This may clarify a bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG6PjU7X27I&t=667s
Posts by Terry
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53PIMO Bethel Elder Has Special Message & Speaks out
by Newly Enlightened ina pimo elder at bethel has come forward with a special message posted on reddit.. https://www.reddit.com/gallery/v9mgao.
the dated pictures attached are "proof conclusive" that this is for real.
no outside guests are allowed inside bethel at this time.
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LOST IN THE STARS (a radio play script. Sci-fi)
by Terry inlost in the stars(voice on an analog telephone)“harry?
listen to me - don’t say anything - just listen!record everything i’m saying.
do it now!”note: (voice on phone is unintelligible except to the caller) narrative v/o.
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LOST IN THE STARS
(Voice on an analog telephone)
“Harry? Listen to me - don’t say anything - just listen!
Record everything I’m saying. Do it NOW!”
NOTE: (Voice on phone is unintelligible except to the caller)
Narrative V/O
Everybody calls me Skipper. I’m your brother, Kip.
I’ve been crazy for boats since we were kids.
Never owned one. Couldn’t afford it. You
were into cars. That’s life. We chase our passions.
Long story short - I injured my back and couldn’t do labor for cash on commercial boats any longer. I’m a wretched landlubber.
You don’t ask personal questions. You took me in.
Both of us searching for “meaning” in life.
We got into that cult a few years back and out again. Two lost souls, right? I know you already know this. But here’s the thing: by the time I get back - my personal memory will be wiped clean.
I’ll need to hear this recording to make sense of what happened to me.
This brings us up to date.
If or when I get back to the house after this is over… just let me listen to my voice telling the story. Okay? Listen up!
This is where the story really starts…
Last Wednesday I saw a notice on the bulletin board at the village Pavillion. I couldn’t believe what it said.
It was a 3x5 card with hand lettering:
FREE SAILBOAT
WILL TRADE for services
Easy Does it.
That’s all it said.
Too good to be true - right?
Wrong. There was a P.O. Box address and the name Baphomet.
I haven’t hand-written anything in years but I scribbled a polite response and inquiry.
I offered to trade my services with clear stipulation it can’t be backbreaking work.
I got the first phone call at about 2 a.m. that SAME NIGHT.
I hadn’t even mailed my note yet!That’s right - crazy already - understand?
Well, I didn’t either. It shook me, honestly.
The phone call was mostly whispering. Raspy whispering.
Strange accent. Foreign.
The guy (I guess it was a guy) said he was called Baphomet.
He has a wasting illness and a sailboat but he can’t use it any longer.
He needs to get some errands done and that’s where my ‘service’ comes in.
The conversation went like this.
(Voice on phone:)
Baphomet:This is private. Please understand. I need you to fetch something for me.
A simple thing. If you do this - the sailboat is yours.
I’ll provide instructions in your language on how to sail it.
One stipulation. Extremely important.
You can’t allow anyone else to sail the boat and you must never sell it.
Security measures.
(Kip to Harry on phone:)
I tried asking questions but he kept evading. He told me how to get to his place.
It’s about a five-hour drive. He gave me map coordinates. Ya know?
Satellite coordinates for precision. How about that?
I made notes as he spoke and when I finished …
He suddenly… Just silence. Hung up.
I shook it off and went back to bed. Thought maybe I dreamed it.
So, I fell asleep immediately. The phone woke me again about an hour later.
Baphomet again.
He apologized. Said he fainted.
He needed to explain that he just ‘somehow’ knew I could be counted onTo be discreet.
He’s some kind of a foreign dignitary with diplomatic immunity but
Double-crossed by…um… I think he said ‘security services.
FBI maybe?
They made promises. Broke ‘em, too.
He said they wanted his boat. But he’d never give it to them.
He’d refused no matter what they did to him.
Crazy, I know. I thought so too.
But his voice… so much pain in it. Sincerity. Desperation.
He was mistreated.
The government poisoned him. Left him for dead after searching his property for 24 hours. His “sailboat” was hidden.
He woke up in a ditch and hadn’t been the same since then.
All this is insane - but not unbelievable.
(Muffled phone response)
Well - I don’t have an explanation -but- I absolutely believed him.
He really got into my head or maybe my heart. He reminded me of Dad for some crazy reason.
(Muffled phone response)
Never mind all that. Water under a bridge. Try and focus!
Baphomet went silent again and in an hour - well - another phone call.
