The firewood business at Alkiemans is gone from the site. Raymond Lincoln owns the land. I was told that Raymond told them to remove the firewood business, but the rest remains.
Maybe Raymond has other plans for all that extra land. Maybe he is going to develop it.
People today, most people, they tend to torture themselves as they go through their lives, because they don’t know what is expected of them by God or what they were born to do.
They are unaware, because they were brought up by immoral parents who knew not God, thus they knew not love nor empathy, or that life for each of us has a purpose.
Materialism brings us up as cowards, unaware of our true potential, or our spiritual relationship with each other and God.
The departure from the people who are materialistic, means a closer relationship with God and an understanding of what we were Born to do.
The Tale of Princess Nessa, a Servant of Evil, to Become a Servant of The Gods.
There is a legend of a woman. Who’s name was Nessa who lived so long ago in Greece. She was living in a toxic world, with her toxic family and friends and she liked this life very much.
The gods wanted to have access to the people again. The people had strayed so far away that when they prayed it was only for their own ego, status as religious people, or for the gods to give them something. The gods were not happy.
Everyone was a sinner. So the gods decided to create a heavenly godly approved marriage. A sinful man married to a sinful woman. Two were chosen. Both fools, but with the gods help both would become worthy, both trusting and loving the gods with all their hearts and souls.
The man, being the best of the two in moral standards, was made aware of the situation from the start. The female was his charge, the one he was to teach. But her being a Runner and he being enforced by the gods as a Chaser, had to teach her to heel, to obey, become submissive, to be pure in heart, soul, and filled with love and compassion for all living beings.
Selfish, full of herself, vain, when the man approached her she went on full attack, and that was what was expected by the gods due to her character that she was formed to be by toxic family and friends.
The years went by and the gods carefully tried to wake her up and inspire her, and on and on she went running, hating the man, and through all of this going with toxic weak-minded toxic men, indulging in immoral sinful acts with them.
She finally accepted the gods, but then let other people and her own messed up mind come up with beliefs of what the gods wanted of her. Nessa was determined to be a part of the toxic society that she was brought up in, but had convinced herself that she was separate, worthy and following the gods, when she wasn’t.
Like all the people of her time the gods could see a very sad, miserable end to her life. Lots of pain, anguish over a long period of time. But as long as Nessa remained healthy, young and youthful, she felt that she was alright and that the gods were protecting her.
The gods could not protect anyone anymore, at least not fully, because people had bent far too far to evil ways, thus they were in the hands more of their evil spiritual masters than the gods now. But in the people’s minds, as they did evil activities they felt in their lost minds that they were good decent people.
The gods allowed Nessa to meet men and woman, to go out with them, to be foolish, but the gods would not allow Nessa sex, or long-term relationships, until she chose the man that they had chosen for her. The world needed this deeply spiritual marriage to bring back goodness and decency to the world again and faith and love in the gods once more.
Nessa rejected the man who was chosen for her because her people rejected him, her friends rejected him, society had also mostly rejected him through the family telling lies about him. His life was a hell on earth. She didn’t want someone who she felt was ugly, not suited for her, and not worthy of the status she and her people had given her.
But each day she was getting sicker, deep within, destruction of her body was taking place from within, and each partner she had, and the more she sinned, the more the damage grew, but at this stage it was not obvious. To the physicians of her times she was healthy.
As she departed from each sinful activity and gave it up, hope grew with the gods because each year she was becoming more like the man she was chosen for. She had publicly rejected him, but read everything he wrote and heard what he said, and deep within she loved him, but consciously she rejected him for the shame she was sure that she would have if she accepted him.
Even though the world that was full of sinners were just like her, she didn’t want the world to look down on her, so instead of using her past to help others she fearfully refused to admit her immoral indecent and bad past, especially she didn’t want people to know how she had hurt the man who the gods had given her to love.
Each day she grew sicker, deep within.
More and more she changed, more and more she became as the gods needed her to be.
She kept trying so very hard, time after time, day after day, trying to fit back in to society, to become a good person, have a good family to a young man who she had chosen, but again and again, day after day, the gods refused her the dream she had, because she didn’t deserve it as a sinner, coward, and weak-minded soul, because they knew that left as she is she would just go back to the filth that she used to be.
