- adapted from Douglas Adams
Gone but not forgotten
(or catharsis from the past)
and back into history...
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A Rain of Frogs
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Lette's blog
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MellaflusiaTiger's bites - a recipe site
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Guilt · 13 December 05
Responsibility for our actions? I’ve lost track of what this means.
People often tell me that I have an over-developed sense of guilt. Interestingly, all the people who have told me this are male. I’m not entirely sure that it goes all that much further than the average guilt that females feel. Although then again, one of those deeply meaningful and I’m sure thoroughly researched internet polls has told me that I do have some staggering level of empathy for my fellow human beings, so perhaps that explains it.
Up until recently, I have always described it as my Catholic guilt, an ironic nod to the complete lack of religion or spirituality in my life. However, as has recently been impressed upon me, that would imply guilt regarding circumstances moral. Something for which I have recently been showing an absence of guilt that has even mildly shocked me. I have been guilty of a disregard for the lives of others, justified by a self-serving shifting of responsibility.
Just a little souvenir of a most confusing year.
I don’t know myself anymore. I cannot tell if this is because I never knew myself, I only knew the shadow I presented to myself; or whether this is because I have changed so much in the last year that I have lost track of who I am.
Spend enough time contemplating this statement to understand its implications.
— Triton Dec 14, 09:18 #
And stop waiting, he will not fall there!!!! (you know what I’m talking about) ;-)
BB.
— Bruno Bastos Dec 14, 12:58 #
Merry Christmas from a fellow catholic in recovery!
— WepWaWep Dec 24, 13:30 #