Sam's Wondering

"There's staring, and there's screaming, and there's a secret third thing"

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1/ @WillowCreekCC is approaching their 50th anniversary--so towards 5 full decades of multiple sexual predator clerics and never-ending Institutional Cowardice and Institutional Betrayal of victim-survivors: a thread (this thread is gonna get so. long. over the next 8 months)

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@JoshMShep @philwickham @AngelStudiosInc @FamilyTheater1 @michaelfoust @NormalGuy8 @MattDickerson @bobbydownes @EntStrategyGuy @movieguide @brbird @nealsharmon Saw this phrase recently from a guest with @reachjulieroys "a veggietales Jesus". Seem to fit.

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@JoshMShep @philwickham @AngelStudiosInc @FamilyTheater1 @michaelfoust @NormalGuy8 @MattDickerson @bobbydownes @EntStrategyGuy @movieguide @brbird @nealsharmon But hey. Catchy tune!

Don't care if people call me crazy!
What's the fun in playing safe?

Reckon I'll just go cue up some Michael Jackson tunes next.

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@JoshMShep @philwickham @AngelStudiosInc @FamilyTheater1 @michaelfoust @NormalGuy8 @MattDickerson @bobbydownes @EntStrategyGuy @movieguide @brbird @nealsharmon "in effect" is doing some heavy lifting here.

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@DavidDark @RLStollar @byJimHenderson This is super helpful Dr. Dark. Thank you. I wonder if you'd be willing to share a specific example of a case in which curiosity and increasing specificity helped you feel less stuck?

[Sam's Wondering @SamNotReallySam]

@DavidDark @RLStollar @byJimHenderson My experience thereof has been of a stuckness, not a being freed from stuckness. Could u elaborate: "It's as if the energy with which I try to freeze or frame them ends up freezing and framing me too. Thinking, seeing, & imagining more specifically thaws me (or frees me)"? 2/2

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@DavidDark @RLStollar @byJimHenderson It's ... so ... hmmmm. I'm struck by the difference in our experience. I've gotten more specific vis a vis Bill Hybels, Global Leadership Network, and Willow Creek Community Church, over the past 8 years, than I've ever gotten with anything else in my 50+years. 1/x

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@DavidDark @RLStollar @byJimHenderson But having a look at your words, it seems to me that possibly you means something quite different with "get specific" than I meant when I wrote 1/x immediately above. May I ask--would you say you're using the word "specific" in some ... specialised sense? 2/2

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@DavidDark @RLStollar @byJimHenderson Thanks Dr. Dark. I've been thinking about what you've been writing, as each tweet has appeared, & it has occurred to me that to whatever extent I'm stuck in the way about which you are speaking, specificity hasn't helped my stuckness. If anything, it's exacerbated it. #bimbw 1/x

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@mikelinch .@TheJohnCMaxwell recently publicly betrayed the many women harmed by his long time friend, unrepentant sexual predator cleric Bill Hybels, in front of 70,000 people. He has ongoingly failed to repent of this cruel public betrayal. https://t.co/LWbL47u3BZ

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@novjb What a monster he was

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me, waiting around for the next tweet in a series of tweets from Dr. David Dark which he has labelled 1/x, 2/x, etc. =)

[Sam's Wondering @SamNotReallySam]

LAT, breaking it down

[LAT @latrkinma]

Consensual sex is an ENTHUSIASTIC yes with the ability to FREELY say no.

Consent is NOT:

≠ silence after repeated requests
≠ begging until they gives in
≠implied now because they said yes then
≠not possible when intoxicated
≠ not possible in a fiduciary relationship

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@DavidDark @RLStollar @byJimHenderson No. It was a typo. I meant to say "a long series of things"

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@DavidDark @RLStollar @byJimHenderson Sorry Dr Dark. May I ask what it means to use specificity to overcome the temptation to speak of Ravi Zacharias, or of my grandfather, DHE, both deceased, as forever stuck in a long series of thing each did?

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@DavidDark @RLStollar @byJimHenderson What does this mean? ”There's Jesus asking a guy, "How do you read it?"

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@DavidDark @j_fishback In fact, there's a case to be made that hardly any ever U.S. politician at the upper levels of the government has ever won office WITHOUT giving some kind of lip service at least to Jesus Christ.

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2/ what happens, I wonder, if I look at the text vis a vis the apostle Paul in light of my more recent knowledge vis a vis predatory clerics, institutional cowardice, DARVO, dark triad personality theory, etc etc? Let's have a look.

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1/ I've known the "like King David" meme among predator pastors & those who enable them. But today was the first time I've become aware of the similar "like Paul/Saul" meme. https://t.co/gxh3jEFN5Q