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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >
