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    Too much alike

    in About The Way

    Posted

    If you see a 55 year old woman riding down the highway listening to the Allman Brothers, Doobie Brothers, Leonard Skyrnard, Clapton, or various other 70s hard rock musicians, it's probably me--and with the sound not booming but not soft--that's probably me.

    I just gravitate toward certain things that I used to like. And, I find that it is very calming for me to do things that way.

    There's been no formula that I can think of and if there had been I'd try to break it.

    I'm not saying if you were on drugs to go back and start taking them, but just giving yourself a break to like what you like without analyzing why, what, or how.

    Just let 'er rip and see where you end up sometime...

    It might not be so bad to cut loose. I always say now if I like it it has to be good whatever it is. I'm a decent, loving, imperfect person who trusts my own instincts to do the right things and amazingly that's working for me a lot better than asking other people's opinions. It feels good.

    Hope you enjoy learning about yourself as much as I did. Oh, I'm now back in touch with one of my best friends who told me off one day on campus our senior year as I mouthed some wayism to her. Thank goodness she was smart enough to tell me to stick it in so many words and not waste a huge chunk of her life by getting involved. Funny thing, we're having just as much fun talking now as ever even though 33 years have passed. Go figure:-)

    "Losing the Way" by Kristen Skedgell

    in About The Way

    Posted

    I loved Kristen's writing style. I felt as if I were with her through all of her tragedies. She wrote just like most of us were trained to think. I loved/hated those parts because I relived a major part of my life through her writing. " The assurance I seek is in the Word. I try to feel it. I try to grasp the meaning until my mind aches.", pg 109. How many of us have done that? Trying so hard to make things make sense, but of course, don't rely on our 5 senses. blah blah blah....

    Exactly!

    Still in TWI

    in About The Way

    Posted

    Good Day all!

    It perplexes me as well why people would choose to stay with this group, so, I intend to find out. I suspect the reasons are much the same for Mormons. For Mormons, they seem to stay for the close knit community and family relationships. I know that's what I found appealing about the Latter Day Saints. I was a misfit everywhere I went, but this group was willing to accept me just the way I was--society's unwanted. Granted, I have strong theological convictions that prevented me from going any further, but it would be easy to fall into the arms of Latter Day Saint love and forsake convictions. These groups prey on those who find themselves on the fringes emotionally. It's easy to turn a blind eye when all you want is to be loved and accepted. Acceptance is a need we all have, and it runs to the core of who we are. All our problems can be traced back to Acceptance in one form or another if the problem is followed to it's root. Ask a psychologist.

    Any psychologists available to expound on the topic?

    Hummm, acceptance?

    Good point, ihrleben. Welcome to the cafe, btw.

    But, you're only accepted in these groups if you conform. Maybe the acceptance piece is why we were willing to conform to at least part of what they wanted to mold us into.

    Still in TWI

    in About The Way

    Posted

    If WAYGB is monitoring the site, I wish I can flick the birdie at them.

    Going back to the topic, if the person is still in TWI, that's his/her prerrogative and their lives. They are adults and mature enough to make their own decisions just like we made our decision not to be in TWI.

    BTW, to the TWI security who's reading this: "F-U and F your organization."

    Adults, mature enough, and make their own decisions is debatable.

    As for the rest--you go girl!!!!!

    Why did vp commit suicide?

    in About The Way

    Posted

    Thanks for all of the superb comments. For those I could follow, and for those I couldn't. LOL!

    Here's how I came up with my "conclusion:"

    Vic taught "you die when you stop believing"

    +Vic chose not to believe to be healed (gave up) because the bot shut him out

    Vic committed suicide

    At the time, it seemed like simple math to me...

    standing in the gap

    in About The Way

    Posted

    rascal, I hear what you are saying.

    For me, my time in twi was so disconnected from JC that I don't associate him in any way shape or form with the way.

    So, thankfully, that works in my favor and I do feel close to him with no residue, so to speak, or taint from twi or the offshoots.

    standing in the gap

    in About The Way

    Posted

    "Standi(ing) in the gap" is taken from Ezekiel:

    Ezekiel 22:30; I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so that I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.

    Thanks for posting the verse, Socks. Yes, prayer for the believers putting a hedge of protection around them so the adversary can't get in to harm them.

    Perty sure that's JC's job as stated by several astute posters.

    You really caught my eye

    in About The Way

    Posted

    Linda, he looked pretty bad that day, didn't he?

    I couldn't remember--did he still have the eye patch on that afternoon?

    I remember they got us all up in the middle of the night "to pray" after he died in '85. We all gathered in the Ambassador Room. That was different.

    WB, that's good to know. However, this is after the event. Do you know if he asked for prayer for healing, BEFORE the operation to remove the eye?

    Don't remember that he did.

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