12-07-2009, 12:35 PM
Thank you for all the positive comments. I had Cesar on the TV while reading some LOO material and I realized they were saying the same thing! I'm glad that this perspective is as useful to others as it's been to me.
I think Cesar would see it as a group of people who treat each other like people, not like dogs. When Cesar talks with people - his family, crew, clients - he is authoritative about how they should treat the dogs. The main problem he says is when people don't treat dogs like well-treated dogs, but like people. This confuses the dogs since they don't get what they need.
Outside of how to respect the nature of dogs, Cesar offers people equality and acceptance about everything else people do. He respects their nature by treating people like people, just as he respects the dogs by treating them like well-treated dogs. And that's what I see here: people treating each other with respect, as equals.
This is an usual forum in terms of how much people can politely disagree about their opinions, but still respect each other as people.
I've been in other forums that did have aggressive empire-building or groupthink or pack mentalities. I just don't see that kind of behavior here.
I see this forum as a group of fellow travelers, not a pack. The moderators sometimes say things like, "We'd enjoy your company if you would like to share this part of the journey with us. If you wander off that way we think you'll fall off a cliff. If you do prefer to go that way, be aware that we're going this way instead."
Since people are involved, sometimes mistakes are made, of course. But I believe the intention here is sincere fellowship of equals, not the creation of a pack.
What kind of a pack could you build around the Ra materials, anyway? Anyone who sincerely seeks gets the same message, and the message says to think for yourself with love and acceptance and without fear. The message says, no need to make anyone else your guru, alpha leader or God. The message says, the more you are yourself the more that God's evolution is fulfilled.
The people who started sharing this message say every chance they get that they don't want to build any kind of organization, only to share this message.
(12-07-2009, 02:25 AM)peregrine Wrote: This forum, on the other hand...would you say that the mods are alpha beasts, or more like, say, STO guard dogs? Guardians, maybe?
What would Cesar say about organizational structure of this quasi-cyber-pack?
I think Cesar would see it as a group of people who treat each other like people, not like dogs. When Cesar talks with people - his family, crew, clients - he is authoritative about how they should treat the dogs. The main problem he says is when people don't treat dogs like well-treated dogs, but like people. This confuses the dogs since they don't get what they need.
Outside of how to respect the nature of dogs, Cesar offers people equality and acceptance about everything else people do. He respects their nature by treating people like people, just as he respects the dogs by treating them like well-treated dogs. And that's what I see here: people treating each other with respect, as equals.
This is an usual forum in terms of how much people can politely disagree about their opinions, but still respect each other as people.
I've been in other forums that did have aggressive empire-building or groupthink or pack mentalities. I just don't see that kind of behavior here.
I see this forum as a group of fellow travelers, not a pack. The moderators sometimes say things like, "We'd enjoy your company if you would like to share this part of the journey with us. If you wander off that way we think you'll fall off a cliff. If you do prefer to go that way, be aware that we're going this way instead."
Since people are involved, sometimes mistakes are made, of course. But I believe the intention here is sincere fellowship of equals, not the creation of a pack.
What kind of a pack could you build around the Ra materials, anyway? Anyone who sincerely seeks gets the same message, and the message says to think for yourself with love and acceptance and without fear. The message says, no need to make anyone else your guru, alpha leader or God. The message says, the more you are yourself the more that God's evolution is fulfilled.
The people who started sharing this message say every chance they get that they don't want to build any kind of organization, only to share this message.