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  • #101063
    Ahmed
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    I do not want to be used or labeled
    to be accused of being unable
    Is it hard to sin, to fall… Like a toy from hell!
    What does it take to do a good deed?
    When true self is in need!

    The paradox within is flawless
    The abyss below is lawless
    Darkness around… Silence surround

    Pain can be endured…Pain is a bliss

    Causality can bound…And it is not totally round

    The fresh breath of air…Is it true to the ones heir
    And in all I want to be fair…Is that hardly ever despair

    In the name of everything, good, bad or worse
    Is the inevitable fight Ambrose

    Sentries of war on guard…Centuries have passed in shard

    And yet we have gone so far…far from the truth of which!
    We had entitled our self with…Or the ones layers are?

    Lies were not invented nor created
    But within oneself are fated
    Within one self is fated

    I do not want to be used or labeled
    to be accused of being unable
    Darkness flows within, silence laws no more
    As the paradox began to blend in, the abyss appears just a bin.

    Knowing oneself is to be pardoned…Mastering it is the bargain.

    #101130
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear xaas:

    Unique poem, unlike anything I read before. You wrote:

    “I do not want to be used or labeled
    to be accused of being unable”

    As I respond to your threads here, I will not use you. I will not label you. I will not accuse you of being unable.

    The term you came up with here: “toy from hell” makes me think of those terrible beatings and violence at at what should have been a safe home (your other thread). A toy stands for your childhood and indeed your childhood was hell.

    Being beaten like you were, a victim to a father stronger than you, being weak for being the child that you were…I can understand why you wouldn’t want to be accused of being unable, of being weak.

    A child severely abused learns to hate weakness.

    “The abyss below is lawless”- that home-from-hell was lawless. What happened to you was lawless.

    There is much in the poem I don’t understand. But I would like to. The ending:

    “Knowing oneself is to be pardoned…
    Mastering it is the bargain.”

    I would very much like to understand these two lines…?

    anita

    #101141
    Ahmed
    Participant

    Hi Anita,

    I just wish I could show at the moment the short story I written about my dad, but unfortunately it is in Arabic, I said I’ll translate it one day, but it is yet to come and I promise you that you will read it one day!
    things are not as such as simple as you putit, its much much much more complicated, and I have thought about it more than you have imagined, the things that I have endured are what made me the man I am now, the man who can live his life the way he want, the man that people would look at and say how you get the courage just to do what ever you want, you missed a very important part, “pain can be endured.. Pain is a bliss”, sure I had my downs and they were plenty, but as much as I hate them I also have all the respect of the events that shaped me, and you can even call me delusional to tell you that I still believe that all that was for nothing, it will be the drive for something greater, even if I donot know what that shit is yet 🙂

    And all what you have read about me in these tow topics is just the tip of the iceberg!

    But I have to say here that mentioning a toy in that verse was a bit vague for me till you mentioned it, it did not represent any thing for me at the moment or even after I read the prose many times, I thought many times of changing that word, but I just wanted too keep it like that! The way you put it was amazing.

    I guess it is not the beating that hurt you that much, the beating is momental, and the physical pain just goes away, but the concept that I have fought to understand that some one you love could have the capability to hurt you, and by growing up you learn that even if it was wrong, my father did not hate me, but if I can compare my all my suffering to his when he was the same age as I am now, I would not represent a single drop of rain in a thunder storm, may this is my way to forgive him, and sure he had not any right to do that, but I still Cary much respect of him. At least without him I would not have been there.
    I do not hate weekenss as much as I can recognize it in other, I can just have a single look at one person pic and say if his smile was fake, or at least I think so, but believe I know people!
    The abyss below, meant the emptiness I feel inside, and it being lowless, it is always starving for more, it just can’t get enough, and it being below, I just meant below my brain. And the paradox within, is my brain, it is falls in a way it never shuts up!

    Knowing one self is pardoned, is that you have to forgive your self for preceding it as a victim and not as a survivor, being the master of your self is the answer, it is only by mastering your mind you can live your life fully!

