Who was your greatest negative influence in your life?  Who was the greatest positive influence?
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My parents were negative influences.  They fought all the time and my dad would beat my mother up.   (later in life, I stopped him with a knife to his hand)  My mom's idea of retaliation was to cheat on him with several other men.  I was brought up in an angry home, and I was an angry person for many years.  The positive influence in my life is Jesus.  I'm still not the way I'd like to be, but my belief in him keeps me pretty much in line.
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I had lots of good ones, and plenty of bad ones, but my favorite was Mr. Gursslin, 6th grade World History teacher.\n\nHe was interested and enthusiastic about his job, and he wanted each one of us to make informed decisions and think about things critically.  In fact, he didn't let us read our history book b/c he said it was really biased, so he printed things off the Internet for us to read before class.  These articles often were written from the points of view of other countries, so they brought up a lot of dilemmas I wouldn't have seen otherwise.  \n\nHe dressed up a few times, too - once as Eleanor Roosevelt even! \n\nDedicated, caring, and intelligent, he is remembered by my former classmates and me, and what he taught us has influenced us in our professional, economical, and personal lives.
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My ex-husband (at least that's his opinion).  He follows all the rules because he was the one making them up.  \n\nNot only did he follow the rules, but he was never wrong.  No wonder he's an ex!
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I think sometimes good people are good because bad stuff happens to them. I am one of those people. At times, I think I may be the unluckiest person in the world, however, I've learned some awesome lessons in every one of them. It doesn't get me down, I keep a positive attitude. Don't get me wrong though, it does suck.
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My aunt.  She was young and single and it was always fun to be around her.  She treated me like an adult, and was so funny.  She taught me how to laugh. She's still my favorite adult!!
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Getting saved in church.It made my life change knowing that Jesus died for my sin and that God will forgive me for all sin committed and all in future if i ask for forgiveness in his name. I know someone always loves me and will be there for me throughout my life in good times and in bad. Someone who is never ashamed of me for what i did or thought about doing but lets me know what I could do better and how to go about doing so.
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probably my dad because we have always been closer than me and my mother.  Dad has always been there for me and i've always been a daddy's girl
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I'm not sure I was heavily influenced by a president, but I'd have to go with George (the 1st).\n\nThat cherry tree story really affected me in kindergarten.
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The main factor I am not seeing in your analysis is that God gave us all free will. God wants us to choose to love him. If we were forced to love God, would that be love at all? Free will factors in all aspects of life. Your positive and negative experiences that you attribute to god favoring you with blessing, or punishing you, could be the results of someone else imposing their free will upon you. This is why in the Bible we are told to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. As not to impose our free will upon them and effect them in a negative manner. It sounds like you are struggling with some very important spiritual dilemmas, I will pray for you and I wish you the best.
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Yes sweetie I know what you mean . There are \nsome people who have a big impact on our lives .
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My son and my husband. They are the only people who have never let me down. My brother died when I'd only been dating my husband for 9 days, I expected him to run a mile but he never left my side. He is the sweetest, funniest most intelligent person I know. Our son is our life the day he was born was the best day of my life and I love them both more every day.
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I have lots of favorite people.  If I have to pick one.  My great grandmother.  She has seen more in her lifetime than I may ever be so lucky to see.  She raised children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and now how great-great-grandchildren.  She lived through a time when cars were model T's and the first commercial flights were prop planes.  She's seen wars and the depression and taught her family lessons from everything she's done.  Fascinating woman.  Strong, loving, brave, compassionate, beautiful even in her 90s.
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There are probably many who would make good relatives, but the first person that came to my mind is Bono from U2. Since we're close in age, I'd like to have him as a brother/cousin because I really admire him for his committment to helping the less fortunate and maybe he could be a positive role model for me and help me to be a little less apathetic.
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My best friend, Steffani, who has been there for me for the last 30 years.\n\nMy fiance, Arafel, who is now gone from this Earth, but the short time we shared together she gave me a life full of memories that I will always cherish.
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I had some great teachers when I was in elementary-h.s. and the best ones influenced me to go on and be a teacher myself. What I learned from them, I applied in my classroom. What I learned from the not so good teachers (thank goodness those were very few) I remembered never to do in my class.\n\nI went back and thanked my high school teachers who had an impact on me. I told them that they had such an impact, it influenced my future to become a teacher. It is one of the best things you can do for someone who did something positive in your life...reward them by telling them that.
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The person that affected me the most was my cousin. He had tumors since he was 5. Not once did he complain about chemo or any other thing he was going through.  He would care mor ebaout my problems before his, even when his tumors came back.\nEven until the point when he passed away a few weeks ago at age 20, he was still very courageous.\nThis courage and lack of self pity, not to mention selflessness really taught me all these and made me a better person. I know I'll neevr be anywhere close to the level of courage and strength he had, but the time he was alive, he not only gave me a reminder in my times of weakness, but strengthened my already strong love of religion and family.
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Awww....baby I'm sorry! \n\nOk first, you have to step back and forget the whole situation and focus on the person you refer to. Look at their life.......I mean seriously look at it. Whatever it was that they were angry about initially obviously has nothing to do with the situation at all, but their need to influence does. Ok so why do they need to have this influence? What is it that they are lacking otherwise in their life? Something has left them so insecure that they have to rally all those around them in order to have the focus and attention. \n\nOf course we can jump to the conclusion that this person is just ego driven and only is aware of things in terms of how it will effect them. But you so HAVE to step back and see why on earth they are like this. It's hard......but if you honestly want to get to the bottom of this and solve the issue, you so have to dig deep. Once you figure it out, you can feed that need of theirs in ways that allow them to react not so negatively and not so manipulatively. \n\nI know you girl. You are SOOO up for a challenge. Ok...well here you have one. Solve this one Sherlock! And once you do, and feed the fire in your brilliant way, I just KNOW you will see a change. :) \n\nLove ya!