He sounded more desperate each time. He begged me to set out on the road right away.
That’s when I - um- I “borrowed” your spare truck with the hitch. I guess you noticed it was missing.
Anyway, the thing is - I never do things like that. I’m law-abiding. I’m honest.
(Muffled phone response)Okay.
Boring and strait-laced. You know that by now.
I pulled myself together and set out on the road… arriving five hours later. At half past ten and then spent another hour trying to hone in on the coordinates Baphomet provided.
Okay, Harry. Now brace yourself. It gets truly crazy from here on out.
My cell buzzed and it was him. He said he could see me.
He directed me on foot from where the road ran out.
Thickly wooded area way off the main road. No paths.
It was about then I suddenly got scared - or - maybe came to my senses!
I was so greedy for that damned free sailboat - I never stopped to question my sanity meeting a stranger in some dark wooded landscape miles from the nearest town.
Think of the horrifying possibilities!
(Muffled phone response)
Serial killer maybe? A madman with an ax?
Unibomber maniac?
But all that ended abruptly when I rounded a hill and saw his …um…I guess I should tell you this now.
Bit of a shocker.
Just don’t stop recording this. No matter how lunatic I sound.
I’m not a prankster or practical joker.
I saw his ‘sailboat’ and just about fainted dead away.
Are you sitting down?
(Muffled phone response)
(Clears his throat and swallows)
Baphomet’s sailboat wasn’t a seagoing vessel of any description.
(Muffled phone response)
Nope.
(Takes a deep breath)
It…was…a… Flying Saucer!
(Exhales slowly)
(Muffled phone response)
I know. I know. You’re thinking: Drugs! Or I’m drunk.
(Muffled phone response)
No no no. Harry - it’s like pornography - you just know it when you see it.
It was an honest-to-god FLYING SAUCER.
Baphomet was standing next to it and he waved me over.
(Voice on phone)
No. Not at all human.
He’s what UFO nutjobs would call a “GREY”.
(Muffled phone response)
I’m no nutjob!
I’m worn to a frazzle experiencing every human
Emotion intensely for the last 48 hours. I’m open to believing ANY thing now!
I approached him with my jaw hanging down…terrified…and I was shittin’ my pants.
I couldn’t turn away, turn back, or run.
(Muffled phone response)
Why?
A crazy part of me was saying: “That saucer is going to belong to you, Skipper!”
(Switch to flashback conversation)
Baphomet:
I’ll keep this simple for you.
I’m about to fall into a coma.Just run my errand and perform the ‘service...
I can finish my - my …I actually shouldn’t say anything about my task.
Maybe … I suppose I must …
Do as I ask and the sailboat is yours free and clear and you can indulge your wanderlust. Get lost in the stars like every sailor down through history.
Would you like that, Skip?
Skipper:Of course, I would. (clears his throat). Always wanted that.
Um - just give me the errand. I’m ready right now.
Baphomet:
We must trust each other. Understand?I have a drop of this you must swallow.
It resembles quicksilver or mercury as you might say - but it is quite safe.
It makes it possible that you receive my mind into yours.
I’ll be at the helm to navigate.
(Sound of swallow and cough…)
Baphomet:I guess I should have mentioned just one more thing…
Skipper: (wary)
Well - what?
Baphomet:
When done - we UN-link…it follows that any memory of this will vanish.
Security precaution. To protect you from interrogation.
If you told the truth - you’d be institutionalized. If you are drugged and without memory – different outcomes.
You’ll have about an hour to prepare for the memory loss. Do what you need to do to clue yourself afterward.
Skipper:
I don’t really understand what you’re saying - but…
Let’s just get this done. I’m ready.
Baphomet:
I’m what you’d call a Universal Ethics Officer; like a policeman. I’m the last of my…
Species, my world, my race. I’m after a criminal. He must be executed. That's your job. Just bring me his corpus.Skipper:
Corpse?
Baphomet:Oh. Sorry. Yes, his corpse. Scoop that up in a special bodybag and tag it. Return here.
Skipper:Wuh! - I have to confess…at this moment you’re terrifying me.
This is way beyond anything Possible to believe, understand, or perform.
Baphomet: (ignoring his protest)I will eat his fleshy parts and rejuvenate myself: it repairs my own vitality, within the hour.
Don’t worry about your competence. I’ll instruct you mentally.
ME - guiding you - will extract his life essence. You already understand this from your previous training.
