Posts by freeflyingfaerie

The law would be that each mother and father must be loving toward their children. No abuse of any kind. Absolutely no physical harm allowed. No demeaning remarks, name-calling, yelling. No neglect either.

If a generation of children was raised on love, acceptance, kindness....wouldn't this change things drastically?

When someone harms themselves or another, or simply feels overcome by sadness or anger....and the person gets professional help, counseling...what does the psychologist began asking about? Childhood, at some point? That's where it all began.

Earth is a planet of bleeding hearts, it seems sometimes.

What if the babies were shown tenderness and told they were beautiful and capable? These babies would grow up loving themselves and feeling beautiful and spreading that to others...and there would be healing.

Idealist, yes. Dreamer, yes. So it is...

ps~ And there would be no need to make up stories about some big daddy in the sky that punishes and/or kills us, or watch while the innocent are tormented. Stories of a reflection of mankind's own atrocities. Stories born of the pains in man's minds.

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Do you know anyone who looks like a celebrity?

by coffee_black in

share yours!.

my cousin's daughter looks so much like adele that it's scary.

when i saw adele's picture on the cover of rolling stone, i thought...what the heck is shawnay doing on the cover of rolling stone?.

freeflyingfaerie

I work with a young, hispanic version of Meryl Streep.

It's amazing... and I always expect her to be an excellent actress because of it

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My Mother Passed

by Roberta804 in

thank you for all of your support durning the two difficult weeks my mother was on her death bed.

last night at 10:30pm she breath her last with my sister and i by her side.

this is a real end of an era for me as i have known little these past 8 years other than taking care of my parents.

freeflyingfaerie

A warm hug to you...I hope you can feel it..~

~Faerie

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.....It is painful to watch...

by OnTheWayOut in

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freeflyingfaerie

Life is strange, isn't it? Sorry you are in such a harsh season of your life. It sounds like you are doing the best you can in your power. Remember to take a little time for yourself, to rejuvenate...breathe...

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How do apocolytpic cults start?

by EntirelyPossible in

i was doing some reading on jonestown recently, which led me to some reading on the branch davidians and the heaven's gate folks.. it seems to me (and this is the part i want to discuss) doomsday or apocolyptic cults all share some common characteristics:.

- secret knowledge of am impending disaster.

- their survival if they follow the messages from a higher source that their leader receives.

freeflyingfaerie

That is a good question.

At it's most basic, it would seem supply and demand. There is a market for people to feel a sense of belonging and find answers from someone/something that they percieve to be larger than themselves (also the desire to feel special), especially if approached at a particularly vulnerable time. Couple this with the ego-driven dilusional characters that desire to control others and have them be dependant upon them. And then the two feed off of each other and it snowballs?...

Also cults could act like an adoptive family, satisfying (in a highly-dysfunctional and abusive way) the need for 'devotion' and a way to 'make sense' of the the world, among other things...

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What's the funniest/strangest name you ever gave a pet?

by JH in

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i was given a cat whose name was "piti".

i found it strange, but i kept it.

freeflyingfaerie

Dogs named~

Uno, she was the sweetest dog ever to walk on four legs

Sassafras

Snowgood

...Myrtle the Turtle, who we found out in field service one fine day, somehow caught up with, and brought home

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40 Furry, Tiny, Sweet and Adorable Baby Animals. Guaranteed to brighten your day!

by ohiocowboy in

if you are looking for a cuteness overload, here's a link to 40 pictures of baby animals.

enjoy!!!.

http://www.flabber.nl/linkdump/plaatjes/daily-cute-40-absurd-schattige-babydiertjes-13870.

freeflyingfaerie

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Are you now ashamed of how gullible you were as a JW?

by biometrics in

now that you realise how idiotic some of the jw beliefs are/were, do you feel ashamed of how gullible you were to believe them?.

if anything my past as an adult jw makes me understand how easily manipulated people are by the people and environment around them.

and that even intelligent people can be influenced beyond what is rational..

freeflyingfaerie

No~ I completely agree with your second paragraph, and feel that I'm in good company with many that have left....including those that have left other cults

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Musings on today's dishonest text.

by Slidin Fast in

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freeflyingfaerie

'Carefully examining the scriptures' is not equivalent to being spoon-fed....sorry Charlie

And what would a good daily text be without a heaping helping of guilt...thanks for trying to make people feel unappreciative of the spiritual 'mush' if they don't acknowledge the hard labor and long hours of sacrifice the elders give in preparing this goo (no offense to the sincere elders, it's not their fault they are equiped with poison disguised as milk and honey)