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Old Jun 28, 2010, 09:05 AM
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I would have thought pretty much everyone would agree with me in saying that paedophiles are evil pachyderm. Unless you happened to be a paedophile...
Wrong, peg!

I may feel something very threatening, very frightening to me about a paedophile, or other kind of person who does things that trigger me -- but I don't project what I feel into being a property of "reality". I can see their separateness. I feel what I feel more clearly, and, I think, can see reality more clearly, too.

Isn't it similar to what a doctor must do with patients or cadavers or whatever: feel their feelings, yes, but see beyond that to what they have to in order to learn, to heal?
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