for the protectors [venting and advice]

Hey Pixie (on Zor's team). You want to talk here? Be good to hear from you.

Annette - You guys alright? Any break in the heat? Like to hear from you. AC still working good?

Haven't seen the new T is a couple of weeks. She was on vacation. The tension is building inside for the next session. Thoughts all over the place. Getting switchy just thinking about it. Guess we're going to find out how good she really is.

Watched Battle: Los Angeles last night. Good movie. Marines vs space invaders. Super realistic. Good action. Make sure you keep the Littles out of the way.

Colin

What is it with ######6 bible bashers???? In the supermarket letting petter skip down the isle (got a few strange lokks I can tell you) and a jehovas witness comes up to us and starts preaching "the end of thte world is night TRUMP BREXIT GLOBAL WARMING only the chosen will go to heaven". peter is ######6 screaming. I take back control, try to get rid of her politely, she wont go, follows us around, so I poke holes in her arguments which calms peter down long enough for him to remember that revelations says the world ends in conflagration. As JoHo ain't pissing off I level that one at her and she tells us we are reading a satanic bible! @!£$%&* She shovaes a lode of leaflets in our hand and waltzes off. Peter wont stop crying until I point out in one of their leaflets that JoHos don't think Jesus is god so they are the one's reading a satanic bible.


I don't care what the ###$ you believe but keep it to your !£"$%^ self.

Sorry for the typos but $%^&)"$^& shaking with rage at the memory.

-Mo

On a lighter note hope your therapy goes well Colin did you get that hike?

Wyrmwood is a good one - people vs Zombies vs evil australian army dude. Keep the squeemish out the way for this one!

IainEtc wrote:Hey Pixie (on Zor's team). You want to talk here? Be good to hear from you.
Colin

Hi hi! Sure, sounds great!

{\Pixie/}

Hi every protector! I think I am the local protector. I acted like a shield for everyone and everybody for years untill Theia could not hold it any longer and everything fell appart and she had to re-organize the inside while I'm still trying to fugure out who I am when I'm not pretending to be everyone in a trenchcoat.

I tried to "protect" everyone by diving headfirst into every red flag possible (yes that was me the other day not Theia, we still have a bit of trouble telling each-other appart sometimes Theia and I). I tend to over-controll everything, get anxious about everything, run everywhere like a headless chicken, dive into redflags as if putting the whole body in difficult situations as me would spare everyone the resulting trauma - everyone inside and outside, since it's me who is preyed upon and not other outsiders.

Learning to let go and accept to get help from the other insiders and delegate the everyday actions is tough.

All in all, am I really a protector? I feel like I'm more putting everyone in distress by tring to suck up everybody's distress in me. Maybe I'm not a protector but I'm the one who needs protection... from myself.

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Zami

Pixie - Glad you're writing. Are those jerks still messing with you? That was p*ssing me off just reading about it.

Mo - Tell me about it! People preach to us all the F-ing time. I guess they can smell the trauma. Swoop in like buzzards. Some are F-ing aggressive! Host tries to be polite but that just makes us look easy. They get a surprise when I come out.

Zami - Everybody protects the best way we can. Keep writing to us.

Colin

MeMyselfMaureen wrote:In the supermarket letting petter skip down the isle (got a few strange lokks I can tell you) and a jehovas witness comes up to us and starts preaching "the end of thte world is night TRUMP BREXIT GLOBAL WARMING only the chosen will go to heaven". peter is ######6 screaming. I take back control, try to get rid of her politely, she wont go, follows us around, so I poke holes in her arguments which calms peter down long enough for him to remember that revelations says the world ends in conflagration. As JoHo ain't pissing off I level that one at her and she tells us we are reading a satanic bible! @!£$%&* She shovaes a lode of leaflets in our hand and waltzes off. Peter wont stop crying until I point out in one of their leaflets that JoHos don't think Jesus is god so they are the one's reading a satanic bible.

Holy crap, Mo. Did you report this to the store manager?

Where we live (right near a JW meeting hall, unfortunately), they set up their leaflet stands at locations at or near the railroad station. But they never approach people; they stand there and wait for people to approach them.

Don't engage with these people at all. Walk quickly past them and don't acknowledge them. And in situations where they persist, report them, or leave if there's no one who can have them removed.

We're sorry that you went through this.

MDs

Reminds me of how, in my country, they set up stands everywhere in town - never in stores, thanks Gods, neither are they allowed to directly engage you. Though sometimes they go door-to-door... One day, there was one who was parading in the tramway train, so we quickly took out the book about buddhism we were reading at that time, and put it open right in front of our face. The parading preacher made a U-turn in front of us and walked away. So I guess, it could work with any book about religion that is not in their beliefs.
Or wrapping a fake cover with pentagrams and goats and stuff on any random book you keep in your bag, and using it in a "vade retro" way. You gotta fight fire with fire sometimes.

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Zami & ~Theia~

Nice one Zami!

I had to go on the roof today. A limb was getting close to coming down wrong. Chainsaw got it down and into the yard. It was hard work and felt good. I need things not to be easy. Sometimes I get to fix things instead of getting aggressive. Feels good.

Colin

MakersDozn wrote:
Holy crap, Mo. Did you report this to the store manager?

MDs

No we didn't report it. Thought getting Peter some pickle onion space invaders was more important. (didn't find them in the end but looking helped cheer him up and calm me down)

ArbreMonde wrote:Reminds me of how, in my country, they set up stands everywhere in town - never in stores, thanks Gods, neither are they allowed to directly engage you. Though sometimes they go door-to-door... One day, there was one who was parading in the tramway train, so we quickly took out the book about buddhism we were reading at that time, and put it open right in front of our face. The parading preacher made a U-turn in front of us and walked away. So I guess, it could work with any book about religion that is not in their beliefs.
Or wrapping a fake cover with pentagrams and goats and stuff on any random book you keep in your bag, and using it in a "vade retro" way. You gotta fight fire with fire sometimes.

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Zami & ~Theia~

Now that's a tactic! Sectarianism is quite rife here so I'm not sure which one would give the most protection. When we are asked "Celtic or Rangers" I say "red lichties" confuses the hell out of people.

IainEtc wrote:Nice one Zami!

I had to go on the roof today. A limb was getting close to coming down wrong. Chainsaw got it down and into the yard. It was hard work and felt good. I need things not to be easy. Sometimes I get to fix things instead of getting aggressive. Feels good.

Colin

It's nice when we can be appreciated. Evan was singing your praises on the littles forum (I know strictly I''m over age but Peter is illiterate so I was being secretary.) he thinks you are very brave and super cool for letting him come on the roof with you.

Evan's a pretty good kid. I used to be hard on everybody. Made Evan cry a lot because I was such a harda*s. Worked with our T about protecting inside the system as much as outside. Evan learned how to be quiet and follow rules. I stopped yelling at him. He was great on the roof today. No crying or getting scared. Didn't try to touch the chainsaw. Stayed out of the way.

We've got people here way pushier than Jehos. They'll get in your face about how you're a miserable sinner going to hell. When you tell them to back off they yell 'Persecution!' Total losers making the decent ones look bad.

Colin