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Topic: Cult-like mentality
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mambo
Knowflake Posts: 178
From: New Zealand
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted August 16, 2002 03:31 PM
 
Eminems' real name is Marshall Mathers that is where he got his rap name from.IP: Logged |
Rainbow~
Knowflake Posts: 1945
From: an enchanted cottage by the sea
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted August 16, 2002 05:58 PM
House Brownie......I loved reading your post....I know exactly how you feel...Linda evoked those same feelings in me when I read her books...When you read so much of what's in a person's heart (especially GOOBERZ) you start to feel as tho you really KNOW that person..and she made me feel as tho she were a good friend of mine..*sigh*...I really greived when I heard of her death...I just couldn't believe it... ...yes, Linda had a way, of writing, so that you felt she was confidentially speaking just to you.... Luv,
Rainbow~  ------------------
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Enrique
Knowflake Posts: 489
From: Mexico city, Mexico
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted August 17, 2002 11:48 PM
Dark Angel...Peace & Love for you...
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Miracle
Knowflake Posts: 591
From: Croatia
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted August 20, 2002 03:55 PM
Donna!  IP: Logged |
Randall
Webmaster Posts: 20911
From: Columbus, GA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted August 22, 2002 03:27 AM
What Donna said!  ------------------
"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
Montana Rain
Knowflake Posts: 46
From: Philipsburg,Montana-USA
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted August 23, 2002 06:29 AM
Good Morning to every one:
Dark Angel, did you know you have Knowflake under your name. You sound a little frightened, you see dead as dead,remember this?
You need a little of this  Peace to your Soul Love to your Heart
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sweetpeas
Knowflake Posts: 924
From: Plainfield, IN
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted August 23, 2002 04:29 PM
Welcome to Lindaland, Montana Rain!  ------------------
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -Aesop- IP: Logged |
Skystone
Knowflake Posts: 19
From: Woodland Park, CO USA
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted August 23, 2002 10:33 PM
Thanks Knowflakes!Rainbow, you fellow T-Rex! You're wonderful. House Brownie, what a beautiful posting. Juniperb the superb, you're always there, on the mark. Pearly, you came through in a wonderful way, as usual. Kindness is everything. Mambo, thanks for the info! Enrique, thanks for the positive messages. Jackiep, keep the postings coming--they're in wonderul, expressive English. Montana Rain, well done! Donna did her homework: thanks! Randall, Sweetpeas, I know you're out there! We are moving this coming week, so today is my last shot at the computer--it's going into a box. Hiss. Will check back with my beloved Knowflakes. God bless.
Skystone
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RAINBOW WARRIOR
Knowflake Posts: 7
From: new zealand
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted February 06, 2005 08:20 PM
kiaora(hello&to your well being),
WANTING FOR DEATH
FROM THE GREAT WHITE SWORD
DARK ANGEL CAST TO EARTH
WITH RESPECT TO LEARNBIRD WITH NO WINGS
I UNDERSTAND
THE ROAD OF RESPECT
IVE WALKED TIME AND AGAIN. ------------------
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monad
Knowflake Posts: 137
From: new zealand
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted February 06, 2005 10:08 PM
Chur that Cuz...Welcome! IP: Logged |
Randall
Webmaster Posts: 20911
From: Columbus, GA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted February 07, 2005 10:46 AM
I forgot about this string!  ------------------
"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
TINK
Knowflake Posts: 1488
From: New England
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted February 07, 2005 06:53 PM
Interesting, isn't it, to be accused of cult-like behaivor?  IP: Logged |
tracysalome
Knowflake Posts: 269
From: minneapolis minnesota USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted February 08, 2005 01:27 AM
even though dark whatever .. cant remember the name...just had to add on a positive note, linda's books kept my mind off bad things that i couldn't do anything about in my life instead of possibly falling into deep depression - they really helped pull me through, also i gave my gooberz to my uncle's wife that i didn't know very well after his suicide a few years ago and it also helped pull her through that.