So, the gods kept on her case.
And still she crumbled apart deep within.
The gods had to work on her pride, ego, people-pleasing, her sexual weaknesses of which she had many, and time was eaten up as if gobbled by a monster, and with each day she grew even more sicker. Till it came to the time that even if she got her dream she would still only have it for a very short time, as her sickness had become well established from within. Her sickness was her payment for years of evil doing with her family and friends. They too would pay, but in their own separate different ways.
Her sickness was also payment for years and years of torturing an innocent man, and for ignoring and refusing to obey the gods.
She started to feel pains, but she ignored them preferring to believe that she was a favourite of the gods and they would never allow her to suffer as she believed in her own mind that she was wonderful and faithful to the gods.
The more she tried to get away, the more she became broken within, and the more she fooled herself and others, and the more male suitors she disappointed and let down. She had a very selfish desire to serve family, friends, and especially herself, and that is why she refused to follow the gods. She was up on that fake throne and she refused to come down from it, and still within she was being eaten away from her own pride, ego, and fake beliefs, especially beliefs about herself.
Thankfully, eventually she realised that she didn’t want the world, its ways, sins, and foolish people, and she went to the man the gods had given her. And the gods given them both a chance to start over, healthy, and to lead the world away from its own foolishness and back to the gods.
Always be aware of the fake friends, who pretend to be on your side, but they watch carefully like vultures, waiting to attack when you become aroused by someone else and they quickly make their past to get you to see them as a person to vent your sexual energy on to.
They are only there to get you when you are weak, and like the devil they know you’re weaknesses only too will, because you told them what they are because you trust them.
Once you have become weak because you are in love, these scoundrels will make their play “as a good guy” to get on to your pants, hms then later on blame you because “it happened”.
A friend never takes advantage of you or uses you.
Watch your “friends” because in reality, you may be entertaining and trusting a devil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy
I realize that in time the truth is revealed, but as a fact in our mind, something we were unable to see previously due to how other people had molded our minds to suit their beliefs and agenda’s.
When a person, especially a young adult, has become a Believer in God and has turned over a new leaf, when he or she is offered “by the crowd” (family and friends) to go to parties, to “socialize”, go to any place where alcohol and drugs are abused etc, and loose thinking and living is allowed, then know that God has not changed His ways and all of a sudden desires you to see the party or socialising as something good for you, and a new opportunity to meet people and have fun, not at all. God is trying to offer you the chance to say, “No!” God is waiting to see what you will do when the temptation is offered to you.
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James Chapter 1, verse 2: My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
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Be thankful that the temptation to do wrong is offered to you so that you can courageously, and with confidence in what is good, right, in God and in yourself say, “No!”.
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The temptation is offered for you to stand strong in what you believe in, and to refuse to step over those strong worthy boundaries that you have set for your own life and your future.
They (Family and friends etc) don’t need to understand your choices, they are not you, they don’t live in you mind and they don’t feel the things that you feel in your heart and soul.
This is about your journey. Keep it safe, precious and worthy. Please make your life something that you will look back on when older and be very pleased with yourself.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
2017.
Living a lie, living with lies, and living as a lie is false and will bring no happiness and satisfaction because deep down inside we know that we are living in falseness and not living to our total potential.
We can never reach the heights that will change our lives for the better as long as we walk hand-in-hand with lies and false-plastic-hearted people.
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Only the truth can set you and I free!
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
25th of April 2013.
Hate is easy. Forgiveness and love take courage.
Courage is about doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
– Eddie Rickenbacker.
One never knows who they really are until they stand up on their own two feet and stay there, strong and capable.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
25th April 2013.
A woman was going to classes to help her self-esteem. At first she wore a loose blouse, messy unkept hair and old tired jeans. She sagged as she walked, conversation was a struggle etc.
When a person dresses like this it can be from how they feel about life, and about their self-worth. The outside appearance is a reflection of what is going on in the inside of that person. If they are feeling distressed and negative then the outside appearance shows this.
