On 2006-01-10 05:48:00, odie wrote:
"I've looked at your postings for awhile now and all I can say is get over it and move on. Life is worth much more than holding on to resentments. Hands that help are far better then lips that pray.
--Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and lecturer
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In my veiw of an ideal world, places such as Daytop would not exist. This is more the reason for my postings then resentments.
I think of the jews for example. They have acted in accordance with what you have recomended, and they have done it to such an extent, as I have seen in my life experience that all I can do is bow my hat to them, and be amazed and inspired by them. I think they have done the right thing thing, as a whole, and that letting go, and moving on is of great virtue.
But concentration camps are gone. It is no longer going on. These rehabs are not. They still exist, and I consider an atrocity that these places still exist in a society which has acheived as enlightened a level of existence, and ideaology as we have overall.
I'm not sure what if anything has come from my postings, or even entirely, unfalteringly sure what I would like to come from them, or how much I even care to invest in exposing or acting against these places. I some times think that I should just move on altogether..
But something that I always think about in my head is the idea, that all heros and great people, those who I've always looked up to...
fight battles today, and pave ways today, in order that future generations need not fight them.
We have been there.. in these rehabs.. I have been there, and I know that they are wrong.
How can I leave to those who come after me, these places, still in place, and functioning, and still hold my head tall?
How can I feel right?
Paul St. John
Nobody deserves it.. I do fine with my resentments. I held my own in that place, but not all can or well.