Posted by Dr. Bob on February 18, 2013, at 3:22:45
In reply to Re: who is/are the Borg » Dr. Bob, posted by 10derheart on February 16, 2013, at 18:34:01
> > > [trial run to see if any part of PB is safe for me]
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> > > 10derheart
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> > What feeling do you think she's expressing? Do you share that feeling? Can you communicate that to her?
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> > Bob
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> I think 10der and I may possibly again be on the same wavelength. I don't call someone my sister on a single isolated point of being on the same page, no matter how delightful the experience might be. I suspect that since 10der expressed the feeling that an unmoderated Babble felt unsafe to her, as it feels unsafe to me, she was trying to see if she could find a meeting place between learning to use Babble in a way that feels safer, and Babble perhaps being moderated in a way that feels safer.
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> Not that I want to speak for 10der. We may not be on the same wavelength at all on this.
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> Dinah> Anyway...still artificial and awkward no matter whether you step forward, back or sideways. Inherent in what you are doing, especially with some of us who have been in long term therapy and/or voraciously read about it. I have an involuntary Technique-o-Meter that operates with a bit of a cynical outlook in those times it seems a person is doing something *to* me or (at the risk of making Dinah blush again) trying something *on me.* Not to mention, which I think may be what Phillipa was alluding to, it gives a conversation here more that a whiff of group therapy which is disconcerting coming from you, for obvious reasons.
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> 10derheartAre you willing to give this a try now despite it feeling artificial and awkward and disconcerting? If so, do you feel Dinah heard what you were expressing? If so, do you feel she shared that feeling?
Bob
PS: To try to focus this thread, I tried again to join Dinah's wavelength here:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20130101/msgs/1038301.html
and posted another reply here:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20130101/msgs/1038303.html
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