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originally posted by: daskakik
This is BS. The email subject is "You two free for dinner on 12 or 13 January?" and the actual phrase is "Would love to get a pizza for an hour?"
Don't know where rent came from. But if you can set an hour aside, you sure can go out and "get" pizza.
originally posted by: tetra50
originally posted by: Astrocyte
a reply to: tetra50a reply to: tetra50
It's hard to understand for people who aren't deeply, deeply traumatized.
People who do this to children may have a way of interpreting it as "love is good, never bad". But this interpretation ignores choice - as if children weren't fundamentally programmed to seek guidance from adults. Ultimately, there may emerge a status quo "well, it happened to me, and one day they too will be able to do it to another child", in which case, every abuser-child molester were themselves abused/molested by adults when they were younger - and so a trauma-traumatize cycle emerges as a function of a complete hedonistic disregard of what produces wellbeing in the human being.
It's hard to understand for people who aren't deeply, deeply traumatized.
People who do this to children may have a way of interpreting it as "love is good, never bad". But this interpretation ignores choice - as if children weren't fundamentally programmed to seek guidance from adults. Ultimately, there may emerge a status quo "well, it happened to me, and one day they too will be able to do it to another child", in which case, every abuser-child molester were themselves abused/molested by adults when they were younger - and so a trauma-traumatize cycle emerges as a function of a complete hedonistic disregard of what produces wellbeing in the human being.
I'll star you and tell you I quite understand and am definitively not new to anything you describe. That should be enough.
I am on your side, and understand entirely what it's about and how it happens. But surely that's obvious?
It's hard to understand for people who aren't deeply, deeply traumatized.
People who do this to children may have a way of interpreting it as "love is good, never bad". But this interpretation ignores choice - as if children weren't fundamentally programmed to seek guidance from adults. Ultimately, there may emerge a status quo "well, it happened to me, and one day they too will be able to do it to another child", in which case, every abuser-child molester were themselves abused/molested by adults when they were younger - and so a trauma-traumatize cycle emerges as a function of a complete hedonistic disregard of what produces wellbeing in the human being.
originally posted by: DJW001
originally posted by: daskakik
This is BS. The email subject is "You two free for dinner on 12 or 13 January?" and the actual phrase is "Would love to get a pizza for an hour?"
Don't know where rent came from. But if you can set an hour aside, you sure can go out and "get" pizza.
Thank you. As I suspected, people are deliberately twisting things and it is the twisted version that is getting bounced around the echo chamber. This returns us to the question: "Why do people want to believe this?"