On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:50:57 -0500, Dan McGown <dmcgown@adelphia.net> wrote:
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> "dougwa" <tedw2@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:1103679741.965114.73020@f14g2000cwb.googlegro ups.com...
>> Briefly, the game is group confrontation. One person is placed on the
>> "hot seat" or probe and basically attacked by other people in the
>> game.
>
> Games created by barely disguised sadists can only be expected to cause pain
> and injury. No sane person could expect them to cause healing or to induce
> health. The normal human reactions to external attack include lashing back,
> on the one hand, and closing up into a tight ball hiding all of the soft
> parts, on the other hand. Neither reaction induces opening up or honest
> introspection.
>
> Programs of this type remind me of the Soviet use of adrenalin shock
> "therapy" to treat perceived antisocial behavior -- and bring to mind
> "Clockwork Orange." It is possible to mask the symptoms of problems by
> repressing them further, but it is like making a bomb. Setting fire to
> gunpowder in the open just makes a flash. Try to tightly contain the
> gunpowder makes a bomb and results in an explosion.
>
> I think that is the essence of the rigorously honest self examination of the
> 4th step. Open it up. Let it out. Trying to contain has it only made it
> worse.

Boyle beat Freud to a proper theory of pneumatics by a couple hundred
years or so. Freud's fawning litter is still trying to get it right.
It would be interesting to study how the popular apprehension of the
hydraulic psyche evolved.

It would probably be more interesting still to study the sociology of
sadistic sociopaths.

It would probably be more intersting still to eat some smoked salmon I
got for xmas and go to bed.

"When inspiration does not come to me, I go half way to meet it."

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