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Preachers Accused of Sins and Crimes on 20/20

Posted by centaur on April 14, 2007 at 6:36 am

ABC News - Preachers Accused of Sins and Crimes on 20/20. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3034040&page=1
Ken Ward is a Southern Baptist pastor and teacher in East Texas, who has admitted to molesting more than 40 boys. He said that being a teacher and minister is the perfect job for a child molester, because it puts the molester in direct contact [...]

More on Narcissism

Posted by centaur on February 25, 2007 at 8:57 am

Here are several links to some good books on narcissism.

The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship in Work, Love, and Family
In Sheep’s Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People
Why Is It Always About You? : Saving Yourself from the Narcissists in Your Life

Think I’ll be buying the books. Became very interested in [...]

Ostracism

Posted by centaur on February 24, 2007 at 9:16 am

The Science Show – Ostracism http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s241161.htm
Immediately people react quite negatively to it, their feelings are hurt, they’re physiologically aroused even in five minutes of ostracism. They then attempt to regain their threatened or their lost needs, so if they’ve been deprived of belonging they will seek out another group to belong to or conform more [...]

Synchronicity and the 49th Grammy Awards

Posted by centaur on February 12, 2007 at 5:45 am

Synchronicity
With one breath, with one flow
You will know
Synchronicity
A sleep trance, a dream dance,
A shared romance,
Synchronicity
A connecting principle,
Linked to the invisible
Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible.
Science insusceptible
Logic so inflexible
Causally connectible
Yet nothing is invincible.
If we share this nightmare
Then we can dream
Spiritus mundi.
If you act, as you think,
The missing link,
Synchronicity. We know you, they know me
Extrasensory
Synchronicity.
A star fall, [...]

Near-death experiences and forgiveness

Posted by centaur on February 10, 2007 at 4:11 am

http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research23.html
Howard Storm was given the following insights from beings of light after his life review when he was fearful of returning to earth life and afraid he would make mistakes again:  Mistakes are an acceptable part of being human. We are here to make all the mistakes we want because it is through our mistakes [...]

Up to our knees in evil – child porn and other abuses

Posted by centaur on February 8, 2007 at 3:43 am

I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return. – W. H. Auden
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070207/national/cda_child_porn
By Sue Bailey
OTTAWA (CP) – News of a Canadian link to a major international child-pornography ring is the latest in a growing number of horrific homegrown cases, says a top investigator.
“We’re up to our knees in [...]