LOL! Sounds like Yahoo is your new guru and Yahoo Guidelines the "New
Vedas?" Are you going to sell your farm and move to Sunnyvale? Get
ready for some real estate sticker shock. Are you doing pujas daily to
Marissa?
Being in the tech industry and living in the SF Bay Area let me give you
a little background on Silicon Valley or what I like to call Silly
Conned Valley (yes, it's a very nutty place). The phenomena popped up
due to graduates from Stanford setting up businesses in their garages.
Hewlett-Packard was one of the early ones. And we all know about the
other two guys who started building computers in their garage but
neither were graduates.
Back in the late 1990s many of us were on an email service call
eGroups. There are probably some here who participated in the Jyotish
email group set up by a former TM teacher. It's still alive as a Yahoo
Group with a lot Indian jyotishees brawling it out. In fact what
happened to eGroups was that Yahoo bought them in 2000 and the result is
Yahoo Groups.
As for guidelines, these are things that folks sitting around in a
boardroom dream up. They evolve over time and as product managers for
Yahoo Groups bring up problems they are seeing but it's mainly someone
saying "we need some guidelines, particularly for newbies starting up a
group." They are suggestions for decorum and nothing more. They are
not rigid rules and they are certainly not the "New Vedas."
On 07/09/2015 06:47 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Yes, as some are affirming here the Yahoo-groups guidelines are a lot
about civility and how things are said. Yes it is about civility and
facilitating communal well-being for individuals in [safe]
collaborative communal organization. With this it seems a lot of
thought has been put in to the Yahoo-groups guidelines by folks at Yahoo.
The yahoo guidelines seem very much like a re-structuring and looking
at language that is happening a lot of places and also ongoing within
the TM movement itself to help folks figure out civil processes. Like
between and within the different elements as in the case of TM, of
what or who is TM. I was in movement working committee meetings
yesterday on campus where a focus of discussion was looking for
actionable remedy to some really poor behavior and culture in
language-ing that can hold 'stealth-mores' and 'micro-inequities' that
some may not realize they are sharing as they speak. The process comes
to these same themes of facilitating and moving civil discourse.
Interestingly, the millennial meditating generation that is present
participating in this is not sitting still at all for old patriarchal
ways and they are quite studied in their push and their holding some
elder feet to the fire. This is not just about a hurtful violence
endemically perpetrated like exampled here by some behavior of some
individuals in character as was on FFL but finding actionable cultural
movement in progressive civil discourse that seems more broadly afoot
otherwise. The collaboration in practice seems to require some willing
studied [conscious] self-control of self-moderation for participation
in the engagement. Also known as, civility and how things are said.
-JaiGuruYou!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
Doug is right here, and I think calling this new group Free Speech is
a misnomer, as Doug implies. It's more a question of civility than
free speech. IIf, say, you go to a party and spend your time there
insulting and ridiculing and misrepresenting others, you will likely
be asked to leave. But would it be fair to call that a curtailment of
your right to free speech? I don't think so. It would just be an
adverse commentary on your boorish social behavior, which you would be
well advised to amend.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
As someone pointed out down at Paradiso Cafe in Fairfield, Iowa this
morning about the creation of FFL2 for the FFL-banished, these fox may
not have fun for long by themselves without also having hens to pick
on. Making straw-men may suffice for some while and keep them from
tearing at each other for some time. The Yahoo-groups guidelines
eventually will find and rule them where ever they may go as they meet
up with kind people in civil society. A character of violence in civil
society often is that it is self-limiting in nature and the asocial
tend to isolate themselves. Thanks for better facilitating that, Alex.
-JaiGuruYou
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote :
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <j_alexander_stanley@...> wrote :
On a whim, I made a FFL free speech zone. Use it. Don't use it.
Doesn't matter to me. Just letting you know it's there.
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Thank God, now maybe we can get some peace around here from all the
whining. I think you might have wanted to call the new site "australia".
