[Passages] Power to Punch

[lishablog]

I started to write this in the comments at vrax's original post, but I just couldn't leave it there. I had more to write about the subject, and I didn't want to leave it short and sweet when it is so much deeper than that

Comments

[gaal]

I don't understand it without being judgmental (this is true for several other things). If someone that's supposed to be on my side turn against me, fuck vows, I'd say, and yeah, not true love, evifuckingdently.

And as for people who stay for years... people can be fools and not deserve a single thing they got :-( Obviously I can see how it's very, very, difficult to leave when commitments (shared home, children, etc.) have been made. Looks to me like the prudent thing is to leave early. But people aren't always prudent.

Sometimes violence is the only way out of a *specific* situation. To get you out of the house on that day and to allow you to get out of that relationship. I'd say, it bears more on the rules of disengagement.

[lishablog]

What can I say? The complexities run much deeper

[gaal]

I forgot to say in my initial comment: I am sorry you had to go through this; it sounds really horrible.

[lishablog]

Eh, it was a long time ago, and it's all part of who I am. I don't think back to those things in order to feel bad about them, but rather to glean the lessons from them. What doesn't kill you and all that...

[vrax]

Once again, you rock my socks. For the record, any time, you just go right ahead and feel free to post an amazing story like this in my journal comments. It will make me feel famous and shit.

My policy on the right time for violence is simple. Doing violence is spreading negativity by taking negative karma onto yourself through the spread of harm. If the negativity that you spread thereby is less than the negativity which you will stop the spread of by opposing the force or opponent in question then you are in the right, end of story.

Make sense?

[lishablog]

Thanks... :) You're so funny. Sometimes I do write longish comments, but you inspired me to go beyond that. I'm going to write a few other key moments, too. I think it's important to journal them, and important to share them. Thanks for the inspiration!

And your policy makes a lot of sense.