I really think sin and self-centredness might be a little
simplistic. While I just can't buy intergenerational trauma, I can
recognise that prostitution, to pick one, comes from a lot of causes, very
few of them which are self-centred, unless you call survival
self-centredness. Mockery - well, that's exactly what you're doing when
you dismiss Dale's views in this fashion; child abuse - something most of
us have suffered from and got over, but not everyone has the same amount of
courage and/or self-insight required for "getting over it" given them at
the beginning... Alcoholism has a genetic base, as well as conditioning
factors... there is some merit in what Dale has to say and I value her
postings, even if I don't agree with them.
Milamba
> You write of drug use, alcoholism and associated behaviour, prostitution,
>mockery, child abuse and give them all some very fancy names and excuses.
>
> There are other, simpler words for these problems - sin and
>self-centredness
>
> Regards
>Judith Sinclair Harper
>New Zealand
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