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lynn as guest:
Hello friends,

Jacmac, I am so sorry for the vast hardship you have endured.  Children shouldn't ever have to live through that kind of experience.  I am happy that you are moving forward.

My thoughts about memories... I also have a really difficult time remembering my childhood.  As far as I know, I did not have any horrible things happen.... yet, my childhood memories are disjunct and small --like a photograph in a scrapbook.  It's almost as if the memory comes from outside of me, not from within.  Yet I have no reason to believe that this is a result of a bad experience.

Sartre says that one makes choices in their life and creates their current reality through those choices.  In many ways I agree with this.  I believe that regardless of what my past was, this is what I am now.  It helps me to think this way.  It gives me a sense of self empowerment and courage.  

my best, lynn

muji:
Portia, No, I don't get that TV programme.  It does sound brutal though.  I wonder if we don't inherit habits and fears from our ancestors.  My grandmother used to keep everything.  So did my dad.  Everything my grandmother owned though had a story to go with it.  She had way too much stuff for one person though.  My uncle used to say that she loved her stuff more than she loved her family.  When she died, he held an auction and sold off all of her treasures.  We were given a few of her trinkets but for the most part, if we wanted something of hers, we had to bid on it like everybody else.  Guess he got her in the end.  

After a while though, all that stuff, just like our emotional baggage gets to be too burdensome and too bulky to keep around anymore.  What's the point.  It's like that statement from Sarte that lynn mentioned.  I think we can change our reality.  I had an awareness the other day while reading this board and after having had another uncomfortable exchange with my ex.  This pain and this false role of Mother Theresa has been my reality up to this point, this has been my karma.  But I'm done with it!  It's not mine anymore.  It doesn't belong to me.  I suppose it has served some purpose up to this point but I don't want or need it anymore.  It can't get me to where I want to be.  lynn, do you believe it's as simple as that?  Of course, getting to this point and bringing this to my consciousness so that I could see it for what it was, wasn't easy. That's what was required though for me to be able to say, it's no longer mine and truly believe it.  Is that what you think Sarte meant?  

muji

phoenix:
bye

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: lynn as guest ---Hello friends,

Jacmac, I am so sorry for the vast hardship you have endured.  Children shouldn't ever have to live through that kind of experience.  I am happy that you are moving forward.

My thoughts about memories... I also have a really difficult time remembering my childhood.  As far as I know, I did not have any horrible things happen.... yet, my childhood memories are disjunct and small --like a photograph in a scrapbook.  It's almost as if the memory comes from outside of me, not from within.  Yet I have no reason to believe that this is a result of a bad experience.

Sartre says that one makes choices in their life and creates their current reality through those choices.  In many ways I agree with this.  I believe that regardless of what my past was, this is what I am now.  It helps me to think this way.  It gives me a sense of self empowerment and courage.  

my best, lynn
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Excuse me Jacmac, but I couldn't help but notice in this thread that you never thanked Lynn or even acknowledged her post, but went on to respond to only one other, no thanks to anyone at all. I rest my case re your new post ' Voiceless in a Voiceless ness Forum." and why don't you come down from your high horse.
Not to mention that here above you not only did not not thank anyone at all, but you only responded to Pheonix. Not Muji or bunny or pp portia. Not one thankyou. You seemed to have lost interest in your own post topic. Talk about superficial triple standards. Where's the bucket.
Just wanted to point out to you how 5 people walked into the room and said hi to you and you only replied to one, the very thing you had a go at Lynn about. What horses**t


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