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15-28, 2006
Dear Springeagle
My boyfriend and I broke up after almost
of 6 years. I broke up with him simply for I
feel like I need to get myself together. But
now it’s been a month and he stills calls me
and WANTS to know when he can see me
next and when he can call next. I all ways
say give me a week. I don’t know what I
should do with him until I get myself to-
gether.
Please help Amandabusj
Hi Amandabusj:
I know what that is like. I have gone
through this many times.
The only thing I found that worked is to
make it very clear that there is no more rela-
tionship and will not be. If he believes he still
has a chance with you he will not stop. He
needs to see clearly that the interest has faded
and it is over.
I hope this helps
Blessings
Springeagle
Dear Springeagle:
Hello I have a good friend online that I am
very close too and would like to help out. She
has no confidence in herself and is trapped by
her current situation. Which is she is stuck
with an abusive husband. I won’t go into de-
tails. But things are getting quite bad and I
fear she stays there much longer she will take
her life early. She does not know what to do
or where to go from here. She has two kids
and is scared to leave because she fears that
this person would come after her and her chil-
dren. She has got the police involved before
but it made no difference and just resulted in
things becoming worse.
So any theories on what she should do next
or information on any places that can help
and deal with this type of situation would be
greatly appreciated. She lives in Pennsyl-
vania.
Thanks Joan
Dear Joan:
You friend will have to get completely out
of the relationship that she is being so abused
in. There is no other way.
She will also have to seek proper therapy
for all the wounds and addictions she has
been left with.
Due to the fact that she even got herself into
such a relationship shows that her abuses
started long before this relationship. These
scars need to be attended to as well.
One of the worst problems as victims of
abuse, is our addiction to pain and comfort
ability. These have to be attended to so that
Forgiveness Is
Our Responsibility
Angel Femia / LoveCry. And MSN Friend would have them
This week in the philosophy section I wan
to share a gift I was sent by an Internet
friend.
This particular gift is priceless and some-
thing I have been sharing with the kids for
over ten years now. Christ came to this earth
to teach us forgiveness and to love uncondi- was against religion, and the religious where to do, nor does one naturally choose to for-
tionally. It is our responsibility to learn and his enemies as some of you may know.
practice this thing on a daily basis. This
Christmas I pray more people catch this truth Americans live all my life, and have avoided
and act on it before we destroy our world and
all within.
The spiritual side of things
Hello,
You don't know me, nor do I know you, I
am a person with a computer, though I know to be upset, or angry with other individuals in more conflicts and anger.
how people are on MSN.
No one takes anyone else seriously, be-
cause it would be foolish in most cases, but
please listen to my reasoning, and decide
——–LoveCry——
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proved the Toronto Drug Strategy (TDS). The
TDS provides a comprehensive approach to
alcohol and other drugs that include the four
components of prevention, harm reduction,
treatment and enforcement.
The TDS contains 68 recommendations, 17 of
which are designated as priorities. A panel of
municipal, institutional and community repre-
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tersectoral co-ordination and co-operation
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your friend does not
jump into another rela-
tionship with the same
outcome.
The law would very
much like to help and do when
they are able but due to not having enough
insight to the real problems they are stuck
without real answers and this does make
things much worse.
I pray this helps
Blessings Springeagle
Dear Springeagle:
Perhaps, but...."Let he who is without sin
cast the first stone."
Is this nothing more than a justification for
doing anything a person might want?
How can anyone accept this as any kind of
rule to live by?
This type of confusion is what made me
give up on the Catholic Church.
Joseph
Dear Joseph:
This Rule: "Let he who is without sin cas
the first stone!" only pertains to the fact that
we are not to judge and cast guilt on others
without making sure we are not guilty our-
selves of sin.
We all sin throughout our lives and we have
gotten into a bad habit of punishing others for
doing the same as we have done or do and
have just not been caught doing the act.
If you look into the rest of the story regard-
ing Mary and the stone throwing,
Christ was stopping the crowed from vertu-
ally killing her for prostitution. But many of
the men in the crowed used her services of-
ten. Therefore they were just as guilty as she
was for the acts in the first place.
Christ did not say it was not wrong to pros-
titute, he showed a better way to deal with the
problem using compassion, understanding
and forgiveness.
I am not Christian but I have studied all
religions and Christ is one of my best teach-
ers.
Any time you come across this type of
Prophecy you have to look deeply into the
story that coincides with the message to fully
PHILOSOPHY
for yourself.
I live by Christ's
teachings of do to
others as you by Angel Femia of LoveCry
do, and believe
that there is no greater Heaven than love.
Please do not confuse me with the Christian to be angry, but anger is offensive to one's
religion, in which I have no part in, though I peace of mind.
will not go on about the Bible, as would be
rude past a brief history, I will say that Christ cially when it is serious offenses is not easy
I am 30 years old, and have hated the way
the American lifestyle to the point where I
have spent a great majority of my time alone we have something to be mad at, and due to
by myself in meditation.
A person's issues, as I'm sure you will
agree, with other individuals keep one out-
side of peace, as internal conflicts cause one ger and conflict take away peace, and lead to
there life, disrupting one's personal peace.
Without peace, as even a child knows, life whom we have conflicts with, and looking
is conflict. When peace is taken away, there over small issues that lead to larger issues,
can be no pleasure in life, as without peace
work on implementation of recommendations
#7 (prevention for children and families) and
#10 (comprehensive prevention for youth).
A CRISIS MODEL WORKING GROUP
to work on recommendation #27, which in-
volves developing a service model for 24-hour
crisis support for people who use alcohol and
other drugs.
