EQF
I am deeply appreciative of your ability to respond to the messages posted here with the
dignity and decency which you possess.

I am familiar enough with the effects of EMF on neurotransmitters to have some understanding of what has been going on in recent weeks. I have also been discussing what has occurred here with
a clinician friend who has been enlightening me about such things as seed or root causes, and secondary causes....and how they may explain why someone who has discussed having been a victim of abuse would attack you so viciously.

I admire you for being able to deal with this sort of attack and still go on trying to do what you are so committed to without bitterness to those who are so intolerant.

What I am having such a hard time understanding is how so many people can support what has happened here. I suppose they consider themselves
entitled to attack someone who is trying so hard to find a way to help others. I suppose they feel that if they don't like you or what you are doing
or the way you express yourself, that they are entitled to treat you with so much contempt and hostility. Even when it appears that they so obviously don't get what it is that you are trying to say to them. It seems to me that if individuals are unhappy with what you are doing,
they could express their feelings in a different manner.

The world is filled with folks who are able to
justify their viciousness and take no responsibility for their unkindness.

I suppose that what I find most sad about this
whole situation is Lowell's comments. I honestly thought he was above such unkindness.

Having had numerous episodes of my own, over many many years, of saying or doing things that I later deeply regretted....I can well understand
that people sometimes behave in a manner that is
not what they would choose. If I wrote off anyone
for doing this, I would have to write myself off also.

What I find so disturbing about what I see here is that so many people are being so supportive of
one member treating another so viciously. I have spent some time the last couple of days trying to track down the particular neurotransmitters involved in xenophobia....which I think may be part of the explanation when egos take over simple kindness and decency. No luck so far. Most of my reading has been trying to understand the serotonergic system....particularly on it's effects on the primitive, or animal part of the brain. I suspect this will be at least a part of what triggers otherwise decent people to treat another human being with so much contempt.

My apologies to the board for not being "fun".

Although I expect that some will try to justify
what has been said....what has been unfolding here
is not okay to me. I just usually don't have the guts to speak out against it when I see it.

Nancy