I think we can express ourselves without belittling or diminishing any other.
On Feb 28, 12:30 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > The goings on are hardly going on to be honest Slip. I'm generally a > supporter of a kind of ruthless honesty - perhaps a rather naive > approach that more or less accepts that status quo opinion is > embroiled with the Undead. In some ways we can never really tell the > truth to power and are broadly treated as mad by it if we stray from > supplication. Films from New World to Changeling show just how cruel > establishments can be, but there is a sense in which we can only watch > this as film, not confront it directly. The Soviets used to send > their dissidents to the madhouse, and actually our history is not that > much better (though it is better). > There is a sense in which we dare not look at ourselves and that we > need to dare. Yet this needs a spirit of mutual understanding as an > aim and a practical recognition that much character assassination and > barbarism is waiting once we are prepared to breach taboo. The simple > spirit of this is in the notion that one might not share an opinion > but does support the right of others to hold it and articulate it. > Just as we begin to open up, we forget this is a very dirty world. > The balancing acts are difficult. > > On 28 Feb, 04:01, Vamadevananda <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What are you saying, Slip ? I just couldn't fathom. > > > On 28 Feb, 06:15, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Where is everyone? > > > I visited the e pissedofftomogly group to see the vehemence directed > > > at this house. There is not a shred of censorship that is being > > > purported by some. Rules are rules that are understood when one joins > > > any group discussion and not to be discarded when one has reached a > > > level of I've been here long enough to disregard. I find it vile and > > > putrescent that some think they can manipulate a group by alienation. > > > To start a hall of shame thread which actually calls for surnames is > > > totally absurd and self motivated. Kudos to you my friend arch for > > > not taking part in such an apparent act of childishness! This is not > > > to say the epistemology group is without merit and of intellectual > > > stature but to point out that in that group as well, tolerance towards > > > that behavior should be nil. It makes the group look bad and it > > > should be nipped at the bud. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
