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if you were able to use voodoo dolls to hurt people would you?

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pillow56 · 04/01/2023 23:28

Not kill them or do serious harm but if you had the chance to do voodoo and get back at those who wronged toy would you do it and you get to watch them in a crystal ball in pain?

I know it sounds cruel but I would, I've being wronged so many times by bullies and it would delight me to get revenge.

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Nagado · 04/01/2023 23:41

No. I wouldn’t feel any guilt or anything, but I prefer cutting them out of my life, never to be acknowledged again. If someone has got me to the point of revenge, I would want it to be more significant and long lasting than a bit of leg pain.

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pillow56 · 04/01/2023 23:42

Not major pain like snapping limbs but maybe annoying constant tapping

i don't mean any damage like breaking limbs, more so like they experience intense pain for as long as I want to.

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Kanaloa · 04/01/2023 23:42

No, never. To be honest, if I found myself fantasizing about other people ‘screaming in pain’ I’d think I needed real help. Especially if I had a long list of such people.

I think holding negative thoughts like that damages you. It makes you an unpleasant person.

dontgobaconmyheart · 04/01/2023 23:42

erm..no.

What a healthy and normal way to start the new year, getting sincerely excited imagining watching a person in pain and delighting in thoughts of violence and torture.

I'm sure we have all been wronged (and I know I have, make no mistake) but this has not crossed my mind. There have been times when those same people seem to be having every success in life while I've felt down on my luck and I've thought about how desperately unfair that feels or felt distraught even about the injustice of it or how those things have affected me in ways that are so hard (impossible really) to move on from fully.

Ultimately though, their life is none of my business and I'm responsible for improving my own life and mental health for my own sake rather than indulging that kind of thinking. Better to spend the time working on why it's still something that takes up so much headspace and if anything might help you with that.

DiddyHeck · 04/01/2023 23:43

pillow56 · 04/01/2023 23:40

Subtle revenge is better

i never got revenge on anybody as I don't know how. I can think of 10 men and 6 women I'd love to see squirm in pain as they were nasty bastards.

If you could do anything 'magic', wouldn't you want to concentrate on finding inner peace rather than voodoo revenge?

DuplicateUserName · 04/01/2023 23:44

pillow56 · 04/01/2023 23:42

Not major pain like snapping limbs but maybe annoying constant tapping

i don't mean any damage like breaking limbs, more so like they experience intense pain for as long as I want to.

This sounds disturbing.

RoseslnTheHospital · 04/01/2023 23:45

Absolutely not, no. It would not ever appeal to me. No one has wronged me in any way that would deserve physical punishment and pain. Even if they had wronged me terribly, hurting them like that wouldn't help anyone. It would probably be more damaging for me, if I had such a need for vindictive revenge.

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pillow56 · 04/01/2023 23:45

If you could do anything 'magic', wouldn't you want to concentrate on finding inner peace rather than voodoo revenge

watching them in pain would bring the inner peace

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pillow56 · 04/01/2023 23:47

No one has wronged me in any way that would deserve physical punishment and pain. Even if they had wronged me terribly, hurting them like that wouldn't help anyone

well then easy to say when you haven't been wronged badly.

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Facecream · 04/01/2023 23:49

I actually do wish this were possible: if really do wish the person who sexually assaulted me and caused so many problems for me (such that I’m awake now afraid to go to sleep because of the nightmares I’m having in the run up to the court case) and because of his profession, how it’s affecting my daughter’s life.. yes, I’d stand above him as do awful things- and be willing to take the consequences because they can’t be worse than what I’ve already gone through

Kanaloa · 04/01/2023 23:50

To be honest, you sound utterly disturbed. This is not normal behaviour, just so you know.

RoseslnTheHospital · 04/01/2023 23:51

There's plenty of things that haven't happened to me that I can think about what my response would be. It is possible to know your own mind and your own responses to these things without having had to experience them.

You should have prefaced your post with a request to only respond if you had ever had someone majorly wrong you, if that's what you wanted people to comment on.

GroggyLegs · 04/01/2023 23:54

I'd get zero pleasure from causing people physical pain. I'd feel worse.

Maybe I've been lucky that the wankers I've met have been mild ones?

DuplicateUserName · 05/01/2023 00:00

pillow56 · 04/01/2023 23:45

If you could do anything 'magic', wouldn't you want to concentrate on finding inner peace rather than voodoo revenge

watching them in pain would bring the inner peace

That's quite chilling.

I hope you find your inner peace one day, in a healthy way.

Bagsundermyeyestoday · 05/01/2023 00:08

So tempting!! But then I'd also be worried about karma!

HarrietSchulenberg · 05/01/2023 00:11

No but I don't hold grudges as the only person grudges harm is the holder.

2021s · 05/01/2023 00:11

i would make a voodoo doll of myself and give myself a good back massage!

Ijuststoodonlego · 05/01/2023 00:14

pillow56 · 04/01/2023 23:35

Magic always comes with a price, Dearie

only it's not real

I think I've watched that kids film Merida too many times. Doesn't the witch say that?

As for voodoo, um, no, never crossed my mind.

MysweetAudrina · 05/01/2023 00:17

No, I would prefer an invisibility cloak so I could go into cake shops undetected and gorge on pastries.

I have never wanted to cause another human pain even if I am in pain and the pain is a result of my interaction with them. I just want the pain to stop not for them to feel it also.

TangledWebOfDeception · 05/01/2023 00:17

No. I strongly believe that whatever you send out into the universe will come back to you.

But I do understand why you feel the way you feel. I hope that with time you can find the power within yourself to create peace for yourself.

NewYearSameOldMeButFatter · 05/01/2023 00:18

Yes I definitely would

In fact I did get revenge when I visited my abuser in hospital before he died, he couldn't move or talk, but he could feel pain, and he could hear, and he was terrified, it was his worst fear to be locked in his body with an active mind.

Was a good day for me, not so much for him and I don't regret it even 20+ years on.

saleorbouy · 05/01/2023 00:18

I'd say the Putin doll would be a best seller.

DoorstoManual · 05/01/2023 00:19

My vile NC SIL, a couple of knee twinges at most inopportune times would be good, but nothing nasty. IYKWIM

We exited the relationship with our dignity and morals intact, she on the other hand..........🙄

NRCOA · 05/01/2023 00:19

No. Just no.

It would be cheaper than therapy though, I guess 🤣

saltinesandcoffeecups · 05/01/2023 00:19

Good Lord…have some people spent too much time with their family over the holidays?

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