| Re: Hello Robert, Fellow TOEists, et al. -
02-17-2008, 10:30 PM
A declined invitation for discussion, I take it.
I'm really sorry you feel this way David, and sincerely hope that as I progress in activity here, your warnings will prove - as I think they do - false. "We all come from unique gene pools and are further shaped by our various cultures, different education and life experiences and from this we gain unique insights and perspectives into the meaning of life and the nature of the reality in which we exist. To be successful in our quest, this knowledge, insight, creative imagination must be cultivated, harnessed, extracted from each member and assimilated into a whole. This whole, once it is properly distilled, represents the Theory of Everything. This is the Vision of ToeQuest."
Please respect my "blindness" or "brainwashing", although it may frustrate you, and rest assured I have no "agenda" or even the most remote desire to change the path of the TOE. Why? Because it is in perfect accord already with the Open Source Truth Process of which I am already a participant. However you may have (mis)interpreted the information/media on my website, the published "vision" of this forum not only supports but DEMANDS such diversity of opinion and lifestyle. Your intolerance of my views (which you have refused to explain) only calls into question your own devotion to the Open Source foundation of ToeQuest.
Again, I apologize if I have offended you in some way - naivete only becomes ignorance when one shuts ones eyes and ears, something which I have not done. It has been you, instead, who has denied me a chance to raise my awareness.
All this said, I thank you for your warnings. Whether you like it or not, however, I will continue here - expressing my own individual experience - for as long as I see fit. If I somehow don't fit into your individual perception of the TOE, then ignore me.
I'll reaffirm your suspicions with some verses from a TRUE socialist: "Oh you'd like to be my father - you'd like to be my dad,
and give me kisses when I'm good and spank me when I'm bad,
but since I left my parents, I've forgotten how to bow,
so when I've got something to say, sir, I'm gonna say it now.
And things they might be different, if I was here alone,
but I've also got a friend or two who no longer live at home,
and we'll respect our elders just as long as they allow,
that when I've got something to say, sir, I'm gonna say it now."
-Phil Ochs |