Renee Rothberg's Blog, page 13
March 14, 2019
Generalizations about cheaters
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The scandal about the company that enables cheating behavior to advance to universities of repute has pushed me to ask Spirit about cheating. I was curious if there are consequences to cheating, and I was fascinated to learn that there are generalizations about people who cheat. Here are five generalizations about the effects of cheating on people. For people who live in repressive societies, cheating is often necessary in order to live an authentic life, so those societies are not considere...
March 6, 2019
Congestion of the heart
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The heart is congested when the body is full of heartache. Heartache comes from unrequited love, unfulfilled dreams, loneliness, blocked arteries, and hunger for nutrition.
Unrequited love can be present in and out of relationships. A committed relationship does not guarantee that the heart is receiving its share of love. A heart requires loving relationships that pump it full of emotional sustenance. When relationships lack surety of love, the emotional sustenance is reduced and the heart i...
February 24, 2019
“Soul and Body Exercise” has been printed!
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I’m happy to announce that “Soul and Body Exercise–The EGC Daily Exercise Routine” has been printed and is available on amazon.com! This book is a wonderful way to bring physical fitness and spiritual balance together. The book contains exercises that strengthen the body, calm the emotions, invigorate the intellect, and open to spirituality.
From the introduction:
“When we exercise, we need to exercise more than just our physical bodies, because our bodies require balance in all four compone...
December 26, 2018
Loneliness is complicated
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Loneliness has many faces: the face of a child sitting alone at lunch, the face of a foreign worker in a room of coworkers who are local, the faces of many on social media who appear to be celebrating or joyful, the faces of spouses who hunger for connection, the faces of children who hunger for parental attention, the faces of friends who long to unburden their hearts, the faces of those who invest in things other than friendships.
Loneliness creeps up, and then it overwhelms with its all-e...
December 10, 2018
Causes of antisemitism
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Antisemitism has been around a long time and I want to know why. I’m asking Spirit for an explanation, and here it comes:
Antisemitism is connected to lack of order. The nature of people includes desire for order. All people crave structure and patterns, even people who think they don’t.
The nature of the Jewish religion is structure. It is a religion that builds on structure, and more structure. The people who live within its rules and regulations become intertwined with the rules, and they...
November 26, 2018
Unmistakably positive quirkiness
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People are positively quirky!
Each person develops an individual way of fathoming the world and of relating to others. No two people are the same, even if they look alike or they like similar things. The quirkiness lies in the depths of the personality and in the soul. No two souls are the same, and the differences manifest in words and actions.
Quirkiness is the word to describe people. The funny faces, unconventional comments, artistic individuality, musical expressions, unusual habits, an...
November 21, 2018
Deficit disorders
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The known deficit disorders are ADD and ADHD. They are prevalent in societies that are too structured. These invented disorders reflect their societies’ reliance on conformity and subservience.
When a diagnosis of ADD or ADHD is made, the authority person (doctor, therapist, or counselor) is reflecting society’s notion of proper behavior. The needs of the diagnosed person are unimportant. Even words of sympathy by these “authorities” are meaningless, because if they cared about the welfare o...
November 15, 2018
ADD subtracts
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Attention deficit disorder provides a cute acronym* that is easy to remember. ADD looks positive–unlike its actual intention, which is negative, victimizing, and debilitating. ADD subtracts. It adds nothing to anyone.
Lack of focus is a natural result of disinterest, mindless labor, nutritional deficits, or preoccupation with thoughts.
Disinterest has many sources. Its appearance is especially apparent in school. Mindless labor occurs in abundance. It’s in school, work, and daily drudgery....November 7, 2018
ADHD and ADD belong in the obsolete archives
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In the past, many “cures” were actually detrimental, and they were debunked and abandoned. The same should happen for the ADHD and ADD diagnoses and cures. The phenomenon of ADHD and ADD should be examined, debunked, and abandoned.
Attention deficit is not a disorder and it is not real.
People have always varied in their abilities to focus and absorb information. People haven’t changed, but social structures have, and people struggle to fit into the monotonous, straight-jacketed, and restric...
October 31, 2018
Down the rabbit hole of ADHD
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Life is a strange journey for children who are diagnosed with ADHD. The doctors prescribe stimulants, stimulants and antidepressants, antidepressants and non-stimulants, non-stimulants and digestive medicines (to counteract side effects of the non-stimulants), non-stimulants and caffeinated products, non-stimulants and eye medications (to counteract side effects of the non-stimulants), or other confusing combination of b0dy-altering drugs.
The parents believe the doctors and force the medica...
