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Online Infidelity Site Hacked – Attackers Threatening to Expose “Cheating Dirtbag” Customers if Site Not Shut Down

The Leaders of Castimonia do not condone illegal hacking.  Nevertheless, we hope that some of the customers hit their true rock bottom because of this and enter a proper sexual purity recovery program.

Online Infidelity Site Hacked – Attackers Threatening to Expose “Cheating Dirtbag” Customers if Site Not Shut Down

Author: Anne Grahn
Date: 7/20/2015

​Large caches of data stolen from online cheating site A*****M******.com have been posted online by an individual or group that claims to have completely compromised the company’s user databases, financial records and other proprietary information. The still-unfolding leak could be quite damaging to some 37 million users of the hookup service, whose slogan is “Life is short. Have an affair.”​
According to the hackers, although the “full delete” feature that A***** M****** advertises promises “removal of site usage history and personally identifiable information from the site,” users’ purchase details — including real name and address — aren’t actually scrubbed.
“Full Delete netted ALM $1.7mm in revenue in 2014. It’s also a complete lie,” the hacking group wrote. “Users almost always pay with credit card; their purchase details are not removed as promised, and include real name and address, which is of course the most important information the users want removed.”
Their demands continue:
“Avid Life Media has been instructed to take A***** M****** and E********** M** offline permanently in all forms, or we will release all customer records, including profiles with all the customers’ secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails.”

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The Twelve Steps – VIDEO

Drama and suspense have never really been my favorite genres of movies but I am a big fan of Liam Neeson ever since he played a Jedi Knight in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.  And then there were the Taken movies where he single-handedly fights human trafficking!  I watch a lot of movies, not sure if you can tell and some have recovery themes and some do not.  Nevertheless, watching any movie with my “recovery glasses” allows me to spot recovery themes.  These themes can include alcoholism, drug addiction, support groups, honesty, courage, selfishness, selflessness, redemption, etc… that are portrayed in the movie. 

A Walk Among the Tombstones is one of these movies.  The plot of this movie has been pasted below courtesy of Google:

Matt Scudder (Liam Neeson), formerly part of the NYPD, now works as an unlicensed private detective. His latest client is a drug trafficker (Dan Stevens) whose wife was kidnapped and brutally murdered, and as Scudder delves deeper, he finds that the crime’s sequence is the modus operandi of the perpetrators. Before they can strike again and destroy other lives, Scudder races through the back streets of New York to catch the killers, blurring the lines between lawful and criminal as he goes.

 I’ll be honest.  The only reason I posted this movie was because Neeson’s character was a recovering alcoholic and he actively attends meetings and works on his recovery.  I really enjoy a movie that openly acknowledges the Twelve Steps even if the plot of the movie is not about recovery.  What I like about this movie is that Neeson’s character has suffered through a lot of trauma, especially against the brutal murderers in this movie and he still works his program, attends meetings, and believes in the promises of AA.

I hope you enjoy watching this video as much as I enjoyed creating it.  As always, take what you like and leave the rest.

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New Castimonia Meeting in Cypress, TX (Northwest Houston)!

I am humbled to announce that we will officially be starting a new Castimonia meeting on Thursday nights at Fairfield Baptist Church in Cypress, TX on June 4th!  This is our second meeting located in Northwest Houston.
Location information is written below.
Beginning June 4, 2015
Thursday Nights
Time: 8:00PM – 9:30PM
Location: Fairfield Baptist Church
Room 206/208
27240 Highway 290
Cypress, TX 77433
281.373.5446
This meeting should help those that live in far Northwest Houston who may not have the opportunity to travel down to Katy or Lifepath Church to a Castimonia meeting.
Praise be to God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for all He has done to grow His ministry!

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Courage and Hope

http://purehope.net/courage-hope/

by Noel Bouché

A few years ago, I was sitting in a coffee shop on the west coast with a man who was stuck.  He had recently confronted his sexual addiction by courageously confessing his years of porn use and promiscuous sex, and had begun to work with a Christian counselor and sexual addiction recovery group.  This had lifted a massive, secret burden from his shoulders and brought him to a new place of authenticity in his life.

Yet, there was a lingering doubt hanging over him like a dark rain cloud in an otherwise sunny sky.  Halfway through his cup of dark roast coffee, as he shared how difficult the journey was and how constantly the temptations flowed over him, he looked at me and asked, “When does it end?”

It struck me at that moment that this man had experienced the first thing that is necessary in overcoming sexual addiction: courage. But, he hadn’t yet fully experienced and embraced what is necessary to sustain perseverance and growth: hope.

Scripture is clear that courage and hope are fundamental to the Christian life. Over and over, the Holy Spirit exhorts us in the pages of the Bible to be of good courage, not to be afraid, not to be discouraged or anxious. This is a matter of the will that He empowers us to achieve.  Likewise, we are to hope and not despair.

The book of Romans develops this theme perhaps more than any other, teaching us that hope does not put us to shame (Romans 5:5), we are saved in hope (Romans 8:24), we can rejoice in hope (Romans 12:12), and that the God of hope fills us with joy that we may abound in hope (Romans 15:13).

There is hope for this battle.  We will one day see Him as He is and be like Him in perfect glory.  All those who have this hope purify themselves as He is pure.

“Be strong and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in the LORD.” Psalm 31:24

**This is an excerpt from the introduction to our Recovery resource.

Noel is the President of pureHOPE. His name is pronounced Noel like pole, not like noël.  But for this season you can pretend that’s the case because noël means “day of the Messiah’s birth”… which is pretty hopeful.

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The Art of Consideration

Many parents, especially in their later years, are alone as their children refuse to come near them as a result of being treated disrespectfully during their formative years. Many of such parents wish for their children; however, it was they who initiated the ill treatment which resulted in their children becoming totally alienated from them. Their children have emotionally, mentally, and psychologically severed ties with them forever. Some such parents become totally depressed and dejected that their children do not love or want to be near/with them; however, they sowed the seeds of such. There is a saying that children respond to parents and the outer environment the way they were treated in the parental home. Many parents refuse to admit that they can treated their children less than humanely yet they expect their children to afford them the utmost of love and respect. They are incognizant of the fact that in order for their children to love and respect them, they first have to love and treat their children with respect. Children tend to love and respect parents who treat them thus. Parents who love and respect their children treat their children as individuals with their own feelings and desires. They do not try to overrule nor to override their children’s feelings, desires, and/or opinions because they are children. They contend that although children are full entities, they are still developing human beings. These parents contend that developing human beings are bound to make some mistakes along the way, after all they are children and that is par for the course. They see such mistakes as natural and not a cause of alarm. Respectful and loving parents do not believe in discounting their children for whatever reason. They strongly maintain that whatever their children have to say or do, no matter how minor, is significant enough for them to pay attention to. They believe that their children are important enough for them to give the latter their time. They practice and teach the art of consideration to their children. When they enforce rules, they take into account their children’s respective emotional, mental, and/or psychological make up and act accordingly. From an article by G. M. Williams
http://gmwilliams.hubpages.com/hub/Children-React-to-Their-Parents-The-Very-Way-THEY-are-Treated

Fathers,
do not provoke your children,
lest they become discouraged.
Colossians 3:21