After some months of freely expressing themselves to a person (or people) that they can trust (truly trust), the person’s outside appearance changes because their inside feelings of self love, acceptance of the past, and their will to move forward with hope and love have come through and they can now live again.
Now free and confident, happy to try, and happy that they can learn from the past and now move forward to a more positive future.
Some motivators in an effort to change a person can change the person’s clothing in the beginning days, and then change the person’s face with makeup or dying their hair, or with money or a new car etc. None of this will work in the long run, and in fact will slow the process of real change.
When they change the outside of the person it can look good to family and the person being helped. But it is like cosmetics, it is only a surface paint. It isn’t a change of heart, or a soul healing, or a deep inner transformation.
The more natural way is to leave the person physically as they are, and give them hope on the inside while removing grief, and past baggage, and in return giving them an understanding of life and their part in it so far. And then as progress is happening on the inside it will be apparent on the outside. This type of change is natural, unforced and normal as a person changes their lifestyle and beliefs to the new happy tune of their heart and soul.
This kind of change does not have to have anything to do with fancy clothes, makeup etc. It is about a person finding hope again and the outside appearance is a tidy up as they come to see their genuine worth.
Logic shows them that they were once a victim, they understand why they did what they did. And why they did what they did under bad guidance (now they recognise those who led them astray – they have found the truth). They have distanced themselves wisely away from their tormentors and are now in the hands of people that they can freely trust.
And they also understand that the future is now in their hands and not in other people’s hands, and now they become the controller of their own life, as it should have been in the beginning.
Often when a person crumbles inside they need to go back to the basics and they need to get all their cares out, they need to cry those tears, they need an understanding person that is with them day and night comforting them with understanding and gentleness.
Giving people new life after they have lived a hard life is not an easy thing to do. But in the hands of love and hope the person will change and a new destiny will be theirs.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
25th of April 2015.
Some advice I shared on a mental health group.
• A realisation that sometimes things go good and bad, and that we shouldn’t overreact to either situation.
• Good music is a must for lifting ones feelings, and make sure that it is music you like not what the crowd or “in thing” is. Whatever is peaceful to your soul is your music, enjoy it, embrace it, and let it relax you.
• Good friends are wonderful. One is easily enough if he or she is genuine. None is fine, because your best friend is you. So please, be at peace with you because you is who you spend the most time with.
• Alone time is special and precious, make of your own personal what you will, your way, because its your life so do things your way. If they laugh and judge, its the wrong friends, move on.
• Anything creative wakes up the mind to the possibilities of your endless amazing imagination. Also while being creative your mind is on something other than depressive thoughts, and pushing out dark thoughts, and surprising ourselves with things we thought that we didn’t even know that we could do.
• Talk to yourself with love, appreciation, talk to yourself like you would talk to a friend you are trying to help see the true value that is who they are. Be encouraging, and from time to time force yourself to do better and to meet the goals that you set for yourself to better your life.
• Know that anyone who is depressed is not to blame and that depression was brought upon them by others. Realise that if we were all bought up in an excellent family, fair society and encouraging people around us we would all be confident, courageous and capable of all that we want to trying.
• Be kind to yourself and kind to others, even those who don’t understand what you are going through. They suffer when they don’t understand, they suffer in their own way, and if they were cruel then they are simply showing you a reflection of what someone else taught them and this is their reaction and grasp on some sort of sanity – in other words cruel, Narcissistic, bullies etc were treated much like that themselves at some point and they have not yet discovered their weakness and have not broken the cycle yet. Keep your distance, and give them time, one day they may become wise like you and they too will repent, turn over a new leaf and walk in peace, love and harmony with life.
• Please try to be the person who you wanted in your life in the past to others. They may, or may not, appreciate your love and care, but you will always appreciate the blessing you are to others, and the better, stronger and more capable you are in a helpful loving way the more you will love and respect your self.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
2019.
Today you get a new chance to start again. If you find that you seem to be walking around in circles being nowhere in life and even though you know that each day is a new day to start again, then the reason that you are not happy will be because you are not doing what you should be doing. Are you in a rut?
Going around in circles getting nowhere is frustrating and that frustration could be what is stopping you from seeing what is right for you. If you have listened to advice from certain people for years and they are doing you no good then seek advice elsewhere.