A NEIGHBOURHOOD STRATEGIES
WORKING GROUP to work on recommen-
dation #45, which involves developing local
strategies to reduce drug-related crime, and also
#22 regarding limiting the concentration of li-
cenced establishments.
We are looking for broad community rep-
resentation within these groups. Membership
requirements are to:
support a comprehensive approach to sub-
stance use that includes prevention, harm re-
duction, treatment and enforcement.
support the mission and principles of the
Toronto Drug Strategy (see pages 7-9 in the
TDS which is available online at www.toronto.
ca/health/drugstrategy).
commit time to attend monthly meetings,
including pre-meeting study and review of
agenda and supporting materials.
reflect the diversity of Toronto including
understand what Christ is
trying to say.
Remembering always that
Christ talked in proverbs
and his explanations are usu-
ally found in his story telling.
Love, Light and Peace:
Springeagle
Dear Springeagle:
What is 'Wicca'? What are their main views
and activities? Are they a cult/occult? (what
is the difference between cult and occult?)
Thank you Layla
Hi Layla:
Wicca is not a cult at all. It is the belief in
the Mother Goddess, Mother Nature and all
that is created by the higher powers.
The main rules are: do not lie, do not inten-
tionally hurt any other living being, respect to
all creation, and love. It is a simple belief sys-
tem and there is much discipline involved
within the practice.
Cults are groups of people. People fear the
word and apply it to groups they fear.
Wicca is the belief and love of Nature and
all it is.
It has virtually nothing to do with Wicca.
Wicca is a religion and sometimes works with
magick but sometimes not.
Blessings Springeagle
Dear Springeagle:
One of my friends has been losing a lot of
weight and I think that she may be doing a lot
of drugs. What drugs can be taken to make
you lose weight? I know that like cocaine
makes you less hungry so then you lose
weight. But what else?
Than you
Mary Anne
Hi Mary Anne:
Losing weight does not always mean that a
person is on drugs. Many other things can
attribute to a lose of weight as well, such as
emotional issues not dealt with properly.
It is not necessarily the drug that causes
weight loss but the attitude changes and emo-
tional problems the person is living within.
There would also be attitude changes, tem-
perament changes and life changes if this per-
there is internal
turmoil, and in-
stability.
Think of a person
that you have
issues with, and
you will become angry, naturally people like
Forgiving people of there offenses, espe-
give offenses unless they have something to
gain other than peace.
Peace is taken for granted in everyday life
by most of us, we naturally like to prove that
our personal pride, also we try to prove to
ourselves that we are the one that is right in a
conflict with another. This is disruption; an-
The road to peace is understanding those
and disrupt our natural peace.
gender, ethnoracial background, ability and
sexual orientation, geographic area of the city,
and experience related to substance use (active
or former user, family member, service pro-
vider, etc).
If you are interested in participating in any of
the working groups, please contact Susan Shep-
herd by Friday September 8th, 2006.
Susan can be reached by email at
sshephe1@toronto.ca or phone (416) 338-0923.
Please outline your interest, experience and any
agency, group or network affiliations.
Please note that spaces are limited and we
may not be able to accommodate all interested
parties.
Thank you, Susan Shepherd
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son had a drug problem.
Weight loss would only be one of the many.
To my knowledge the drug that usually is
attributed to losing weight is speed.
Other drugs do effect weight loss but not to
the degree you speak of. Any drug with speed
in it will block hunger but this person would
have to be taking lots of it, on a daily basis to
have the kind of effect you are asking about.
Blessings
Springeagle
Dear Springeagle:
Hello I have a good friend online that I am
very close too and would like to help out. She
has no confidence in herself and is trapped by
her current situation. Which is she is stuck
with an abusive husband. I won’t go into de-
tails. But things are getting quite bad and I
fear she stays there much longer she will take
her life early. She does not know what to do
or where to go from here. She has two kids
and is scared to leave because she fears that
this person would come after her and her chil-
dren. She has got the police involved before-
but it made no difference and just resulted in
things becoming worse.
So any theories on what she should do next
or information on any places that can help
and deal with this type of situation would be
greatly appreciated. She lives in Pennsyl-
vania.
Thanks Joan
Dear Joan:
You friend will have to get completly out of
the relationship that she is being so abused in.
There is no other way.
She will also have to seek proper therapy
for all the wounds and addictions she has
been left with.
Due to the fact that she even got herself into
such a relationship shows that her abuses
started long before this relationship. These
scars need to be attended to as well.
One of the worst problems as victims of
abuse, is our addiction to pain and comfort-
ability. These have to be attended to so that
your friend does not jump into another rela-
tionship with the same outcome.
The law would very much like to help and
do when they are able but due to not
having enough insite to the real problems
they are stuck without real answers
and this does make things much worse.
Blessings
Springeagle
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The person who is at complete peace can
make no enemies, as he will not lean towards
those things that cause one to be offensive
towards others.
The opposite of peace is war, and war hurts
no matter how you count it.
Love is the emotion that gives, while lust is
the emotion that takes for one's self, and if all
are taking for themselves as is the spirit of
the world, especially in my own American
culture, rude Americans are real, and can't be
tolerated in daily life, as to say. If you have
been to an American city, then you know
what rude is.
Ancient Tibet was a wonder in history, as
the whole society was at peace, proving that
in the proper mindset, this can be done.
Each individual has their own world, there
own life and memories. Each person has
there own goals in life, and there own per-
sonal past. One thing may have great mean-
ing to you, and nothing to another.
Blessings — Angel
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