More name calling is not gonna solve anything! Attacking each other on this
will lead to further sadness and hatred.
Michael
on 9/11/01 3:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 11/09/01 05:53:56 GMT Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << Brothers and sisters! This is the way (Thank you Kate) to address this
> issue. Name calling does nothing, but reduce the situation further (as in
> some earlier emails). I truly understand everyones frustration in the matter
> because I know Mark (who THINKS he's Marcel) and none of the names fit what
> I am hearing tonight. I think it's not time to bring out the hammers and the
> boards and the nails, but the olive branches and flowers to share. >>
>
> Dear Michael,
>
> It's all very well preaching love, but Marcel is spreading hate, poisoning
> the list and the inboxes of those he harrasses privately. I for one am not
> asking anyone to shun their friends or to hate them; however it sometimes
> comes to the point where we have to say "what you did there was not OK". If
> you think that Marcel's private post to Debra was OK, well, I'll be shocked
> and amazed. Maybe you dislike it as much as I do; however, if nobody said so
> then Marcel would think his behaviour was acceptable to everyone.
>
> I am aware that my post may be one of the ones you were referring to as name
> calling and making things worse; I don't see it that way. I honestly
> couldn't live with myself if I let a campaign of hatred and vitriol like
> Marcel's against Debra go without raising a protest against it. I don't make
> any ad hominem insults in my post. Some may think "you need help" is a gross
> insult. As someone who has received a fair bit of "help" in my time, ie
> therapy, it is not intended as an insult.
>
> Sure, there are disagreements on list all the time, and hackles are raised.
> This is of another order altogether.
>
> Regards
>
> Azeem
