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Hypothetically speaking of course...

Postby Ilovebigcats » April 1st, 2008, 12:57 pm

Suppose someone stabbed you and left you for dead. It was your parents best friend. They would NOT hear you when you pointed the finger. They never asked you any questions. They never nursed your wounds. They don't want to talk about it. They continue the friendship to the point of leaving you in the cold or trying to scheme to get you together with them all along telling you that it is you with the problem and not their wonderful best friend.

How would you feel? Hypothetically speaking of course...

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Postby one love » April 1st, 2008, 1:06 pm

i better not speak on this one :lol:

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Postby crispfin » April 1st, 2008, 1:10 pm

I'd feel that I'd need to get justice from someone else. Possibly a cop or the Punisher? I'm sure there's a spiritual equivalent. :twisted:

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Re: Hypothetically speaking of course...

Postby DaJudge » April 1st, 2008, 2:27 pm

Ilovebigcats wrote:Suppose someone stabbed you and left you for dead. It was your parents best friend. They would NOT hear you when you pointed the finger. They never asked you any questions. They never nursed your wounds. They don't want to talk about it. They continue the friendship to the point of leaving you in the cold or trying to scheme to get you together with them all along telling you that it is you with the problem and not their wonderful best friend.

How would you feel? Hypothetically speaking of course...


I would sever the relationship with the parents, unless and until they acknowledged the truth.

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Postby RamboPreacher » April 1st, 2008, 3:14 pm

crispfinagin wrote:I'd feel that I'd need to get justice from someone else. Possibly a cop or the Punisher? I'm sure there's a spiritual equivalent. :twisted:
Frank could fix it, that's for sure (hypothetically, of course).
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Re: Hypothetically speaking of course...

Postby MacUser » April 1st, 2008, 5:28 pm

DaJudge wrote:
Ilovebigcats wrote:Suppose someone stabbed you and left you for dead. It was your parents best friend. They would NOT hear you when you pointed the finger. They never asked you any questions. They never nursed your wounds. They don't want to talk about it. They continue the friendship to the point of leaving you in the cold or trying to scheme to get you together with them all along telling you that it is you with the problem and not their wonderful best friend.

How would you feel? Hypothetically speaking of course...


I would sever the relationship with the parents, unless and until they acknowledged the truth.


Exactly.. but I would add.. what relationship? It's apparent that none currently exists other than some dysfunctional order.
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Re: Hypothetically speaking of course...

Postby Linda » April 1st, 2008, 6:41 pm

Ilovebigcats wrote:Suppose someone stabbed you and left you for dead. It was your parents best friend. They would NOT hear you when you pointed the finger. They never asked you any questions. They never nursed your wounds. They don't want to talk about it. They continue the friendship to the point of leaving you in the cold or trying to scheme to get you together with them all along telling you that it is you with the problem and not their wonderful best friend.

How would you feel? Hypothetically speaking of course...



Hypothetically speaking of course...it's against the law to try to murder someone, so that needs to be reported to the police. That's the first thing I would do. The parents are a different matter...it seems that they care more about this best friend, then there own child. That would hurt, but would hope that the parents would be able to see exactly what this best friend is really like before he (best friend) tries to kill them! I would avoid the parents until the situation is resolved by the law/court. Then I would have to give it some thought before getting close to these parents again. Hypothetically speaking of course...
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Postby Pastor Bill » April 2nd, 2008, 3:50 am

My first thought when reading this was that while just as harmful, sexual molestation or rape is handled this way everyday. Sad isn't it.

(hope I didn't ruin your point)
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Postby Ilovebigcats » April 2nd, 2008, 7:16 am

Pastor Bill wrote:My first thought when reading this was that while just as harmful, sexual molestation or rape is handled this way everyday. Sad isn't it.

(hope I didn't ruin your point)


Actually.... er uh.... hypothetically... sexual molestation of a 1 year was totally mixed in that! You made my point very well.

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Postby Pastor Gary » April 2nd, 2008, 11:13 am

Child molestors cease to exist in my world -- anyone who is that evil has zero contact with my family, and anyone who stands with them makes that same choice.
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Postby Linda » April 2nd, 2008, 11:27 am

Ilovebigcats wrote:
Pastor Bill wrote:My first thought when reading this was that while just as harmful, sexual molestation or rape is handled this way everyday. Sad isn't it.

(hope I didn't ruin your point)


Actually.... er uh.... hypothetically... sexual molestation of a 1 year was totally mixed in that! You made my point very well.



Hypothetically...I was way off....the dude needs to be cut, dipped and fried in the hottest oil out there!!!! The parents are just plain STUPID! to befriend someone like that!!!
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Postby Gerald Creasy » April 2nd, 2008, 12:01 pm

Is this an issue of the parents being friends IN SPITE OF the fact,
or do the parents NOT believing the offspring when the facts were presented?

I am well aware that families sometimes "pigeonhole" an individual and just put things down as "well, there go's Bob again....." and no matter if what is siad is true it's put down as "that's just Bob going off".

If this is an actual situation that you deal with personally, I don't know how you handle it. I'd be at the offender everytime I saw him/her and would be writing off parents as worthless slime.

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Postby Ilovebigcats » April 2nd, 2008, 12:11 pm

Gerald Creasy wrote:Is this an issue of the parents being friends IN SPITE OF the fact,
or do the parents NOT believing the offspring when the facts were presented?



Little of both. Not wanting to know mostly. Won't ask... make excuses if it comes up. The slaughter isn't the molester.. but the Official that protected the molester. The molester is dead.

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Postby one love » April 2nd, 2008, 1:46 pm

Ilovebigcats wrote:
Gerald Creasy wrote:Is this an issue of the parents being friends IN SPITE OF the fact,
or do the parents NOT believing the offspring when the facts were presented?



Little of both. Not wanting to know mostly. Won't ask... make excuses if it comes up. The slaughter isn't the molester.. but the Official that protected the molester. The molester is dead.


anyone who can hurt a child has no sympathy from me, next anyone who allowed this, or did nothing about it, has no respect from me either. God will judge. As I said I propablly should be quite you knwo my feelings Ilovebigcats, i just dont desire to say it here :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

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Postby Ilovebigcats » April 2nd, 2008, 4:55 pm

one love wrote:
Ilovebigcats wrote:
Gerald Creasy wrote:Is this an issue of the parents being friends IN SPITE OF the fact,
or do the parents NOT believing the offspring when the facts were presented?



Little of both. Not wanting to know mostly. Won't ask... make excuses if it comes up. The slaughter isn't the molester.. but the Official that protected the molester. The molester is dead.


anyone who can hurt a child has no sympathy from me, next anyone who allowed this, or did nothing about it, has no respect from me either. God will judge. As I said I propablly should be quite you knwo my feelings Ilovebigcats, i just dont desire to say it here :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:


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