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As Einstein said, doing the same thing over and over again expecting something different is crazy. Asking the same people for advice over and over again and they fail you all the time is crazy.
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Only a new approach will help. A new approach does not mean getting help from people the same as those who have been giving you advice up to now, it means getting new advice from a totally new source.
It is only by trying something new will something new happen. It is your choice to step out of your comfort zone and make the necessary changes.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
24th of April 2013.
I saw in a video I posted recently about how to deal with narcissist types by not taking in their attacks, but instead observing them and studying them. By studying them you can see what they are trying to do to you.
I suggest the same when watching the news or watching a history or science type documentary.
Study, look, question, and don’t take anything they say for granted. Teach yourself to think for yourself by questioning everything you are told that is supposed to be the truth.
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I am often amazed at what we are being told is fact, but when you sit down and really think about it there is very little proof or fact involved in the ‘theory” or “facts”.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook. 2017.
When I was with a female some females and males would say, “What are you doing with James, don’t you want a real man?” and then laugh.
I always wondered, “What is a real man?”
I think its the image, manly, tough, heavy drinker, smoker and even a druggy with tattoo’s and so forth.
But thats not me, so I guess I am the unacceptable male, the one that society thinks is not real.
To have true love we may need to take a risk, have a go, say what we really feel and let ourselves be vulnerable at the risk of being hurt or of starting something wonderful and new.
We form opinions through our own life, and then we read people and situations with those good and bad opinions. This does not in the slightest mean that our thoughts and opinions are right about what we think the other person is thinking or what that person believes or wants.
If we have insecurities, emotional confusions, feel deep sadness, and we fear being rejected our “reading of the other person who we love so dearly” can be so very wrong and way off course.
This is why we must at least try to find the truth without all our protective armour, without all our judgments. One should never go into the battle of love with any armour or weapons, except with the simple power of the heart that deeply yearns for the one who you love.
Feeling hurt is not nice and a hard thing to deal with, but a life of wondering if it could have worked out, and if that meeting when you go see the one you love face to face could have been the start of something so honest, true and magical that it changes both of your entire lives forever as you both progress side by side in harmony.
There is no success in not trying, there is no stepping forward by not trying, there is no knowing how the other person truly feels about you and if that person is so sad because he or she never got the chance to be heard.
To really live is to try, to be successful in love, happiness, and freedom is to try. The heart will cry a million silent tears all alone, in grief, and sadness, if we don’t try. A broken heart is like an open wound, we must try to mend that broken heart with the heart of the one we love so dearly and honestly. Only true love can heal a broken sad and lonely heart.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
24 April 2018 at 12:57.
Always makes me cry when they hug 🙁
I keep trying to drop hints (and they will read this when I am gone) that I won’t be here much longer, but it seems that they have the traditional, “Oh, dads gonna be here forever.” then when I die it will be, “Oh, we should have visited Dad more often.” Kinda crazy, but this is the casual approach to a parent trying to say that he or she would like to spend more time with their childrne and grandchildren and they laugh it off and then act all regretful after we die. I am going to be pushing the Born Again video’s over the next couple of weeks.
Henry Cavill was saying that some people were talking about his family, saying bad things, and causing rumors and so on, and he said that it was hurting his family and that they were being unfairly treated.
Seems like for many people we make a foolish choice today, and then years later demand of God why God made our life so hard. 
All the best from
James M Sandbrook. 2021.
I hear a song in my head with the lyrics “It’s not too late” repeating over and over again to the tune, but I hear no more of the song. Sounds like a Osmond song.
This is how you know that God is trying to tell you something, when a song or specific lyrics play over and over again in your mind during the day.
Now say this way you getting this sentence, so what is going on in your life right now that you have doubts about or that you think must be over, and now you hear that God is telling you that whatever it is, is not too late, meaning that its still all good, it just looks to you from where you are that its all over. So please be reassured by God. See how it works 🙂
I often do some work, think that it is boring or not what I want to do, and then tell myself to do the best that I can because it is something that God gave to me to do and God has faith in me doing it, so I do it because I am entrusted to do it as best as I can.
