Faithfully Abused
For those who have been there, those who have seen, and those wanting to engage the murky edges of our lives where abuse and religion intersect.
Let your thoughts, your self, emerge.
953)TRIGGER WARNING
In April 2011, I uncovered repressed memories of abuse. I was newly married and just starting a new life, and these memories destroyed me.
Homo Empaticus! A little empathy is what we need.
This is the direction humanity is heading. Anyone not already on board, time to catch up!
RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation (by theRSAorg)
The Mask Comes Off...: :'(
what you really want is help, right? why not let your cries for help be heard… i know that’s what you’re doing here, but i mean maybe this is a first step toward letting yourself be heard by the people you know. maybe you should have kept the note AND your life. what about writing something kind of like a suicide note without the intention of actually dying to it? you know, write what you want and hand it to someone or let it be found. dunno if that works for your situation, just a thought.
I’m so triggered right now.
All I keep thinking about is the Abuse, the Cutting, the burning, the suicide attempt. All my memories are hitting me all at once.
It’s coming up in a couple of months my attempt..1 year..all I keep thinking about is what if I had succeed. I should have not burned the…
Beyond The Wand: Religious Trauma Syndrome & Me
Last night, my mother saw fit to inform me about a recent earthquake in Japan. Then she mentioned something about all the earthquakes lately in “weird” places (eg, Oklahoma) and said she think she now knows what the Bible meant by “earthquakes in diverse places.”
All my childhood I had been…
Thank you for sharing this. Good points very well laid out.
“As Greta Christina once articulated very, very well, the primary danger of religious thought is that it uniquely armors itself against criticism and doubt. It relies on faith which positions itself fundamentally above being questioned or challenged, and beyond hesitation and ethical checks. The intellectual and ethical brake lines have been cut. The ethics of this world and the consequences that occur within it are within religious thought quintessentially secondary to the spiritual principles in which the faith is invested. That many individuals may exercise the intellectual, ethical brake lines anyway doesn’t mean religious thinking doesn’t carry that essential danger, especially when it occurs in people who aren’t so inclined to check themselves. Religious belief also does not occur in a vacuum. The presence of ethical considerations against which the religious tenets are weighed does not defintively mean those ethical considerations emerged from the religion itself. They could have emerged from cultural values, from legal principles, from rationality and understanding of real-world consequence, and from basic human compassion and empathy. But when religious principles occur in an individual without those external checks to hold back the darker and more dangerous, more lethal aspects of a religion, it gives them a justification and a reason to indulge every harsh, tribalistic, patronizing, judgmental, hateful, bigoted, self-righteous or murderous impulse they’re carrying around as luggage. And gives them a great reason to not bother worrying about the consequences or the ethics: The Will Of God. The next life is more important. I am their shepherd, freeing them of their sin. This world of dust is mere illusion. Religion doesn’t necessarily make a good person any more good, but it can make a dangerous person a lot more dangerous.”—
Personality Test - useful, legit, and quick. Turns out I'm a serial killer inside (jk... or AM I?!?!)
I never really get into the, “Are you a wookie, an ewok or a sith lord?!” quizzes… or questionnaires in general. But this is a legit site dealing with personality traits and disorders, and I found it useful enough to justify 2min on. It scores 5 personality traits. I won’t tell you what the traits are—hey, I can’t give that away, just try it!—but my scores (from top to bottom) were: 28, 39, 39, 31 & 48. Good to know. If you take it, let me know what you score.
ACON: Adult Children of Narcissists
Well, it’s currently under construction (1/20/12). But this could be a good niche group.