    Tell what else do you want to ask about it, I enjoy talking to you and reading your posts regardless that I do not fully agree with them, I hope you don not understand me wrong here, I have always carved for a changing mind 😉

    Cya,

    #101151
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear xaas:

    You wrote last that you enjoy reading my posts regardless of you agreeing with them or not. When I write something to you that you disagree with, let me know what it is that you disagree with. I would like to know and respond to it. I will read and consider your thoughts and feelings. As far as your experience of your life, you thinking about your life is all that counts. So if I misunderstand your experience, please do correct me (otherwise, how will I know, how will I learn…and I do want to learn!)

    You wrote: ” the concept that I have fought to understand that some one you love could have the capability to hurt you, and by growing up you learn that even if it was wrong, my father did not hate me”

    This is what hurts so deeply, that you loved your father (as I loved my mother) and he hurt you. The person you looked up to with love, having nothing but love for, that person hurt you so badly, so many times.

    You wrote that your father did not hate you. Do you mean that when he was beating you he did not hate you? Hate is deep anger, feeling intense anger and wanting to hurt another, being motivated to inflict pain on another. When your father beat you up, while he was doing that, seeing the pain in your face, and continuing to beat you, he was motivated by hate. Don’t you agree?

    There is so much more. I know.

    anita

    #101155
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear xaas:

    I want to clarify what I wrote above: “When I write something to you that you disagree with, let me know what it is that you disagree with. I would like to know and respond to it…”

    I meant that you do so on your threads, two of them currently existing, that is, in conversation with me on your own threads.

    If you read a post I leave to someone else on their thread, please do not disagree with me there.

    I only comment on the posts of the original poster. You are the original poster of this thread so I comment on your posts. It is important to keep this rule, an ethical rule. I hope you understand my clarification…?

    anita

    #101175
    Ahmed
    Participant

    Hi Anita,

    I understand and respect your clarification a lot, I have have one here too, first; I believe that there are not 2 persons on earth who can be similar in every aspect, who can agree with each other all the way, and even if you think you found that person someday you will find that thing that annoys you about him, and it is up to you to decide if you accept it or not, second; it is from our differences and disagreements that we learn, how would be like know if 100 years ago humankind just agreed on every thing and just enjoyed themselves, it is from our difference that we drew our strength and I think am outing Obama here!?

    It was that post when that guy asked who would you preference to be the victim or the driver in a car accident, and here am using my memory, I just could not find that post again, they are too much, and correct me if I misunderstood. You mentioned that you would prefer that this victim would dye if he was a child abuser, and this just did not feel right for me, in my opinion no one deserves to die for a mistake he made, first; you denayal that person the chance of Redeeming himself, imagin if that abuser that had died would some day relise what he did wrong and just said sorry for the one he abused and asked for forgiveness, even if that abused child did not accept it, at least he will learn that there is a path for forgiveness, and what might that had brought to his life! Second; I believe that someone should deserve the punishment of death if and only if , he intentionally planned to kill some one and killed him, and that’s not just for the sake of punishment to be equal as the wrong made, but only to raise the meaning of life and the value of humankind. I hope I had put it right here?! and I add here, that my statement then was kinda provocative to see if you would accept if a disagreed with you, and for you to keep talking, and please pardon me I just sometime cannot resist mind games 😉

    I totally disagree, they are different, I agree that anger could turn to hate but that is only if you do not deal with your anger, that’s my opinion, I thought of sending you a link describing the diference between but you can just search google for hate vs anger, and here I quote the first line I just saw, and believe me I did not search it before ever, – hate and anger may seem to appear similar but actually they are not-
    I think deep anger is not enough for hate coz hate and love are related to desire, and anger is just a state of mind tolerance for stress!

    You can check it and tell what you think, and if you feel it, you can make a new post called hate vs anger, we could have a fruitful debate about it here?!

    Again I would like to say that I enjoy our discussion and looking forward for more.

    cya,

    #101178
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear xaas:

    I have a good understanding of this post (relief). I remember that thread you are referring to: better be a drunk driver killing a victim while driving drunk or be the victim. I wrote that if the victim of the drunk driver was a child abuser, then I would prefer to be the driver than be the victim (and that intending, in this example, that I myself am not a child abuser).

