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    I'll eventually get a background up for this one. The link under the title is to a game that I have played quite a bit in the past. There I was known as "Jason Clearbrook" of "Death Singers" and I played well enough. The game takes too much time though, so I do not play at the present time.

    Anyways, the imagery for this poem comes directly from that game...

    ;'{P
    2005-09-09 13:09:08 Posted by Mel ()

    It looks like you've seen some heavy things, Mel. I'm thankful to God that I haven't seen that much suffering. I see enough when I go to Romania (I have a society for rescuing abandoned babies).

    I was wondering how you feel on the inside. Do you see the Lord in all of this or do you feel mostly overwhelmed?
    2005-09-16 04:12:58 Posted by Linda ()

    I am alexithymic. Meaning I have a hard time putting words to my emotions. That is a symptomatic description of my condition, however. There are many reasons that a person can exhibit those symptoms. In my case, I have come to believe that I have disassociated myself from my emotions to the point that I do not connect to them normally. I do feel anger, happiness, joy, peace, and a lot of the other emotions that others do, but I think my connection to my emotions is tenuous at best.

    At times that can be a good thing. In times of chaos, I am not as prone to panic. I can still be confused, but looking for input to make sense of a particular situation with more detatchment than is normal. That is a good thing if a cool head is what is needed. Unfortunately, the joke, "If you can maintain your head, while others around you are losing theirs, you obviously do not know what the #&%! is going on!" has a sardonic edge for me, because there is a down side.

    At other times, I may not feel the sense of urgency that the situation actually requires and may therefore lack the motivation to press forward with the energy that should be invested. That, of course, is bad. It is too easy for me to procrastinate.

    Memories of intense feelings are very few for me. I know I have emotions, but cannot connect to them. So the intellectual side of love, for instance, is often times more real for me than the feeling of love. Respect is often something I recognize as coming from a person rather than feel. This is not good.

    Part of the root may be that cultural bent that says: 'Big Boys Don't Cry.' Part of the root may be some traumatic events in my life over 30 years ago that caused me to withdraw from my emotions as they were too painful. There is probably some value in finding the true roots of my problem, but I don't see it as important to me as for me to take the time and introspectively search for my feelings to find them and reconnect.

    LOL! This would not have been the forum that I would have thought that I'd be talking about this. But, I felt the need to preface my answer to your basic question without causing even more confusion on your part.

    For the most part, I am not overwhelmed. It is an intellectual connection that I have to those images, not emotional, for the most part. Sure, it evokes some small emotional response from me, and knowing that, I know the imagery is certainly likely to evoke emotions in others. I see the Lord in all things, when I take the time to look. If it does not lie within my ability to understand it as so and see just how it could concievably be part of the grand design, my faith allows me to believe it is so. We are all tools of his will, either willingly or unwillingly, either as Children of God or Children of Wrath.

    2005-09-16 12:18:49 Posted by Mel ()

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