In Reply to: Did u experience something cult-like after TF? posted by Jo on August 22, 2007 at 17:27:37:
Jo, if I - although I am initially not meant/addressed, I know - had a bad boss once in a while...can actually only think of one...where I had it tough for a month...then I think I learned in the school of hard knocks... even in the "old world" nothing was/is perfect...that's why I sought for an escape...didn't we all???
As I wrote before on GenX, the horrors of TF made me be again quite on a distance to groups, especially those with high demands or who have too big a stench of selfrighteousness...being alone ..not really with with my kids (but someday)...is not the big burden it used to be.People have their limitations, as myself, I don't need heaven on earth now to believe...I had to learn (still) to have patience...to endure..although that is a mighty tough lesson.I experienced love & still do, but not as a concerted group-effort anymore...and that's ok...very ok.Better having little of the right kind, then too much of the wrong kind...and the heart & mind learns to discern...even tough slowly with me.
Wish you all the best in the diabetes - "fix"...some of my colleagues showed recently sign/results of it & it is quite a "shock" when you hear about...still can't discern type 1 and 2 and forgot what they have...one has to take the prescriptions...the other measures the blood-sugar level regularly & wishes/ hopes to be able to guard himself with sufficient exercise etc.
I think, as you wrote, genetics is really a keything here...and also: it's good to have you around!!!!!
PS. one thing I wanted to get of my chest though:
People with a PHD are no guarantee that they are right...there are engineers, who work for the mafia, there are corrupt people with an PHD.
although I did listen with some fascination to what the pope said (him having two PHDs etc.) is all that he utters or confirms of teachings of the past right?To give for the complexity & beauty
of this life sufficient answers/explanations, it takes much more than a PHD...although it surely is an indication, that someone is very skilled, laboured hard in some field of knowledge... (although some scientists plagiarise)...and try hard to get some logic/"light" into some "obscure"
part of life...as little & insignificant it may be....but for me, people with lots of love are still my heroes, that was already the case before I joined TF & dropped out of university...love/agapae is better, peace that passes understanding...and I rather feel that not in a cultlike/or big crowd...there is often a sensation which rather makes me uncomfortable ...many times.