Humanity
A Cult Introduced Me to a More Tolerant World
I was a teenager obsessed with the unusual and the strange, looking for connection beyond the mundane. I remember spending lunchtimes in the school library reading fantasy books, and it was here I picked up a copy of Hal Lindsey's book "Satan is Alive and Well on Planet Earth", thinking it was a science fiction book. That started the idea of religion and prophecy and exciting things beyond the boring here and now. Not long afterwards, my brother picked up a glossy, free magazine called the "Plain Truth" in Dublin City. With attention-grabbing titles in slick fonts like "What's ahead for 1986 and beyond!" (Note the exclamation mark, no doubt in their minds), it grabbed my doubt-filled mid-1980s mind. In other words, I was hooked. It wasn't drugs or alcohol, but it was just as addictive. You could do all these free courses and books like "The United States and Britain in prophecy" and learn all about "THE TRUTH". I ate it all up. What was known as 'Armstrongism" had got a hold of me.
By Nick Tarleton4 years ago in Confessions
Finding Beauty in An Ugly Place. Top Story - April 2022.
Looking through photographs of me when I was a little girl, you would find that I was a thin girl with blonde hair and blue eyes that were very apparent to everyone. I turned from a skinny toddler to a tall, rectangle-shaped teenage brunette who is wide enough to be noticed by a lot of people. I had a lot of attention directed at me, the majority of it very negative from my peers and adults. I always thought of myself as “ugly” because my hair was cut very short, I was tomboyish, and I did not have very feminine features. I was also suffering from emotional problems due to bullying at school and also abuse in the home. I had hardly any positive role models except for my English teacher who stood by me through it all until she retired.
By Kelsey O'Malley4 years ago in Confessions
“Freedom Caravans” between the interest of the individual and the interest of the group
The wave of protests that became known as “Freedom Caravans” had started in Canada when hundreds of heavy truck drivers and thousands of protesters succeeded in blocking main roads and some vital bridges in the federal capital, Ottawa and other places, but the infection quickly crossed the ocean and spread to a number of European countries. These include France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium.
By abdo4 years ago in Confessions
Dark Armor
If you use blackmail against somebody, it can be used for your own form protection. Eventually being a sort of proverbial armor. However, since the armor was composed of dark secrets the chainmail that it’s composed of can be considered to be blackmail.
By Thavien Yliaster4 years ago in Confessions
Falling Off Track
For the last several months I have been working towards multiple goals and of course, blogging about them. In January I hit my stride and was making huge progress and feeling good about how far I had come. I was starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel of my Lyme Disease Journey, I was working on being more organized, getting back into a fitness routine, blogging consistently on Medium, and overall working towards a healthier lifestyle.
By Emily Forman4 years ago in Confessions
The Diverse Faces of Freedom
I was sitting at my desk, tired and unable to concentrate. I was under a lot of pressure. The software developers were blocked in their work because of me; I still haven't finished the diagrams they needed to progress with their work. "When will you be able to give it to us? It should be finished last week!" - they asked. But regardless of how much they would nag me or how much I wanted to have it done, I couldn't think anymore. My mind was blank; I needed a break.
By Janin Lyndovsky4 years ago in Confessions
Basic Concepts of Healthcare Law
Knowledge is power and I love to share what I have learned in my 40 years of roaming this earth. I enjoy learning about everything, you never know when these tools will become necessary. The more you know, the more you grow.
By The Vibe Podcast 4 years ago in Confessions
Chechnya on two fronts: the son of Mufti Kadyrov, an ally of Putin... and "Sheikh Mansour" with Zelensky
The sounds of takbeer appeared again with the scenes of the battles waged by a Chechen combat group in Ukraine, but this time it is not Kadyrov’s Chechen forces loyal to Moscow, but rather a battalion called “Sheikh Mansour” allied with Zelensky and fighting alongside Ukraine against the Russian army, to complete the paradox on the Chechen side of This Ukrainian war, between Chechens fighting each other on two opposing fronts, to transformations after the harsh Chechen defeat in the Russian wars, which made a team of Chechens fight alongside Russia, and allyed its president after years of a bloody war waged by Chechnya against Russia, which destroyed dozens of villages And the Caucasian cities, and this is a remarkable transformation that means, in one aspect, that the experiences gained by the Chechen fighters after years of their war with Russia, turned in favor of Russia.
By Abd elrhmen4 years ago in Confessions
New Russiaphobia and McCarthyism
Although the ongoing war in Ukraine reminds of the Cold War and the bipolar conflict, the West’s handling of the crisis seemed irrational in many of its actions, and reminded the audience of the era of McCarthyism’s control in the fifties of the twentieth century on cultural life and public space in the United States, as a result of the procedures of the Parliamentary Committee that It was led by the right-wing Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was the head of one of the subcommittees in the Senate, and who practiced cultural terrorism through his committee, and imprisoned a number of important figures on charges of belonging to the Communist Party, and this era was the beginning of a rightly expressive of the dominance of the Cold War laws, which extended for four decades later. .
By Zernouh abderrahman4 years ago in Confessions
The nation collectively rejects “Israel” and divided it normalizes with it
The past quarter century witnessed a clear decline in joint action at all political levels, and a steady escalation of unilateral action on the part of countries aspiring to expand their influence. At the international level, the work of the United Nations has almost disappeared after it was marginalized, as it no longer has a field presence in conflict areas, and was unable to contain political or military tensions, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations is no longer only a senior international employee who issues statements on international occasions such as International Women’s Day and today Universal Human Rights and others. With the deepening polarization in the UN Security Council, it has also become unable to influence international politics and issues of war and peace. The Ukrainian crisis is escalating, while attempts to obtain a Security Council resolution on it have failed as a result of polarization and the veto system.
By Zernouh abderrahman4 years ago in Confessions
