YouTube – True News 13: Statism is Dead – Part 3 – The Matrix.

In the How to Escape a “Controversial Online Community!” thread on FDR, I read the following post by “pigsarenice”:

I am so glad I read the article on Tom in the Guardian last Saturday. It is because of the article that I have discovered your website. I’m the mother of a child who has ‘de-fooed’. It has certainly helped me understand things from her perspective. well done on your response stephan.

Barbara has truly burnt her bridges now. how very sad. what a lesson to us mums too.

Pigsarenice

I just felt this upwelling of happiness in my heart to have read that. Certainly it is sad that this mother’s daughter deFOOed her, and it is a horrible thing for anybody to go through, both parents and children… but at least this particular woman has the ability to see things from her daughter’s perspective which just gives me so much fucking hope for the human race.

I feel so happy and so sad having read this, it’s like my heart is going to burst.

No, I didn’t talk to you, to any of you.

I didn’t approach you one last time to try to “work things out” or to give you
some kind of warning.

I didn’t give you a list of conditions for you to satisfy, a bar for you to
measure up to, nor some sort of standard of behavior.

I didn’t try to share my feelings in a phone call, or in a face-to-face meeting,
or even in an email.

But what I did do was crystal clear.

I didn’t talk to you because I was afraid of what would happen.

I was afraid that I would have my heart broken again.

I was afraid that you would tell me all the same things I’ve heard before, like
it wasn’t that bad, or I’m overstating the case, or I’m just too sensitive, or I
was/am a difficult person, or I’m lying, or I’m making stuff up, or I’m playing
the victim, or I’m unfairly blaming others for my shortcomings…

I was afraid I would hear those things instead of hearing the one thing, that
very one thing that would make all the difference in the world, that one flare
of curiosity that is precluded by all of the above:

“Tell me more.”

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YouTube – True News 10: Remembrance Day.

‘Child-witches’ of Nigeria seek refuge

One of the core platforms of the Christian mythology is that we are born evil, tainted, prone to sin. This is not through any fault of our own, but we are still responsible for being “sinful.”

This is, however, mad projection on the part of the adult. If a child crying in the middle of the night, is driving a nail into its skull somehow a better moral choice? Can a child truly ever do something worse than the inevitable responses our parents give? Physical assault, isolation, neglect, shaming… all these are not tools of correction, but tools of abuse.