Essay: My Brief Period As A Moderator

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(in the spirit of the "What I Did On My Summer Vacation" essay)

- by David Bozzi

 

My brief experience as being a moderator on a Groups email discussion group

was fun.

I learned alot. I learned that being a moderator is not what it's cracked up to

be.

Initially I thought being a moderator was going to be hard with occasional

periods of

skull-cracking to put boisterous members back in line. I had none of that. My

group was

nice. There was this one member who acted like a bickering wife who taught me

that

despite having never been married there is a bickering husband inside me. This

verifies

either that I am schizophrenic or that channeling disembodied entities is a real

phenomena or that the phenomena of bickering wives and husbands is a genetically

dictated trait that none of us can escape without the aid of innovative genetic

engineering.

 

Occasionally, on other lists, between many posts of mad babbling I would write

something

that someone interpreted as wise or as something an enlightened person might

say. Those

who wanted to find an enlightened one saw me as enlightened. And those who

wanted to find

someone crazier then themself believed they had finally found what they sought.

It was a

win-win situation. Everyone found what they sought.

 

Then that got me thinking. Don't we all do that? I mean I know people who think

some

people are just great and so they put them on a pedestal and claim that they are

supreme

examples of someone to emulate. While others see the very same person as full of

bull-puckey.

 

I say, don't put anyone on a pedestal and at the same time don't think you are

any better

than anyone.

 

That seems to work for me. This way I have fewer delusional fantasies about

perfect

people and can notice the divine more in the average person.

 

After a while of experiencing life like this you begin to see that there really

is no

difference between a Ramana and a Manson.

 

That could be really bad or really liberating,

...depending on your perspective.

 

Love,

David