Posts by Mommie Dark

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

by Wounded Heart in

used to be called multiple personality disorder (mpd).. i have it.

i was physically, emotionally, sexually abused.

the tramas in my life were so great that i split into many.

Mommie Dark

Please please, any of you who feel you need help in coping with abuse issues, IGNORE THIS POOLE PERSON!

Look at this stupidity, this abject idiocy he spouts! "The medical community, with their restrictive belaboring clinical diagnostic approach, often jump-start without the proper spiritual tools of Christianity. This is when the demons can play around with all involved; also, there is alway the Hollywood concept to fuzz things up as well. The traditional stone-age fix is to dope the oppressed and add a bit of group dynamics and encouragment."

Don't let anyone tell you that Gawd will fix you if you just believe! It's self-evident that most people who are sick and suffering as a result of genuine trauma do NOT get miraculous healing, no matter how earnestly they pray and believe in God. Insisting that religiobabble can solve this problem is the same as insising that prayer can heal physical disease, which, as we know, is bullshit charlatanry and showbiz grandstanding, demonstrated so ably by Oral Roberts and Benny Hinn et al. Praying over a mentally distressed soul is NOT going to effect some miraculous cure. IT ISN'T DEEMINZ! PLEASE DON'T LET ANYONE TRY TO CONVINCE YOU OF THIS HEINOUS SUPERSTITIOUS CLAPTRAP!

Pray if you like, if it comforts and assuages you, but DO NOT let this cretin or any other bigot like him tell you that medical science is inferior to his brand of Churchianity and its Holy Spirit ravings!

And please, don't tell me to be 'nicer' to this creep, guys. He has no right to try to shove his archaic superstitions at people who need help for a real problem.

Medication, therapy, and hard work using the tools you learn from a competent counselor, are the things that work best to bring peace and wholeness to the shattered mind and soul. As in all things, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Your sickness has a real cause, it isn't demons hassling you, and you can't expect some Holy Spirit Miracle to take it away in a flash 'becaw-us Ah be-lee-uv!' What you can expect is that with medication, determination, group dynamics, and lots of loving encouragement, you CAN find peace and joy in life. If prayer is a comfort and joy to you, if your version of God is necessary to your present wholeness, then by all means, embrace that. But don't let this sort of fearmongering Biblethumper convince you that Gawd is offering a quick fix if you will only let them rant prayers over you and if you will follow the Bible exactly as they instruct you! If there is a sane God, which I seriously doubt, then he isn't giving it away for free, guys. To pretend otherwise is just foolish wishful thinking. Don't let a Christian fool convince you to join him in his delusions.

political movement, cult, or wave of the future?

by Mommie Dark in

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http://welcomehome.org/rainbow.html.

i've known some of these folks for nearly thirty years; they do have some of the hallmarks of a cult, but the control is exerted exclusively through peer pressure, and they make almost a fetish of not having 'leaders'.... neotribalism is alive and well...

Mommie Dark

! http://welcomehome.org/rainbow.html

I've known some of these folks for nearly thirty years; they do have some of the hallmarks of a cult, but the control is exerted exclusively through peer pressure, and they make almost a fetish of NOT having 'leaders'...

Neotribalism is alive and well...

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POLL: Occupations

by Angst in

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as a witness what occupation did/do you hold?.

i was speaking with a friend of mine that is a former witness and we remarked about how many of us have worked in some sort of janitorial work.

Mommie Dark

Jobs, jobs, jobs... I've been a poster-and-incense packer in a hippiedippie warehouse factory, worked on a plastics manufacturing assembly line, spent several years as a nursing assistant: these were in my early years when I was also caring for grade-school-age sibs. I was a nanny for a couple years before I had my kids. After my babies got school age, and I was back in the cult, I worked in various janitorial jobs in private homes and offices(most of the pioneers I knew in OH and TX worked some sort of cleaning jobs). After deculting I did some contract paperwork for FmHA, processing interest credit renewals on gov't mortgages. My last employment was as receptionist/office manager/nanny to a chiropractor.

Presently I am a stay-at-home mom, domestic goddess, iconoclast, and, if I ever break this smegging writer's block, I hope to serve as amanuensis to the zeitgeist. Right now I couldn't transcribe a Muse's sneeze...ah well...at least the domestic goddess schtick is going well...

As always,
Mommie D.

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attention skywatchers

by Mommie Dark in

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!

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Mommie Dark

! http://www.spaceweather.com/

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anyone else ever feel like this??

by lydia in

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i've been mulling over this and i'm finding that its common with several of my extended family who were raised in the org.

- seems that the feeling of never doing enough for the org.

( to obtain a place in the "new system" ) has spilled over into other areas of our lives.

Mommie Dark

I've noticed that those who believed most sincerely are the ones who internalized all the guilt trips the most. Folks who were indoctrinated from childhood often had those feelings of unworthiness instilled deep into their hearts. The Society encourages that.

I recall a JW missionary saying during a Bible study, "We're all just human garbage and isn't Jehovah good to tolerate us anyway?" And we all nodded and said 'oh yes thank you Jehovah' like a bunch of brainless puppets.

I know that I personally had all ambition and self-esteem knocked out of me by the time I was ten years old. I still struggle with the need to delete delete delete myself and my secret desires; this hideous 'gift' was given to me in the name of love by people who claimed to want the best for me.

Of course all that guilt was ladled right into my heart with the Scriptural spoon, so if there is blame to be assigned, Biblegawd gets his share as well as the WT.

