Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Secrecy in Cohousing Records

[O3C11N6G (normangauss]

Dear Becky Weaver:



Thank you for your response.  I think you are pointing the way to a more 
rewarding way of dealing with authoritarian types who are more likely to be 
abrupt and lay down the law than to try to understand my concerns.



If I ask them politely if they could work with me to resolve my concerns, 
they might be less hostile to my questioning their wisdom.  In my 
observations, these types of people get very impatient and uncomfortable 
when somebody starts examining their ideas in detail.  If I assure them that 
my purpose is not to challenge them, but to try to understand their 
reasoning and purposes, I just might be able to crack through their hard 
shell.



Anyway you have written words of wisdom, and I will try to incorporate them 
into my thinking.



Norm Gauss