Thanks for the post Paul. Hope you did not take it I was implying you were wrong. That was not my intent, rather just "reporting" my observations and the kind people I have come across in my journeys that opened up enough to talk about this topic, how it turned out for them , or the works still in progress. I would not hold to my observed ratio of 15/24 because there are many I am sure I've conversed with that just didn't want to open up about it (or could not).
A few years back there was a nice lady I would have a casual conversation with when our paths infrequently crossed. I could tell something very deep was troubling her. That occurred over a year and half and we had maybe a dozen short conversations. One day she finally opened up describing her estranged husband and his actions/inactions, as I listened I realized he fit pretty well into the MLC pigeon hole, but a bit extreme. She had gotten a restraining order several months back.
Those pieces of paper don't help much when someone is intent on acting on their twisted views.
Two weeks after our conversation he shot her on her front porch.
He got life without perole.
I don't count her in the MLC "stats" I gather from face to face encounters.
But that sure effected me. I give a lot of space when I see my x anywhere near me.
Because as angelica pointed out in her well written post above, the history rewrites can be so far beyond literary license. Those that have felt obligated to "report back" on my former and her yarns, know better and quickly understand she's "remembering" some other (alien?) life, and certainly not the one we had in reality.
I am all for listening to our inner voice, but would sure run away from an inner voice of one in MLC.
