Word: confessed
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Members often avoid telling new recruits the name of the group for as long as possible, calling their meetings a "non-denominational Bible study." At these meetings, new recruits are counselled to confess their sins before the group, creating what one cult expert calls a psychological "double bind." If they confess, they tie themselves emotionally to the group, but if they do not, they are torn with guilt...
Alas, no one. Having also forsaken family, friends and work in pursuit of the 100 hidden mines in the cryptic grid, I now come forward. Not just, however, to confess and admonish. This story has a happy ending. I come to heal. In the best Oprah tradition, I come to announce and share my cure...
...could be said that Greene was never a truer Christian than when forgiving even his un-Christian enemies. This is not to whitewash a self-styled scapegrace who had so many treacheries and transgressions to confess (though it is to give him credit for confessing so openly to them). If he could be unusually tender toward his enemies, he could be unnaturally negligent of his loves. In his championing of the voiceless, the forgotten, the oppressed, he could conceive irrational and implacable prejudices against those he regarded as Established (No?l Coward, say). And sometimes, by his own admission...
...must confess, though, that we are a bit nervous. In the dual interest of fulfilling your expectations and keeping up with contemporary campaign policy, we would like to propose a contract...
Well, I should confess my concentration: philosophy. But my field has undeniable legitimacy simply because it's so old and forbidding. Anyone can read fairy tales. Even little children. Especially little children! Sure, Socrates did tell the Myth of Er in Plato's Republic, but I like to think he was being facetious...