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Psychology is making progress, but it's also to blame (along with psychiatry) for the dark past of the mental health industry. The field still hasn't completely emerged from the shadows:
Yes mam! Toro no longer posts in Singles, unfortunately. There was once an epic battle between him and the mods - an attempted mutiny to take over the forum. But sadly he was defeated, and banished forever. Many years have passed, since. Yet, his ghost still roams this forum, giving ratings to posts and attempting to continue matching as he pleases.He's a ghost?I got those ratings too haha.
It is just that, I will no longer have the great benefit of this very personal, physical guidance from Him. I imagine this is similar to some people in the Old and New Testament who were children of God through Christ, but, the Spirit still left them at some point in such a way that they no longer have certain benefits of His power. I guess maybe it is simply time that the Lord decided I can go on from here on my own without needing my hand physically held. Just my thought. It is a great loss I have felt tonight, but, as I said before, when this strange gift first came upon me (and I assure you that I always tested the spirit I felt upon me by the standards of 1 John 4:1-3), I remember asking Him if His Spirit would eventually revoke this benefit whenever He felt it was right to do so, and it was affirmed that indeed, it would not always be like this. This ... good. But, so as I fear not death or destruction in hell because of His great love (one of my favorite verses in Lamentations 3:22-23, after all ), I suppose I will have to learn to make it somehow in life from here without that particular, physical guidance in which I perhaps lived more by sight than faith, and it is time to go back to doing to doing the opposite. It may be tough for a while to get used again to the way things were before that fateful night six Augusts ago when I first felt that rush of the Spirit's power in my fervent prayer to be shown was right or wrong in a particular struggle with questions that I was experiencing at the moment, but so long as the blood of Jesus Himself still covers me, I can make it. It has been a good past five-and-a-half years with this gift. That's truly what we need to ultimately succeed in life and have the hope of immortality beyond, fellow believers and unbelievers who just may not realize they need Him yet. The blood that forgives all and welcomes back to Himself forever. I will never again doubt and begin to believe such a heinous thing as His blood not being good enugh on its own to make all things right.
When I address awesome ladies, even in an anachronistic way, I put my own personal flair into it.*employs the Cinema Snob's voice again for this playful rebuke*
Ach ... Anthony, Anthony .... Look, if you are going to go for the outdated, anachronistic way of polite address towards womankind as I do, you are going to have to at least get the spelling right.
It's spelled M-A-'-A-M, thank you very much.
You have much to learn before rolling like Sarah's Knight does, sir.
Awesome ladies?When I address awesome ladies, even in an anachronistic way, I put my own personal flair into it.
Well, you're an awesome guy! 
Aww, why thank you!Awesome ladies?
There are many awesome guys and ladies on CF.
That's cold!
It's been around 20'F here, but that's still warmer than -20'C (which equals -4'F).
That's quite warm! But it's summer right now where you live, isn't it?And a lot colder than the predicted temperature here tomorrow, which is 30°C (86°F).
Yikes, that's cold!
The coldest temperature I remember seeing here was -16'F (about -26'C).
