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Turn your face to the stars, turn your heart to humanityFrom: Steven
Subject: Philosophy
Date/Time 2010-05-07 00:50:26
Remote IP: 76.251.209.230
MessageHi Wendy,
A brief response before I become silent to clarify a few things:
1. I'm not upset:
As I said at the end of the post, I respect other people's opinions.
Ultimately I have no vested interest in someone believing one thing vs.
another. As long as their opinions come from a place of personal
experience, they are fine with me.
2. I'm not "chosen" or think that I am or whatever you said/implied:
I've said many times now that I'm a beginner; a life-long beginner.
3. The one thing I've not done on this list is make posts to you
or others saying effectively "you shouldn't make posts like this".
Argue about ideas yes, but not that. That's like a parent coming
down and saying "you're not allowed to have an opinion".
Example: When Dog first made his first posts to Eric, for instance
his post "healing light", he was quite rude to Eric, sort of attacking
his character. Implying he had a dirty inner nature and that he was dork.
I never attacked Eric's character; the closest I came was when I presented
the rumor I heard, and that was only to allow him to set the record straight
(and I prefaced it with a caveat to not take it personally). Yet, Dog
got no negative responses from his post. Yet when I attack certain ideas,
not someone's character, I'm called disrespectful. Or if I'm
passionate about something, I'm called a crusader and trying to force
others to my viewpoint. That seems inconsistent to me, but that's just me.
But upset is not what I am.
If someone tells me "you are annoying me", then my response is OK, fair
enough, my apologies, I'll leave you alone. Then I go and do other things,
having no ill will, no resentment--it's just giving other people
their own space and respecting it.
I have no interest in taking people out of an emotionally happy place.
Once it has become clear that debate has made some feel annoyed, then
it is time to step away.
Love and qi to all,
Steven
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