Posted by claire7 on May 15, 2000, at 22:00:43
Though I've only been eavesdropping on this site for a couple weeks, my impression may be of interest to the general babble. I offer it only as a perception from afar--(I am myself always interested in new perceptions of my familiar world, a world I have too often become too lazy to perceive afresh.)
I was chilled to the bone by the eviction of "fred"--so sudden, so lightening-bolt-like. Where was this witnessing, evicting god when fred was feeling "discounted", "invisible"? (these are his own words, back when he was being nice, and friendly, and offering an honest, heartfelt expression of his pain).
Why didn't this god step in and mediate, calm down the
discourse, HELP somebody? Instead, he waits, judges, casts out the unruly offender.I began,after this episode, to wonder who is this dr.bob? What exactly are his motives, his interests?
It is unspeakably sad to me that a troubled person whose style is uncomfortable for others can be summarily kicked out of discourse with the people he/she might reasonably expect to be most understanding. Where then does he/she go? Haven't we learned anything from history, recent or otherwise?
I am probably overreacting (I have a penchant for that),but this has been haunting me ever since I read "dr bob"'s terse intervention, and I didn't think I could quit this site until I had at least expressed my deep misgivings about what I've experienced here. Now I think I can leave, and won't be back.
poster:claire7
thread:33538
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20000508/msgs/33538.html