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“As if there are no choices, only circumstances.

“I think of all the people who have navigated unimaginable hardship, who have endured intense stress for months and years at a time, and who somehow remained decent to each other.”

Well said. I haven’t seen or paid attention to it. Mostly because I didn’t pay attention to it before. But I appreciate your reaction to it. I’m inclined to doubt there’s much more substance in the documentary than in the subject of it

Thanks for the thoughtful post. Especially liked this thought,

“But what I’ve noticed is that being under pressure doesn’t change who you are; it reveals what you’ve been able to hide. The pressure doesn’t create something different of you. It uncovers what was already there.”

@tinyroofnail yeah, nothing shocking (abuse and covering abuse and corruption in a large religious organization? No surprise there) only horrifying (see: previous parenthetical statement).

@rexbarrett thank you! I think alcohol has the same effect…

We cannot change the facts of life, but we can choose how to respond to them. Life is mostly that, change, and how we react to it.

@renevanbelzen so true.