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Originally Posted by DanaC
Hard climbing?
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It means mostly exposed, mostly standing belays, high chance of spending a night out, objective dangers, 20 hour days..
I still like to climb, but I'm too old for all that stuff now. I like to ski home to a brew and a sleeping bag.
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Originally Posted by Pie
Sean, thank you for your posts and your honesty.
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Thank you Pie. I've said more than I intended, and was wondering if it was too much and I'd offended people. Apologies to anybody if I did.
The thing with me is that I haven't had a terrible life, I've had it pretty good overall. I had some challenges when I was a kid, but I got past most of them. What it's taken longer to process is a few cruel, shitty things that were done to me in my childhood by adults who were so convinced they were right they just acted like robots.
So, paedophiles aren't the only kinds of adults who harm kids, and despite what some people like to think, there are worse things than being felt up by a lonely old man.
More to the point, not all paedophiles harm kids. Believe it or not, the boundaries aren't that hard to understand, even for a paedophile.
What is hard is having a place in your heart for children (who so often go wanting for time from a sympathetic adult) and knowing you are happy in their company, and knowing you can fall for them as easily and as lightly as a fly landing on a watermelon, and then to be indoctrinated with this toxic belief that you have a radioctive core that will kill a child's soul as surely as kryptonite killing superman.
You spend a lifetime spitting up this stinking lie, then as soon as you start to believe in your own goodness, someone else comes along with another dose, lifting the lid on it like a dead rat in bucket of water.
It's not fair and it doesn't help anybody. It's been really great to have people here listen and I'm very grateful. I don't mind some people getting angry, but I hope they can at least see that I'm trying to be honest.
