Has Anyone Ever Been In This Situation

Has anyone ever been in the situation where the only way they could succeed or have a normal life was if they cut out everyone from their past?

I'm so sorry this where you have arrived in your life. 2 years ago, I had to cut out my whole family because of toxic relationships. I did not talk to my family for a whole year and I was living in a different state. It was the hardest year of my life. I would cringe every time someone would ask me about my family. I was hurting and I was extremely confused. The hardest time of all was thanksgiving and Christmas. While everyone was going home to see family, I stayed at my apartment alone for Thanksgiving and visited a friend for Christmas. What I learned through this experience was that friends will never be family. As much as they love you, they will never be there for you as much as family members can. You didn't explain why you want to cut out every single person in your life but whether you like it or not, you need people in your corner. No one can survive in this world alone. Why do you also want to cut out your friends? It's hard to give any advice because I don't know the specifics of your situation but I would advise you to focus on your sanity, well-being and happiness. If you need to move to another city, do that. It will take sometime to develop new relationships with people but it can be done. If you're religious, you can seek refuge in a church community (hopefully these people will actually be helpful and not exploit your vulnerabilities). If you're not religious, you can meet people on meetup dotcom. Developing new relationships in your emotional state could be very disastrous if you're not careful. Some people can sense weakness and some friends can also exploit your vulnerabilities. Finding true friends who deeply care about you will take time and great effort. There are so many books out there about toxic families and those books helped me out a lot during that year. You should get a few of those and read them. There are also tons of videos on Youtube. I also did a little bit of therapy. Therapy did not help me much though. In all, I had to do the work myself. I truly understand how difficult this time is for you. I just hope that everything will work out well for you. Since you're anon, it will certainly be helpful to be more specific about your situation so that others can be of more help. I send you love and positivity and wish you all the best during this difficult time. Be strong. I know you will get through this.

Has anyone ever been in a situation were an ghostly figure has appeared only to warn them of forthcoming danger?

I'm 46 years old now, going back till I was 14 years old I went down late on an October evening to fish for salmon on our local river, to get to the other side of the river I had to cross a waterfall, 3/4 of the way across the fall was a concrete fish pass to aide the fish moving up river, as the water was fairly high and it was darkening down very quickly and an earie mist was falling, on crossing halfway I looked on the pass and saw what I though was my father( who was still alive), I looked away for a split second then looked back to call out to my father, only to see that he'd disappeared, a fear came over me, and I turned back, on reaching the bank and looking back at the river a large tree was coming quite quickly towards were I'd have been, I couldn't have avoided this and would have been taken over the waterfall, my father was at home all evening. I told him of my ordeal he said this apparent figure was ghostly but friendly as it warned me, he also told me many years ago my uncle found the body of a suicide victim just yards from the figure I saw, was it this that warned me, in truth I think some thing appeared to save me

Has anyone ever been in a life threatening situation in a group of people and found that suddenly everyone believed in god and started praying?

My sister and I used to fly over the Rocky Mountains two to six times a year, depending on the schedule of our divorced parents.Anyone who has ever flown over the Rocky Mountains can tell you that it's very turbulence prone. Never once did we have a smooth flight. Regardless, a few bumps are fine.On one particular flight, however, it was especially cold and the sky was unforgiving. I was sitting in the window seat, staring out of the thick plastic window. My sister was sitting beside me, drink ginger ale (yuck), and listening to music. We both looked up when the pilot fliped on the seatbelt light as heard his voice over the intercom. Some turbulence. No big deal.Not one minute later, we passed through one of the worst pockets of turbulence I have ever experienced.Do you know the feeling when you're on a very steep slide at a waterpark and it feels like a free fall?I had that dropping feeling in my stomach as we fell for what felt like a eternity. The lights flickered, someone screamed and-And someone put their cowboy hat in a air and said “yee-haw” and the whole cabin laughed.Sure, maybe it wasn't a life or death situation, but it sure felt like it.In situations like these, we react with our fight or flight adrenaline. Religion is second nature to us. So, in a situation where you turn off your brain and switch into survival mode, you will likely never find someone praying. You may hear an “oh God” or “please Lord” but those have become more like reactions than real prayers.So, in my experience, the answer to your question is no.

Has anyone ever heard of a situation in which a heterosexual woman willingly and knowingly married a man whom she had compelling evidence to believe was gay?

I know of 2 different cases where a woman was told by her fiancee that in one case “I am gay” and in the other, “I think I am gay”. Yes, they married the men anyway and both are now divorced. As an aside, neither man cheated on their wives, they just grew tired of the lies.Do I know why the women went through with the marriages? Frankly, I cannot conceive of a reason why they did it.

Have you ever been in a situation where a person is unaware of your ethnic or racial background and disparaged the group which you belong?

I was with my grandparents on a cruise that set sail from Fort Lauderdale to the Caribbean. I had befriended two brothers who lived somewhere in the US, around my age — early twenties.One day I bumped into them in the casino, where, along with their father — a successful businessman — they were all gambling away.The first time one of the brothers had said “You jewed me!” I thought I had misheard him. Then the other brother said the same thing, and so did the father.They were laughing as they said it, smiling and guffawing and elbowing one another. None of them looked at me. I don’t think they realized I was Jewish.What they meant with the verb “to jew” was to cheat within a financial context. To fleece or swindle or take money by conniving means. They were saying it whenever they lost money.It was a strange experience. Growing up, my grandmothers and even mother would talk occasionally about the persecution of the Jewish people, about the Holocaust and anti-semitism as, unfortunately, still alive and kicking in the world.And not that I think these were “bad” people, or that they were planning some ethnic cleansing, but the way they threw that word around, disparaging and boxing a whole group of people into the whole “money swindlers” category, was disturbing.

Have there ever been any successful hostage situations in history? Did the perpetrators ever get away with the money?

In 1971, an unidentfied man who went by the alias D.B Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 that was going from Portland to Seattle. He had a bomb in his briefcase, which he used to hijack the planeHe managed to extort 200,000 dollars and 4 parachutes from the airline company Northwest Orient.When the plane landed in Portland, all the passengers were allowed to leave, save for a few crew members. He then received his money and parachutes from a Northwest Orient operating manager. The plane was refueled according to his demandThen, he proceeded to make the plane fly to Reno, and jumped out halfway though, making sure the pilot kept the cabin unpressurized and the rear door open.Nobody knows who he was, or what happened to him, but the FBI claims he probabaly didn't survive. Some of the ransom money was found in 1980 on the Columbia river, but the mystery remains unsolved.(A 1972 FBI composite drawing)D. B. Cooper - WikipediaKeep in mind, because air travel is so restricted nowadays, this hijacking probably can't ever be mimicked again, especially in the United States.