Mr. Hoaxland,
<<Why is a name and email address deemed to be so important on this
thread?>>
On Sunday, December 7, 1997 I posted this response to your question. It
still reads fresh today.
Mr. Hoaxland, thank you for telling us that is your real name. We will take
you for your word. Now all we need is an e-mail address. To allay your fears
I never have received an unsolicited e-mail from any supporter or opponent
of Naxos. Therefore, obviously, just because someone is a staunch supporter
of Naxos does not automatically mean that they will be inundated with unwanted
e-mail. There must be other qualities that enrage, engage and result in flame wars.
Speaking for myself, and to the undisciplined posters and contributors out
there who just have to engage in one-line response to one-line responses,
and so on ad bloody infinitum; let's tighten up a little out there. This thread
is way too cluttered with nonsense. 'Nuff said.
Now to the answer to your question, Mr. Hoaxland;
To All;
At the beginning of any public conflict, tension dynamics are created
by our perceptions of "Us" vs. "Them"; and it's always viewed as Good
Guys (Us) vs. Bad Guys (Them). In our personal experience this dynamic
is the tension between our hopes and our fears. The net effect, in either
case, is struggle and conflict.
We have seen the renewed contention, recently on the thread, made extra
painful because most of us are engaged in our own conflicts between our
minds and hearts, the respective seats of knowledge and fear. How many
feel "Us" and "Them" tension when Us is Naxos, and Them are family and
friends? Who hasn't gotten a phone call from a dear one pleading to know
why it is taking so long?
Recently we have witnessed our lively discussion become "personal" and
I am confused why someone who will not identify themselves as a real person
would feel personally attacked? I understand why someone would want to
maintain privacy and have supported that right and freedom with my life.
But privacy does not seem to be the determinate motivation in many cases.
If a poster witholds direct personal access because, as of a consequence
of what they post, they don't want to get nasty responses, even threats,
in their mailboxes they must be willing, in my opinion, to be treated as
the impersonal electronic entities which persona they have willfully assumed.
If you expect to be treated as a person then stand up as a person,
as Mr. Liontamer has done by providing his email address, contrary to a
previous post's contention.
Sharks and lions, hyenas and vultures are inevitable realities in eco systems
natural and electronic. They have roles to fill and often they go about
filling them with a mechanical dedication we often find abhorrent, amoral,
impersonal. Warm blooded creatures all sound alarms when approached by
cold blooded killers which may then be avoided and evaded.
I appreciate all the alarms that have been sounded regarding the thread
jumpers, their histories and motives. Take it from one who knows; it is
not easy to overcome your fear sufficient to swim with sharks, but it
can be done. As I said in a previous contribution;
<<Those posters possessing only the non-teachable levels of mechanical mind
we can do nothing about except pray for them and prove them wrong. We
should not suffer them in silence nor pay them too much heed. Mr. Aken
was correct about the riff-raff showing up and spot-on about our less than
stellar responses to them. We can do better when dealing with the thread
jumpers.>>
The only antidotes to doubt are faith and certainty (a combination of
genuine knowledge and true experience). For myself, personally, I have
all of one and a lot of the other. When posters become contributors,
positive or negative, only then do they earn my respect. My living proof,
still hanging in there, is David Cohen. May he never waver again!
Welcome aboard, electronic posters and human persons alike. May you all
be generously rewarded commensurate to the kind and degree your postings
and contributions make here.
God bless you all.
Jerard P |
