<p dir="ltr">Even this email thread is exhausting. If I had to listen to this at an organization I would have quit already. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm sorry, I understand how it feels when people don't like you. I had few friends as a child. I finally figured out it was because people didn't like being around me. So I did 2 things 1) I stopped subjecting people to a situation that made them uncomfortable (I left them alone), and 2) I slowly learned what of my obnoxious behaviors was upsetting them, and slowly changed them. Not because I was wrong, or they were wrong, but because making people uncomfortable is mean. </p>
<p dir="ltr">If I insist on doing stuff that makes people uncomfortable, -I- am the one who is being mean. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Food for thought. </p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 22, 2015, 12:28 PM Mark Rosenblitt-Janssen <<a href="mailto:dreamingforward@gmail.com">dreamingforward@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> But more importantly, it's all so unnecessary. Why were you still arguing<br>
> about this in the first place, three emails later? It's such a pointless<br>
> argument about a tiny objection that can't possibly have been something you<br>
> cared that much about. If you had just said "sure fine whatever", the whole<br>
> issue goes away.<br>
<br>
The reason is this: everyone has their own little point of power upon<br>
which the rest their identity. For some, it's religion, for others<br>
it's evolution. Women know it well, because men have been<br>
establishing the points of "truth" within the otherwise boundlessness<br>
of (pre)existence to rest their soul on or using their strength to<br>
establish it by fiat since time immemorial. You simply didn't notice<br>
the issue, presumably because your point of power is shared by a<br>
million people. The issue of using the pronoun "it" appears to be<br>
(one of) Peter's.<br>
<br>
A better strategy for Peter though is neither silence, nor frivolous<br>
rebellions to get power: it's to prove himself more capable in the<br>
arenas in which the hackerspace's mission believes. This is good<br>
advice generally, since the issue of power is ongoing.<br>
<br>
Marxos<br>
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