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Originally Posted by Sandtrap328
You would think that family and friends would have pleaded with Otto not to go to North Korea and that common sense would have kept him from going.
The State Department warnings are very specific about what is forbidden in North Korea and that stiff prison time is the norm.
Now, this young man who had so much promise is in a vegetative state.
Why did he go?
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I did a lot of stupid stuff when about that age-- 22. Jerome Childress a charming black man greeted me on the University of Nevada. Reno campus outside the Humanities Building. We got to talking and he invited me to have a meeting with members of his group to talk Philosophy. He had given me his card which said Unification Church. Well I met them went back a few days later and then my parents started getting phone calls to let me go as they were corrupting me. I eventually had to use some extremely foul language to get the Moonies to stop calling my parents. I sounded like the man with the snakes on the plane.
Just two meetings too and I had the presenter at the second meeting in tears. The Unification Church comes out of the teachings of another Korean -- this one from South Korea-- with a cult following.
Sun Myung Moon - Wikipedia