A Bloodthirsty Childhood

munk said:
No, Satori, not everyone did it. But many of us did.
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There are those who admit to things, and there are those who don't.

Similarly, there are those who remember things, and there are those who don't.

I'm sure there are a few who never did anything hurtful to anything during their childhoods. I'm equally sure that they are by far the minority. I know that I'm not one of them. I'm not sure that I know anyone who is.

Assuming your statement is true, there's still a pattern here. I don't think that it has anything to do with upbringing. What could it be? As I've said, I have my own theory on that (and it explains some other things as well), but then again, I'm not a psychologist. It's up to people with more training than me to explain it. I just try to make sense of it.
 
They'd got high hopes, high hopes,
High apple pie in the sky hopes -
Whoops there goes another rubber tree plant

How many remember that ditty?
How many worked hard to forget it?
 
my manager mentioned everyone having secrets, and i said that i didnt have any. she was quite drepressed (with good reason) so i tried to come up with a few. some were quite comical, things i did for girls that were probably more embarrasing for them then me, but it wasnt until two days later that i realized what she meant. not necessarily secrets like having done horrible or emberrasing deeds, but the things that we wish we hadnt done, things that still bring your heart into your throat, even if it was just a thought or a wish, an emotion that was there when it shouldnt be.

id agree that everyone has at least one of those...
 
Heh, unlike many of you i don't remember harming animals on purpose (except perhaps the poultry at my grandma's farm, i used to make me one of those small bows that couldn't piece a balloon and then shot arrows at chicken who would frantically run away ... needless to say none of them ever died or got injured), perhaps because my mom is a biologist. I never had much compassion for insects though, mosquitos, flies, etc. that get caught in my lamp get fried - no mercy, but i don't put them there. Whenever i had any frustrations to let go off i'd take them out on fellow humans :D As Ben noted, humans are far worse than any animals, animals (except those annoying blood-sucking insects) don't try to harm me on purpose.
 
I have done all this and more, and more recently than I would like to say. I have done so much in my life that shames me. I made a big turn about 10 years ago and think I am on the right path, at least heading the right way. The mutilation and slaughter of small creatures was the meanest though. I was brutal, bb guns, fireworks, anything. I was a major vandal too. Private property and public, businesses and whatever else I could destroy. No reason for any of it other than misdirected lashing out. I had a lot of hate, fear and pain in my life when I was young and it can still surface. I never directed at people though and that was who I was maddest at. It was cowardly to take it out the way I did and it could have led to worse. I got into drugs and alcohol pretty big and took it out on my self for a while, so maybe it did in a way. I have let a lot of it go, but it does come back to haunt me.
 
My father got mad at me when I was 7 years old. I always fed a pet squirrel that would come up to our house. When he took me squirrel hunting, I didn't want to kill one. He called me a wuss, and yelled at my mother telling her that "that's not the way he wanted me to be raised".

Anyway, beside that.. it's not nostalgia and regret from boys adventures with evolutionary psychology in nature that worries me..
It's the fact that we have lots of kids today that don't even get into nature, that just sit for hours with a Nintendo pretending to shoot down people for fun.

yes, I would probably enjoy a little nintendo time myself, but you get the point.
 
...and there's a JFK assassination game.

There is a very small chipmunk by our house, I'd have to look him up again in the Audubon guide to recall his name, but we love him. My son's wouldn't dare hurt 'chipper'. Nor the bunny who sometimes goes behind our house, or the yard deer, or the flock of turkeys.

However, to the Porcupine who killed our trees: beware!!!!

My oldest son was a baby chick in the last Christmas play. I suppose I should be worried about him if I was an old School neanderthral.


munk
 
Rusty said:
They'd got high hopes, high hopes,
High apple pie in the sky hopes -
Whoops there goes another rubber tree plant

How many remember that ditty?
How many worked hard to forget it?
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Not only did I, but I was totally successful until just now...thanks Rusty!


;)
 
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Originally Posted by Rusty
They'd got high hopes, high hopes,
High apple pie in the sky hopes -
Whoops there goes another rubber tree plant

How many remember that ditty?
How many worked hard to forget it?


Nasty said:
Not only did I, but I was totally successful until just now...thanks Rusty!


;)
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As was I until just now..... Thanks Uwinv.:rolleyes: ;) :D
 
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