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Is it genetics, or is sociopathy somehow connected to drug use
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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 640946" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>I agree.</p><p></p><p>You know, I was thinking about the Catholic practice of confession, yesterday. To be aware that you would be required to confess even the things you thought that were not right, and then, to receive forgiveness and be given a way to recover self respect and to stand in a good light to yourself, in your secret self....</p><p></p><p>Those were excellent guidelines for all of us, and such things are now disparaged.</p><p></p><p>I was thinking too, about the practice of journeying or of making a pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime. This would be a time to unlearn all the things we chased after in our day to day lives, and to see who we really are without all that.</p><p></p><p>We don't do that anymore, either. Nor do we know persons who have done such things and come back changed.</p><p></p><p>These are terrible losses to all of us.</p><p></p><p>It truly does take a village to live a fully human life. But it seems our "villages" no longer support us in the ways that really matter. Narcissism and sociopathy...those do seem to be the primary values promoted these days.</p><p></p><p>It comes back to empathy. It comes back to understanding that who we are, alone, is who everyone else is, alone, and having compassion for one another, wherever we are on that journey life seems to be about.</p><p></p><p>While it is a simple thing to televise narcissistic values, and to glorify the self <em>or to market fear</em>, it is not so easy to create and display loyalty, or to capture the feel of real love between people (or between people and their pets, or the delight animals take in one another) over time, or humor that is not cheap and flashy and sarcastic.</p><p></p><p>Maybe that is why I like Dog TV.</p><p></p><p>I'm serious. There was a free trial of Dog TV over Thanksgiving. I put it on for the dog and fell in love with it, myself. Peaceful and happy and quiet and joyful and loving.</p><p></p><p>I read somewhere that the most important thing we can do for ourselves and each other is touch. Touching a hand in meeting, touching gently in passing. Nothing so showy as a hug or so fakey as those "hale fellow well met" people who make a living being real, but just a simple touch, for the real, non-verbal communication in it.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 640946, member: 17461"] I agree. You know, I was thinking about the Catholic practice of confession, yesterday. To be aware that you would be required to confess even the things you thought that were not right, and then, to receive forgiveness and be given a way to recover self respect and to stand in a good light to yourself, in your secret self.... Those were excellent guidelines for all of us, and such things are now disparaged. I was thinking too, about the practice of journeying or of making a pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime. This would be a time to unlearn all the things we chased after in our day to day lives, and to see who we really are without all that. We don't do that anymore, either. Nor do we know persons who have done such things and come back changed. These are terrible losses to all of us. It truly does take a village to live a fully human life. But it seems our "villages" no longer support us in the ways that really matter. Narcissism and sociopathy...those do seem to be the primary values promoted these days. It comes back to empathy. It comes back to understanding that who we are, alone, is who everyone else is, alone, and having compassion for one another, wherever we are on that journey life seems to be about. While it is a simple thing to televise narcissistic values, and to glorify the self [I]or to market fear[/I], it is not so easy to create and display loyalty, or to capture the feel of real love between people (or between people and their pets, or the delight animals take in one another) over time, or humor that is not cheap and flashy and sarcastic. Maybe that is why I like Dog TV. I'm serious. There was a free trial of Dog TV over Thanksgiving. I put it on for the dog and fell in love with it, myself. Peaceful and happy and quiet and joyful and loving. I read somewhere that the most important thing we can do for ourselves and each other is touch. Touching a hand in meeting, touching gently in passing. Nothing so showy as a hug or so fakey as those "hale fellow well met" people who make a living being real, but just a simple touch, for the real, non-verbal communication in it. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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