tom sarbeck

How do I process guilt in a secular way?e

My Catholic father and Methodist mother didn’t tell me how. The nuns in a Catholic school told me the Catholic way: know I did wrong to God, confess to a priest, say some prayers, and forgive myself.

I learned a secular way after I quit religion. To refresh my memory I searched on my above question: know…[Read more]

The Japanese people are doing population control without guns.

Thank you, Strega. I was a kid in a sometimes violent home and never learned how to make healthy r’ships. In 1972 I found Berne’s Games People Play, saw the WDYYB game and was sure he had written it about me. I stopped playing it as fast as I could and my results were like yours.

Agree, Bellen. Your vision is better than mine; I didn’t see Ryan et al but do now..

Bellen, my eyes teared up as I read your post and I know why, I was happy for you.

@Simon — Is your tail feeling yanked?

Reg, the exploitation game I enjoy most involves power.

As an organization’s president I  can exploit its members and they can exploit me.

Reg, AZ is a discussion forum. WDYYB is a competition and has winners and losers.

Reg, that’s the book and it was old in 1973 when I read it. Teachers and others who want to help people are its intended victims.

Bellen, I’d been an agnostic since 1957 and in 1973 was no longer saying, “Oh my god really?” I reacted with something like “Damn! Berne wrote that about me!”

To whom it may concern, I wasn’t implying; I was saying.

Bellen, Catholism wants slaves. Do you want slavery for him?

Strega, I too thank you for the BBC article.

Between the centuries of xian oppressions and the genocide attempted by Germany, the world owed the Jewish people a homeland. I don’t know if the world gave justice to the Palestinians.

Trump is an ignorant bully, incapable of thought.

@Belle – “and now I have a half uncle making me feel like the best person alive.“

Be very careful, Belle, or leave immediately. People with anti-social personality disorder (formerly in DSM as psycho- or sociopaths) are skilled at making their next victims feel like the best persons alive. An earlier warning sign is their predatory sta…[Read more]

Belle Rose, I see a shitload of personal powerlessness in your Me Three opening post.