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HelloForealzchola, you were right to get away from this guy. I worked with street drinkers for some years and they are manipulative predators. Predators can change like, 'quick silver,' depending on who they are with and what they want from them. Many of these guys are experts at playing...

I spent twenty years in the charismatic church and found that as the years went by, they became more domineering, manipulative and controlling. Every so called move of the spirit, just brought more of the same and increased the feelings of unworthiness in the congregation. The leadership lived...

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Totally agree, sadly I have seen so many gifted women speakers and teachers within the church, side lined to doing the, 'singles group', the, 'women's prayer breakfast,' or the visiting of people in the parish and dealing with students. I spent twenty years in a charismatic church, with female...

Thank you for your post Wolftone, at the moment in the United Kingdom, there is a campaign underway about Internet inappropriate contentorgaphy. However, governmnets tend not to censure, but to licence, because there is money to be made from licencing such providers of inappropriate content. In the UK an 'adult shop,' will...

Precariat - this is my class and I am proud to be something which I do not understand the meaning of, because I had a Comprehensive School education, CSE's.

Hi fearlessfortoday, thank you for having the courage to post. I still suffer with OCD, though not as bad as it was when I was a young man. One thing I learned, was that I can so easily engage in, 'magical thinking,' were I think something and then fear that it will happen. Often I get stuck...

Not read it yet, may do, but I jumped ship some eight years ago from an abusive charismatic church that I had foolishly been involved with for twenty years. Though I am still a believer in Jesus, I have vowed, to never again have anything to do with the charismatic christian church. At the...

I never wear a cross, because it is an instrument of execution and for me personally it feels wrong to wear something like that, even though I am a christian.

Thank you your post Francis Drake, you are very correct in what you say, as I know from experience, having worked for churches and been in the congregation. May God bless you in Jesus name.

I use a book called, 'Instant Analysis by David J. Lieberman,' it is about the 100 most common and puzzling behaviors. I dip into it when I need to and have found it useful, as my upbringing did not really prepare me to deal with life. Another book that I use is called, 'Addictive Thinking by...

I always think of those songs by John Denver and Glen Campbell, they were the first music that I became aware of as a child. Blessings.

Promiscuous sex is an addiction, when two couples have sex, the mind shuts down and the act of procreation takes over, creating a total focus upon the act. Which eventually leads to a chemical high in the brain, that is both addictive and temporary. Those who chase after this high, are sadly...

Hi Gusord, I can relate to your post, because I was for a time one of those who dominated meetings. Honestly somebody could barely speak before I cut them off to sum up what they were going to say, even though they had not really spoken out that much. I got free of that in the end, after...

For far too many years I was in a church that actively promoted the spiritual gifts and the, 'Toronto Blessing.' Eventually I left that church, exhausted and tired, with a near mental collapse. For two years after I left I could not get my head back on straight and felt very confused in my...

That is standard BBC media method, the journalists are taught to be logical, to present the positive, then the negative and then to sum up with a sort of legalistic dryness. As if there is some standard for everything that cannot quite be defined but that everybody knows about, when they hear it.