MAJOR TYPO ALERT (TO SAY THE LEAST)! I'd wanted to say that ... what happened here was bits and pieces of a loosely autobiographical (but not really autobiographical) short story I'd been writing (trying to write!) got mixed in with what I said as what I'd usually done (until now that is!) was cut-and-paste things from one document to the next (and then there were translations too!
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You do end up thinking that they know best. It's really hard because you really do become fearful! I hope that they're not dangerous or anything, although if it is manipulation, I want to think that it would be plenty dangerous already! A teacher told me that I should manipulate my seventysomething mother into giving me money and tell her lies to get her to do it -because biblical Jacob
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It would be nice if it could be proven because I -for one- have suffered so much as a result of my involvement with the Kabbalah Centre and I'm still trying to figure out if this suffering is "a test," but -I mean- how long do you have to suffer and how do you know if you are suffering because it is a test of faith or if you are suffering because this spiritual study, the way they
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