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Message 155223 (In Reply to Message 155189)
Is it anger, hatred or pain?


Posted by newmind6 on Jul 05, 2005 05:56 PM | Also by newmind6
Gender: Male, Age Bracket: 40 - 49, State: Pennsylvania, Country: United States
I do not pretend to know the guilt or innocence of this man. I do know that when a person (guilty or not) makes the choice to take their own life then they are indeed in anguish. Perhaps he is innocent and knows the climate in which he will be tried. Perhaps he is guilty and wishes to escape the physical punishment that he knows he deserves. Or perhaps he is guilty and racked with the knowledge of his own awakening to just what he has done. No, I don’t know. But what I read is anger.

What benefit is there for me to vent anger or hatred towards this person? Does it cast them deeper into hell? Does it more assuredly define their place in heaven? Or is it perhaps that something is happening for which I feel powerless to prevent or intervene?

We can’t stop a child from being abused; only God can do that and yet he chooses to not do so, why? Why does a plane crash and one person in a seat dies and yet the person next lives? These are greater questions than my human and finite mind can comprehend. But I can get angry; I can express my hatred for this vile person. I can step up on my soap box and proclaim to the world that since I am so outraged at this person, and so believing that they deserve hellfire and damnation, I must therefore be good. Ah, how that strokes the self-righteous ego.

But I think most of all it is that children are being damaged, women are being stripped of their sense of safety, elderly humans are being victimized of their wellness, and we as a society do not see the direct results of intervention. So we feel powerless. We don’t like what is happening and what we really want is for it to not have happened in the first place. But it does happen. No matter how many laws are passed people are still murdered every day in my city. No matter how many of my neighbors know of my presence (and they all do) the father living next door to me raped his own daughter. And yet he was among the first to ask me to move, Hmmm.

It is impossible to crawl into the soul of an abused child. To know that ache that sits right behind their heart and from time to time makes it difficult to breathe. An ache that makes you question whether indeed you are even human. A machine, that’s it, a machine knows no pain, but sadly neither does it know love. When I treat children I find that the ones in the greatest pain (burn victims or auto trauma) cry the least. Their system has been so overwhelmed with the pain impulses that they shut down and become numb for a time. But as they begin to heal, as the neurons regenerate and the connective pathways are re-established, then they scream out in pain. Then they know the devastation that has come to their bodies.

I wonder if those who scream out the loudest are those who are beginning their own healing process. If this is true then I say scream. Scream loudly and often. Do whatever it takes to heal.

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Message 155189


Posted by Silverthorne on Jul 05, 2005 10:20 AM | Also by Silverthorne
Gender: Male, Age Bracket: N/A, State: Arizona, Country: United States

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154120, admin, Jun 18, 2005 12:47 PM [Introduction]
      155118, mawmaw, Jul 04, 2005 05:50 PM
            155121, steve, Jul 04, 2005 06:03 PM
            155139, LostTime, Jul 04, 2005 11:26 PM [really?]
                  155147, dp1, Jul 05, 2005 12:16 AM
                        155149, LostTime, Jul 05, 2005 12:47 AM
                              155214, dp1, Jul 05, 2005 03:32 PM
                                    155227, rabbitreborn, Jul 05, 2005 06:12 PM
                                          155251, dp1, Jul 05, 2005 10:25 PM
                                                155310, rabbitreborn, Jul 06, 2005 03:05 PM
                  155189, Silverthorne, Jul 05, 2005 10:20 AM
                        155223, newmind6, Jul 05, 2005 05:56 PM [Is it anger, hatred or pain?]
            155362, Scaye, Jul 07, 2005 05:26 AM
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