    True, that would be my preference. You are welcome of course, to have your own preference.

    Regarding your argument that a child abuser does not deserve to die: I did not suggest in that thread that any particular person deserves to die. This would be a topic for another discussion. What I stated was that in the situation I was presented with (and took upon myself as a challenge)- having to choose between being the drunk driver or the victim, in that specific situation, I would choose to be the driver if the victim was a child abuser.

    You wrote that a person should be punished with the death penalty only for a planned killing so to raise the value of life. I think that the value of life is not offended only by the act of killing, but by the act of abusing a child. When a parent severely abuses a child, the life of that child is severely compromised and often leading to early death as a result of inattention/ accidents, drugs, crime, etc. The child will have to go through a long, long time of excruciating healing to have some healthy living, eventually.

    The value of life is violated by the acts of severe child abuse.

    Regarding a child abuser redeeming himself/ herself by saying he/she is sorry… The act of redemption has to involve more that “I am sorry” because child abuse is not a mistake. It is a violation of life, it is intentional. An angry parent, by the very nature of anger, intends to hurt. Anger motivates aggression.

    anita

    #101190
    Ahmed
    Participant

    Hi Anita,

    Am too here feeling relief, I just made a new post specially for you called how does your mind work? In it I explain how I imagin my mind work, may be if you read it you can understand me better, and please share the same with me.

    Am sorry if I presumed that, about no body deserve to die, it just feels that you are being hard on your self, I have no right to say it, but I feel compelled to. Please bare with me here, you were presented with adioema, of choosing one of the two worse out comes, it is either living with physical trauma from being hit by a car, or the emotional trauma of hitting some one by the car. It’s like comparing between being physically paralyzed or mentally challenged. This is just a thrioritical excercise, why did you feel that you have to include your child abuse experience to deal with it? And pardon me for asking, you have all the right not to answer and forget all about it 🙂

    I did not mean life in the wide meaning, I Kent oneself life the state of being alive, I a sence that a certain society should learn to value others and there life and there state of being alive, and if you did not respect the life of others you should be punched with death penalty so that the society would learn the value of some one being alive, the value of the soul, the body, the blood.

    The value of life in general is just a state of accommodation that is set by the society, the society can set the value of life in caring for animals or the right of some one to express his words, and this sourly includes child abuse as the primary target as these children are the only ones who will be able to keep the values that so,e Scotty set.

    With out both concepts we can not live, but with out the first concept we will perish.

    Theoretically, can I ask you what act of redemption might an abuser perform in order to be forgiven by his abuser?

    I really admire your Openss to be ideas!

    Cya,

    #101198
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear xaas:

    What act of redemption might an abuser perform to be forgiven by the abused?

    The abuser has no right to be forgiven. If he is indeed forgiven, that would be a gift.

    Acts of redemption: paying for good psychotherapy, other financial help to make healing available for the victim. Being honest about his motivations and the abuse done, not minimizing it, no blaming the victim, but taking responsibility for his actions.

    Not blaming the victim for being angry, for suffering the consequences of the abuse. Being patient and supportive. Not expecting or demanding forgiveness.

    anita

    #101205
    Ahmed
    Participant

    Hi Anita,

    Did you had this definition ready or you just came out with it, I can not find a better way to put it!

    Just describing redemption as a gift is phenomenal, as an unconditional state of mindset.
    If I can imagine this state of mindset in a physical manner, it would be some thing like a Lego set.
    Then you put the pieces together to form a shape, one can use it to build a car and another would use it to build a plane. And at some moment this toy could fall into pieces. I guess what am trying to say that forgiveness is a process building a bridge between 2 persons that would need constant maintenance from both sides.

    “Being honest about his motivation and the abuse done” I guess that is the most critical point in redemption that an abused person can not ask for, if you can describe forgiveness as a gift, I can say that this is the gift card.

    And the normal way is that you get in the gift shop and present your gift card to get your gift. It cannot go the other way around.

    I guess it is just human nature, the tendency to forgive, and without these steps the forgiveness is just fake, it is just a paper bridge that fall by a small breath of air.

    And till that you just need to step back and give the other side space to figure it out him self, or it will never be.

