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Damn denial! Out with it all, no bloody reservations or one eye closed! OK.....well, let's begin with an acquaintance (a homeless man I once hired), since we are all prepared to soberly embrace reality here. The father fought in World War II - you know, that war which unnecessarily followed World War I. The war which America entered after President Franklin Roosevelt deliberately sold out all those men who perished and were traumatised at Pearl Harbour. Both parents went through the Depression of the 1930's. Not that any of this justified the paternal incest which our subject witnessed being done to his sisters, nor the alcoholic-induced beatings he endured for years during his boyhood. The occasional or medium-term practise of visiting one's religious outlet, in the context, generally features a long-robed clergyman apparently out to please his seminary instructor with messages fitting for those who, like himself, have been up a tree all their lives. Now, let's not lengthen this Helium article "unnecessarily" by citing recent neurological and other medical research regarding the demonstrable effects which long-term abuse has upon a person. And never mind those unbelievable references to globalists and their role (you want to talk about what is happening on the stage of life, and you don't want to hear about the stage? Fine! We'll leave out the C-130's and their Government cargoes of drugs, desptined for the very same sort of folks as our subject person). Let's just embrace the consequent, oftentimes quite inevitable contacts which our subject person will have with the criminal justice system. This is the system in which one encounter may destroy a person's lifelong opportunities at the best swaths of the employment sector. With that destroyed, a whole slew of other requisite life opportunities are destroyed - marriage and family options, housing, vacations, pension, etc. NOW, let's talk about some more specifics of being beaten down - self-abuse by means of drugs, degenerated sexual behaviour (do you want details? No? Oh, I thought we were shunning denial here).......the person is unlikely to persist religious contexts or other contexts, in braving others' ignorance and indifference.....but if - despite a lifetime of substance abuse and other personal flagellations, a criminal record and a litany of shameful treatment by others - they reach later middle age, they may come across a Helium article on denial. Something within them will rise to the fore. The thought may come to them to venture out and confront individuals and situations with their duplicity, betrayals, and incompetence - but wait! Most of those people are dead now. Others cannot be located. The one or two remaining are probably the only people our subject person has left in the world. The only solution must be, despite decades of disappointment, laughable buffoonery, and woeful incompetence.....the religious institution! So, we have come full circle, but have not engaged in denial. Mock me if you will, but now and then, I do break free from the circle, in the wee hours of the morning, with a mug of hot English tea.

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