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Re: Cutting as a religion.

Posted by JohnDoenut on December 14, 2001, at 11:05:42

In reply to Re: Cutting as a religion. » Simcha, posted by Mitch on December 14, 2001, at 0:45:19

Im going to tell you something thats rather disturbing. When I was young I lived in an institution for a short time. There was a guy there who when he got agitated or upset would either bang his head on whatever was available quite hard and repeatedly or punch himself in the face or invite others to hit him. The thing is the guy was built like a moose and somehow could take that punishment. Myself Id do serious damage if I tried it even once. He wasnt stupid either, he was extremely intelligent. He was just seriously disturbed. I dont know whatever happened to him.


> Simcha,
>
> I have never engaged in this, but I have a couple of family members that have and for some strange reason I think my *boss* does! I never pressed them about why they did it or not. It wasn't major, but they did seem to make a *point* about allowing me to be aware of it. I mentioned above about the religious cult in Russia (19th C) that practiced self-mutilation as a ritual of sorts. I don't know if Dostoevsky was trying to portray Christ's crucifixion as a form of self-inflicted injury as a *release* or *rite-of-passage* or not. It just seems to chime with a lot of the themes about cutting that have been posted in an absurd-strange way.



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