This sounds more secret than a secret handshake. What exactly is the "female perspective/experience" that distinguishes it from a "human" one?
--- In [email protected], Emily Reyn <emilymae.reyn@...> wrote: > > Awoelflebater, "Wow" sounds about right then. Â You could be in the right place. Â "Cat fight" is probably the wrong term, which generally assumes a fight between *women* and the majority of the exchanges are between *individuals*, irrespective of gender, or reflect differences in the male/female experience. Â (Having said that, I've jumped in from my perspective as a female on several occasions.) Â I think of the exchanges here as healthy debates; the forum allows for an expanded level of freedom of expression which is good and posts can be very funny, even the *off-color* ones, from a certain perspective. Â Yes, sometimes the language descends into what would be considered the *gutter*, applying typical social convention, but on the other hand, it almost always sparks additional debate. Â Few scenarios of this ilk are left untouched and not commented on. > > This is a different venue and the gift to me is that it does accommodate a wide range of language and visual formats. Â For me, I enjoy the multiple perspectives as the human condition. Â For me, the struggle to "conform" has been like a noose that slowly tightened around my neck and just about snuffed me out at different times in my life. Â This group includes some of the most creative, intelligent and interesting people I've come across in a long time. Â The joy of experiencing a robust internet forum with multiple viewpoints is well worth any personal offense taken along the way, IMHO, and further affords opportunities to articulate your own position, or step back and let go, or question/clarify one's own mental/emotional constructs. Â For me, I often feel something larger in place here that transcends (and I use that word very loosely) what may be interpreted as petty or insulting or mundane at face value. Â I hope you stay and speak out as you see > fit. Â Â > > > ________________________________ > From: awoelflebater [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:05 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Wow > > > Â > Hi Buck, Yes, I was initiated in 1970 by my sister who attended TT in Majorca in 1969. I was 14 at the time. I remember paying one week's allowance for this. I transferred from Colgate University in 1975 to MIU after attending an SCI course at Livingston Manor. It blew me away and I just had to come to FF! I attended MIU from the Fall of 1975 until graduation in 1980. I left FF for a while living in upstate NY with my then boyfriend and fellow MIU graduate. After a couple of years I returned to FF (don't we all at some time?) and taught a horseback riding program with another friend of mine for the students and meditators in town. Around that time I also had a friend that had attended the first Robin Carlsen lecture in town. Their description of it intrigued me. I proceeded to watch a seminar tape, was blown away by that and jumped head first into the most amazing three and a half years of my life. > > --- In [email protected], "Buck" dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: > > > > Awoelf, You are a meditator(?) You do meditate don't you? > > Just wondering, where you are coming from. > > -Buck in FF > > > > --- In [email protected], "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], awoelflebater <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Just a newbie here at FFL. Glancing through all of the posts > > > > > they range from the mundane (movie reviews) to scratch-out- > > > > > your-eyes cat fights. Something's got some of you going but > > > > > I'm not sure anyone is convincing anyone else that they are > > > > > right. Good luck to you all. > > > > > > > > Welcome. I took your reference to movie reviews as > > > > "mundane" as a bit of a challenge, and I hope you > > > > like the result. :-) > > > > > > > > As for trying to convince others that we're right, > > > > well that is something not everyone here indulges > > > > in. Some just "know" that they're right. :-) > > > > > > > > > > Awoelf, > > > > > > You come in to the middle of something here. > > > Lot of us been trying to save this guy from his ways for years now and he thinks he knows better. Still, I pray for him and those others that fell away from the cart here too. Is always a sad thing to witness these fallen away wriggle the way they do. > > > > > > Kindly, > > > -Buck in FF > > > > > >
