Communication is hard
@katalin, thanks for your point of view. It is noted, and stays here as precious documentation.
My opinions on the matter, though occasionally offered, are not particularly important. What matters more is the well-being of the people in the unMonastery. And that has been quite troubled: Nadia, Arthur and I have had several distress calls, both on the platform and off. Another sign of politics at the unMonastery has been the insistence on Loomio, systems and tools for decision making, and the debate about who makes decisions (this comment and the following ones). If these were just false alarms, blown out of proportion, as you say, by being in writing, all the better. We can shrug them off and move on. No need to fix it, if it ain’t broken.
A final note: of course real-world monks, being people, definitely gossip, scheme and throw drama at each other. I can only refer to the idealized monk following the Rule, who does not. While the Rule does not transform real people in angelic beings, real-world monks who accept the Rule are less likely to bicker than real-world monks that don’t.