, is in Africa somewhere) Jim Gavin Bob Sullivan Rosemary Deddens (married Steve Deddens 2/1975)

Susan Bergman is assigned to Carl Albert. When he toured Europe in summer 1975, she sent postcards ahead to each hotel on his itinerary, which she had gotten from his secretary. When Albert returned, he called her long distance to Barrytown, New York, to ask “Where is my friend, Susan?”

Bob Sullivan is assigned to Hubert Humphrey, I believe.

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In December of 1973, during a national Unification Church conference in Chicago, Col. Pak (Moon’s interpreter) received a call from Pres. Nixon’s secretary at the White House. The gist of the conversation was that if “Rev.” Moon’s people would appear en masse at the White House the night of the Christmas tree lighting, the (former) Pres. Nixon would appear himself at the public ceremony, despite low public opinion of him at that time. So the national Unification Church leaders were instructed to return to their states, pack up their members, and all go to Washington within three-four days’ time, which they did. In all, about 1500 members were present at the ceremony to cheer the beleaguered President.

The following month “Rev.” Moon was invited to the annual Prayer Breakfast with other religious leaders like Billy Graham, and to a 30-minute private session with Nixon himself. Both invitations were engineered in the main by Dr. Joseph Kennedy, a psychologist from North Carolina who met and became involved with Moon’s group at Moon’s Atlanta Day of Hope program in November 1973.

This is my sworn statement.

Ann Gordon,   March 11, 1976

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Marriage under Mao Zedong and marriage under Sun Myung Moon

“Moon Sun-myung saw how Marxism gave his friends a utopian goal, a purpose, a historical role to play…”

“The organization of the Unification Church is so systematic that one thinks of communists.” – Professor Choi

Dear Leader's Paper Moon – Sun Myung Moon and North Korea

Unification Church Fund North Korean Missile Development for 450 billion yen

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“So Master knows about Communists very well. And even under Japanese days, in Japan together with the Communists he fought against the Japanese government.” Sun Myung Moon
 History Of The Unification Church, part 2
 Master Speaks
 December 28, 1971, Washington, D.C.


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Disciplining the Mind – North Korean style

[chernobog13]

ST. PADDY'S DAY MOVIE LIST

What I'll be tossin' in the ole BluRay player to watch tonight and tomorrow (I've got the day off, to make up for today), in no particular order:

Gorgo (1961)

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

The Quiet Man (1952)

The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments (1991), The Snapper (1993), and The Van (1996), all featuring our man Colm Meaney

Hear My Song (1991)

The Guard (2011)

Waking Ned Devine (1998)

Agnes Brown (1999)

[radiophd]

steely dan -- barrytown

[maximuswolf]

Covers by unlikely artists?

Covers by unlikely artists? What are some cover songs by artists that you would never have expected to cover that song, or even anything else by the original artist? The covers don't necessary have to be brilliant, just unexpected. A few to get started:The Beatles' "I Want To Tell You", covered by Ted Nugent Bruce Springsteen's "Sandy (4th Of July, Asbury Park)Sandy (4th Of July, Asbury Park)", covered by The Hollies Steely Dan's "Barrytown", covered by Ben Folds Five Submitted May 09, 2024 at 11:42AM by TheSanityInspector https://ift.tt/9PNzTFL via /r/Music