Re: THE RANT THREAD!
Well, my aunt got into the new agey stuff pretty fast. The way I see it with her was, she was raised Catholic, disagreed with the dogma, etc., years ago, and when she retired, she discovered that she's just not the kind of person who can be truly independent, although she'd never admit that. She needs to follow something, to listen to some "leader", and to be "busy". So she started watching online seminars, and got involved in some metaphysical stuff, and now she's a life coach and if you call a special phone number and enter a secret code, you'll be in her down-line and you, too, can be eternally happy just by thinking you are!
Years ago I was good friends for 12-13 years with a woman who, upon marrying her 2nd hubby, got into the far right evangelism stuff. He got her into it. It makes her the obedient wifey, don'tcha know. She was a real follower type anyway, always depending on some guy's opinions, or fashion, or whatever. No independent spirit whatsoever. It was like one day we were on the phone laughing about stuff and the next day she said she couldn't talk to me anymore because I didn't believe what she did. I honestly thought she was joking, and I laughed, and she hung up, and I called back a million times but we never spoke again. It's like Invasion of the Body Snatchers or something. One day someone is there, and the next, they're not.
Originally posted by anunitu
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Years ago I was good friends for 12-13 years with a woman who, upon marrying her 2nd hubby, got into the far right evangelism stuff. He got her into it. It makes her the obedient wifey, don'tcha know. She was a real follower type anyway, always depending on some guy's opinions, or fashion, or whatever. No independent spirit whatsoever. It was like one day we were on the phone laughing about stuff and the next day she said she couldn't talk to me anymore because I didn't believe what she did. I honestly thought she was joking, and I laughed, and she hung up, and I called back a million times but we never spoke again. It's like Invasion of the Body Snatchers or something. One day someone is there, and the next, they're not.
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