Ian:
> One can seem too open for some people's tastes, and
> the individual
> exposing aspects of themselves is (a) taking
> personal risks in the
> community, and (b) in danger of bringing in material
> that seems "off
> topic", indulgent ego-driven even, to some
> participants.
SA: Exactly. Now you see where 'SA' comes in. I'm
being open, discussing myself at times, but this 'SA'
is something more, something my given family name
can't capture. SA's tentacles are roped further into
this world instantly by the values in what SA means -
Spiritual Adirondack - talking about mountains all of
a sudden, spiritual ones, cosmic even.
Ian:
> As I say, for me there is no such thing as "off
> topic", provided we
> respect each other and our motives for being here.
> From the "off topic
> subjects" we learn more about the participants and
> their on-topic
> arguments - and their joined-up multiple
> personalities. I'm all for
> maximum openness, we all learn faster (see Platt's
> post on Switzerland).
SA: Thus, why I have been repeating 'democracy' to
emphasize this point to open this forum up. The
off-topics are helpful, but let us not focus only on
the off-topics and go off-topic.
Ian:
> You can be too open, only in terms of the downside
> of the risk to
> yourself - I doubt many such risks arise on here -
> except for those
> whose personal lives are not anonymous in public
> arenas beyond this
> forum. Then, risks do need to be "calculated" -
> (which draws the
> opposite accusation of hypocrisy - but that's real
> life - and another
> story.)
SA: true. Although living open is a risk, it is a
risk due to those that prey upon those that live
openly. These paths need unblocked and released.
stream,
SA
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