Date sent: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 07:49:47 EST Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: rights - persecution/try to understand already!/the truth > In a message dated 98-12-11 04:09:26 EST, you write: > > << > but, let's not forget to honor everyone as a teacher, even if the lesson > comes > in a strange way. Love, jane > >> > Hi! > > It's me again, I need unsubscribing info If anyone has it. Can I just add > this - I do not want to unsubscribe but I feel to frustrated to stay - I want > to keep exchanging so that we can grow in understanding, respect and trust - > afterall that is what love is - love isn't just a valentines card on > Valentines day, love isn't just saying Ok you be you and I'll be me - love is > trying to understand each other, compromising when we can, - love isn't just > an accomodating position - but like a oak in the wind - willing to bend - love > is an expression of thanks - and shared concern. I am really thankful for the > exchange and concerned that I tried to clear up misunderstandings about > dominion, dualism and patriarchial Christianity and I was written off as a > radical fanatic intolerant bug! > > You ask me to be tolerant - now why weren't you tolerant of my explanations? > You ask me to be accomodating - now why weren't my posts accomodated instead > of ridiculed? > You ask me to be understanding - now why don't you understand that you have > some serious misunderstandings that I can help clear up? > > Understand? > Can't you at least be the kind of person you expect others to be? > > I was not intolerant - > Intolerant: narrowminded > > I was not willing to embrace what I perceive as lies or misunderstandings - > there's a difference - If I was intolerant I would have been off the list many > posts ago. I am, however, adamant that I am in possession of the truth - if > you feel that you are in possession of the truth - please express it so that > it is understood to be truth without lies to support it. Maybe we can really > reach an understanding. Or is it that you keep your truth and I'll keep mine? > Maybe you can teach me something: How many truths are there to the light? > > Peace! > Angela > If you are truly adamant (definition: set in stone) that you are in possession of the truth, then there's nothing to talk about, no mutual understanding to be reached, no compromise to be made. All who disagree with you must necessarily be, according to the rules with which you insist the rest of us accommodate ourselves, either ignorant, malevolent, or both, since nothing we say could possibly contain a grain of truth (you have the monopoly on that - just ask you). Your sole purpose on this list is to enlighten us out of our godless darkness and save our lost little sheep souls. You DO serve as a teacher, Angela; by counterexample. You are a shining, sterling specimen of what not to allow ourselves to be or become. Joe
