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Bullies

Mama2HRB - I wish more schools handled bullying the way the parochial school does. Good for them!
 
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Could it have been unfinished business that I had to work on with these horrible people . . . Was it karmic debt that I was repaying?


I don't think it works that way. You may have come here with some past-life baggage, and in that sense, it might be past-life related. But, in my view, your bully could have been anyone. You may have had at that time, as BriarRose has mentioned somewhere, an invisible "kick me" sign on your back, like The Secret in reverse. But, that was something Earth-plane generated, and not something that was destined to happen.


Bullying comes in many forms. Recently, we saw a Lady everyone calls sweet and kind very kindly and sweetly exclude my daughter from a place where she belongs. A place where she had every right to be, and what's worse, she did it in front of all my daughter's classmates. Prejudice, discrimination, and racism are also forms of bullying, but not every one of these acts can be because of some kind of past-life debt.
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Well said and I agree.


Also, I've had the experience of feeling like I was wearing a 'kick me' sign that was visible not necessarily to humans but possibly only to some damned annoying little demons. If I should ever get my hands on the damned annoying invisible and disembodied little @#$%^%$*, there's going to be scales and demon fur flying. saywhat


I don't like the whole 'those bullies are your friends and just trying to teach you a lesson' idea that I'm hearing. It's equal to 'if you weren't stupid I wouldn't have to get drunk and beat you so this is all your fault'.


And I'm not any more crazy about the idea that I must have hurt them in a past life so they have a right to beat me. (As a child. Interestingly now that I'm large and grownup and have taken martial arts for several years, nobody tries to punch me. Have I learned all I need to know, or does it just not look like such a good idea anymore?) Geez, folks, whatever it was, get over it. Somebody somewhere must have hurt me in a past life, but I don't beat random children.


Try to forgive the so-called lady. She probably wants an orderly universe patterned on her beliefs. Things don't work that way, anyway.
 
JPariz said:
Maybe not the only way... a good *ss kickin' seemed to do the trick.
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That is even better. Unfortunately that would just get the bullied kid arrested .. because somehow the bullies always seem to get off ...
 
I don't think it was a karmic cycle unless you allow yourself to care about them too much, and then you may start one!
 
That is even better. Unfortunately that would just get the bullied kid arrested .. because somehow the bullies always seem to get off ...
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Yeah, unfortunately I'd have gotten into more trouble if I'd fought back. There really wasn't any way to win. All the adults (family and teachers) seemed to be disconnected from reality, or didn't know how to handle it, I guess. My big brother (who was popular, go figure) once or twice did do really, really terrible things to my tormentors, which still makes me secretly happy in the dead of night when I remember. By the time I was in grade two he was working or in college, though.

I don't think it was a karmic cycle unless you allow yourself to care about them too much, and then you may start one!
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I agree with this, and don't want to give them any power over me.
 
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