I'm so sorry you went through such a horrible experience with the priests in the church. It makes me angry that the church still hasn't fixed this issue that they have known about for many years. Even more angry that you endured this, but I'm so proud of the fact you are such a strong person and incredible person with gifted talent. Your succinct style of posting always makes me smile and I love how you tell it directly what you see.
I knew Catholic church would keep trying to sweep it under the rug when they refused to allow priests to marry too. It's one of the things that upset me as a child about the church and my 9 year old self told the priest that too. I told him it wasn't fair that he couldn't have a wife and family and it's one of the things I told the monsignor who married me that upset me about it. I happen to stumble on one of the bright lights there but I still never truly went back.
My mother got caught up in the Jehovahs Witnesses when I was just leaving the catholic church, which was a big nightmare for my family. My parents marriage never recovered really and the constant screaming and emotional toll it took on all of us was a tipping point in my family's life. It destroyed their marriage. My mom died of a sudden blood clot to her heart at 42, but I actually heard her telling my Aunt Mickey on the phone in Germany she wanted to leave the planet. Then she actually did.
So you might say my own experience with organized religion has not been good. There were parts of it I enjoyed - the community and fellowship, but I couldn't ignore the parts that man manipulated and used as a control over the parish. I do love God, Jesus, and the Universe but have a very different view about it all. I even still hold parts of the bible in my heart - especially parts of the new testament. I know I've felt the Christ consciousness or spirit fill me so I hold on to that. I'm grateful I've met people like those here in the forum along my life's journey who have shared and made me view the universe much differently than I did in my youth.
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Sorry. No one can save you once YouTube has you. ;)
@vestrulux
First, Yes I think I'm addicted to Youtube now! ?
Your detailed analysis of the situation with the elites, power mongers and leaders of our world felt so spot on to me I actually read it twice. I devour your posts.
I also felt angry that you have endured abuse and so much negative treatment, but I'm also very proud and amazed by you. You are such a bright light and filled with so much talent, intelligence and understanding of mankind.
It made me realize something that I think applies to so many. I think when someone like yourself is such a bright light, and that higher vibration and light is so intense, it makes people who have darkness within them want to squash it out. The darker energies want to attack and shut down the light.
Thank you for your presence here and your kindness in sharing your thoughts, experiences and insights.
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Idiot in Chief just tweeted that he thought the 75 yr old man in Buffalo that was pushed down by the police was a set up.
He has unraveled. It’s time for him to go.
@ Lawrence. The deeds of the church are well documented by now, but to hear from somebody who has actually gone through it is chilling. I am so sorry for your experiences. To get horror instead of love from an institution that should have been righteous is beyond imagination.
I know someonewho was beaten and shamed by Catholic school nuns when he was just five. At the age of five, he walked out of his Catholic school in the middle of the day and walked two miles home. His mother later pulled him and the other children from the church. When he was much older, he had a nervous breakdown, hallucinating nuns as devils coming after him. It marked his whole life.
What extraordinary people you both are. To experience such betrayal by adults (never mind clergy!) is utterly devastating. You both have my deepest respect ...
Barr looked kind of rattled during a TV interview a couple of days ago. I usually don't like to watch him on TV because his voice and demeanor feel really yucky, like thick oil, but I couldn't press the mute button quickly enough. I had two thoughts, 1. He looks nervous, and 2. Good.
Barr always looks nervous to me. It feels like he is afraid he's on shaky ground, that he's destroying the rule of law. He's looked afraid when he censored and slapped a false summary on the Mueller Report. But he still does it. In my mind's eye, always see him as a pair of ragged claws scuttling across an ocean floor. A little fearful man who knows he's doing darkness. A little man who can't help being a dark enabler. I also see Devin Nunes as ragged scuttling little crab on the sea floor.
@kksali I just finished reading that. They are bounded and detemined to make the anti facist movement the enemy. They either haven't figured out it is aonly a philosopy or they are using this to pump up ther base. Antifac (probaby not spelled right) has been designated a terrest group but the KKK is still just a bunch of good old boys whojust want tohunt blacks and lynch them. Really! Barr has stated he wants to meet with the leaders of Antfac-there are none! I think someone should tell him OK we will be here at such and such a time come meet us and then thousands of peope who are anti facist should show up!
He also just appointed his son-in-law head of the new policing council. That will be another bust just like the mid east peace agreement and the corona crisis commitee.
He and his handlers are trying to decide if he should address the nation with a unifying speech. Can you even imagine what that would sound like. Let him go and make a fool of himself after the last two weeks of protest nothing he can say will do anything but divide people further.
@ Jeanne, how... I really don't have words to express my disgust.
I can't wrap my mind around people (beyond the church which should have been full of compassion and kindness) doing things like this to children (or animals for that matter). That it is (still) so wide spread is beyond comprehension and literally makes me sick.
I hope that we as a collective will find a new religious awakening in nature, goodness and the light. We do not need dogma and buildings. It's the core that matters.
@cc21 Another person in addition to Henri Nouwen, who has lifted me up is eco-philosopher and activist Joanna Macy. I took several weeklong workshops with her a few years ago. I had the honor of giving her a Tarot reading. She is a great teacher, like Nouwen was, filled with spirit and genuine to the core. On one occasion, I watched her speak from Ralph Waldo Emerson's pulpit at a little church in Lexington, Massachusetts. She looked up at the heavens and spoke her message to a small group who were lucky to find her there.
Thanks, Jeanne. I will make a note of her (I remember you mentioning her a while back somewhere on the forum.) Wow - how incredible that you were able to give her a Tarot reading! What an experience that must have been.