Posts by Xanthippe

Further to that, in the congregations I attended, the most common reason given from the platform was that if you kill the adults in a rat's nest you have to kill the babies too because they grow up into rats. That's why babies and children have to die at Armageddon. Charming belief, isn't it?

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Have you been Invalidated?

by Londo111 in

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http://www.eqi.org/invalid.htm.

of course, being in a cult and the shunning that comes from leaving it is invalidating.. but how many times have we heard "move on" or "get over it"?

that is a prime example of invalidation.. sometimes this forum, as well as others, can be a mixed bag of validation and invalidation..

Xanthippe

Londo I think I got to a point where I realised that I couldn't change the past and I didn't want my life to be wasted in regrets. Too much of it had been wasted already. I've been out for twenty-five years and I never mean to invalidate people who are just leaving when I encourage them to see the world, enjoy life and think about something other than this cult. It's just that human life is finite.

My father always wanted to travel. He was always talking about buying a Land Rover and travelling to Africa, etc. Never went out of the UK in the end! He sat by my mother's bed when she was dying and talked again about this wish and said to me, I suppose it's too late now isn't it? What could I say? I don't mean to be melodramatic but life slips away so fast.

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Edge of Tomorrow

by Xanthippe in

went to see this at the cinema last night and really enjoyed it.

suppose you either like sci fi or you don't but i thought it was an interesting plot well executed.

anyone else see it?

Xanthippe

Mmm I know what you mean Oubliette but actually his age fits with the plot. He had either an advertising or a PR agency before the war with the aliens and was conscripted to be the PR man for the new army. So he has never seen action and is a raw recruit (forcibly as you will see). However he has the intelligence because he was an astute business man, to work out how to defeat the aliens and the muscle and fighting expertise is actually provided by Emily Blunt who trains him. Interesting plot.

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Edge of Tomorrow

by Xanthippe in

went to see this at the cinema last night and really enjoyed it.

suppose you either like sci fi or you don't but i thought it was an interesting plot well executed.

anyone else see it?

Xanthippe

Went to see this at the cinema last night and really enjoyed it. Suppose you either like sci fi or you don't but I thought it was an interesting plot well executed. Anyone else see it?

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Congregation rebels!

by A.proclaimer in

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my congregation got a reminder today to start donating money.

elder said that after the letter on the new donation arrangement was read, the contributions for that fund went from the average (i believe it was $500 or so) to $0.

after that reminder, cash was put into those boxes.