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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 664965" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>And what happened to a certain poster, here on this site.</p><p></p><p>Me.</p><p></p><p>How fortunate we are, to have seen this; to have come to know the truth of it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Their eyes have been opened. To viciousness, to the cost of it; to the insidious lure of it.</p><p></p><p>As we are being divided and encouraged to hate manufactured victims, today.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There are many ugly stories in the Savage Garden.</p><p></p><p>Partial birth abortion; burgeoning prisons. A homeless, addicted generation, raised without heroes. People of color who prey on their own, fomenting hatred when it is only honor and the integrity come of it that could possibly save us, now. Wars funded on money borrowed from a dream, deferred. Women burnt alive in the name of a Church founded on the power in the choice to love, and to teach and forgive. The kitchen, the heart of the home, gone cold. Food eaten from sterile, cellophane packages that carry no scent. </p><p></p><p>In that tapestry I am always posting about, the Jewish people are the People of the Book; are the people who remember. </p><p></p><p>They are coming to the forefront, now. Not in vengeance, but in warning.</p><p></p><p>It can happen, these things that are unbelievable; they are happening, now.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ridicule first. Then, victimization, possible only because the ridicule was not addressed. The power in our words, in what we allow when we do not say STOP. </p><p></p><p>They believed it too, Copa.</p><p></p><p>Just like we believe what we were taught about ourselves.</p><p></p><p>Ridicule first. (What would Cedar do.) Then, victimization.</p><p></p><p><em>Who is the liar, here.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes.</p><p></p><p>We need to see them abusing us <em>through our eyes and not see ourselves being a thing destined to be abused, through theirs.</em></p><p></p><p>We need to do that.</p><p></p><p>That is how we see the wrongness in what was and refute it.</p><p></p><p>And refute the things that we were taught were true about us.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes.</p><p></p><p>And that potential to honor the self is what our abusers twisted and made it impossible for us to claim a right to.</p><p></p><p>Honor.</p><p></p><p>Integrity of self.</p><p></p><p>Until now.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>"Treat me fairly."</p><p></p><p>"Let me win. If I cannot win, <em>let me be brave."</em></p><p></p><p>Cedar</p><p></p><p>Copa, do you know Masada? The Jewish inhabitants committed mass suicide rather than to be taken captive. They honored themselves, they were able to honor themselves, to behave with integrity, because they had not been ridiculed. They had not been taught to hate themselves. They were not taught they had no honor to claim. they died, but they died with integrity.</p><p></p><p>Okinawa. The enslaved peasants were not allowed weapons. They developed a martial arts system based on using the tools at hand as weapons. The sharp sworded samurai came to destroy them for their rebellion. Knowing they would die, the peasants filled their stomachs with small pebbles, to blunt and twist and destroy the samurai swords as they cut the peasants in half at the waist.</p><p></p><p>Both stories are true.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 664965, member: 17461"] And what happened to a certain poster, here on this site. Me. How fortunate we are, to have seen this; to have come to know the truth of it. Their eyes have been opened. To viciousness, to the cost of it; to the insidious lure of it. As we are being divided and encouraged to hate manufactured victims, today. There are many ugly stories in the Savage Garden. Partial birth abortion; burgeoning prisons. A homeless, addicted generation, raised without heroes. People of color who prey on their own, fomenting hatred when it is only honor and the integrity come of it that could possibly save us, now. Wars funded on money borrowed from a dream, deferred. Women burnt alive in the name of a Church founded on the power in the choice to love, and to teach and forgive. The kitchen, the heart of the home, gone cold. Food eaten from sterile, cellophane packages that carry no scent. In that tapestry I am always posting about, the Jewish people are the People of the Book; are the people who remember. They are coming to the forefront, now. Not in vengeance, but in warning. It can happen, these things that are unbelievable; they are happening, now. Ridicule first. Then, victimization, possible only because the ridicule was not addressed. The power in our words, in what we allow when we do not say STOP. They believed it too, Copa. Just like we believe what we were taught about ourselves. Ridicule first. (What would Cedar do.) Then, victimization. [I]Who is the liar, here.[/I] Yes. Yes. We need to see them abusing us [I]through our eyes and not see ourselves being a thing destined to be abused, through theirs.[/I] We need to do that. That is how we see the wrongness in what was and refute it. And refute the things that we were taught were true about us. Yes. And that potential to honor the self is what our abusers twisted and made it impossible for us to claim a right to. Honor. Integrity of self. Until now. "Treat me fairly." "Let me win. If I cannot win, [I]let me be brave."[/I] Cedar Copa, do you know Masada? The Jewish inhabitants committed mass suicide rather than to be taken captive. They honored themselves, they were able to honor themselves, to behave with integrity, because they had not been ridiculed. They had not been taught to hate themselves. They were not taught they had no honor to claim. they died, but they died with integrity. Okinawa. The enslaved peasants were not allowed weapons. They developed a martial arts system based on using the tools at hand as weapons. The sharp sworded samurai came to destroy them for their rebellion. Knowing they would die, the peasants filled their stomachs with small pebbles, to blunt and twist and destroy the samurai swords as they cut the peasants in half at the waist. Both stories are true. [/QUOTE]
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