tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post3049484892397707922..comments2023-07-21T14:46:57.221-04:00Comments on Debra's Random Thoughts: Rebekah's Form Letter.debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520916893372615911noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post-23210868964483054912012-11-29T11:25:41.013-05:002012-11-29T11:25:41.013-05:00I know Mike Pearl a little. I don't agree with...I know Mike Pearl a little. I don't agree with him on a lot of things. But I don't think he is a pedophile. And I certainly don't think he is carrying on with his daughter. It is logistically impossible as they are only in the same location once or twice a year and surrounded by family. However, I do believe Rebecca was abused, but not by a family member. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post-81799347401758461992011-07-08T20:53:41.678-04:002011-07-08T20:53:41.678-04:00Similarly, if we had time to review all the other ...Similarly, if we had time to review all the other major irrational ideas that lead humans to become and to remain emotionally disturbed, we could quickly find that they are coextensive with, or are strongly encouraged by, religious tenets.<br /><br />If you think about the matter carefully, you will see this close connection between mental illness and religion is inevitable and invariant, since neurosis of psychosis is something of a high-class name for childishness or dependency; and religion, when correctly used, is little more that a synonym for dependency.<br /><br />In the final analysis, then, religion is neurosis. This is why I remarked, at a symposium on sin and psychotherapy held by the American Psychological Association a few years ago, that from a mental health standpoint Voltaire’s famous dictum should be reversed: for if there were a god, it would be necessary to uninvent him.<br /><br />If the thesis of this article is correct, religion goes hand in hand with the basic irrational beliefs of human beings. These keep them dependant, anxious, and hostile, and thereby create and maintain their neuroses and psychoses. What then is the role of psychotherapy in dealing with the religious views of disturbed patients? Obviously, the sane and effective psychotherapist should not—as many contemporary psychoanalytic Jungian, client-centered, and existentialist therapists have contended he should—go along with the patients’ religious orientation and try to help these patients live successfully with their religions, for this is equivalent to trying to help them live successfully with their emotional illness."<br /><br />Albert Ellis<br /><br />http://www.volconvo.com/forums/philosophy-religion/1936-religion-illness.htmlDavidhttp://sir david at ktc dot comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post-36682360326971425412010-03-25T21:27:09.480-04:002010-03-25T21:27:09.480-04:00Deborah, clicking on your name leads me to a jewel...Deborah, clicking on your name leads me to a jewelry store. I have never had that happen before.<br /><br />PDeverit, those are interesting statistics.debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08520916893372615911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post-78337459454290272222010-03-25T20:54:38.592-04:002010-03-25T20:54:38.592-04:00This is interesting.
It is good to know that thei...This is interesting.<br /><br />It is good to know that their children, with the lead of their eldest child, is really with them all throughout this mess,. This is simply good.<br /><br />However, as this may be a striking statements, it will be a long serious battle. This may be perceived as something helpful but the question still remains "how true is this?"Deborah J. Kanodehttp://www.sorellajewelry.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post-87751677492387293552010-03-25T17:04:17.329-04:002010-03-25T17:04:17.329-04:00Lottie Jump,
I have to agree with you 100%
PLottie Jump,<br />I have to agree with you 100%<br />PAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15496614522922016531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post-7139455397604753472010-03-25T04:42:38.226-04:002010-03-25T04:42:38.226-04:00I just re-read this post & noticed this:[quote...I just re-read this post & noticed this:[quote]Almost everything we (my parents) have ever written[/quote]<br /><br />It sounds as though she has no understanding of any boundaries between her parents & herself.....almost as though there is no separate person called Rebekah....<br />If she did write this herself, I would think this is :-( an example of how she is in need of serious help......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post-76806085739800373562010-03-25T01:52:17.630-04:002010-03-25T01:52:17.630-04:00Lottie Jump: You are not the first person who has ...Lottie Jump: You are not the first person who has suggested that there is a strong sexual component in what the Pearls write.<br />In fact, on one site where I am a member, another poster copied several quotes from TTUAC, and gave them to a friend who is a psychiatric social worker, asking for her opinion.....Her immediate reaction: "Whoever wrote this is a child molester".<br />When the gentleman said, "Oh, you mean child abuser", the woman replied:<br />"I mean exactly what I said. This person should be in prison. He is a pedophile".<br /><br />I have no degrees, but that was the feeling I had from way back. That was what made my stomach turn over.....