"females with strong opinions, or insights, just don't > last. (Judy excluded)"
Don't forget Sal! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Darn, I thought for a moment you were going to propose some kind of > solution to this situation, but instead it was a kind of open ended > commentary. For the record, it was hard for me to see Bronte > lasting long here. I enjoyed it while it lasted. It's just a > pattern - females with strong opinions, or insights, just don't > last. (Judy excluded) Bronte plays for keeps. She's not some > specimen from the wild brought in for people's amusement. Rick, > inviting her to joing WNC with its more genteel ways was inviting > disaster. WNC, as I envision it, not being a member, doesn't want > that degree of controversy. > > I'll miss her, thats fer sure. > > lurk > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, kaladevi93 <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > from the Wednesday Night Satsang List: > > > > Hi y'all, > > > > Rick gets private letters asking him to boot Bronte, and Bronte > gets private letters in > > support of her stance. Well, now, doesn't that say it all? Why > can't everyone be up front > > about this? > > > > I never said that I thought current Ff thought was as bad as > German fascism, but I do think > > the two are compatible modes of thought. One is more extreme than > the other. The Ff > > scene wants to project genteel peace at the moment, rather than > holy warrior, and I find > > genteel peace insufferably phony---and not only phony, but, at > bottom, icy cold and > > judgmental. And so I certainly agree with Bronte that the > Wednesday Night group has a > > tendency to be condescending. That's why I've not been attending, > though I do enjoy > > reading some of the posts. By no means all, however. In the > posts, too, there is stuff > > that's too patronizing for me. And a patronizing attitude is > somehow even harder to take > > when it comes from a female. > > > > That said, I'm going to be insufferably condescending myself. The > Wednesday night group > > is pretty much where my head was at thirty five years ago. I was > waking up then, and a > > group would have been nice. There wasn't one. And I was > insufferably arrogant because I > > was awake and nobody else I knew was, though I found kindred > spirits in literature. I ran > > rings around my profs in grad school, and that was not a good > thing for a woman to do. > > Back then, I thought I would just get more and more incredible > experience that would set > > me more and more apart from the stupid waking-staters of the > world. Instead, I've > > become more and more ordinary over the years. At this point, I'm > more comfortable with > > people who pretend to no spiritual attainment whatsoever than I am > with folks who do. > > Yes, I've also got groovy experiences, but so f---ing what. a > > >
