[extropy-chat] Group Hungover

[Harvey Newstrom]

On Sunday, June 13, 2004, at 01:48 am, Damien Broderick wrote:

> I find the next bit *extremely* puzzling:
>
>> The only people drawing ExI into this are those, like you, who keep 
>> pinning one against the other.
>
> Huh? My suggestion was that people *avoid* pitting one against the 
> other, even if goaded. Let the flames die down, right?
>

I think Natasha's point is that there is no battle between ExI and WTA. 
  The recent problem with WTA Board's meltdown was an internal WTA 
problem.  Some people are trying to blame WTA problems on ExI, and 
other people (like you, no offense) are buying into the spin that maybe 
there is a current argument going on between ExI and WTA.  There isn't. 
  Some of the WTA Board refuses to work with duly elected WTA Board 
members like myself, Jose and Bruce, and consider us to be "Extropian 
plants" or moles into "their" organization.  They blame all our 
complaints about ethical problems on the WTA Board to be "ExI attacks" 
on "their" organization.  This is what Natasha is trying to defuse.  I 
know of no resent battles between the two organizations.  The big 
fireworks have all been internal to WTA itself.

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Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, CISA, CISM, IAM, IBMCP, GSEC
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