Right on knowflakes and moderators (besides the dark weirdo) who seemed to just want to upset people after the first couple of posts. You said the just of what I wpuld have.IP: Logged |
maklhouf
Knowflake Posts: 448
From:
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted February 08, 2005 07:31 AM
Thanks for bringing this great thread to the top Rainbow Warrior, but could you stop shouting?IP: Logged |
26taurus
Moderator Posts: 6949
From: the stars
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted February 08, 2005 07:37 PM
Yeah, please. I have sensitive ears.  IP: Logged |
Randall
Webmaster Posts: 20911
From: Columbus, GA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted February 09, 2005 06:03 PM
Whatever do you mean, TINK?  ------------------
"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
Xannie
Knowflake Posts: 14
From: Tel Aviv, Israel
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted February 10, 2005 06:27 AM
you know, i just wanted to say that quite a few times i have read threads here - where Lindaland, Linda, members, etc were put down or insulted - and never once have i seen a nasty reply to that (well, sometimes after all other efforts have been exhausted - and even then it's "nasty-lite"). i am always impressed and comforted by the warm, supportive and welcoming (of people, of new ideas, of other opinions) community here. this truly is a special and quite loving place with very special people  ! a nice break from my "real" world ------------------
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RAINBOW WARRIOR
Knowflake Posts: 7
From: new zealand
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted February 19, 2005 01:36 AM
kiaora,monad & sorry malky,taury & xany girl
for being so loud.in n.z we introduce ourselves with an attack or(wero)challenge.
& i apologize if its noisy.we walk our path alone
with a little help
from our friends.tink ------------------
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TINK
Knowflake Posts: 1488
From: New England
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted February 19, 2005 06:16 AM
I think that's a fine old tradition. I almost always welcome a challenge -it stengthens the system. I'm always looking for help in emptying my pocket Maori? IP: Logged |
Saturn's Child
Knowflake Posts: 92
From: Just left of center
Registered: May 2004
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posted February 19, 2005 06:32 PM
After beginning with Dark Angel's first post, and reading all the way through...I'm thinking she's on the right career path...working with dead people  IP: Logged |
RAINBOW WARRIOR
Knowflake Posts: 7
From: new zealand
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted March 16, 2005 01:11 AM
yep tink ,with a scotish,3 irish,english,
welsh,german & viking lines as well
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JohnSmith
Knowflake Posts: 7
From: fargo, nd, usa
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted March 23, 2005 03:01 AM
StarLover 33 Quote: I know discriminating my age group is an easy blow for anyone! But you know what it doesn't matter what you say! Becuase I know there are 50 million teenagers just like me. So when the tables are turned and we start ruling the world religion will change completly. There won't be single thing you can say or do when that happens. If your some kind of an astrologer (you must be since you know Linda Goodman.) Then you should know that my Sun, Jupiter, and North Node are sitting cozily in my 10th house. I also have Mercury in my 9th conjuct and very close to my midheaven. So you know what that means right? Public Achievment! Oh yes and a little bit of fame too! So I guess its a clue that when I'm older my ideas will be accepted after all. Don't ya think?
Another thing this is a very kind and loving sight and theres absoulatly know cult-like mentality what so ever. It's a place where we share ideas! People come and go all the time. We allow people to disagree. But your trying to insult and thats what hurts. Go ahead! Keep insulting me I don't mind I won't right back either. I wasn't going to before but I couldn't help it. This will be the last you hear from me DarkAngel unless I'm on T.V but that will be a different story! Ps. Peace and Love! LMAO!!!!!
I like all the spiteful hateful comments inciting that she's right because of her chart that "shows" fame. LOL. And then to end it with Peace and Love takes the cake. All this while you all try to spite Dark Angel yet acting in a holier than thou loving fashion just for saying her thoughts.
I have read posts about people believing she is alive....definitely not healthy. And then to bring up her name as some sign of evil and hate. StarLover33 says this site is for sharing ideas yet you all put dark angel down for saying that it is unhealthy to think that linda is alive. By the way I don't care if I am being "evil" for laughing at StarLover33's post it is the funniest thing I have read in years. IP: Logged |
Eleanore
Moderator Posts: 1022
From: North Carolina
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted March 23, 2005 04:23 AM
John Smith
I don't think people were "putting Dark Angel down" for believing that Linda is not alive. If you really read her posts carefully, you'll note that she was not just discussing the improbability (or impossibility, take your pick) of Linda still being alive, but rather using that one singular belief that is shared but some, but certainly not all members of this site, to suggest quite negative things about the whole lot of people who frequent this site ... as if one arguable belief could constitute a complete and utter lack of sanity and make one comparable to truly disturbed individuals such as those who joined/have formed seriously dangerous cults. There is a HUGE difference there. There are plenty of people here who do not believe that Linda is still alive ... and there have been a number of discussions on the subject as well. It was her attitude, condescending, self-righteous, and insulting that prompted people to respond the way they did. Mind you, I've seen people respond much worse to lesser things (as in, just disagreements on beliefs rather than responding to actual insults because, fyi, being told that you're insane is actually insulting) on other forums.
