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10T04:00:05.627-06:00Shattering the SilenceCecil "Cec" Murpheyht
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10T04:00:00.000-06:002013-12-10T04:00:05.632-06:00"You Don't
Need to Feel Ashamed"<div style="text-align: left;"><i>(an
encore post by Cecil Murphey)</i></div><br />Some statements
irritate me. "You don't need to feel guilty," or "You have no
reason to feel ashamed" are two of them. I wonder about the
people who say those things. How can they speak so glibly?<br
/><br />Of course we need to feel ashamed or guilty—it's a
natural reaction to what happened to us. No one explained to us
that it was something bad done to us. Consequently, we felt bad.
We weren't mature enough to grasp that we were innocent, so
shame and guilt invaded our souls.<br /><br />If I could have
disrobed myself of those two emotions, I would have done it long
ago. Ins