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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6165587" data-attributes="member: 177">I don't know of anyone for whom the fantasy trope use of the word has changed how they look at the thing.  Most folks (yourself included, I expect) can easily separate between the fantasy use and reality.But, I think there's something in there that you may not realize.  I'll approach it this way:  Words, in and of themselves, do not have sincerity.  *Speakers* have sincerity.  Now, the question - how sincere can you be in speaking about it, when you don't know what you're talking about?  Most folks who have not been treated for psychological or emotional trauma or stress really don't understand what "healing" means in this context.  It seems to me that that's where the hand-waving comes from - ignorance, not fantasy tropes.</blockquote>