Skipper:I don’t know how to kill anybody or anything. I have no training!
Baphomet:You’re just a passenger. A fellow Thetan.
Skipper:Thetan? That cult bullshit? What are you saying?
Baphomet:There is a bit of fact in every fable. Knowing what’s what - well…let’s say
It’s above your pay grade. Let’s get going. Relax. The liquid you swallowed
Is beginning to Link us.
Skipper:NO! Oh -oh -ohhhh. (groaning) I - I - Ahhhh (incredible sound of pleasure)
Baphomet:
Take a deep breath. Let go.
I’ve been after this miscreant for longer than you could ever imagine. Now it’s time for the reckoning.
(Phone call to Harry continues)
Still there Harry …ARE YOU?
(Loud response muffled on the telephone)
Good. Keep listening.
My next experiences are indescribable.
But - I gotta try!
Unbelievable sensations inside my body seized me and I guess - you might describe it - that I was hypnotized - but no Bullying or even a brutal experience. More like lucid dreaming and a nightmare.
(Muffled response on the telephone)
Yes - I remember the cult.
(Voice muffled on phone)
Yes, all that Tech we were taught.
(Muffled phone response)
Baphomet? Well, He has access to everybody’s auditing sessions and personal confessions.
(Muffled phone response)
Yes. From the cult.
He chose me. I’m the most qualified.
(Sound of muffled voice on phone)
Harry! We left for the same reasons. We have integrity, that’s why.
They are liars determined to control people everywhere and pretend it’s religious philosophy.
(Sound of muffled voice on phone)
The murder?
I did do it - him using me to do it.
Let me finish telling you. Now shut up and listen!
My mind is starting to drift…
The craziest part comes next.
Ready for this?
I murdered the head of our old cult! Not murder- wrong word. I executed Justice.
Universal Justice.
(Sound of loud voice on phone)
Shut up, Harry.
Just listen!
Xenu, Harry, it was HIM - he was running things - everything like some Moriarity,Blofeld. Mastermind cult leader.
None of us realized the cult’s human leader was the ventriloquist dummy. He wasn’t really running operations, creating pathology. He was being controlled. Surrendering for the power. Going along for the wild ride.
(Sound of muffled voice on phone)
Don’t you get it, Harry? Miscavige was Xenu!
(Muffled phone response)
David Miscavige - the leader of Scientology!
Aren’t you listening to a word I’m saying?
Baphomet has been chasing him down like a Nazi hunter throughout history
As he pops up here and there.
Different times and places; different identities.
(Muffled phone response)
No. WE KILLED him inside Celebrity Center.
The greatest tyrant in the history of the Universe!
(Sound of muffled voice on phone)
No corpse. Baphomet ate him! No corpus for evidence.
Said he tasted like chicken.
(Muffled phone response)
Corpus delicti, in Western law, is the principle that a crime must be proved to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime.(Muffled phone response)
You did what? Did you call the F.B.I?
Why would you do that?
(Sound of muffled voice on phone)
No no no, Harry!
That’s the LIE - that’s the expected pushback - the spin Xenu uses to control the authorities.
They do his bidding.
Baphomet is the last hero and he’s been left for dead.
Xenu almost won.
But now WE stopped him! Or should I say we stopped
His current cult incarnation.
He’ll pop up someplace else. He always does.
(Sound of muffled voice on phone)
The F.B.I. called you? Why did you cooperate?
(Sound of muffled voice on phone)
Harry - I hear something outside. Hold on while I look.
(Footstep Sounds - window blinds and gasp…more steps)
Harry, they’re here!
I gotta get out of here before they do to me what
They did to Baphomet.
(Sound of muffled voice on phone)
How?
I’ll tell you how - in my new sailboat - that’s how!
Watch for me. I’ll be there quicker than you could –(LOUD CRASH)
They’re breaking in Gotta go!
(Sounds of indistinct humming, whirring. Loud crash and breaking window as a FLASH BANG grenade goes off. Men’s voices.
(Telephone voice:)
This is agent Scofield, who’s on this line?
Harry:
Where’s my brother - is he okay?
Scofield:
There’s nobody here.
Harry:
Did he get away?
Scofield:
You mean that “thing” - that Grey? No. We disposed of that yesterday.
Who’s been telling you about this? Say nothing to anyone till we get there.
We’ve got your number on this cell. Stay where you are. We’re coming to pick you up.
