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Avalon Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: new jersey
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your thoughts are good and well taken but one week seems a little severe. a warning with correction and understanding might do nicely unless they are flagrant and consistently offensive. nice posting. |
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Avalon Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Posts: 138
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Thanks, and yes, maybe a week is a little harsh. You know, one thing that seems to be lost today is the nature of the web as self policing. Basically in every sector, the net participants penalize people who fall off the masses of that community, but volume of responses so that people learn the basic behavior required in any group from the backlash in their inbox reminding them to be nicer, or cruler, etc., what the community dictates.
The role of the MOD is to allow that discussion and kick back to happen towards the offending party without any major damage and to keep the flames from getting too high, but to interrupt that process with heavy handedness robs the net, and this board, of the power it has to self police. Basically we have many participants today on the web who are ignorant of the core Internet ideals and it's design and collaboration philosophy, and are trying to apply standard top down approach management. It leads to problems everywhere on the net. |
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Avalon Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 403
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I love David Icke, although its only recently that i started getting into his stuff (talks etc) seriously. Nice to see a Brit commenting on US matters without inhibition..hello Tony Blair?? you still there??
I agree with the principle of what Orb is saying, but what is really necessary is for people's criticism of others comments to be reasoned and non-offensive. I'm constantly amazed that on a forum like this people are still letting their "egos" dominate when it is primarly a forum for learning and information sharing. The "poor Gary McKinnon" thread shocked me at how off-beam it got in the end. |
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Avalon Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Norway
Posts: 413
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I simply call these forces/beings the ego-parasites. They thrive/live in the unconscious/darkness and they feed off of all sort of conflict/affliction/negativity either self-directed or directed towards others. Many people are identified with the nest of ego-parasites as their very identity. That is why just a few words is often enough to provoke the parasitic beast to reveal its ugly head.
I find that it is very good to view the forces operating in one's mind as impersonal "alien" forces that is not "you". They are yours to take responsability for yes, but not "you" - not your identity. The forces offer different choices of reaction. If you turn down the first response/choice (often automatic/conditioned based on judgements), another choice will appear. This new choice will come from a clearer/calmer space and it will be of a higer quality than the first. The prayer from George Green's Handbooks for a new Paradigm can be of good help here: "I/he/she is a human becoming, help me/him/her to become!". With that in mind it is easier to forgive self and others. These forces are not "evil/bad" in my view. They are doing an important job. They are extremely good at finding weaknesses and what buttons to push. Thus, they will point out to you what you need to "work on" in yourself. Only lies can get provoked, because truth has nothing to defend. These forces should be seen as providing the catalyst for change/growth, and not as the "enemy". Use the Lightsword of Awareness to cut through. ![]() ![]() Love, Sanat |
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