Personal Experience of "Mind Control"

[Coordinate_Apotheosis]

I too feel kind of bad for interceding Ashim's thread...

I can't say I've recently noticed any threads that show
- that there isn't support (as a matter of course) for the equality for women
- that white people don't understand that we have (an automatic) privilege in life (to varying degrees)
- homophobia

Although I can certainly say these things ARE ALL RAMPANT in some areas of society, if you're one of the people fighting them, please, take my strength with you!

And just know, it's in those intense energies that one can lose track of the line they tread.  The line does blur, and sometimes no gentleness or firmness can change how people view someone standing upon that blurred line.  We all might be wrong, you might be wrong, everyone might be wrong, we don't know and have the ironic duty of determining this for ourselves with or without the help of others.

I have many thoughts and remarks regards some of the openness the moderation team has, but overall it's up to them.  I appreciate what they do but ponder if a more firm stance might not be more helpful, but I've always felt some firmness is needed yet with a fine balance for discussions such as these.  I'm not much better than I was SMC, I just have the mistakes prior to help me not repeat them now...  Could you imagine how messed up it'd be if I met you with what I perceived to be the energies I saw in your posts?  It'd be me attacking Monica all over again! I do not want that!

BUT, I do just want you to know I love you and your posts, as I do everyone and their posts, and hope you don't stop posting.  As someone called me, 'stimulating' to the forums, I think you fit this description too and are needed here for us all to reflect on our perceptions of ourselves and others more clearly.  I'm happy you took some punches and shook it off like a bad ass, I would not be as strong as you in that position.

Anyway, with all of that said, I do want to hear the rest of the experiences had!  Ashim, won't you continue your story? Please?
(Won't we, everyone???)