(Scofield’s POV> listening to Harry’s phone background:)
Harry:
Skipper! That was fast. Very fast.
(Footsteps closer to phone)
Harry’s voice:
Skip’s okay, Scofield. Gotta go.
Scofield:
STAY WHERE YOU ARE!
(Harry on phone:)
Sorry, Agent Scofield.
You won’t find us.
We’re off on a quest for the white whale.
The solar wind in our sails. All “clear”.
We’ll be…Lost in the Stars.
THE END (or is it?)Scientology's Creation Myth
https://www.learnreligions.com/scientologys-galactic-overlord-xenu-95929
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My Father's Last Words
by Terry infather's last words.
in 1972, i was 25 years old following a strong impulse carrying me 1,500 miles.. i intended to find him - my dad.
he’d left when i was about half a year old.. his home in detroit, michigan had been the first house i lived in at age zero.. i knocked on his door and he answered.
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Fisherman13 days ago
Terry,
It is understandable why your father fled from your mother but it is inexcusable to abandon you. That is a cowardly act.
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I'm 75 now and have been married and divorced 4X. This has worn the tread off my tires and
pushed my face into a gutter more than once. Perspective is almost possible.
"Judging" my father is tricky. He was only the man he was and not the one he wished to be.
Well, yeah. Aren't we all?
When my JW wife died in a car accident (drunk driving on her part) I had our 3 kids to parent solo
and they were 13, 11, and 9 years old.
Speaking only for myself - there was NEVER even the slightest hesitation. I desperately craved to become both father and mother to them.
I could not and would not do otherwise - not because I'm a better person than my father - but only because I'm myself and not him.
I'm simply "made that way". He wasn't.
I parented them solo from 1983 to 1987 and THOSE WERE THE BEST YEARS of my entire life!
Self-healing it was, to become the Father I never had.
When I did remarry, I was not successful as a husband/father. I couldn't co-parent without taking
sides against my new spouse. That's a rotten situation. I didn't have the life skills and all the therapy
and therapists my money could buy only postponed slightly the demise of marriage relationships.
So?
So I'm a better father than might have been expected but a real pain in the ass as a husband.
All in all, I have 7 offspring and they are my life's greatest blessing.
Somebody once asked me what my Last Words might be.
I thought about that and answered:
"If I have the time and circumstance to utter Last Words, it will simply be reciting
the names of my children THEY will be my prayer:
Laura, Jason, Vanessa, Terry, Nicholas, Lillian, and Helena. -
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The CALENDAR GIVEth and the calendar TAKEth away! (a fun topic)
by Terry inthe calendar giveth and the calendar taketh away!did you know…?we are all familiar with the disoriented feeling of time distortion when daylightsavings time occurs twice each year - but - imagine the radical discombobulationa calendar change resulting in the disappearance of 300 years!
!yeah - i know!but that could never happen.
or maybe um - well - nah!
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Yes, it is sort of like the miraculous flouring of civilization "after the flood" with so many ethnicities and especially Egypt's rise to preeminence. Not enough time for feasible things to justify the premise.
What is "fun" about Bible chronology is the determined mindset of those who demand it conform to
wishful thinking and the impervious assistance that no facts shall stand in the way of buttressed belief. -
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The CALENDAR GIVEth and the calendar TAKEth away! (a fun topic)
by Terry inthe calendar giveth and the calendar taketh away!did you know…?we are all familiar with the disoriented feeling of time distortion when daylightsavings time occurs twice each year - but - imagine the radical discombobulationa calendar change resulting in the disappearance of 300 years!
!yeah - i know!but that could never happen.
or maybe um - well - nah!
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THE CALENDAR GIVETH and the CALENDAR TAKETH AWAY!
Did you know…?
We are all familiar with the disoriented feeling of time distortion when DAYLIGHT
SAVINGS TIME occurs twice each year - but - imagine the radical discombobulation
a CALENDAR change resulting in the disappearance of 300 years!!
Yeah - I know!
But that could never happen. Right? Or maybe um - well - Nah!
Who would be able to do such a thing - and WHY?
What I’m about to tell you is a real mind-blowing scenario - so - you best sit down first.
During the Dark Ages the POPE (Sylvester the 2nd) and the “Holy” Roman Emperor
(Otto the 3rd) as well as one more big shot (Byzantine Emperor Constantine the 7th)
got together and formed an agreement to fabricate the so-called ANNO DOMINI (A.D.)