    I feel I was judgemental/provocative in my before messages, and I apologies for that, but it was just a step leading us to our current state.

    Correct me if am wrong?

    Cya,

    #101207
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear xaas:

    If you are referring to you… disapproving my bringing child abuse into the hypothetical scenario, you are correct. I didn’t like it.

    I see your brain is working pretty well, highway and all.

    anita

    #101215
    Ahmed
    Participant

    Dear Anita,

    Am saying dear because I feel it, am sorry again for making you feel uncomfortable about it, I guess am used to running from it, and have never seen some one who have embraced them that much, and I might have been feeling threatened! It is not always easy to admint your fear and weakness.

    I was referring to that and the rest of my post, my understanding of you definition, and you did not answer me, when did you come up with that definition, it’s mind blowing!

    Ya I have just got some reinforcements to my current traffic control forces 😉

    Respect,

    #101254
    Ahmed
    Participant

    I had attempted to write this, yesterday, it is incomplete, unfinished and wrong. Part for that is why I was not able to finish it, because it was wrong in too many ways, and specially the beg.

    What is good and what is bad
    What if he did that
    Just coz you were mad
    What is good and what is that
    Why did feelings act
    Fast in order we blast

    What is good and what is blask
    Where is the denying fact
    Last that we ask
    What is good and what is back
    When was dealings tar
    Most far or is bark

    What is good and what is heir
    Was it just fun
    Thus in carious we stair

    What is good and what is gone
    What if wrong we all bare
    He will then be announced won
    What is good and what is dare
    Who will get all done
    It had got him whole
    What is good and what is bad
    Would be as we where told
    It was built like a mold
    What is good and what is bad
    White is there like a flak
    If we keep it must black
    What is good and what is bad
    Will this be at all
    Can we just stand tall
    What is good and what is bad!

    You can call it thoughts of a hypocrite mind! Calling it that can make it right!

    Xaas,

    #101294
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Xaas:

    What is good and what is bad-

    Xaas suffering unnecessarily is bad. Xaas having been abused is bad. Xaas’s father abusing little boy Xaas is bad.

    Xaas having peace of mind is good. Xaas being good ot Xaas is good.

    Xaas standing tall is good. Xaas standing tall on his feet is good.
    Xaas on his knees, submissive still, is bad.

    I am ready to answer your third thread now.

    anita

    #101331
    Ahmed
    Participant

    Dear Anita,

    Firstly, I had been writing and rewriting this another message to you for more than 2 hours, regarding the events of my day and how I reflected upon them. It was very long and unclear, but it is now very clear to me, and somehow motivated me to keep a journal.

    Second, Thank you for that good additions above, I really do realize that now, I just had not been that honest towards myself then. I wrote that when I was being hypocrite and in denial as I told you before.
    Somehow puting it like that and me being drown off by it, made me realize how much I have not been righteous to myself. I felt like sharing it, and naming it “thoughts of a hypocrite mind” energized me to decide to finish it, in a good and understandable manner just to define that state of hypocrisy and denial.

    Third, I have this great fealing about the need to share my fight against abuse, I feel compelled towards my sisters and nices, I feel compelled towards my friends and my community. I cannot count to you how many times I saw an action of abuse, saw it in someone’s eye, especially a kid, feeling it in his/her way of expressing him/her self, adults who have tendency to be abuser as a reflection of them being abused, the action of abuse towards me, all that just in one day.
    I do not see these actions or reflections as triggers any more, I see them as being a wrong states and that I have to correct them, and I have did, more than once today. I have felt more easy talking to other about abuse, I felt more easy in ragards of expressing myself, and more important I felt needed!

    Fourth, I see my long journey of healing before me and am not scared of it, it just started, and realize the effort to be spent to reach it, it is huge, but yet I feel very confident about it.

    Fifth, I just have to go to sleep so I can be able to wakeup tomorrow to continue, to keep doing what ever is giving me that feeling of fulfillment.

    Sixth, I will talk to you about my reflection of thoughts regrading your last post on the topic “how does your mind work?” Tomorrow, and still waiting for your reflection of thoughts regarding my last post on topic “how hard it is?”

    Goodnight, Xaas,

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