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Some musings and an idea or twoFrom: Nnonnth
Subject: General
Date/Time 2007-07-10 09:30:35
Remote IP: 195.93.21.72
MessageHello everyone,
I have been thinking alot and looking back over all my postings here. This forum has been quite an integral part of my life over the time I've known it, even when I was absent, and I notice that it has a way of bringing people's sensitivities up. I don't know what has been happening recently - it doesn't look like much has been happening really! - but the energy here feels a little bit exhausted in a way.
I was wondering if anyone might be up for an idea I have to regenerate the energy on the forum with a ritual. Of course I might try it myself but I think a group effort would be better.
I have always tried to learn from what was said here, especially to learn where my own weaknesses were - but really, although I started out well, I haven't succeeded. It is a tough time in the world and a difficult period for everyone perhaps, but I was really very moved looking back over the history I have with people here, and I must say, a little ashamed of the way I've behaved in the past. I would like to ask the forgiveness of anyone I have offended here in any way, and say that of all discussion boards, this remains the most unique and extraordinary I've encountered. I would like to thank everyone here for making it so.
In a way this sounds valedictory but I wasn't thinking of it quite so, in the Scorpionic spirit of this board asking to have it die and be reborn maybe... if it is seen that this is a valuable thing for a group place to experience. Naturally I myself am at a stage of death and rebirth as I write this.
What I think at this stage is really about whether it is possible, in the rather (to me) unsettled aftermath of so many truly intense interactions, for this board to be a place of peace and support as well... it is perhaps a little difficult, I don't know, I feel so somewhat. I had an idea one time that the board should have a 'quiet, supportive' area and a 'vital and noisy' area, where people could post accordingly!
I have to say what has made this place more valuable to me than any other has been that people are allowed to be just people. I am sure that in some sense we are all struggling to be, as one teacher of mine once said, 'more than human, but not *other* than human'... the fact that this place is not doctrinaire is wonderful, because we are all posting just as we find fit. This I love. But the beauty of this place is mostly to me a matter of having truly interesting people always passing through just being intensely human as they seek.
Still I do see the ghosts perhaps of old arguments (some of which I certainly had a hand in!) which need laying to rest and some rejuvenatory qigong could be applied to the forum itself in so doing. I have an idea how it could be done, if people were up for it.
In the meantime - I love you all, and just wanted to remind myself and you of this!
love Jason
- Some musings and an idea or two: (302) Nnonnth (919) - - 2007-07-10 09:30 am
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