From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 01:09:15 MDT
I vote for this for post of the month. Thank you, Amara!
I second all of that. Thank you for putting it into such
perfect words.
- samantha
Amara Graps wrote:
> Dear Extropes,
>
> Life is too precious, and time too, and it's not my way of living to
> think of using my precious time to categorize people on gender or race
> or religion any other category and assign them blame for the things that
> might have gone wrong in my life. That seems completely alien to me,
> something from a strange race that haven't evolved.
>
> A productive use of my time is to focus on fulfilling the vision I have
> of myself, and then putting myself in the context of the stream of flow
> of humanity and applying my vision in a larger context in space and
> time. It must start from the inside, though. That's the deep work
> of exploring one's own vast inner universe. Putting my inner visions
> into practice and into the stream of humanity is the next step. For me,
> some of this hard work is very spiritual.
>
> Many of these discussions of killing or viewing groups of people as
> less valuable than other groups of people. make my stomach turn over.
> For sure, this is not in my vision of my future or the future of the
> community of people that I care about. I doubt that humanity would
> ever get off this planet if the majority of people hold that opinion.
>
> On more earthly matters, I wish that there were more women on the list
> to handle some of these topics. I don't have the time or the motivation
> or typing fingers to address emotionally charged blame. It's not because
> of me that some of you are angry, and it's not particularly healthy for
> me to stick around around and listen to garbage. Because there's so few
> women here, you fellows don't have much information on the issues from a
> woman's side, and it might be useful for you guys to see the other side
> too. I know very well that there are agendas for both mens and women's
> issues, but I don't think that they can be discussed in such an
> emotionally charged environment, and if, or when, it comes to each
> gender pointing fingers at the other, then the women will be
> outnumbered. It's a pointless exercise, don't you think? Especially on
> this mailing list. I think that all of us can better use our time and
> energy celebrating our differences and using those differences make our
> lives richer.
>
>
> Amara
>
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