<br /><br />[Zooey]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post-17955774320748722942010-03-24T21:04:14.864-04:002010-03-24T21:04:14.864-04:00Lottie Jump, I have always felt that there was som...Lottie Jump, I have always felt that there was something beneath the surface of the Pearl family that they simply are not showing us. I don't want to speculate in case I am wrong.debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08520916893372615911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post-40879543250748386242010-03-24T17:38:29.395-04:002010-03-24T17:38:29.395-04:00this is a very informative article. maybe rather ...this is a very informative article. maybe rather than trying to appeal to reason or theology with these people, just to show them that michael is imitating the very science he claims to hate.<br /><br />http://primal-page.com/stein.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post-62843834671466638932010-03-24T17:27:06.332-04:002010-03-24T17:27:06.332-04:00it struck me too when a read it a while ago. she&...it struck me too when a read it a while ago. she's dissociative. that's the point i've been making along about these people and everybody gets mad when i say it.<br /><br />i'll say it again anyway. michael pearl is a sadistic pedophile. anybody who disputes that is either extremely sexually repressed or shares his inclinations on some level and can't admit it.<br /><br />pedophiles know naturally how to create dissociation in their victims because it was done to them. this is criminal pervert 101 stuff. no wonder he doesn't want any of his followers to read psychology. he also uses operant conditioning principles, borrows freely from freud, melanie klein, anna freud, bf skinner, etc. he's not a dumb man. he's no hillbilly. i'm not buying his non-existent biography.<br /><br />michael pearl has written handbooks for parents to cause dissociation in their children. why do pedophiles want to cause dissociation? that's easy. because then they can continue to sexually abuse the children without the children even remembering it, hence no chance of getting caught. or at least a diminished chance of getting caught.<br /><br />remember michael's advice to the wife of the pedophile father? remember how disingenuous and like a catholic bishop in the 1970's it sounded?<br /><br />i'm quite certain that this is all about a sexual relationship, most likely consensual by now, between michael pearl and his daughter. that's why they both INSIST she NEVER had another lover. just daddy dearest. <br /><br />after all, don't you know? sex is the highest form of worship. michael pearl wrote a whole book about it. and children are to worship their parents like gods until they're like 7 or some arbitrary number where michael pearl decides children understand the sacrifice of jesus, or some other such bologna.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post-47498900583335990522010-03-24T15:44:36.811-04:002010-03-24T15:44:36.811-04:00Uh, it's kind of possible to do all of that st...Uh, it's kind of possible to do all of that stuff such as having fun one with one's kids without using a literal rod...<br /><br />I do not understand these folks. She seems like a nice person, but my heart is sad for her.Lynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17395406512079608484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post-87836141598518152852010-03-24T15:44:36.812-04:002010-03-24T15:44:36.812-04:00Uh, it's kind of possible to do all of that st...Uh, it's kind of possible to do all of that stuff such as having fun one with one's kids without using a literal rod...<br /><br />I do not understand these folks. She seems like a nice person, but my heart is sad for her.Lynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17395406512079608484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post-35047510228832321032010-03-24T15:43:24.349-04:002010-03-24T15:43:24.349-04:00Hermana, I think that she is suffering from some t...Hermana, I think that she is suffering from some type of Stockholm Syndrome also. <br /><br />Chris, I agree I don't know how she can wipe the memory of a spanking from her conscience just because she felt it was deserved. That is odd reasoning and makes me wonder about her mental state.debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08520916893372615911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post-72836708025728750092010-03-24T14:35:41.355-04:002010-03-24T14:35:41.355-04:00Rebekah writes: "That is the only spanking I ...Rebekah writes: "That is the only spanking I clearly remember. The others were so well-deserved my conscience was able to write off the memory once the deed was paid for."<br /><br />If she can't remember any of her other spankings, how could she know whether they were "well deserved" or not? How could she know of the role of her "conscience," if indeed it played any role, in her current amnesia about these incidents?<br /><br />This sounds more like traumatic amnesia to me.Chrishttp://cdugan0.tripod.com/homepage.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158319644369314276.post-11361445156083627592010-03-24T13:46:23.834-04:002010-03-24T13:46:23.834-04:00Wow. She says, "I married a wonderful man wh...Wow. She says, "I married a wonderful man who is worth every moment of <b>reverence</b> and honor I give him; he is my best friend and only lover." <br /><br />Reverence is only for God. To revere a man is to make him an idol.<br /><br />I have read some of her writings and as far as I can see, she is suffering from Stockholm syndrome. She was never allowed to feel any emotion except for happiness, so that is what she is left with. What happened to the other emotions? How deep are they buried? Are they doing damage, or is it a good thing to have them buried? I'm convinced of the former.Hermana Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06700181081812245514noreply@blogger.com