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Article #754070Re: Gavin de Becker on deviant people, who resemble Will Dockery
From: "Edward Rocheste
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 15:14
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 15:14
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On Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 4:56:44 PM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote: > From "The Gift of Fear," by Gavin de Becker: > > p. 257 - βHe wants what Americans want: recognition, and he wants what all people want: significance. People who donβt get that feeling in childhood seek ways to get it in adulthood. It is as If they have been malnourished for a lifetime and seek to fix it with one huge meal.β > > We never hear about what great parents Dockery had, their influence on him, the warm family life and values that he was raised in. He is still seeking and failing to find recognition and significance. > > p. 273 βOne canβt help being profoundly affected by close involvement with people whose lives are a twisted chain of police encounters, hospitalization, relentless pursuit by imagined enemies, perceived betrayal by their loved ones, restlessness that moves them to new places, only to be restless there and move again, and above all, loneliness.β > > Dockery moved around and ended right back in Columbus. Everyone is either jealous of him or out to get him (for the past 62 years). Kathy betrayed him by leaving--he never forgot or forgave that. He posts 24 hours a day because he is lonely. The same applies to George Sulzbach. They have a lot in common. Dockery and Sulzbach are nothing but unwashed obscenities'
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