Inspired by the responses so far I will add I love science, I am a critical thinker (AKA modern skeptic) not a cynic and a lay philosopher. I care deeply about the environment and hope we can act more and soon.
I have always embraced diversity of all kinds racial, disability, identity and consider myself a male feminist. However I accept others may not be so open to such things as me and I respect peoples alternative views, if they do not hurt others. I would prefer to discuss difficult differences, than have us ignore each other. Did you know the root of the word "ignore" is to choose not to know. Ignorance is not innocence, it is "deliberately not knowing." It is critical in today's world that we realise our differences are far smaller than our similarities. That it is ok to have different views and maintain an open mind because its only fools who do not change their mind. I refuse to let commercial ventures like Facebook dictate the way we relate to each other and I look to my own and others cultures, ancient and new for examples of how to live and love life. Tiddlywiki is a passion of mine, in part because it can help us think, an extension of our brains, but we should avoid expanding our brains in only one direction, so in this thread or further a field I look elsewhere for inspiration. I know we have a number of people here with various physical differences. As someone myself with more than the average number of legs and arms *1. I know we need to understand each others differences lest we accidentally exclude people who may have a lot to tell us. It is only with information from many different perspectives can we ever come close to the whole picture. *1. The Average number of legs/arms is less than two, since there are many people with one or no, arms/legs and very few with three or more arms/legs. Regards Tony On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 1:15:09 PM UTC+11, Aidan Grey wrote: > > I'll bite. Some facts about me: > * American, born in California, grew up in Colorado > * gay and married (11 years this dec) > * Have Aspergers > * animist, sorcerer for hire > * speak and or read many languages, including Mandarin, French, Latin, > Irish, and Welsh > * i make languages for fun too > * born premature because a black widow but mother, who went into shock > then labor - alas, it wasn't radioactive. I still have a HUGE thing for > spiders though > > > > On Tue, Oct 8, 2019, 7:39 PM A Gloom, <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> *Why should we Celebrating Diversity* >> >> >> - Because it makes common sense >> - Diversity is healthy because of less injuries from fighting those >> that are not like you-- you'll be fighting forevermore >> - Building tolerance is an antidote to conflict-- imagine what more >> could be accomplished if everyone worked together rather than against >> each >> other. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/35cbf096-a55d-40c6-a620-68164d32b1d3%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/35cbf096-a55d-40c6-a620-68164d32b1d3%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3a78013e-d938-410f-97d4-9657353c510c%40googlegroups.com.
