Talking About Us?
From: Michael Helsher
Date: Thu Dec 4, 2003 3:50 pm
Subject: Talking about us?
Peter Peter pumkin eater is talking about
us on the critics list!
Oh the vanity of being included in the string of heavy-hitter
seasoned participants that he mentions in a recent post at: http://www.topica.com/lists/waldorf-critics/read
I feel like a star is born. Maybe I should
sign up on that list again and act like a bonified all-knowing
anthropop!
ahh but alas, I'm afraid that my Steinerific
lingo is not yet up to the task :^(
Joel had a great idea over at the pool: that
we all sign up all it once and overwhelm there defenses by shear
force of numbers. Sharon is out of the picture lately so there
defenses have been weakened. I propose that we quadruple team
against Peter S.. Perhaps Tarjie (I know that you said that you
would not participate on that list again, But for this event
I think you should re-cant), Joel, Dottie and myself (taking
on the smaller left over chunks of course) could tag-team. Frank
and Sune can handle Dan. Sounds to me like Christen could handle
Debra and Diana...
Oh yes... I smell victory!
"Cry Havoc!
And let slip the dogs of war...
Merrily
Mike Helsher
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From: Sophia
Date: Fri Dec 5, 2003 2:46 am
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Talking about us?
Please beware that all messages written to
the WC list are archived twice: First on Topica, then on the
PLANS website, where your entire headings, including your email
addresses, are published, attracting spam like sugar attracts
flies.They apparently do this in order to boost their site's
position on the search engines.
If you want to help keep the WC list alive
and give PLANS some free PR, go right ahead. My personal advice,
however, is to invite them over here, to the AT list.
Faithfully,
Sophia (AT moderator)
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From: Joel Wendt
Date: Fri Dec 5, 2003 8:25 am
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Talking about us?
Dear Mike,
I'm not sure about going war, although I do
think that this is an interesting idea, that a group of us join
that list for awhile. Obviously our list is being watched, which
is kind of a sad thing for Peter S. to engage in - some kind
of spying with voyeuristic nuances. (hi Peter!).
The tragedy over there (the WC-list) is the
indulgence in hate and enmity. A soul living in such a place,
where darkness is nourished, even cherished, is an unfortunate
soul.
Since we have some familiarity with the 12
Steps here, it might not hurt to reason through such a journey
(that a group of us might join the WCL for a time). Which Step,
Mike, do you think such an act should emulate, and where in PoF,
would you place the reason for going there?
warm regards,
joel
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From: Tarjei Straume
Date: Fri Dec 5, 2003 9:29 am
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Talking about us?
At 17:25 05.12.2003, Joel wrote:
Obviously our list is being watched, which
is kind of a sad thing for Peter S. to engage in - some kind
of spying with voyeuristic nuances. (hi Peter!).
Lurking on a public list isn't spying. It's
wide open, and everyone is welcome here.
In the past, however, private mails stolen
from closed lists have been published on the WC list through
"moles" subscribing to private lists under false pretenses.
It's my impression that Peter S. prefers to
start all his messages with "Dear critics," to the
applause of his followers. For this reason, his comments to what
he reads on the AT list are most likely to occur inside his own
temple.
Tarjei
http://uncletaz.com/
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From: Joel Wendt
Date: Fri Dec 5, 2003 5:14 pm
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Talking about us?
Dear Tarjei,
I disagree. Its not about this being an open
list, or about the right to lurk, its all about the motive behind
the activity and the deeds that follow.
Think of a public park, where everyday anyone
can gather and speak about religion and philosophy. All kinds
of people can watch and not engage. But someone who comes with
the intent to take down names and tell stories in another place
has engaged in a much more concrete act than just passive observation.
That act has intentions, and consequences
- it is not at all neutral, but rather becomes filled in its
nature with the moral purposes of the action. This is true of
all of us, and it is true of Peter S.
