--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" <steve.sun...@...> wrote: > > Yea, I think this post pretty much captures the situation. > Incessant bickering.
What do you mean by that??!!! You tryin' to start somethin'? :-) > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shukra69" <shukra69@> wrote: > > > > > > "There is no heavier burden to carry than a grudge" > > > -seen on the sign board of a local Shul. > > > > With all due respect, I think there is a greater > > burden, and it's one that pretty much *defines* > > Fairfield Life lately -- "Being so bored with > > life that the only thing that gets you off > > is arguing." > > > > Yeah, the "carrying a grudge" thing is surprising > > in 30-year meditators, and given that Shukra has > > spent the majority of his posts lately doing just > > that re Vaj, he is in no position to bitch about it. > > > > But it's the *consistent* content of FFL lately that > > has been surprising me more. I haven't been post- > > ing much because it's been rare to find a single > > post to reply to that *wasn't* either an attempt to > > start an argument or an attempt to perpetuate one. > > > > WHAT IS IT that renders people so attached to > > their selves and those selves' transitory beliefs that > > they feel they have to "defend" them, or argue about > > them, or prove them "superior" to other people's > > attachments? > > > > I think it's boredom. > > > > It's almost as if the majority of posters to FFL think > > of it as a place that they can come to at any time to > > alleviate the boredom of their lives by starting or > > participating in an argument. > > > > Think I'm wrong? > > > > Point out to me a dozen posts in the last week that > > do NOT into this category. I'll wait. > > > > Doug posts things from time to time that are more > > "speculative questions." Rick posts about *actually > > doing something* with his talk show. Hugo finds > > interesting things and shares them with others. > > And a few others make posts from time to time > > that do not reek of boredom. But most stink to > > high heaven of it. > > > > Raunchy tries to avoid dealing with the boredom of > > her life by fixating on women as victims, and by try- > > ing to draw people into arguments about that. Shemp > > does the same with global warming. Any number of > > people run the same number with Maharishi. Judy's > > so desperate for an argument that she'll pick one over > > a 43-year-old pop song or the caste system she knows > > nothing about. > > > > Climate change, politics, TM, even enlightenment -- > > lately no subject seems to hold any actual *interest* > > for the majority of FFL posters. One rarely gets the > > impression that any of these subjects are anything > > for most posters *except* an excuse to argue. > > > > If that's what gets people off, so be it. I just think that > > something that would be more productive in the long > > run than arguing is looking into why they're so bored > > with life that the only thing that gets them off is arguing. > > >
