Yes indeed, Molly. :) Somehow, I knew I could count on you for a little happy sunshine.
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