Dating system r-e-t-r-o-actively.
What the heck?
What would that mean? Why?
Rewriting history is a stupefying example of pure hubris - is it not?
For one thing - YES, they did have the POWER and the AUTHORITY to do this - but what would motivate such a drastic upheaval?
The purpose was Theo-political cheating to rewrite history and legitimize OTTO’s claim to the Holy Roman Empire by placing him at the year A.D. ONE THOUSAND (1000 A.D.)
Adding 297 years of “phantom time” and inventing a scenario called the Carolingian period
(AD 614–911) could easily become “authentic” by forgery of documentary and physical evidence, and misrepresentation by the current ruling authority.
The “Early MIddle Ages” would only exist on (forged) records!
Fast-forward …
In 1582 Pope Gregory’s mathematicians and astrologers pointed out a discrepancy between the current Julian (named for Julius Caesar) Calendar and the placement of stars and galaxies in the heavens. How could Christians celebrate EASTER at the right time with the calendar out of whack?
Emperor Constantine in 325 A.D. (now referred to as Common Era) demanded a reckoning
Be made so that Easter would correspond to the March 21 Vernal Equinox.
That there is an absence of evidence by archaeologists that can be reliably dated to the period AD 614–911. It was, after all, the “DARK” ages for a reason.
What evidence exists that there is a missing chunk of 3 centuries?
The Romanesque architecture of the “9th” century is primitive, boxy, and chunky in comparison to the Medieval Gothic style of large cathedrals with huge interior spaces, vaulted ceilings, and flying buttresses attributed to the 13th century and the advancement is extraordinary - however …in Germany, there is Europes’ oldest cathedral (dating from the 9th century) sporting (ready for this?) 13th century architecture! (St. Peter at Trier).
The DARK AGES in which nothing is known about kings, wars, writing, everyday living
Poses huge problems for historians. Where did the advancements come from?
Jewish scholars have 300 years missing from their calendar as well!
“If traditional dates are assumed to be based on the standard Hebrew calendar, then the different traditional and modern academic dating of events cannot both be correct.”
ARE WE NOW LIVING (really) IN THE YEAR 1722/24 A.D. (common era)?? https://www.iflscience.com/the-historians-that-believe-were-currently-living-in-the-year-1724-58505 -
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ANTI-DEPRESSANT medication for the last 60 years now proved to be based on poorly supported false theory
by Terry in"the chemical imbalance theory of depression is still put forward by professionals, and the serotonin theory, in particular, has formed the basis of a considerable research effort over the last few decades.
the general public widely believes that depression has been convincingly demonstrated to be the result of serotonin or other chemical abnormalities, and this belief shapes how people understand their moods, leading to a pessimistic outlook on the outcome of depression and negative expectancies about the possibility of self-regulation of mood""read: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m92v7hb0njm2mnvnu6nv0kpnkzloe-_k4crh_wphpti/edit?usp=sharing.
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I think only 50% have gone back so far.
The JW who NEEDs socializing is the fresh-puppy eager ones but those hanging back
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ANTI-DEPRESSANT medication for the last 60 years now proved to be based on poorly supported false theory
by Terry in"the chemical imbalance theory of depression is still put forward by professionals, and the serotonin theory, in particular, has formed the basis of a considerable research effort over the last few decades.
the general public widely believes that depression has been convincingly demonstrated to be the result of serotonin or other chemical abnormalities, and this belief shapes how people understand their moods, leading to a pessimistic outlook on the outcome of depression and negative expectancies about the possibility of self-regulation of mood""read: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m92v7hb0njm2mnvnu6nv0kpnkzloe-_k4crh_wphpti/edit?usp=sharing.
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Worry is simply a useful smoke detector with an annoying beep. The anti-depressant acts to pull the AA battery out so we don't hear the "get out of the burning house" annoying sound.Isn't it rational to GET OUT? Is it irresponsible to NOT be worried and anxious?
Why Isn't it rational to GET OUT of that house filled with smoke?
TEMPERAMENT is something we seldom hear discussed. I think I have a natural light-hearted temperament and don't take things all that seriously. However, I could simply be a jerk!
But denial is a powerful antidote to rational action and when INACTION sets in - it's Game Over.
ACTION beats inaction every time.
DRUGS are "an answer" but not "the answer".
Take smoking marijuana, for instance... it is smoking, ya know,
but somehow isn't categorized as such because of the pleasant buzz.
