--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Reply below. snip > Myself, I haven't applied to this course. Not because I wouldn't > want to...I would just LOVE to participate in a program with 1,000 > other people...it would be, simply, wonderful. > > And it's not that I would be excluded unless having the occasional > Sunday night dinner at the Hare Krishna temple or attending weekly > yoga classes are punishable offenses...gee, anyone think that maybe > they WOULD be if I put them down on the form? > > It's just that I would be extemely uncomfortable OUTSIDE the Dome, > say, in the dining room or the lecture hall where the inevitable > conversations would come up about the TMO and MMY and I would to > hear stuff that I totally disagree with...things that I am > fundamentally opposed to. > > It is, admittedly, my own weakness but I think it best NOT to be > around the TMO and its activities when I feel so fundamentally > opposed to some of its policies and practises. My anger would > overshadow my tranquility of being there and I would not be able to > hold back my unhappiness and would express it to those around me > thus, in turn, making THEM uncomfortable...and I wouldn't want to do > that, especially if I would then be earmarked as a "trouble-maker". > > So I stay away. snip to end ******** I think this is legitimate. I applaud the maturity and compassion in your recognition that your hard feelings are your own baggage and that you don't wish to inflict them on others. It is probably a good rule of thumb that one shouldn't be a party pooper. As I told one of the course officers while still engaged in the application process (in response to questions about my thinking about various "controversial issues"); My thinking about things is pretty much the same. It is the feeling that has changed. I don't feel much need to argue or to lobby for a point of view—unless someone is trying to cram movement BS down my throat. Believe it or not, that still happens sometimes. L B S To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
