Is it this book? http://tinyurl.com/y86rm4

Have I filled in this application form in the best possible way? Who is this section really for? Aaaaaaargh!

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It's available now (8-) When I looked last night it was shown as "coming soon" way after I'd watched the forum.

I'm watching it now. But last night it definitely said that it would not be shown again.

Bizarre. Sometimes iPlayer is very confusing. Hrmph!

No.

The book I was reading was factual.

I feel really unwell. Not like a cough/cold/flu/manflu thing but just really tired. To the point where I've dropped off to sleep twice whilst in my room. Thankfully it was lunchtime. Feck knows why I feel so lethargic. Went to bed early last night and got up relatively late but still shattered.

Weren't you supposed to be having some tests done? Can't remember if you posted about the results or if they're still to be done. Hope recovery is on the way.

I don't feel well at all: bouts of nausea and no matter how much I rest I just can't seem to get my energy levels up.

I think a visit to the quack beckons.

Yup but don't think it's linked. Bloods show it's probably not leukaemia (thankfully!) but could be related to asthma/unfit/kidney problems etc. I've also had v high blood pressure which isn't normal in someone under the age of 40 and means there's an underlying cause for it which needs investigating.

Oh you'll find it in the non-fiction aisle, they don't have any religious books in that section. There's a reason for that Come to the dark side Luke, if you're the sort of person who likes to see cults for the meaningless subversive thing they are, you'd love atheism, it's like breaking free of a prison, you're suddenly free to think however you want, it's a very real and tangible sense of freedom.

Unless you want to be a theist.

In which case you're not free.

It's the equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome.

To clarify that comment, you're not physically being held captive but your mind is being limited by false "answers" if you're a subscriber to a religion, false indications that you've reached true explanations for things - so while you're not physically imprisoned, you've grown to look upon psychological walls built around you with fondness.

IMO.

Not so.

I was a theist before I was in the cult.

You were in one cult before you were in another - I understand you may feel I'm being arrogant, I know there are differences between cults and there are certainly different levels of emotional control, I fully empathise with you for being in a cult - my mother was targeted when she was grieving for her sister, it made me extremely antipathetic to Scientology and the weak, cruel, broken human beings who see it as a way of controlling others to boost their own twisted sense of importance.

But the Jesus cult that grew within Islam and Judaism has no more worth, apart from that which it loudly awards itself.

NB my edit to the Stockholm Syndrome comment.

I think this has reached the point where it needs its own thread.

Give me a minute...

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