--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > > Ok, you're toast. Let the withdrawal begin! > > I would say from the posts I see here and the amount of posting some > > folks do have an Internet addiction. I think it is becoming quite > > common these days though not wholly recognized (too much money to be > > made off of it). > > Ironic if those most "awake" are the most addicted. Not so ironic if > "awake" is more an expression of manic behavior. (and dark nights the > depression part of the cycle)
The manic depression suggestion seems particularly apt IMO. That's what it's always felt like to me. I've never had any issues with Jim and Rory when they're just posting their blissy experiences; more power to them for doing so. It's the *followups* that seem to be the issue. They post something blissy, someone doesn't buy it, or its accompanying claim of 'way high states of consciousness, and the manic part of the cycle begins. Post after post after post, defending the original post and the *image* of themselves as enlightened. THAT is the part that doesn't ring true to me (along with some of their pronounce- ments about what the path to their kinda enlight- enment must be for others). It all sounds a lot to me like an ego defending itself, which doesn't fit in well with their claims that they don't have one any more. It's the cognitive dissonance of the claims vs. the behavior that's the issue, not the content of their rare posts when they're *not* caught in a gotta-defend-myself-against-this-criticism- or-disbelief cycle. Those "standalone," "reportage of what it's like to be me" posts are often charming and sweet; the gotta-defend posts provide a *counterpoint* to that that is hard to ignore. In a way, it's like watching the abuse cycle in a father who is stuck in it. "I love you kids...you mean the world to me." WHACK! SLAP! "I love you kids...don't misunderstand that I just whacked you upside the head." WHACK! Bottom line for me, before dropping the subject, is that their walk rarely matched their talk.
