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Old Mar 18, 2011, 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by WikidPissah View Post
The only answer I can come up with is Catholic Schooling...lol, 16 yrs of it, I feel guilty about EVERYTHING, especially about not doing a confession/penance every week.
The teachers feeling their own sense of guilt, and projecting that onto you -- and you absorb the feeling and make it yours without even knowing it?

My thought about guilt feelings is very simple: it is the expectation of punishment. No more than that. Waiting for the blow to descend.
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