--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Irmeli Mattsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The old addage by Nietzsche, "Power corrupts and > > absolute power corrupts absolutely." I wonder how many > > of those who abuse their power by using others to > > gratify their own desires start out that way? Perhaps > > the temptation is so great and the resistance so low > > by the "object' that it is near impossible to resist. > > **** > This is most certainly part of the truth. But it doesn't > explain why the abusers often resort to very tricky > manipulations and lies in order to get what they want?
You haven't specified any examples of what you consider "tricky manipulations." Please do so. > In spite of their positions the abuse is > usually not easily done with open cards. In a spiritual context, I'm going to have to disagree with you. In almost every case I've ever seen of abuse of power by someone in a position of authority in a spiritual context, they really didn't have to work very hard to "deceive" anyone. The victims were lining up right and left, ready and willing to be fleeced, because their own desires were being pandered to. For example, if you delve into cases of a spiritual teacher sleeping with a student, in almost *every* case what you'll find -- in addition to a teacher who couldn't keep his dick in his pants -- is a student who felt flattered at being seduced or actively par- ticipated in the seduction because it makes her feel more "special." The teacher may be telling the student a few lies to get into her pants, but the student in most cases *wants* to hear those lies. It's a cooperative effort, a symbiosis of mutual deception. > It is not just a candy you can take almost by mistake, > when your attention is somewhere else. Lot's of planning, > hiding and lies are needed. Again, I disagree completely. I think this is just an attempt to make the teachers the bad guys and the students the poor, innocent victims. I would suggest that in many if not most cases the "victim" was per- fectly happy to be lied to as long as they felt more special than people outside the group or than other students within the group. It's just human nature, and teachers merely take advantage of it. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