Part of the nature of social reality, and
our use of the gift of the word, is that when we speak (or write)
about someone, we stand in between them and those who listen
- we become a creator of meaning, which is a part of our shared
social understanding. The gossip is obviously a potential bad
actor, because what is said clearly can produce social harm.
If harm can ensue, then the act has moral consequences, and therefore
moral dimensions.
The openness of this list is irrelevant to
the true nature of Peter's moral actions that proceed solely
from him. Now I have been very careful here to not characterize
those actions, nor the true nature of the moral motive, as I
did in the first post you quoted below. In the first post I was
mostly wanting to poke at him with words, if he wandered into
reading what I wrote.
warm regards,
joel
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From: Tarjei Straume
Date: Sat Dec 6, 2003 10:27 am
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Talking about us?
At 02:14 06.12.2003, Joel wrote:
Dear Tarjei,
I disagree. Its not about this being an open list, or about the
right to lurk, its all about the motive behind the activity and
the deeds that follow.
Think of a public park, where everyday anyone can gather and
speak about religion and philosophy. All kinds of people can
watch and not engage. But someone who comes with the intent to
take down names and tell stories in another place has engaged
in a much more concrete act than just passive observation.
I agree with your moral assessment here. What
I meant is that in a closed, private email group, such moles
are a problem and an invasion of privacy. In a public forum,
that is not the issue. What stories they tell each other in private
about public events are of no concern. The stories they publish
on their websites and lists are easy to handle and respond to,
on *our own* lists and sites.
Tarjei
http://uncletaz.com/
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From: dottie
zold
Date: Fri Dec 5, 2003 9:25 am
Subject: Re: Talking about us?
Mike
I propose that we quadrouple team against Peter S.. Perhaps
Tarjie (I know that you said that you would not partisipate on
that list again, But for this event I think you should re-cant),
Joel, Dottie and myself (taking on the smaller left over chunks
of course) could tag- team. Frank and Sune can handle Dan. Sounds
to me like Christen could handle Debra and Diana...
Hey Mike,
Waxing poetic is something I have never ever
been acused of:)
I say lets not go into that hole again. Let
them come over here if they want. I sense they are throwing some
meatbate with the Werner information and again Mr. Staudenmaier
is doing the twist and turn dance. He just keeps digging that
hole even larger for the legacy he will leave as well as what
the Critics have to offer. They have no idea how outragious they
look to mainstream people just stopping by. Although the girls
have cleaned up their act somewhat the boys are digging the grave.
It seems Peter has gotten a little more education
regarding the life of Dr. STeiner, or he has realized there is
to much information available to the general publie that refutes
his out right lies. The idea that Dr. Steiner could be an anti-jew
and a pro-jew at the same time shows how he gets his lies are
catching up with him. The old Jacobowski argument shows it doesn't
matter how educated you claim you are when you simply can not
understand a man trying to help integrate his people into a community
of others past religious ties. You would think Peter would understand
that simple point. He does not. Either he is a liar or he just
doesn't get it.
I think the AP boys and girls who dared enter
into that fracas have made an impact. One can just tell by the
way he is including everything positive and negative to make
his case. He has made a fool of himself. Good work by Sune who
led the pact and those who endeavored to stand up to the cowardice
of lies. It's always easy to hide behind a German translation
of a thing when it had not been transcribed into English as Peter
has done for most of his papers. His big mistake was mistaking
Ariosophy for Anthroposophy and there is no way around it. They
built a case on a foundation very different than Steiners yet
very close to Hitlers. The game is up.
It's a good day,
Love,
Dottie
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From: Tarjei Straume
Date: Fri Dec 5, 2003 10:09 am
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Re: Talking about us?
At 18:25 05.12.2003, Mike wrote:
I propose that we quadrouple team against
Peter S.. Perhaps Tarjie (I know that you said that you would
not partisipate on that list again, But for this event I think
you should re-cant), Joel, Dottie and myself (taking on the smaller
left over chunks of course) could tag-team. Frank and Sune can
handle Dan. Sounds to me like Christen could handle Debra and
Diana...