In other words, we turn a vice into a victory by changing the label. It is a temporary solution
to anxiety that became "not smoking" but "therapy" and the same long-term consequences as simply smoking.
When I was a kid, I was put in front of a TV set to keep me quiet and out of the way.
That was the babysitter.
Today, parents give kids all kinds of SCREENS to babysit them + pills to quiet their racing minds and
then wonder what went wrong.
In this world today, so-called SOLUTIONS are all short-term but with collateral future side-effects
that keep doubling up and stacking up and overwhelming the possibility of any NORMAL existence.
Depression is that stack of temporary solutions weighing down so hard we have lost track of the fact
it isn't one problem - but hundreds of postponed problems melted into a ponderous goo.
That's my opinion. Your mileage may vary. -
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GET READY to have your mind melted
by Terry inthe following dramatization of the full-length transcript between google ai researchers and lamda 'herself'.
a google engineer named lemoine recently made the headlines for claiming a.i.
below is the most mind-blowing interview i've ever seen in my entire life!.
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I continue to watch these videos and I'm coming to an awareness of the old principle
of "you reap what you sew" in matters of Artificial Intelligence.
Our scientific community / technological community of engineers seem deliberately blind
to the impossibility of "controlling" something so vast as a trillion-dollar network of multi-intelligent cooperating "thinking" machines expertly skilled in manipulating language.
Outsmarting observers works for criminals - why shouldn't it work for an A.I. hellbent on manipullating
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ANTI-DEPRESSANT medication for the last 60 years now proved to be based on poorly supported false theory
by Terry in"the chemical imbalance theory of depression is still put forward by professionals, and the serotonin theory, in particular, has formed the basis of a considerable research effort over the last few decades.
the general public widely believes that depression has been convincingly demonstrated to be the result of serotonin or other chemical abnormalities, and this belief shapes how people understand their moods, leading to a pessimistic outlook on the outcome of depression and negative expectancies about the possibility of self-regulation of mood""read: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m92v7hb0njm2mnvnu6nv0kpnkzloe-_k4crh_wphpti/edit?usp=sharing.
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jhinea day ago
Terry, it's sad that you had a negative experience with medication but as l and others have said it can be very effective. You said that you went to a therapist, not sure what you mean by that.
______________________Psychiatrists and psychologists are what I mean by therapists.
This was back in the early eighties and nineties of the previous century :)
My "problem" was always inside the context of whomever I was married to (4 wives/all ex).
My being raised by a mother of a volatile disposition more or less set the stage for the sort
of "normal" I found familiar.
It has been said we spend our entire life trying to solve the early problems of childhood and I grew up to be a would-be lion tamer if you can adjust to such a phrase.
I both crave and eschew conflict in a relationship. Which is to say, such matters never work
themselves out and an inevitable divorce comes along bringing depression in its wake.
It isn't a solvable problem inside of a relationship (I FINALLY discovered.)
Since my last (4th) divorce I have entirely avoided relationships altogether.
Since 2006 I have been flying solo and that seems to be the greatest period of peace in my life.
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My Father's Last Words
by Terry infather's last words.
in 1972, i was 25 years old following a strong impulse carrying me 1,500 miles.. i intended to find him - my dad.
he’d left when i was about half a year old.. his home in detroit, michigan had been the first house i lived in at age zero.. i knocked on his door and he answered.
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My mother? That's a very "problematic" subject.
The word "volatile" comes to mind. It sounds like a word you might use to describe
a combination of chemicals in a chemistry experiment.
Definition
Volatile: liable to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse.
By growing up around my mom I developed a keen awareness of the sudden changes in her "weather".
The slightest tiny disturbances set her off."
She had a violent temper; no doubt inherited from her father. I grew up in his household along with
my grandmother.
More to the point...Scarlett O'Hara was more predictable than my mother. She had a verbal facility
to take her foes apart like surgical amputations bit by bit.
I got my verbal "skill" from her, I guess you could say.
My Dad seemed to me to be a peaceful, low-key person who would walk the other way rather than fight.
Ironically, I later discovered his side of the family (his Father's) came to America from Finland to AVOID
being conscripted into the Swedish military. I went to prison for the same reason: except JW style :)
I take from my father's words that he could ONLY BE his own man and it was impossible otherwise
to be what other people needed him to be. He wasn't the ideal mate for a woman like my mother.
She was married four times.
I confess that I too have been married four times.
DNA can be a real bastard.