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Dear o sung wu,

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You ask :

« … what should we all do about it [domestic violence] ? »

I’m afraid I’m not qualified to answer that question, o sung wu. As I understand that you are an ex-police officer, you probably know more about it than I do. Perhaps, I should return the question to you.

I have no personal experience of domestic violence and have never witnessed any either. The best I can do is to refer you to a document entitled “Change the Story - A shared framework for the primary prevention of violence against women and their children in Australia”, and two organizations that specialize in the prevention of domestic violence.

I find the first one, “Our Watch”, particularly interesting as it indicates, in simple terms, what each of us can do in our various walks of life, to prevent domestic violence:

• What teens can do
• What parents can do
• What men can do
• What women can do
• What we all can do in our professional activities
• How to get involved

Here is the link :

http://www.ourwatch.org.au/Preventing-Violence

Here is the link to the document “Change the Story” I mentioned earlier :

http://www.ourwatch.org.au/getmedia/1462998c-c32b-4772-ad02-cbf359e0d8e6/Change-the-story-framework-prevent-violence-women-children.pdf.aspx

Here is the link to the second prevention organization (a bit namby-pamby, I’m afraid) :

http://www.whiteribbon.org.au/

That's my contribution,o sung wu. What do you think we should do about it ?

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Foxy, "I was raised as a Catholic. And unless you answered the questions exactly as written in the Cathecism - exactly, you got beaten with a cane by Sister."

That wretched experience (you volunteered a fragment, which for many takes some courage) is not something that can be resolved through the mental processes of thinking, analysis and by emotion, weeping (although that must happen). I believe that the painful experience - particularly cruel for young people who are 'captives' of adults, carers, teachers, clergy and so on, and do not yet have the means to make choices for themselves - is deeply planted/rooted in the body and can evidence through medical conditions.

Have you ever come across 'focussing', Eugene Gendlin PhD?

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Dear Runner,
 
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You wrote :

« yeah meanwhile today in France and yesterday in USA ... Oh well it must be their fault that coppers and white people are being killed in Western countries almost daily by Islamist … »
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The perpetrators of so-called terrorist attacks in France are usually second generation French nationals whose parents migrated here from North African Maghreb countries that were previously French colonies. They come from poor families who live in the poor suburbs of the major French cities. They are poorly educated and usually have no fixed profession. Though they come from Muslim families, many of them have never set foot in a Mosque and have never read the Quran.

Some were indoctrinated by Islamists in prison but others were previously unknown to the police. Close acquaintances describe some as “psychologically fragile” while they describe others as extremely violent. That was the case of the latest so-called terrorist who shot and killed a policeman on the Champs-Elysées in Paris last night. He was known to be extremely violent and had a criminal record for having previously attacked the police back in 2001.

It has been suggested that some simply do not know what to do with themselves, feel victimized, enraged, and want to take revenge on whatever they see as their oppressor.

France has a long history of terrorist attacks by various groups ranging from anarchists, the extreme right, extreme left, extreme Basque, Breton and Corsican nationalists, Algerian insurgent groups as well as so-called (pretended or proclaimed) Islamists.

The number of terrorist attacks in France are estimated as follows :

19th century : 7 attacks 55 dead 200 injured
20th century : 49 attacks 148 dead 1,374 injured
21st century : 27 attacks 250 dead 890 injured
 
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Dear runner,

I practice what Christ taught but sadly it's something you
don't seem to be capable of doing.

leoj,

My experience at the Catholic school was short-lived.
My father had the wisedom to remove me from from it
so my education and my religious beliefs did not suffer.
I was raised a Catholic and still am. But, Thank You
for your concern.

//There’s plenty of Jesus’ teachings that you don’t follow. How about we start with Luke 6:37? Or what about Luke 10:27? Or how about everyone’s favourite: Matthew 7:12?//

You forgot John 8:10-11. I bet runner's got those two verses censored out of his bible so he doesn't have to read them. Condemning people is what runner's all about.