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Old 11-12-2008, 07:47 AM   #10
astropsyche
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Default Re: Is this Forum elitist?

I stand by what I have written above. I am indeed working very hard to contribute love light and life within the community I am currently living in - to the best of my ability. What I am decidedly NOT doing is trying to form enclaves of priveleged persons with the express aim of surviving a catastrophe none of us know is actually going to happen! Whilst the good people of this Forum go about their business in working out ways to survive mythical days of destruction, I will continue to wonder if we all would be better served taking a full and active part in the general human community within which most of us live. Methinks there is lots of Stargate Atlantis type aspiration here and it concerns me that so many apparently talented persons spend lots of time and energy trying to build what I still think are elitist enclaves.
All the high-faluting sentiments and 'enlightened thinking' I read here seem utterly at odds with the actual lives of people living here and now under appalling conditions. The contributer to this thread who informs us that impoverished citizens of the third world don't need to spend time doing what is being done by Members of this Forum because they already know how to survive with very little would do well to seriously consider the implications of what they have written! Noble poor eh? A very enlightened observation? I think not.
And to the Member who makes the observation that most of the third world are stupid, poor and unable to amass the things needed to survive so why bother to make any effort for these billions. I think these are precisely the sentiments and value judgements of an elitist!
A very wise woman once warned me to beware of 'glamour' on the difficult road to enlightenment and freedom - and of taking one's Self too seriously!
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