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.
> >
>

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