I certainly won't get upset with you or anyone else for saying that it is "unhealthy" to believe that Linda is alive. That's your opinion and you're entitled to it. There are plenty of things that I believe are more "unhealthy" that I see going on around me everyday than just believing in something that in many ways is not how the average person would believe it to be. But is there really a harm in believing it? Enough harm for it to be truly unhealthy ? I don't know anyone who has changed their life because they believe Linda is alive ... I don't know anyone who has lost their job, gotten a divorce, abandoned their kids, murdered innocent people, or attempted suicide because they believe Linda is alive. And, in the end, believing anything at all is just that ... believing. People believe all sorts of things that have no absolute proof behind them that is satisfactory to all ... like believing in a God or an afterlife or in true Love ... the list is endless.
So, my point is, your judgement of why people responded the way they did to Dark Angel is off mark. If she had just come in and stated that she thought that believing that Linda was still alive was unhealthy, the discussion would have gone in a completely different direction. But she didn't do that. She came in and began to make assumptions about people because of that one belief and proceeded to insult everyone here for it. That sort of behavior is simply inappropriate regardless of what topic is being discussed.
As for you perceiving some people here to have responded in a "holier than thou" fashion, again that's your opinion. I can't comment on everyone who responded, but I've been here long enough to know that some of them, at least, are very much sincere in their responses ... their spirituality is not an act but just a part of who they are and how they respond to most if not all posts here, not just on this thread.Now, just out of curiosity, what "spiteful hateful comments" did StarLover33 "incite" because her chart "shows" fame? Really. Did you not quote her entire post? Because I don't see her "inciting" anything at all, just responding to her being put down for her age and ideas. And I certainly see nothing spiteful or hateful in that post. A little defensive, certainly, and perhaps a little brash, but not spiteful and hateful.
So yes, inciting ... what exactly was she provoking and urging on?
Spiteful ... where was she showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt being thus motivated by spite?
Hateful ... where was she showing hatred or malevolence? As for other people trying to "spite" Dark Angel ... could you please give me an example of who tried, with malicious ill will, to prompt an urge to hurt or humiliate her?
Thanks.
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"This above all:
to thine own self be true,
And it must follow,
as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false
to any man." - Shakespeare IP: Logged |
26taurus
Moderator Posts: 6949
From: the stars
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted March 23, 2005 04:32 AM
Very well said Eleanore.  I wonder the same things. John? Care to answer? IP: Logged |
JohnSmith
Knowflake Posts: 7
From: fargo, nd, usa
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted March 27, 2005 04:42 PM
alright let's not just use one part of the definition for your purposes and see that spite has a broader definition than "showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt: Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Spite \Spite\, n. [Abbreviated fr. despite.]
1. Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the
disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice;
grudge; rancor; despite. --Pope.
Quote: So when the tables are turned and we start ruling the world religion will change completly. There won't be single thing you can say or do when that happens.
Like Dark Angel said religion has been around for a millenia like it's gonna completely change head over heals in one generation but....anyway we won't be able to do a thing i guess.......oh we live in America where we vote on issues that effect us ALL until we pass. Quote: This will be the last you hear from me DarkAngel unless I'm on T.V but that will be a different story! why with the TV part????? The Irritate, grudge and annoy part of the definition all seem to fit here. I quoted it all because it all certainly made me laugh
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
"A Course in Miracles"
Only love is strong because it is undivided. The strong do not attack because they see no need to do so.
"A Course in Miracles" "If I defend myself I am attacked. But in defenselessness I will be strong, and I will learn what my defenses hide.
"A Course in Miracles" "If we are using perception to justify our own mistakes--our anger, our impulses to attack, our lack of love in whatever form it may take--we will see a world of evil, destruction, malice, envy and despair. All this we must learn to forgive, not because we are being "good" "charitable", but what we are seeing is not true. We have distorted the world by our twisted defenses, and are therefore seeing what is not there.........Sin is defined as "lack of love'. Since love is all there is, sin in the sight of the Holy Spirit is a mistake to be corrected, rather than an evil to be punished. OUr sense of inadequacy, weakness and incompletion comes from the strong investment in the "scarcity principle" that governs the whole world of illusions. From that point of view, we seek in others what we feel is wanting in ourselves. We "love" another in order to get something ourselves. That, in fact, is what passes for love in the dream world. There can be no greater mistake than that, for love is incapable of asking for anything.
"A Course in Miracles" THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS FEAR, BUT WHAT IS ALL ENCOMPASSING CAN HAVE NO OPPOSITE
"A Course in Miracles" Happy Easter IP: Logged |
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