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From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
Sent: Dec 31, 2006 1:44 AM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Monster is dead <<But monsters are created by people. >>Irene --You're ignoring the vicious cycle part of what you have been saying for months.If monsters are created by people and people are created by people....c'mon. You're smarter than that. Either there is hope or there isn't. Either there is grace or there isn't.If there is no hope and no grace, you're barking up a useless tree. If there is...... there is.Apparently monsters (people who are monsters) are created by people who seem not to have a choice in your world, and who have as their only option (because of their bad parenting) to parent their children badly and there is no hope, no escape. Indeed, no actual beauty or joy to life unless/until the cycle of harm is broken; but your visage does not allow the possibility of grace or change or learning, of any possibility of healing.For some bizarre reason I want to hum "Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could"<<But monsters are created by people. >>