Posted by Cory on April 28, 2000 at 23:27:44:
In Reply to: A bitter irony... posted by Valeri on April 28, 2000 at 22:18:00:
How does some outsider who just waltzes on to this board, without experience here or prior knowledge of the people, get off and criticize how this place should act? Of course, your labeling of me as a One shows your lack of knowledge on the Enneagram in that you trust too heavily on surface traits. If you look at Tehuti close enough, it's quite obvious that what she seeks is security and closure. She is NOT open to the possibility of learning something new about herself or having to think differently; thus she was so adamantly opposed to me and had this little "fit" today. What is my interest in this matter? What I despise, more than anything, is seeing fake people. I don't like it when people are not their true selves or they have deluded into thinking they are someone they are not.
I do not lower my standards nor my values, especially at the request of strangers like you. I'm not going to "lay off" Tehuti just because I do not want to hurt her feelings because I feel my actions are justified, and I place the value of authenticity over her feelings and security.
My suggestion to you Valeri, is if this board offends you, then leave. I don't particularily care for you. You don't seem that bright and your posts have been quite dull so far.
-Cory
: A sad, sad irony has come to my attention in my short time here..
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: The "tough guy" contigent on the board: these poor souls appear to be nothing more than misguided 1's! (I'm right you're wrong.. You're a 6, I'm an 8, and he's a 5)
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: The sad thing is, what is called the "Type 4 Board" has turned into a playground for non-fours to do what it seems all non-fours love to do in real life.... Pick on the sensitive mind and soul of fours...
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: You guys are so pathetic, I'd almost feel sorry for you if you weren't such insensitive dolts... I read back a ways, and the people here have always been open to non-fours coming here and expressing their views, etc... They never said, "Hey you're not a 4, so get the hell out!" (Which would have been a stereotypical 6 reaction, by the way).
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: But now, it seems like all you guys do is pick people you don't like, and make derisive remarks about them until they are so hurt that they leave...
: And that, friends, is no way to run a forum like this. I showed up here, expecting to find people like me...and a place where I could just talk with those people without feeling threatened, and without them feeling threatened as well.
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: Instead, I found some people who were like me. And I found them being belittled, and told that they were "fakers" and didn't know anything, and so forth.
: It's a great environment, eh folks? People leaving by the droves... weekly outbursts...
: "I know more than you, therefore you are what I say you are." That's the mentality of a lot of people around here, and I don't like it.
: Love
: Valeri