https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1483806914094018566
Who do you think will be next, if anyone?
Were you or someone you know the victims of a hit and run at around 6:00PM tonight?
A white Toyota 4Runner rear ended what appeared to be a dark blue Ford Explorer while exiting Memorial Dr (Eastbound) onto Waugh Drive.
I was 2 cars behind you and witnessed everything. I was able to snap a photograph of the car that fled the scene of the accident they caused, and the license plate is extremely visible. Police report has been filed.
If this was you, please DM me.
A comment today by someone pointed out to likely to be Paul Waugh himself posted this on r/cults:
>I have it on good authority that those trolling here that are company employees are currently having letters sent to their employers advising their (the trolls) companies of the criminal behaviour of their employees on here and other sites. I have heard that an ex-associate elect (a school teacher) has had a letter sent to her school and the school authorities in line with her criminal behaviour online.
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>I also have heard on good authority that the employers of trolls on here that have already received letters have taken serious action based on the reports and evidence provided. It was always going to come to this.. every one of them was warned repeatedly, but you all seem to think you are above the law and are a law unto yourselves!
Take note LIG members, take note!
EDIT: This video has been made private on YouTube. But I have a copy!
This video is entitled "Why did Lighthouse International Group start? War on narcissism, Parents against trolls and trolling".
I'm confused!
From the comments by those attacking those speaking out against abuses, there is a theme of needing to acknowledge that parents and families are to blame. Certainly that is what I get from this video.
So shouldn't the video really be entitled "Why did Lighthouse International Group start? War on activists?, Narcissists against Parents?"
Incidentally, if you have never encountered the phrase "Word Salad" do watch the video and you will quickly understand what it means. Paul does it when he meaninglessly riffs on a book title for a good 10 minutes.
This segment of the video is something to behold! This segment surpasses it. There are parts of this video that are despicable and someone needs to archive it for later use. I refuse to highlight those sections as they victimise those speaking out, Shame on this man. As someone who suffered abuse as a child I am disgusted at this "man".
Following the supposed success of Paul Waugh speaking on ITV , an invite has now been issued on the back of this supposed success. The piece only lasted a minute if that. As for being a consultant about trolling , maybe ITV will have done a bit of due diligence and feel with all this online discussion about their business practices they might not be so keen. Who knows. Anyway I digress, back to the invite.
- Keen members working on Boxing Day to post this new information on Linked In - credit to them for their dedication. Hope they had time with their families too.
- Firstly however they try and set the tone as reasonable it doesnβt quite come off, although credit fir being supposedly open.
- Practically speaking asking everyone - LIG members, ex members family and friends to all suggest dates and then to find a mutually agreeable group one is a challenge. Why not just set a date? Make it easy.
- As for why people stay on here , weβve all seen the sometimes open attack on ex members and many ex members and family have been threatened with legal action , for what who knows!? Paul Waugh also in his videos does not show an open and accepting attitude towards ex members and continually talks about toxic families.
- LIG do value family but as from the videos and my experience they always talk about toxic friends and family , if you look at the LIG members many on the new blog talk about how their family is toxic. Itβs all very subtle!
- Why is an invite needed? They apparently answer all our questions there!? Surely if they just provided the info we wanted rather than just post general comments it would help. Rather than just keep Saying why they donβt need to provide paperwork or what else we ask.
- What are these ongoing investigations into our legitimate commentary and insight? They offered a reward a little while ago if information led to prosecution. No one has contacted me. Anyway letβs see what 2022 brings. Hope, health and happiness.
Catholicism is obviously a very obvious theme brought in the book. Many characters have some sort of conversion or rebirth in the book, but what about it is specifically catholic? Is it only the fact that the main characters were largely Catholic? If that is so, what about it is specifically Catholic and not Christian in general?
I think the book is absolutely wonderful, I love the characters specifically Sebastian Flyte. I think I can see a bit of myself in him, he tries all he can to cover up his unhappiness and projects an image of frivolity, but it catches up with him in the end, all his wealth can't cure his unhappiness. Charle Ryder is looking for meaning and is hollow. He thinks that Sebastian has found meaning and becomes enamored with him.
I think Sebastian and Charles represent the same person but in different situations. They both have this lack of purpose that they are looking to fill, Sebastian tries to fill it with all the riches and alcohol of his family, it fails. Charles tries to fill it with his painting and the appearance of a perfect, English family, it too fails. I believe that they are essentially the same person at the start of the book, just Sebastian is farther along in the sad path they both walk down.
