Archaea said:
In an effort to be somewhat balanced I decided to write this post explaining why I think my posts are getting deleted. I'm putting it in a separate post because my thoughts on this topic seem to be what's getting them deleted.
Well, that should have told you something!
In one of the Cass sessions last year, I think in March, the C's said that there were covert antagonisms on the part of some members of the forum, I instantly recognized myself as one of them and posted an emotionally charged comment about Laura. It turned out that I was projecting a lot, I think because I had thought loops running in my brain powered by suppressed emotion from being banned.
However, I'm still not convinced the problem of covert antagonisms has gone away or is being handled appropriately by the majority of people here. edgitarra seemed to have a similar problem, and it seemed to me that very little progress was being made until Andromeda offered some understanding which solved everything. Before that it looked to me like people were taking the position of "we don't like what you said, so you're wrong, ADMIT IT!!" That's just my perception...
Have you stopped to consider that your perception may not be correct?
I'm a little bit paranoid, OK, I don't like people getting between me and my food, for example. But isn't this exactly what the "STSers" would want? Wouldn't they want the antagonisms to remain covert, for the purposes of getting the most people to leave, like what the C's said? And wouldn't this be a lot easier if people who let their antagonisms "slip" received no understanding at all and were ostracized?
You might think so, but it is more complicated than you seem to think. If we were to do as you suggest, many of the members who now assist others here in the Forum would have already been banned. This STS world has corrupted most of humanity, which means that the vast majority of people have really 'messed up' minds and personalities. Our purpose here is to help people to learn and grow - particularly to learn to understand themselves and to progress past the programming which has hindered them is so many ways all their lives. This is what we call the Work, and is the main purpose of this Forum and why this is essentially an Esoteric School. "Esoteric" means "hidden", and we try to help others to see what is hidden, especially from themselves.
Like any 'school', there has to be rules of behavior and decorum or things will quickly decay into anarchy and chaos. There is quite enough of that around this reality already! So, if a student is disruptive, will not follow the rules and is untrusting and disrespectful of the teachers, they will be counseled as to their behavior, and if they persist in breaking the rules the final option is expulsion.
That being said, we do our best here to respect other members and to help them as much as we are able to. We all try hard to be 'gentle' with our comments and advice, but on occasion, we just have to be blunt if the person is just not getting what we are trying to get across. Mind you, none of this is done with the objective of getting over on someone or putting them down, but to assist them in seeing themselves better. Quite often it is seen in the wrong way by the recipient of the comment made to them, but if received in the proper manner it is most often very helpful to them.
Many members have gone through this process, and most of them realized what I am saying here to be true. I hope this helps your understanding some and answers the question you have as to how the moderators handle situations.
Also, I might have said a few things in that post which the mods and admins didn't like, but they wouldn't delete it if they didn't like what I had to say, would they? Nah...
Your little bit of sarcasm here indicates pretty well how you are seeing things. You know, the C's have told us "Learning is Fun", but a lot of us now understand that to be true mostly in hindsight!
I hope this helps you to see things more clearly.
