Tom Sarbeck

@Simon, it’s the people who are being manipulated for political purposes, not the terms.

I don’t know what your “but surely” clause means.

The words good and evil have a political use, which is the first purpose of government: to control large numbers of people.

They have synonyms, which are I like and  I don’t like respectively, and they are masks for the rulers’ motives.

Some non-human animals eat and/or fuck each other and some non-human animals don’t.

Fuck growing the population.

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?