tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3113535730415912557.post6954081276310293029..comments2024-02-16T19:07:42.535-08:00Comments on Darcy's Heart-Stirrings: In Which I Wonder Why Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03702441292981376229noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3113535730415912557.post-16331395185751368522016-02-25T11:13:39.044-08:002016-02-25T11:13:39.044-08:00Oh my god darcy, you are so like me it's untru...Oh my god darcy, you are so like me it's untrue. Same upbringing, same fight, same attitude that doesn't take shit from anyone, not even the religious freaks that tried to lord it over us. As a kid I terrified my dad because he knew he couldn't break me like he broke my mum and siblings with his religious dictatorship. I actually love your blog Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05493576741445759616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3113535730415912557.post-68710524455917430172015-12-28T21:01:32.220-08:002015-12-28T21:01:32.220-08:00I don't cry easily but this post had me to the...I don't cry easily but this post had me to the point of tears.(If I'd been alone,I think the tears may have flown.) I know based on your posts that you're no longer in Christianity; I think you're, in a way, doing God's work (to paraphrase a line from a CSI episode). I think you have more of Jesus than many people in The Church(TM), including people I'm with Sunday morning. I like the combination of empathy with a warrior spirit. A French philosopher (I don't know which one) said that no [wo]man is strong unless [s]he bears within his[her] character antitheses strongly marked. I personally can identify with "rebellious". My mom has told me most of my life that I'm stubborn. I've also experienced the fact that Evangelicalism/Fundamentalism considers it taboo. Actually we are the beneficiaries of rebels from previous eras. If people never questioned, we'd still have kings ruling by divine right, slavery, feudalism,and probably no concept of human rights. We have reached different conclusions concerning God, but I appreciate the valuing of thinking and reason as well as your willingness to pour your heart out. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04134427356573999732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3113535730415912557.post-50649051733210685162015-11-23T11:33:02.604-08:002015-11-23T11:33:02.604-08:00Fuck religion for allowing broken people to not on...Fuck religion for allowing broken people to not only stay broken, but to break even further. Darcyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03702441292981376229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3113535730415912557.post-69088228890942231992015-11-21T19:18:25.263-08:002015-11-21T19:18:25.263-08:00What kind of person does that to a child? I have n...What kind of person does that to a child? I have no more excuses for them.<br /><br />When we grow up incarcerated, harmed by patriarchal abuse or excesses of other sorts or various harms, we learn to survive by burying the pain in our bodies. That pain can lay dormant for a long time but when we have kids of our own, layers and layers of being are uncovered in parenting. For many, that means that the abuse is uncovered and instead of dealing with ancient sufferings and pains, we pass on the suffering. So it is that parents who beat their kids were ALWAYS physically disrespected as children themselves. How can we pass on the pain? By burying it instead of dealing with it in our lives. It comes back to haunt our children.<br />Like you, Darcy, I wretch at the idea that a parent would choose to strike their child as if it was good and necessary. What bullshit and what a mockery of human decency. Michael Pearl et al teach others to harm children for God, to break them as if they were evil. Beat evil out of them and do it lovingly and incessantly until the child breaks down and no longer fights. Sick people. Fuck them. Fuck religion for allowing them to be, for justifying abuse.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475038577503590631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3113535730415912557.post-79675941555829734242015-10-20T07:03:32.582-07:002015-10-20T07:03:32.582-07:00Oh my gosh!! How awful! No other words..Oh my gosh!! How awful! No other words..Kerinoreply@blogger.com