(April 18, 2016 at 11:21 am)Mathilda Wrote:(April 18, 2016 at 11:18 am)Drich Wrote: No what I am saying is unlike your children I will not be manipulated into doing your bidding for the sake of empathy. I don't care what that makes me in your eyes or people who think as corruptly as you do.
Empathy is not nor ever will be the controlling factor in my life empathy will never be the deciding factor for anything. The love I have for God and the Love I have for others will be, Even if it means putting others through the grinder for their own good.
That doesn't answer my question.
How do you know that being beaten by your father when you were a child isn't responsible for you lacking empathy and being unable to understand why it is important?
Because i can feel and relate the pain others may be experiencing. However I have made the decision not to be some primate level human being who is lead around by his emotions or what he feel, or feel for others nor will i be manipulated in compromising my value system because of what others may 'feel.' I with a clear head and with sound mind have chosen what is right and what is wrong/a system of value to live by, and did so not because it was popular, nor because it felt good. but because right.
This system of right and wrong and doing what is right despite pull from emotion is what allowed me to endure the pain an hardship of my wife heroin addiction, has kept me in business for 15 years, and honest. has help me help others navigate the hardship life brings with out placating people and telling them just what they want to hear. But help offer them real change and a real change in their life.
So how do I know this did come out of beatings because again a great number of you have been beaten as well and by all accounts are screwed up. The beating is the tearing down of a child if a parent does not build the child back up then the kid is left to do so on his own. How many times has a child been able to put a life back together after an adult has wrecked it?
That sport is how I know my life is not due to just the beatings. It was a combination of tearing down what I wanted to build and then being forced to remake myself into a responsible dependable servant to my God (later on) and my community.
