Rocky

For our good friend Bolshevik: Whoever has ears, let them hear. Matthew 11:15

Apropos of not necessarily anything, I recently heard we are not what we eat, but who we MEET.

Anthropomorphism, clearly. Is it a tool or is it a sentient being? Who says "these strangers" are speaking on your behalf? Should have been discarded long ago? Sounds authoritarian, according to whose standard or which standard? Were you happier during the interlude during which you hadn't posted here?

It appears nobody had a backup for the last few days' posts.

LOL!

If only Loy would have had the light come on to recognize ranting at full volume is also NOT one of those requirements. That goes for me, too.

We humans are social beings. We can recognize healing more expeditiously in a social context. Notably realizing THE three basic requirements of "good relationships." And obviously, Mark and Avoid is NOT among those requirements.

I get paid later this week. I'll contribute.

I get paid later this week.

It means do as you're told by the minions of the MOG. One of the prime directives is to sell classes, er... operate the ministry of reconciliation. A fundamental principle is what The Wierwille Interpretation told you was "getting your foot off the firehose." Otherwise known as Malachi 3:10.

Yes, it makes sense to me. I think you may have found the essence of cultism as we knew it in The Wierwille Interpretation.

We can only recognize and realize our mistakes and less than optimal life choices when looking in the rear view mirror. That's why it's so incredibly important to be kind to ourselves, learn and develop habits for forgiving ourselves (and others).

Indeed, this is the apparent salient point of the so-called strategic plan. Perhaps regardless of all the first-hand posts challenging the wrong doctrine/dogma and practice of The Wierwille Interpretation of the way life is supposed to be, (TWI) what's really confronting the cult is its effort to work around the ramifications of its own choices.

I realize that... I was playing on the word "cheater."

Are you sure it's not the "cheat-ah" which has not change its spots?

aka GASLIGHTING.

That was my thought too. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm confident they'd run afoul of laws of Ohio, Colorado and/or the US if they were to hastily try to do any of that.

That we know of...

Wasn't it literal translation according to usage? Isn't that brain wash for "it means whatever Victor W wanted it to mean?"

parochial [ puh-roh-kee-uhl ] adjective of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain. of or relating to parochial schools or the education they provide. very limited or narrow in scope or outlook; provincial: parochial views; a parochial mentality. 60 years ago or so, I attended a couple of parochial schools. In my home town (same town in which George Eastman made his fortune and disrupted how people VIEW the world around them), parochial schools were Catholic schools. Susan B Anthony settled in the same town and disrupted societal order by leading the WAY to women's suffrage. Clearly, TWI (the cult/religion started by Victor Wierwille) demonstrates still a very limited or narrow outlook, in fact an apparently narcissistic outlook on the Bible and their relation to it. GSC, OTOH, broadens the Wierwille-ite perspective. And I'm very thankful for the people who have shined light on the path out of said narrow and narcissistic outlook on the Bible. Selah.

Every one of the comments posted today has poignant and salient insight. EVERY one of them. It warms my heart to have read each of them. The only thing I could possible think to add to this chorus of rejoicing is how thankful I am and obviously all of us are to have been delivered from that cesspool of wrong doctrine (dogma) and faulty practice. Thank you to Chockfull, red rock and blues, cman, Old Skool, and Twinky... and any others who may add to the rejoicing. We ARE greater than the sum of our parts.

Important insight. Thank you.

Food for thought. I'm confident nobody is immune to this kind of thing.

The only part I have a hard time with is when ONE person wants to be referred to as more than one person. I suppose, just like everything else about this subject, it will be normalized eventually, but it still doesn't make sense to me at this time. Case in point, Ken Jennings accommodatingly but still awkwardly referring to Mattea Roach as THEY sets off cognitive dissonance in my head.

Good point.