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Anyone who is surprised, please turn in your empathy card at the desk. Oh, also, your humanity card.
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Hi Janet. I love your comment. Please turn in your empathy card at the desk. Oh, also, your humanity card. I agree 1000%. These people feel no one’s humanity, they don’t care about other’s pain. If they can no long count on your support they lose all interest in your existence. They are totally transactional. Love them, adore them, or stop existing. Hugs. Scottie
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Presumably there will be ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ for the grieving families?
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Hi Roger. 😍🧡☮✝☪☸✡☯💙 I tried to find a universal religious symbol but sadly no one has created one yet. While your comment and your feeling behind it resonated with me, far too many will have missed it. I agree with your feelings but I think many will miss the intent.
Sadly too many think thoughts and prayers is the end of it, don’t they. Like you I know it is the beginning. Caring for others doesn’t end with praying, it starts with it. Even an old former Christian turned atheist like me understands that. But for some talk about thoughts and pretending to pray is all they can bring themselves to do. As always, loves and hugs for you and Sheila. Scottie
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Hi Scottie I think the closest one symbol up on the net at the moment is 🙏, but yours resonates perfectly.
As for these folk who claim Christianity in Matthew 15:8 Christ says ” “This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me”. – which about sums up what’s coming out of the Republican Party these days.
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Roger just a thought if you would. Would it be respectful to if I included that in my sign-off to you? I know how important your faith is to you and I want to honor that without stepping on toes or being offensive. Hugs. Scottie
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Of course Scottie. It’s no problem at all, but thanks for your concern.
It seems to be quite a common one now, used by folk who are both theist and atheistic as a general greeting and sign off.
A sort of common ground
I still think fondly of a snippet I heard on a USA radio religious show podcast; they had a moderate outlook.
The guest was a scientist who was an atheists who came on quite often to talk ‘science’. She said:
‘And I get letters from listeners who say I know you are an atheist but we still pray for you,’ then she added warmly ‘ which is a kinda nice thing for them to do,’
That quite inspired me.
We should always strive for that common ground.
Best wishes Scottie.
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Thank you. 🤗🙏☮💖 Scottie
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Much appreciated Scottie
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To cater to the right wing fascist, religious, bloc, has severe consequences. But it won’t bother those who set this up to happen. They revel in it. Because to them, this is the right thing. God will take care of them donchaknow.
Disgusting people, with far too much power and credibility.
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Hi Shelldigger. I agree 100%. Pretending to care while only wanting power over female bodies. They know the entire thing is not scientific and all to cement male power. I hope these legislatures never get laid again in their lives.
Hope you are well and got some diving in this summer. I guess it is getting too cold for it now. Did you get a good haul in this year? How has the profit been on them the last few years? Best wishes. Hugs. Scottie
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Ha-ha! I hope their wives Lorena Bobbit them 🙂
Still going with the diving thing. As much as weather will allow. I might get another 3-4 weeks before I’m out, due to too frigid water for my old bones. I still have room for maximizing my profit for the year. I’m going to get it, if weather and my back cooperate.
Hope your days are better than your yesterdays!
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Hi Shelldigger. I saved this to be sure when I answered in affirmative I would be telling the truth. Yes, Yes, Yes !! See I recently at the request of my spouse and my abuse supporting friend / brother who begged me to see what the site and trying to help everyone on it was doing to me. Randy loving put it to me that a lifeguard could swim out and help one, maybe at most two people who were drowning, but to do what I was doing was swimming in to a group of hundreds of people drowning and taking it on myself to help save each one … but in truth what was happening was the deeper in I got the more they were pulling me under so I was drowning also. Being an abuse victim with a high sense of empathy to other people I was taking all their hurts on me.
I don’t know if you saw it, but the original Star Trek had an episode where the bad guys were trying to force an empath who could cure others hurts to endanger herself to death to save Kirk from death. That was similar to what I was doing to myself. I was becoming so unstable in my own life and more driven to be on the site more and more hours to make sure I did not miss a post. But the finial straw that broke me was that despite all the site does to protect everyone this guy private messaged me and kept sticking a knife into my wounds twist and stirring as he was mining them for his own sexual pleasure and fantasies. That was the thing that was tearing me the most apart. I tried to help him at first as he claimed he saw me helping others and felt I could help him by sharing our abuse. OK that is normal. But instead of suffering from his abuse he started glorifying to the point of bragging he and his abuser kept repeating after he became an adult and had no intention of stopping. He kept drilling into the abuse my hell spawn siblings did to me, trying to make me say I enjoyed some of it. By the time I realized what he was doing to me I was already having horrible flashbacks, night sweats, night terrors, nightmares. Ron got worried when he saw me start to make the same defensive gestures with my arms / hands and kicking my legs like I used to do but got over. That was his clue that something was going very wrong. I was again talking and yelling in my sleep begging not to be hurt and pleading with my abusers, several times he woke me when I was screaming for help. To put it succinctly that bastard harshed my mellow and ruined my zen that I had managed to find.
Over that weekend Ron and Randy stayed with me, talking to me, explaining things. I call it intervention but they don’t. But they convinced me to take a break, to walk away from the site for a while. After the first week I already noticed a great improvement. As time is moving forward and I am again using what I was taught in therapy and spending a lot more time with Ron.
The first week we were almost always doing things together, which helped me get back to being grounded. Now I am seeing more clearly how deep into drowning I was myself and know what I have to do to heal. Part of that is to again get back to my second love, the blog and the people I met through it. Ron is of course my first love. Reading their blogs and adding my voice to them in a positive way that doesn’t tear at my very being like the Male Survivor did to me. That being said I still keep in touch with a few abuse victims I was having good communications with and still willing / demand to help those in trouble that I can safely do. To be very clear, I know most of my abuse, even those clouded by drugs to make me forget I have dealt with including being farmed out / trafficked by my hell spawn siblings for their own gain, so talking about them is not a problem for me. It was the constant swimming in the sewer tank and having the things that live there eating ever deeper into my abuse for their own sexual arousal is what got me. The one guy I mentioned was not the only one, but he was the worst and most blatant. It was too much like those hell spawn who abused me in my childhood and bragged to each other in front of me what they did. Then telling their friends in front of me so they felt free to do it also.
Damn that got long. Thank you very much my wonderful friend for letting me express all that. I think that is the first time I have done it in that detail since this all started. It was cathartic for me, but maybe not so nice / good of me to dump on you. Now I feel guilt again for doing it, another thing drilled into me from childhood, never make others sad or unhappy, my job was to please them, do it or be punished.
A large part of me is demanding I delete all of this and write a short note of thanks. I don’t want to. I poured a lot of my feelings into this. I hope you can understand. If not I will apologize, accept my responsibility and take my punishment with no complaint. Hugs. Scottie
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I’m glad they got through to you. Because I could see much of that from here.
Helping people is a responsibility we all have as humans, but you have to come first. When helping others is taking you down, you need to take some time, get away from it all, let your soul breathe.
We can’t save the world, but we can help a few. When it starts weighing on you, take a damn time out. Chill. Recuperate. It’s damn difficult to help someone else when you are drowning…
I mean all of that in the best way possible.
Hugs Scottie 😉
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Thank you. Hugs
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