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Hi,
My name is Tim, and want to tell you about my story, because I feel I’m in a time of need right now. I have read the posting rules and am doing my best to do this properly, and I feel that I will still probably screw up (I’ll miss something small). And right now, I really don’t care that much, because I want to be amongst Christians that can just listen for a while. If this is inappropriate, then please delete it.
I *cannot believe* what’s happened to us as a nation. I only discovered something called the UCC only 12 days ago, and since then have been reading non-stop on everything I can get my hands on about it and everything related. I’ve read so much already and still have much more to go.
I was raised in a household where my father is a Christian and my mother is not, but she acknowledges that the soul exists. My father exerted more influence over us kids than Ma did, and I was not raised as a Christian, but rather became a socialist/atheist as I was growing up. I didn’t know any better. For the longest time I even fought with Christians I met on the street about their beliefs and I actually found them rather easy to defeat. A sad statement, I feel.
I came to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ when I was 26, after completing a 5-year Bible-study program by myself. I actually came to know Him within the first year of my study, but I still felt I should complete the study. And I did on the day before my 30th birthday.
I was a graduate student who currently has $250,000 in student loan debt, and no possible way of paying it off. I only just found out about the UCC and have been reading about it for the past 12 days. I feel even worse because the very first payments of my loan are due to start at the end of this month and I only just found out about all this.
I got this debt actually because my school was defrauding the US government on their loan rules, by getting more students in than they were allowed, taking their money, then manufacturing ways to get kick them out of the program, in order to maintain their accreditation. There’s a link to the actual suit itself and then a news story about it:
http://www.gibsondunn.com/publications/Documents/EDMC-Complaint.pdf – the actual suit
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/education/09forprofit.html?_r=0 – news story about it
I’ve read all about the history of the UCC and the bankruptcy of America; the logic of the Straw man and why it’s so important, already. I don’t have any tactical information as to how to actually proceed. I don’t want any money or anything like that, I just want relief from this stuff and never to re-enter such a poisonous system ever again.
I actually left the United States to get away from my debt because I didn’t see any mathematical way out of it after calculating how much I was likely to earn each year, after taxes and the cost of living. And I’d be drowned and enslaved. I miss my family and I haven’t seen or even talked with them for over a year, because I’ve been too scared to contact home.
I also started traveling for another reason. In my heart I know I’m wicked. I don’t have any excuse for that, and even though I have been saved by His precious blood, I have sin in my life… and.. I decided to start traveling because I wanted to know… that I trust the Lord Christ like I *say* I do. I had to know that I trusted Him. And I’m pleased to say I do. He’s protected me and watched after me. And ain’t that mighty fine.
I have a few interesting points to my current status, insofar that I:
1) Have never held a “proper” job and therefore have never filed a single IRS form.
2) Have not yet made a single payment on my student loans.
3) Am running out of money so I have to get my very first job soon.
4) I’ve always wanted to write. And I’ve got about 17-22 books lined up in my head and dutifully outlined already. But I haven’t even put down one word yet, because I’ve been so uncertain about all these things.
There’s always more to tell and I’ve typed quite a lot already. I just wanted to let you know I existed. And to say hi. Imagine my surprise to learn just two weeks ago… that I’m a slave. I had no idea.
Tim
Kokeshi,
Thanks for sharing your story. The student loan trap you got yourself into is extensively talked about in the following dialog:
http://youtu.be/swNCLs0pzvgWhen we were faced with trying to go to college, we elected NOT to go into debt to do it. We’re sorry you find yourself in that situation and it will be difficult to get out of.
"Two things I request of You (Deprive me not before I die): Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches— Feed me with the food allotted to me; Lest I be full and deny You, And say, “Who is the Lord?” Or lest I be poor and steal, And profane the name of my God."
[Prov. 30:7-9, Bible, NKJV]
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