Wednesday, July 4, 2012

A Programmed Belief / Survivors Need To Join Forces

I love Futurama.  Here is a little dialogue from that show that shows that change is scary even for a robot~! 
Not sure if this is just a stretch but I thought of the plight of children who are continually not supported and or tossed under the bus as family members refuse to believe that the "cancer" of incest and child sexual abuse a part of their lives. 


Robot Villager #2: With all your modern science, are you any closer to understanding the mysteries of how a robot walks and talks?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Yes, you idiot! The circuit diagram is right here on the inside of your case.
[Opens the panel on robot's chest]
Robot Villager #2: [closes panel] I choose to believe what I was PROGRAMMED to believe! 



If a survivor (opens up) about being a survivor, how often does a family really listen and take the survivor seriously?  


If only ALL the survivors could join together~!  That would be a force to be reckoned with!  

1 comment:

Patricia Singleton said...

Thanks for visiting my blog Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker and leaving your link to here. I hope you will visit and leave more comments over time.

I believe that survivors of incest and other forms of childhood abuse are now beginning to join together and that we will make a difference in the life of our children and future generations of children. Will we stop child abuse completely? Who knows? That is the future but we will certainly do our best by speaking out now. Awareness is the first step to healing and also to stopping child abuse.

Sadly many family members will choose to ignore us when we speak out and tell our stories. That is how dysfunctional family systems are set up to allow child abuse to happen in the first place.

People are afraid of change - even good change. We can move on to find others who will understand and support our healing from incest. Keep on speaking out. Glad you have joined us.