I think the purpose of the teddy bear Aloysius is to show how Sebastian is desperately clinging on to a childlike feeling of happiness that he no longer experiences, Aloysius is him clinging on to that happiness that no longer exists.
I would love to hear what the rest of you thought of the book and my interpretations of the characters.
This morning a member of LIG, u/Faw1tyT0wers, who one astute observer suggests may be Waugh himself, posted to r/cults the following:
>There are a number of posts here on Reddit from people asking questions about Lighthouse International Group. From this site it doesnβt look like they are hiding away at all. Many, many posts by those involved with their real names. There is a lot of substance there backed up by PhD studies..
https://www.lighthousecommunity.global/
Reddit's automated spam filters are now picking up LIG posts to r/cults!
The post was removed by Reddit's spam filters!
Comments on Reddit by the user-who-posted do have the sound of Waugh's Word-Salads. I see NO links to articles in Journals; so where are these PhD studies? No link, no substance.
Have we reached peak-LIG? Is there more to come?
As an observer I wish those who have left LIG a very Merry Christmas. I will be monitoring his posts over the holidays and keeping your back.
To those family members who have been disconnected from concerned loved ones by LIG's malignant message I know something of how this is and how this hurts you.
To those within LIG, I offer something that might create some good this holiday. Feel free to reconnect with yourself, the self that existed before LIG trespassed in your life. Reconnect with those who miss you. There is a New Year approaching.
And if you can't do that because your family of origin really is narcissistic or abusive, then I will be here for you on Christmas day. Such families do exist, but they do not exhibit members who try to reach out with loving intent. I'll be here.
A Merry Christmas To You All!
AN ACCOMMODATING ADVERTISEMENT AND AN AWKWARD ACCIDENT:
Archibald Anderson, an able artist, and an acknowledged authority at all artistic assemblies after adventuring abroad all about Australia and America, and acquiring an admirable album artistically arranged, according as an accomplished artist accounted apt and appropriate, and admired amazingly among all artists as artistic and amusing, again, alleging as actuation an assiduous and absorbing activity, and an ambition all athirst after artistic accomplishments, and aiming at advantageous achievements, arranged another adventure across Asia, and accordingly appointing an accommodating and agreeable acquaintance, an affable Anglo-American, as agent (active agents accurately advised and amptly authorised always affording advantageous assistance, arranging affairs and adjusting articles, and anticipating and arresting awkward and adverse annoyances, and almost always alleviating anxiety and allaying anger and aggravation), after absent-mindedly and abstractedly, although apparently attentively, approving and adopting all arrangements as appropriate, and as auguring an agreeable adventure abroad, and after amiably answering all admiring acquaintances' affectionate adieus, abandoned an attractive abode, and attired as adventurers abroad always are (an attire apparently about as antiquated as any ancient and antediluvian age anytime adopted, and as affrighting and absurd as any art anytime achieved), and armed abundantlyβapprehending attacks abroadβagainst any audacious assailants and aggressive assassins, Archibald advanced along, astonishingly active and agile, and approached an ancient alehouse, an appledealer's abode, an appledealer advertising as an amateur and aspiring artist, anxiously awaiting (as advertisements announced) all artist's and artist's agents arrangements anent adventuring abroad, and affording all advantageous assistance and appropriate aid; and again, advertisements also announced as an available acquisition, "an article aptly accommodating adventuring artists' apparatus and appliances, and all accustomed accessories;" and as Archibald arrived and asked about advantageous assistance and an article aptly-accommodating (as advertised) "adventuring artists' apparatus and appliances, and accustomed accessories," an applecart appeared approaching, and "an amateur and aspiring artist" alias an accommodating appledealer, actually affirmed and avowed (and an Anglo-American agent agreed and app
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I've done some teaching and I sometimes think of this quote in class. Perhaps when the topic of careers is brought up, sometimes when I notice a failing student's dejection with the world and often when I see the kids' bright eyes and full smiles, blissfully ignorant of what awaits them later in life.
This morning I briefly biked on the new bike lanes on Waugh between W. Gray and W. Dallas and saw construction crews laying concrete curbs on the bike lanes going south-bound. Green paint all over the lanes and the W. Dallas/Waugh intersection. Got me super hyped for safer biking, hope the bike path/barrier will eventually extend up to Washington across Memorial & Allen Parkway as well as down to Westhiemer.
Plenty of broken glass and debris on the new bike path but I wonβt complain too much
