tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2697366351682442511.post3064132844990352276..comments2024-02-27T04:06:12.137-08:00Comments on Peacemaking: boundariesHalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18214777581881265758noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2697366351682442511.post-58068920272024889912010-08-20T18:15:07.993-07:002010-08-20T18:15:07.993-07:00Very touching and heartwarming - your deep sense o...Very touching and heartwarming - your deep sense of connectedness and community with your friends,<br />the warm afterglow of intense bonding brought about through risking to share your darkest personal secrets. <br /><br />How sad, that all this is really just the superficial, insincere roleplaying typical of many cult groups. How tragic, that you should expound on the subject of boundaries when it is so obvious that "researcher Hal Pepinsky" collapsed into True Believer & Apologist Hal Pepinsky many years ago. <br /><br />I am reminded of a passage from "A Struggle to Inquire...": <br />"As one child advocate has told me and my students, if you believe any of these ritual abuse stories, it will change your life".<br /><br />Yes, of course, becoming a Believer changes your life. Adopting a cult community's beliefs changes your life. Subsequently adopting a cult community as your "intentional family" changes your life. You refer, over and over, to episodes that were clearly conversion experiences for you, yet you remain blind to that reality. Sad.<br /><br />Sadder still, you seem oblivious to how your own experiences invalidate the central concepts of your "peacemaking". You state that peace results from a sense of safety, and that "give-and-take dialogue with others is the essence of having social life become safer". <br /><br />But the practical result of listening to, believing in and dialoging with "survivors" - in your own life - was the complete opposite of "feeling and becoming safer":<br /><br />"By 1996 when my classes were already filled with accounts of intergenerational, essentially satanic ritual torture and murder, and when I had stumbled upon two long-time active ritual torture sites near my home, when I was so scared for my family that I was having paranoid psychotic episodes..."<br /><br />The practical result was, that you became so scared that you started having paranoid psychotic episodes. By your own words, Hal.<br /><br />Yet you recommend this course of action to others. You claim that peace arises from a sense of safety, yet you openly promulgate the ultimate fear-mongering mythology - blood libel.<br />You state that a core concept of "peacemaking" is awareness that the world is a much more horrific place than warmongers can imagine - by which you mean an "awareness" that we are all living out Rosemary's Baby, that we are surrounded by demonic, human sacrificing cannibal cults, and that these cultists are our parents, siblings, neighbors, teachers, doctors, lawyers and police officers. <br /><br />You state that peace is a function of feeling socially safe, yet your writings consistently promote belief in nefarious social conspiracies that don't actually exist. You encourage others to risk believing in such conspiracies and the "survivors" who promote them, but in your own life that course of action caused you to believe that such a thing as "active ritual torture sites" really existed and were located near your home, which in turn caused you to become so FEARFUL that you lapsed into episodes of COMPLETE INSANITY. <br /><br />That, is what peacemaking is about?bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12503571778897116344noreply@blogger.com