Count me out. I am not interested in participating
on lists where my freedom of speech has been previously abrogated
(including Starman's "Steiner" list), and certainly
not on lists promoting a website that endeavors to destroy the
Anthroposophical Movement, and where everything I write will
draw attention to their cause and their propaganda.
I'll be more than happy to discuss their arguments
on this list, however, where any topic goes and freedom of speech
reigns - or to comment them on my own website.
Cheers,
Tarjei
http://uncletaz.com/
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From: Sophia
Date: Fri Dec 5, 2003 10:36 am
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Re: Talking about us?
I'm a little uncomfortable with threads discussing
various lists and list strategies. The management/moderating
of Anthroposophy Tomorrow is already declared off-topic.
http://www.geocities.com/anarchosophia/listrules.html
I prefer not to extend this restriction, but
I don't want to get involved in rivalry between lists either.
For this reason, I would encourage you all to take discussions
*about lists* off-list, i.e. to private mail or to closed groups.
Anthroposophy Tomorrow has nothing to gain from discussions of
this kind.
I may have been responsible for some of this,
but I saw it fit to warn subscribers against lists were the public
archives are republished on a second website with full headings,
depriving contributors of the option to delete their own messages,
and exposing their email addresses to spammers' robots.
Beyond that, I recommend a "live and
let live" attitude to other lists. They may be fascist or
totalitarian or intolerant or what have you, but there's no reason
to beat them up in public. What goes around, comes around.
Faithfully,
Sophia (moderator)
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From: Tarjei Straume
Date: Fri Dec 5, 2003 10:59 am
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Talking about us?
At 00:50 05.12.2003, Mike wrote:
Perhaps Tarjie
The name is Bond. James Bond.
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From: Michael Helsher
Date: Fri Dec 5, 2003 3:09 pm
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Talking about us?
Hi Joel, you wrote:
Since we have some familiarity with the
12 Steps here, it might not hurt to reason through such a journey
(that a group of us might join the WCL for a time). Which Step,
Mike, do you think such an act should emulate, and where in PoF,
would you place the reason for going there?
Mike:
First my little self: Well, I think with a little bit of tweaking
we could use the tenth step. Instead of "We continued to
take a personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted
it", we could say, "we continued to take other people's
inventory and when they were wrong, promptly told them so".
Of course this would require a very slight relapse into denial.
But considering the fact that I used to live so deeply in it
(denial), tolerating a slight amount is acceptable to me. Slight
semantical adjustments, small amounts of white lies, and an aloof
application of Socratic method, could very much combine in our
favor...
Now my big self: "We came to believe that a power greater
than ourselves, could restore us to sanity". A good definition
of insanity is "repeating the same mistakes, and expecting
different results". One of the mistakes that I have repeatedly
made is to annex myself from those people that I have great antipathy
for. Though I hopefully would not allow myself to become a door-mat
(again), I now realize that I have much to learn from many different
people, regardless of how I feel about them personally, or their
views. I have always come away somehow stronger from engaging
people with opposing views (with as much compassion that I can
muster). It takes one to know one, and this goes both ways. I
like to think that I have experienced this "power greater
than myself" as emanating from within, but if it weren't
for other human beings, the experience would not be possible.
The experience of the "I" in the other is probably
the most difficult of human endeavors, and probably not possible
if we have not dealt with our own demons. To "think with
the power of love in spiritual form" is to realize our connectedness
to each other and the cosmos.
So to engage our brothers and sisters on the critics list in
a compassionate way, would serve to further the message of what
I see Anthroposophy as being: Human Wisdom, which stems from
our individual ability to "know thy self" and to "think
with the power of Love in spiritual form" (a power indeed
greater than my little self).
Holy shit... did I just write that?
Truth and Love
Mike
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