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In a message dated 4/25/02 8:15:32 AM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:

<< My belief is, what you put in, eventually comes out in one form or another.

eg. Read/watch violence. Act violently. >>

Then why does this peace loving, vegetarian Mum of four love
suspense/action/drama (often with quite a bit of violence)?
And how on earth do I get more and more peaceful every year that I age????
I also have read Stephen King a lot in the past...
Hmmmmm?
Ren

Fetteroll

on 4/25/02 4:57 PM, starsuncloud@... at starsuncloud@... wrote:

> Then why does this peace loving, vegetarian Mum of four love
> suspense/action/drama (often with quite a bit of violence)?

I think it's an outlet of some sort. Maybe a redirection of something
instinctual that we know we don't need? How many women read bodice busters
but how many of them want to be taken by violence? Perhaps some people love
peace because they are repelled by violence and some people love peace
because it makes sense so therefore watching it manages to enhance our
convictions.

Joyce

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hey ren,
i'm a peaceloving mom who tends to read stephen king and dean koontz and
honestly love every rocky movie ever made. good to know i'm not alone.
tina

Joseph Fuerst

>
> Then why does this peace loving, vegetarian Mum of four love
> suspense/action/drama (often with quite a bit of violence)?
> And how on earth do I get more and more peaceful every year that I age????
> I also have read Stephen King a lot in the past...
> Hmmmmm?
> Ren
>
I think Carl Jung would say something like it's your way of embracing and
giving your "shadow side" an outlet. I believe he would also say that those
who try to be so rigid about these things end up with repressed 'shadow'
side/unconscious impulses.....and that they'll make their way out somehow.
In other, less psychobabblish words, what you fear, you get.
Susan

rumpleteasermom

--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., starsuncloud@c... wrote:

>
> Then why does this peace loving, vegetarian Mum of four love
> suspense/action/drama (often with quite a bit of violence)?
> And how on earth do I get more and more peaceful every year that I
age????
> I also have read Stephen King a lot in the past...
> Hmmmmm?
> Ren

Do you see a difference between movies like Lethal Weapon and Die Hard
and movies that are just gratuitous violence? I can't think of any
example off the top or my head except Virtuosity - which is a halfway
there movie.

I watch the one type but detest the other and many people can't
figureout why that is.

Bridget