Reflection while reflecting. August this year. South Elm Street, Greensboro. Plate glass windows. Maybe 100 feet from the infamous Woolworths Sit-In/Civil Rights Museum. I see that 13 year old boy on the sidewalk, a long time ago. Music and record stores up and down. Records; the world plus records.
Ground Control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Ground Control to Major Tom (ten, nine, eight, seven, six) Commencing countdown, engines on (five, four, three) Check ignition and may God's love be with you (two, one, liftoff)
Ground Control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Ground Control to Major Tom (ten, nine, eight, seven, six) Commencing countdown, engines on (five, four, three) Check ignition and may God's love be with you (two, one, liftoff)
the instructions seem pretty clear, so where are the photos???? luckily I scrolled down and read the very nice post that gives me hope for compadres. thank you and even if it was a trick, you were nice. I thank you for that. wanna dance?
Steely_D wrote:
oldviolin wrote:
Even though this is only a virtual community I would think it wise to get a feel for it, the regular interacting members. Find the battle lines, work both ends to a good place as regularly and as often as possible. Meet some in real life. Fall in love with their children and animals and language and culture if foreign and make a bed for yourself you don't mind lying in.
In a word it is intimidating to come to a place like this. There is a ton of previous history. It is totally skewed ideologically but it can also be an accepting place.
Personally I despise fighting and mostly I don't get involved because I can be direct and it serves no purpose to try to change things said in haste. More than that I despise disrespect. There is plenty of both here but you wont change one perspective with righteous indignation.
You might actually change your perception and move up a rung along the way. Ego and the internet mix like oil and water...
Mostly I just love music...so much.
Very nicely put. So much of the internet has become a place where the game is to show up, say something to get attention (including hyperbole and disrespect and trolling) and then bask in the inevitable attention. Thatâs a stale, hollow way to be.
The breadth of knowledge and background here can be subtle, and only with some delicacy and time can people realize that these arenât adversaries here, but other folks with a similar interest. They love music....so much.
So, if someone comes in and immediately starts wildly swinging, looking to get some ego points, they wonât last long and will be quickly ignored or marginalized. The group does a good job of maintaining their own comfortable homeostasis, and no one or two people are going to disrupt much for very long.
So instead of adversaries, think of the group as compadres. Weâre all in it together - with differing perceptions of how the world is and should be and not afraid to express those perspectives - but with the same soundtrack, the one that keeps us here.
I appreciate the words of advice, and would take them in the real world and use them. Here, it couldn't be more clear that if you're not like minded, you're not one of the group. Someone should tell the employee who creates the cliffnotes, this one was an epic fail.
Tell me what this means. Employee? Cliff notes? Cliff who? Where does projection fit into this? and, a pertinent question; define the "real world"