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Christians and dubs/treated same here

by gumby in

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hey guys.

i got an idea as to why there is the same bitterness by many/not all, on this board twards christians like there is to dubs.

you feel you have found it to be a crock just as the borg is and it makes you madder than crap to see people duped a second time.

Mommie Dark

Sieg's wife said, "If at one time some of the people who are presently atheists believed in God and His salvation for those of their faith, and now, because of the bOrg, don't believe in God at all, that is going in an extreme direction"

I wonder why people make this fundamental logical error ALL THE TIME? I certainly did not lose my religious jones 'because of the Borg'. I lost the desire or need for an imaginary Skydaddy after careful and lengthy research and study. I discovered that all religion is merely rank superstition based on a childish fear of living without some Eternal Parent to make sense of the randomness of life.

I realize that Christians and other religion addicts are too scared to consider a life without their crutch, but frankly I really get peeved at Christers who insist there is something wrong with me because I no longer subscribe to their favorite fantasy.

I consider my defection from religious idiocy to be a move toward sanity and decency. I resent being told I have made some kneejerk extreme reaction in a backlash against Borg teaching; nothing could be further from the truth. It took ten years of careful research and study to draw my conclusions, and there is nothing 'extreme' about them. I jettisoned that which I found useless and without factual foundation; God was the last bit of pointless cargo jettisoned, and oh! the relief at not having to carry around that useless old sod anymore!

I believed in Gawd and religious salvation packages because I was misled. Once I got accurate information, I was able to see the stupidity of the whole sin/salvation guilt trip, and began to build a better saner value system based on common sense and essential humanity.

When Christers learn that their right to their fantasy ends at the tip of their own nose, I will be happy to leave them to their fantasy. If they try to shove Jesus up my nose, they must be prepared for the appropriate reaction. I don't want or need their opiate in any form.

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New Book from Greg Stafford Oct.1, 2001

by stevieb1 in

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isbn: 0-9659814-2-8. release/shipping date: october 1, 2001. pages: 160, paperback.

table of contents.

first dissertation - prophets and prophecy.

Mommie Dark

Well I won't be buying this book; toilet paper is still readily available and it's way cheaper and more absorbent than book pages. If I need toilet reading material, I currently have a Clive Barker novel to scare the shit out of me...and I prefer that to having the shit BORED out of me...

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So Whats Your Choice Of News Info?

by Englishman in

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seeing all these different people on this board, together with varying personalities, thoughts and opinions, makes me wonder about our reading and viewing material.. take the daily news.

if you watch tv, which news programme do you spend most time viewing and why?

the same question as to which daily newspaper you read, plus, does your newspaper have a political bias that attracts you?

Mommie Dark

I'm with Seeker on this one: I cruise as many news sources as I can find. Our cable operator offers three all-news channels, and I switch between them. Most tv news sources are so voyeuristic that I can't stomach their commentary, though. I try to stay awake for the BBC news on our local PBS station. I like MacNeil/Lehrer on PBS, and when my idiot radio will work I like NPR news.

The more viewpoints I can find the more information I can glean out of the rhetoric. Skepticism and iconoclasm are your friends in dealing with all media...

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conversation with my son

by Mommie Dark in

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my ten-year-old asked me why someone would want to hijack planes and crash them causing so much death and destruction.

i told him that it was the work of religious fanatics who had been trained to hate and fear those who do not worship their god their way.

he asked why anyone would suicide like that in order to kill so many.

Mommie Dark

My ten-year-old asked me why someone would want to hijack planes and crash them causing so much death and destruction. I told him that it was the work of religious fanatics who had been trained to hate and fear those who do not worship their god their way. He asked why anyone would suicide like that in order to kill so many. I told him what Steve Hassan said about the way they were indoctrinated into believing that their Paradise reward would be immediate, and that they genuinely believe their god approves of their actions.

I also told him that some of the people screaming the loudest for revenge were religious fanatics who worship yet another version of god, and who hate everyone who does not worship their god their way.

This gorgeous child stood and thought about it while I finished making his breakfast. Then he said, "Mom, I thought God made us all to get along. I don't understand why anyone would think He would want them to kill for him."

I said, "I don't understand either, hon."

He doesn't think there will be a war. He's confident the criminals will be found and punished, and that the world will act sanely in response to this crime. Blessed child! I wish I were as certain...

Jesus wept! This from a child who has never been indoctrinated with any religious anything. If he can figure it out, WHY CAN'T THE REST OF THE WORLD?

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My husband is smoking pot

by jurs in

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i know this is not witness related but i just caught my husband smoking pot.

i am so upset !!!

he is an alcoholic and has a terrible temper.

Mommie Dark

"Because marijuana is a lot stronger than it used to be, you're also more likely to abuse it and become dependent on it today than in the past."

Well this statement is a flat out lie. Marijuana is exactly the same plant matter it has always been. The only difference is that smokers became more discriminating and realized that only the flowering tops were worth smoking, and suppliers stopped cutting the whole plant up to sell to buyers who were rejecting the inferior grade product.

This is the thing about anti-drug propaganda that pisses me off the most; talking about addiction to marijuana and LSD, pretending that marihuana is somehow a different drug than it used to be, pretending that pot is somehow a 'gateway' to harder drugs...slipping lies and misinformation into their disinformation packets in order to justify keeping prohibition and its lucrative machinery running.

Addiction is serious business and to natter about marijuana addiction as if it somehow equates to genuine drug addiction is really blind stupidity.

Pot smoking is not the major problem jurs is facing; the serious problem is alcoholism and some major control issues. Concentrating on the pot smoking is like slapping a bandaid on a severed artery. Pointless and irrelevant to the underlying problem.