Perspective

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> Braja,

>

> I am so disheartened by what you say here.

 

Don't be It's not intended to dishearten you. And I think the text was

rather general - that it was a response to yours doesn't mean you are the

sole recipient or target of the text. A call for maintenance of perspective

is quite reasonable in an issue that is so emotionally charged.

 

> How could you possibly think

> I have not considered 'simply another perspective?' If not, why would I

> have stayed on for 30 years as a devotee even after my horrendous

> horrors. Why are you telling me this?

 

For the same reason you feel the need to repeat paragraphs like this:

 

> > We were 6 to 13 year old kids 10,000 miles away from our parents in

> > third world country, in a village where we did what we were told, when

> > they told it, or life became full of pain, starvation, beatings, work,

> > no clothing, bedding etc. How can someone not know this already?

 

I could say the same, and sound as 'wounded' as you do now: why are you

telling me this? Do you think I don't know? etc. I'm simply putting across a

different perspective, because it is an emotional issue that a lot of people

seem to run away with. I *am* allowed to post a perspective, yes? There is

no need to take it quite so personally.

>

> > lives and having been to most every guru-kula in the world from the

> 70's, 80's and 90's over the 10 years and as many schools while I was

> guru-kula.

 

That's very good.

>

> How many gurukulis do you know?

 

What is this, a competition let me see ... possibly a couple of hundred,

maybe a bit more....

 

> Why do you think I speak as an isolated victim rather then the voice of

> the majority?

 

Well, your quote was, after all "we lived ... we were starved ... we" like

that, you know? That kind of indicates that you're speaking for the whole.

This is a limited medium, so don't be offended if you're misunderstood. It

happens a lot No offense intended.

 

> Why do you feel I need your opinion

 

And why do you insist on yours being the 'only' one? Your personal

experience overrides everything? Is that it? I am not *allowed* to post a

text requesting 'maintain perspective' because *you* deem yourself to be in

possession of the *only* knowledge or facts? We're bouncing a little back

and forth here....

 

And I'm quite within my rights to say so what I want about the child abuse

topic. You don't "own" it. If you feel the need to be 'heard' (even more)

then take it to a private child abuse forum. If you don't like what I say,

you don't have to hear it. This is not a child abuse forum. It's a forum for

discussion on many topics - and I am a member of this forum. I'm not out to

'get' abused gurukulis, no matter what MRdd has told you privately

 

Braja Sevaki dd