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just to highlight the 'feeling sorry for him' issue

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#1 Jul 19 - 5AM
Qing Yuan
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just to highlight the 'feeling sorry for him' issue

I know that feeling sorry for him thing...
His dad was hard cold man, his mum condoned it all, but he soon became a bully and at school he fought his way thru...
I told him once a school yard bully always a school yard bully.

WE can feel sorry for there choices and situations till the cows come home but it doesn’t make it okay to condone there behavior. whether it be that they take all of your balance in life in career or home life, they can only hurt now. They are masters of there own undoing. We use this site to articulate our feelings, to share experiences and mostly to learn. Theses guys will never do that. If they do well good luck to them. But we can see through the programming. They are so deeply shaped by an rampant ego.. Its nearly impossible to break down these barriers. WE are actually stronger than them. That’s why they have to (try) subjugate us. Its all they have. But we can control our own lives now.
we can demand a break down of that abuse.
They can not see there own abuse.
they refuse to acknowledge there abuse as children and they refuse to accept the abuse they cause as a result.
The grandiosity become to enticing. A way to wIn back power over your abusers in one way to survive but sadly stuck in revenge they fail to discriminate between foe and friend.

I am going to try find it again but I will try to post a radical article/blog I read about the link between western society, spiritual narcissim, image, identity, dualism, and how modern life has become so entwined with idea of the objectified body... (not sure how accurately you can share into this but I get this stuff I really do)

They base themselves entirely on the ego.
so they can use the ego as a tool to survival.
as a control mechanism in a harsh reality.
I do feel sorry for that though.
That our society breeds this illness so readily.
Spoon feeding civilization with pure narcissism sugar coated as pure driven snow…
there is a fashinable drive in our society to see the use of power and authroity over others askay. This world is deeply unfair and well I feel sorry for that alright..

The broken yogi
http://brokenyogi.blogspot.com/2010/02/more-on-spiritual-narcissism-self...

Jul 28 - 6PM
Susan32
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Spiritual Narcissism

Great article! I think we have to be THANKFUL for our ability to feel pain, nervousness (or, to quote Freud, meeting our "ordinary sufferings"), and to feel at all. It's about being connected. Being disconnected from life like a Psychopath/Narcissist is not worth living. It's an imitation of life. After the D&D, my ex-Psychopath professor talked about the "fake him" and the "real him" and that I "didn't appreciate his masks." I bluntly told him that being a fake, having two selves--takes waaay too much effort and makes life more difficult than it has to be. I told him "I have enough on my plate as myself. I don't need another me." Very dualistic. I told him I'd rather be myself. My ex-P was so disconnected from life that he raged when I showed him sympathy on account of his aunt's illness, and he raged at me on account of my grandfather's death. During the D&D, when a pastor friend of mine passed away from cancer, his attacks GOT WORSE. He also scared my freshman lab class when he injured himself--and acted more like a malfunctioning robot than a person. My classmates and I were telling him to see a doctor--and he seemed oblivious, as if he were watching something on TV. "They fail to discriminate between foe and friend"-So sad and true. I always treated my ex-P well;I always listened to and encouraged him. Yet he treated me as a foe. As I asked him at the beginning, "Why are you punishing me for being nice to you?"
Jul 28 - 5PM
BlueMoon
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great link...

Thanks, Vix, my fellow yogini- great link, full of insight- thanks again!
Jul 28 - 10PM (Reply to #2)
M
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Yoga

Yoga was the one thing I never let go of while married to the N. At first he loved the fact I did it. Probably thinking only of sexual positions. Then he hated the fact I went. I was "obsessed". I had practiced 6 years before I met him. It was nothing new. Looking back I think it was the only thing that kept me sane & centered during that nightmare of a marriage. Now, divorced, my practice is stronger than ever. I look & feel awesome. Like NinjaGirl, notice a connection to Eastern practices.
Jul 28 - 10PM (Reply to #3)
Janet
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I too have practiced yoga

I too have practiced yoga for many years. At the worst times it has been difficult to focus on my breath for even a 10 seconds at a time, but I always feel better after a class. Peace. J

Peace. J

Jul 28 - 10PM (Reply to #5)
M
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Yoga

was my sanctuary from him. He went to a class once. He couldn't handle it.
Jul 28 - 10PM (Reply to #4)
M
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Yoga

was my sanctuary from him. He went to a class once. He couldn't handle it.