Like you, I say “Thank you God!” a lot, all through my day, I feel that it helps me keep grounded in Who set this all up and Who is really in charge. God Bless us all 
Love is our heartfelt relationship with others, and in the way that we express that heartfelt relationship to the world at large.
Love is also the Wisdom to know right from wrong and the courage to do what is right and distance ourselves from what is wrong.
Love is caring so much for the innocent and needy of the world that we will take risks for them knowing that God is behind us.
Those who know not Love know not God, for God is Love as we should be as we are in God’s image.
Those who know not God know not what they are to live for, or the importance of their own life and the lives of others, or of the genuine reasons for peace, honesty, care, and so on.
God created the perfect world for us, the animals, and even for itself, and in being selfish we destroy it all, in being courageous and loving all we care for the planet for the Greater Good of All!
People who know not the value of your life or of God’s plans for your life know not how to guide, help and keep you mentally or physically healthy, for they know not God or of God’s plans for us all, in fact they know not even what God has planned for them, and in their blindness they know not even when God Blesses them.
A form of brainwashing that all our young adults should know about if positive reinforcement. And also someone being pleasant repetitively until the victim has this fake picture in their head of the deceiver being very nice and liking or loving the victim.
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Example:
If a person walks into a store where a female is working behind the counter and each time he breaks out into smile when he sees her (knowing that this move is charming her and giving her the impression that he is most delighted to have her in his life), he his building an image of himself in her mind (much like an artist) that is a lie. But if she is insecure, needy suffers anxiety etc, she is looking for security, a hero, someone to hold her up, to save her from the life she hates, etc, she will fall for the wooing.
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Another thought would be that she may initially have doubts and he overcomes them with positives which are like rewards for liking him. In most children’s lives these days the parents give rewards to the child for good behaviour, and to have the child change their behaviour and habits from bad to good by positive reinforcements.
The trouble with this is that the child becomes a pre-trained teenager and young adult, mentally set up, to be seduced by someone who knows the right things to say, when to offer gifts (flowers, roses, presents, chocolates etc) to bring down all her defences until he gets his way, then he dumps her.
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These techniques are also used in sales where the salesperson learns all the techniques that will bring the prospective customers walls of protection down until they happily put themselves into debt.
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Dating is a form of selling the other person the picture to you that they you will accept and buy, in other words selling a lie, selling you a character that does not really exist but is a part of the romantic fairytale that you wants.
The seller just tells them what they want to her, presents them with what they want to exist, and gives them the attention , comfort, romance, that they so eagerly desire. Eventually the victim bites the bait and swallows the whole story hook line and sinker.
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No person can ever be happy, have self respect, love themself, if they allow themself to be deceived and tricked by others, because deep down inside the warning bells are ringing, but the fantasy in their mind is refusing to listen and another disastrous relationship is in the making.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook. 2019.
You will know when you are getting much closer to God’s plans for your life when family and friends gang together to talk you out of what God has planned to Bless you with.
I was cycling the other day and I was thinking about forgiving someone.
I said to myself, “Oh I can forgive *******, but I don’t think I can be close friends with *******.” etc, and then clearly I heard the thought in my head, “Genuine forgiving means unconditional forgiving, as God forgives you!”
Ouch!
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So I realised that I can forgive, and that I can forgive totally, completely, and understand why that person reacted that way. Forgiving is about understanding people, considering human nature, looking at a persons life background, mistakes and why people make mistakes, even understanding why people are sometimes so mean to us
Even though the forgiving is unconditional, the other part, the part about getting on with the person that we have forgive requires that person to repent and turn over a new leaf.
If we become close to that person in a relationship and that person remains the same as before (showing little change of character) then we will suffer as they refuse to change. Our lot in life is not to allow ourselves to be freely used, abused and controlled etc. Our lot is to be free and to develop our own character according to the will of God and our inner-spirit.
Forgiving people is important because as soon as we do that we discard all the anger, hatred, revengeful thoughts, and any other negative baggage that would bring us down emotionally and affect our health. All negative thoughts towards others eat away at our physical insides slowly destroying us, and leaving us bitter and unhappy
Having a relationship with a person who has apologised requires repentance and an active very visible change of that person’s character. It is mature to forgive that person’s odd mistake while they try to change, but if they fall right back into that same old rut again and continue the bad behaviour of before then we will possibly fall back into the same rut of being the victim. And then nothing really has changed at all. Both accept the old roles and unhappiness continues for the victim.
