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originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
a reply to: JoshuaCox
Child pornography...and child preditors......It's right there in the middle paragraph as plain as day.
originally posted by: Dark Ghost
I am sorry to hear about your history and hope you can learn to manage the trauma associated with your past.
Unfortunately, your assertion that everybody else probably knows a child molestation victim and perpetrator (in spite of the efforts of both to conceal these realities) is misleading. Why? Because people are just as likely to know somebody who is a liar, thief, extortionist, killer or thug. It's kind of like the "did you know all serial killers had this in common: they all drank water" revelation.
There are sick, twisted, evil, depraved human beings in all walks of life and regions. Thankfully, they only make up a small minority of the global population and no good comes from assuming they are everywhere when that is not the case.
If your point is that child pornography is more widespread than the general public are aware, then I agree with you and don't fault you for stating this truth.
You need someone you can be open and frank with, feel safe and comfortable doing so and someone that can help you to clearly help organize your thoughts and emotions so that you can deal with them and hopefully move on into being able to find real friends and people that listen to you speak your truth with open minds and open hearts.
originally posted by: Hombre
or to tell my above post with short words:
Everything you see imperfect is but your thoughts from the past, casted out in the future and returning to you as present experiences.
But God does not know of the future and of the past, He is now, and there you should be too.
Here is your safety, and reality is kind to thoose who use it for holiness. It is Cruel to thoose who use it for something else.
God has but one Son, and his Son is the Sum of all souls which he created. Holines is wholeness. Nothing can be judged without affecting yourself.
Only God's judgement is just. Amen.
There are sick, twisted, evil, depraved human beings in all walks of life and regions. Thankfully, they only make up a small minority of the global population and no good comes from assuming they are everywhere when that is not the case.
originally posted by: geezlouise
Someone you know is a victim of child pornography.
Someone you know is a child predator.
He paid them "half a bob" to come sit on his knee, he'd tickle them and they'd wriggle.
originally posted by: AdmireTheDistance
a reply to: geezlouise
Like the above poster, I have absolutely no clue what you're talking about, but this seems better suited to the rant forum.