Re: Constant Ignoring or Ignorance of FFL Guidelines --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Reminding people that there are 15 existing guidelines, > > and asking how we can get back to the days when people > > spontaneously followed them -- how is that equivalent > > to the excesses [implied] of the TMO over the > > years? > > If all you had done was remind and try to > inspire people to remember those days, I > wouldn't have spoken up. > > You went further. You started talking > "enforcement," and even making suggestions > for how that enforcement should work. > > Power Trip.
Sorry, Turq, use of "power words" such as "power trip" don't intimidate me. I have grown-up beyond the 60's and have learned the insidious effect of power words used to shut down conversatation and rational thought. The proposal I made yesterday is a "power to the people" initiative. "Enforcement" is perhaps a bad word for 60's baby boomers -- some of whom react viscerally and irrationally at the thought of rules and the enforcement of such. Maybe we can sugar-coat and euphanize "enforce" as "encouragement". But that is so TMO-ish. Regardless, the "enforcement" of gross and constant violations of the guidelines is not triggered by some power tripper or "the man", but by the collective itself. By five independent posters. Where is the "power trip" you see? Could it be in your head? Do you think some "work" on that visceral response you have might be warranted? 40 years is a long time to carry around the baggage of our youths. Another thought: are those that use power words to shut down rational conversation and diologue on a power trip? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
