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Re: True Story about Mind Control

Posted by Jo on January 24, 2007 at 12:39:57

In Reply to: Re: True Story about Mind Control posted by MG on January 24, 2007 at 02:27:38:

I started by commenting on Stockholm Syndrome- like factors because I thought it was an interesting topic and I was relating to an altered state of mind in the Family. Then I said something about us all deserving recovery after surviving that.
Seems someone took offense to that and felt like it meant I must be in cahoots with or supportive of Maria and Peter or top perps. It wasn’t what I was saying at all. Then when I tried to say that I wish there could be a sense of justice between people that were hurt and whomever hurt them, I was talked to like I lived in a bubble with no understanding of the futility of trying to find justice as an SG.
Posting on a forum is not the same as discussing in person or knowing someone like your children and discussing the past with them. I have done that. I also understand listening and have done that with my children who have been adults for quite some time now.
In that process I did listen and without trying to explain how I thought or what my experience was, but eventually it did naturally come around to that.
What gets me is that when trying to talk about any subject, if it is taken the wrong way, it is so easy to be stomped as a person that used to be FG. Sorry but I am not “FG” anymore.
I re-joined the human race decades ago. I worked thru these issues with my own family years ago, over a period of years. I don’t understand talking to me like I am clueless about how to listen or how to think or as if I am living in some sort of bubble and can’t possibly understand someone else’s pain.
I have a lot of pain of my own that I have dealt with and I have worked with others with all kinds of pain. I do understand pain. I do understand the need to be validated when you can’t get it from the source you need it from. I think it best I quit discussing anything here because it seems like an act of masochism to me at this point in time.