Repentance means turning over a new leaf totally. It also means that the person who apologised realizes that the relationship is more important to them than their old ways and they will get the required help needed to change their ways so that the friendship/romance etc can bloom.
Please be aware of this when people apologise to you. And then be strong and refuse to accept anything other than total repentance, and give your heart and soul into helping that person change.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
22nd of April 2015.
I read recently that if a person is not spiritually happy themselves then they will seek what they are missing by trying to take, control others, and in general be narcissistic. People like this are mean and pushy, always after control and they have no real idea that they are missing out on real love and true happiness. they will never ever be truly happy or satisfied within. The emptiness within leaves a gap that they know that they need to fill to feel satisfied, so they go for casual sex, unfruitful ventures, risks, alcohol and drug abuse, some become addicted, and they try to control life and those around them, especially their own children/partner with overbearing judgements and they are never satisfied.
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The narcissists victims are people who are also in need of spiritual growth and are suffering from being subjected to harshness in life (especially when young and unable to defend themselves) so they tend to want to hide within themselves and not venture out to discover life and what they are capable of. In short, they have been badly treated and they are trying to protect themselves from the cruel behaviour that narcissist types have put them under most of their lives. Being a victim could include emotional abuse, physical abuse, a parent being a narcissist, rape, and anything toxic.
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“Spiritual Growth” is the growth of the soul that comes from positive encouragement and supportive help from people who genuinely want to see a person progress within the soul so that this person is able to cope in the world, have courage to deal with whatever comes his or her way, and be confident with themselves and life.
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Some people are led to believe that getting away from the narcissist types will solve the problem. But they just become victims for a new narcissist who enters their life. This happens because they fear people, life, have no idea how to cope, and so they look (consciously or unconsciously) for someone to help them and hold their world together for them. They are never happy and are always wondering why all their relationships fail and life is miserable for them.
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The victims and the narcissist types need to change within so that they will change their ways and both will become stronger and capable while also becoming what they so desperately yearn for within. Both are suffering and in reality both are victims of the past. Both cannot cope in a constructive enjoyable way in life that truly satisfies them within.
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You see the victim wouldn’t be a victim if he or she was courageous and confident. And the narcissist bully would have no desire to hurt, push around and control people if he or she was confident in themselves and had the courage to cope in life by only desiring control of their own life.
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Modern mental health services are treating people after they are struggling to cope, and in many cases they are treating the victims and not (through the limited time that they have with the patient) recognizing a narcissist in front of them playing the victim. So the victims are classified as crazy and the narcissist continues to create, make and destroy victims on a regular basis.
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The criminal is society. A toxic unfruitful life working most of our lives away, avoiding who we love (marriage partner, children, family etc) for the love of money and trying to fill the emptiness within by over working, over spending on things that we don’t need, and trying to control a toxic lifestyle that is uncontrollable.
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The cure is very simple. For the short term each individual needs to find themselves in the spiritual sense, become new, cast out the past and grow spiritually (in confidence, courage etc) to become the person who they have always wanted to be and thi new feeling of self respect and self worth will fill the gap within as they become closer to people, nature and become one with their Creator.
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The long term cure is to restructure society. Get back to our basic roots and get back to simple family life, nature and love. Life gets better when we get better.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook. 2017.
Fear is the most powerful, yet powerless force that the world has ever known. – Author Unknown.
When we let fears control our thoughts and actions we deny ourselves courage and opportunities. If we don’t act to overcome our fears then we are letting ourselves down and deflating our belief in ourself. We all want to believe that we can handle what the world puts in front of, us so it is a feeling of defeat and sadness if we don’t even try.
We must go against our fears and have a go. We must prove to ourselves that we can trust our instincts and follow our heart.
Fear only has the power that we give it if we allow fears to control our actions.
To be free we must overcome our fears and doubts about ourselves. We must have a go.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
November 21, 2013