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[billy rubin]

thats quaker talk

[Anne D.]

LOL

[billy rubin]

im serious

mostly

conservative quakers will wait for a clear leading before making a decision on serious issues. if clearness is not obtained, the solution is to postpone a decision until unity is achieved.

in situations where circumstances force one outcome rather than another when undirected, we decide by not deciding.

^^^this is the strategy of the traditional slow quaker: to stop until told to go.

i am a fast quaker. i go until i am told to stop.

both are needed for genuine unity, but i have pissed a lot of people off at times

[Dark Lightning]

I taught at a Waldorf school (didn't drink the kool-aid) for two years. This need for unity seemed to be something they strived for, as well. Don't know if it was universal to all the schools, though.

[billy rubin]

unity does not mran unanimous

or consensus

the sense of the meeting is a weird form of group think, in which everybody agrees, or agrees not to stand against, leaving a way forward for the group.

quaker stuff.

doesnt always work very well either