To: K-list
Recieved: 2003/02/08 07:29
Subject: [k-list] New poll: Guidelines: apologies
From: Paul Perner
On 2003/02/08 07:29, Paul Perner posted thus to the K-list:
Hi Folks,
I forgot to snip the poem I responded to (I usually try
to remember that) and I apologize for responding likewise
off topic. But jeez, my friends, was it really all that bad?
The poem was just a few lines. I didn't think it was too
much of a violation.
After all we went through with the troll and others in
the Yahoo days, is just a brief, clumsy infraction among
this smaller, more trusted list worth changing the rules
over?
I vote with the Percyval Party (signs, armbands and all),
but I have a write-in to add.
> > 1) Should the guidelines be loosened enough to become a free for all of
> silly jokes, forwarded lucky charms, funny pictures, attachment files,
> political petitions and whatever else any member feels like sharing in the
> moment?
>
I say no to everything until "whatever else any list member feels
like sharing at the moment." That shouldn't have been included in
the same breath as attachments, silly stuff and those dreadful
political spams and tirades and "free for all". A lot of beautiful, helpful
and even healing threads were started by someone just popping up and
saying something like , "I've had a lousy day," or "I saw this amazing
looking bird." The word "Kundalini" might not be found anywhere in
the message.
Personally, I know too little about Kundalini to sustain enough
strict, on-topic conversation. I wouldn't be able to be much
of a presence here.... not that anybody would miss a great deal.
With only one, dumb-luck, spontaneous awakening in my
life, all I really have is the new life I've enjoyed for the past five
years. The contacts I made on this list on the search to find
out what happened to me and going to the SEN conference
on spirituality and addiction has been the extent of my education.
It's been a good one. I still just a student, though, and not really
in the que for the advanced K class of exotic meditations. Please
bare with me.
When a list member mentioned how their car got trashed, it was
off topic, but I related to it because the same thing happen to me
that week. I didn't respond then, because I would have ranted
too much. The thing is, like some other members, I live in an
environment that I enjoy, but can be claustrophobic with all the
crackheads nearby and cheesy, noisy strip clubs surrounded by pissed
off neighbors who want to know why our volunteer group can't
do anything about it. In just about a square mile area (our
council "zone 5") January saw a ton of burglaries, five robberies and
two murders - not a good count in the burbs. It's been stressful,
to say the least.
My point is, when Mystress posted about her new house and
her cedar tree, I jumped in. It was refreshing. It was free of the
crap down the street. In was from Canada... free of Bush and good
humored about it. It was a snap shot of a day in the life of another
awakened human being I can relate to in my simple way. Although
"off topic" it had the K vibe; brutally honest, but trusting and loving.
Show me your ocean and I'll swim in it.
Show me the head of your pin and I'll jitterbug
with the angels.
Give me BC.... UK.... Africa.... Asia and India.
Australian mysteries.... Antarctic frozen silence.
It's all coming through this list.
So good!
Thanks!
Paul
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