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Yeah, I too have mixed opinions. The true radical Muslims are way too scary to have around, because like cockroaches, they will take over an area and try to radicalize everything on 2 feet. I do know a few, and have been over to their house for dinner, and they are fine folks, but even the Americanized Muslims treat their women like second class slaves. I was appalled and their rituals. The wife was ordered to keep serving us food, and was prohibited from sitting with us.
 
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ore...ntifies-turtle

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D Holt, who also goes by "JD Terrapin" on Facebook, is one of roughly two dozen "consumers" on the OHA's Consumer Advisory Council (OCAC). The council, established by administrative statute, is appointed by OHA Director Dr. Sejal Hathi, who was appointed by Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat.

The purpose of the OCAC is to advise Hathi on the state's provision of mental health services, including through investigations and reviews of current practices.

"Hello everybody, it's JD. I use they, them and turtle for my pronouns. I'm in the Springfield-Eugene area and I get to be part of the council," Holt said during a Dec. 20 virtual OCAC meeting. Gender Wiki, a website that documents the list of non-binary genders, describes "turtlegender," sometimes called "tortoisegender," as "a xenogender identity in which one feels a gendered connection to turtles."

"One may feel their gender is replaced by a 'turtle,' or their gender is best described with the use of turtles," the site reads.
 
If we resist or defend, chances are we will intimidate to get what we want 😢
There are other ways to be, in order to have function, but someone generally has to start the process of assertiveness and then someone usually has to give grace.
The quicker we teach this skill, the quicker we can get on with life‘s business.

I propose we reenact the scene 🎬
and see if we can get past the introduction. 😜
 
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propose we reenact the scene 🎬
and see if we can get past the introduction. 😜
The abridged version from memory.

Life is not a screenplay, and we can’t appoint ourselves as the directors who can fire people. We do however have a responsibility to direct ourselves and each other as we negotiate challenges, but done with two concepts in mind. WHAT ARE THE CORE NEEDS AND RESPONSIBILITY.

The need is to accomplish the township meeting. The responsibility is to respect all members. So what’s the secret ?

Assertiveness and grace 👍

and when one person resists or defends against the other, one person needs to apply assertiveness, because If it is to be, then, it is up to me. 🤔….. and if the assertiveness doesn’t work, and they double down with resist/defend, then the assertiveness now gets changed to grace, because if it is to be, then, it is up to me. 🤔 ….. when both resist and defend the interaction is over, and the township business goes unheard. Someone must elicit the good behavior, be the bigger person, mentor to the other, who is stuck in resist and defend, and we all get stuck there from time to time.

Elicit good behavior, rather than provoke resist and defend……This is not a game of win, because when one party wins, we all lose by perpetuating dysfunctional means and manners, on how to take care of everyone’s township business.
 

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