Posted on 07/16/2017 2:00:21 PM PDT by DFG
Over two decades, one prospective buyer after another passed over the abandoned village in the Connecticut countryside. There were requirements to preserve its historical character and problems with the septic system, not to mention rumors that it was haunted.
So when a Filipino church came forward and bought the deteriorating collection of Victorian-style buildings last week, local officials were elated the village would be saved from rotting away. An official with the church, Iglesia Ni Cristo, says it is not daunted because it has a history of repurposing shuttered buildings for its fast-growing membership.
"We purchase a lot of abandoned worship buildings and restore them," said Joji Crisostomo, a district minister who oversees 32 congregations and missions for the church in the northeastern U.S. "That way people can use them again to reconnect with God."
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I could eat Pho daily, I became addicted to it.
I would always ask what’s this herb?
They would say I don’t think there is an english word for it.
Dejected I spent a decade in a mad quest to find what it was.
One day my buddy Viet says “that’s basil you dumbass!”
Having grown up with Italians I was perplexed.
There are some 32 variety’s of basil to my chagrin
Queen of Siam Basil! Aha!
Now I grow it.
“This group is a cult. They even have their own private army”
So they are like the Catholic Church?
*ducks*
My old lady sure does. And to be fair, I still don’t trust an evening meal that doesn’t include soup. Lunch? Soup and sandwich is good. Don’t want fries or chips or God knows what else. Soup and sandwich is good. You’re full.
I had assumed this was going to be about Dudleytown. I had no idea Connecticut has TWO ghost towns.
It is not really a ghost town, but Connecticut do have a few places that was abandoned... Gay City (the founder was named Gay) and Dudleytown...
7 Ghost Towns...
Jerusalem is underwater... Johnsonville, Gay City and another that I can’t name were mill towns and Dudleytown is cursed...two others were Little Danbury (a beach community) and Cuties Island.
They are a cult. They do not believe in the Trinity, nor do they believe in the Deity of Christ.
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