--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > Right, just like you speak up for me when other people > > > say specific things that you know are wrong. > > > > I choose my battles and so do you. > > I suppose an alternative is passive resistance. No provoking of > battles. No eye for an eye. No participation in evil (as Ghandi, > MLK or someone said). > > Not responding to someones "extremeties" is a powerful approach > to life.
As THE CORRECTOR herself pointed out, that ignores psychopaths like Hitler and...uh...herself. They are just NOT going to stop trying to provoke confrontation, because in their minds they only *exist* when in confrontation with someone who represents an "opposing view." So as much as I'd like to agree with your idealist, near-Buddhist idea of "turning the other cybercheek" and just ignoring the provocations (as I and most others have done with Willytex), there are times when an alternative quaid-pacifist action is to just Make Fun Of The Psychopaths, and then sit back and watch what happens. "Ignoring" the Inquisitors of the world, those who *get off* on shaming and use it to advance their own egos, Just Doesn't Work IMO. That only gets your ass tied to a stake with flames under your feel. Poking Fun at the Inquisitor, and going to the flames while leaving the audience laughing more at the Inquisitors than at the heretics often has a more benevolent effect, given the perspective of history. I have chosen not to "go there" when THE CORRECTOR tries her damnedest to suck me into one of her endless nitpicking egobattles. I prefer "drive bys," in which I just comment on her tactics, and allow her to react or not, depending on the fragility of her ego. In my favor when employing this strategy is that her ego is so fragile she really *can't* not react. But these days I tend to use this strategy in moder- ation, poking and prodding her ego only when it shows indications of getting out of control again and forgetting its place. "Its place" is that of Just Another Voice On FFL. THE CORRECTOR doesn't *like* that place. She would prefer that she were given a "higher" place in the "FFL ratings," as if the things she says were somehow more important or more valid than the things that Curtis says, or that I say, or that do.rflex says, or that Ruth says, or that Vaj says, or that *anyone* else here says. She considers that "just." I consider it not only spiritual elitism, but in her case near-psychosis. Thus I will continue to poke and prod from time to time, while refusing to get sucked into "defending" my poking and prodding the way she wants me to. So shoot me. I and Curtis and very few others here are unique in my opinion in having *nothing that we represent*. WSIWYG. What you see is what you get. We are not affiliated with *any* spiritual movement or spiritual dogma or traditions. We're loners. No matter how much Nabby or Willytex or even THE CORRECTOR tries to associate us with some POV or tradition or "group," that's not us. We're just who we are, speaking freely. Curtis (to his credit, and I respect him for this) likes to interact with other people and try to find some common denominator with them, no matter how psychotic they may be. I am less evolved, and less compassionate. Call me a Buddhist "colored by" decades in the martial arts. Call me a peace-loving hippie "colored by" decades of seeing that loving peace doth not create it. Call me an asshole. (I'd be most comfortable with "asshole," thank you.) I don't really much give a fuck. I will comment here on Fairfield Life the way I fuckin' *want to*. I got over doing what other people wanted me to do or expected me to do or tried to "guilt" or "shame" me into doing some time ago. I applaud your idealism. I even sometimes wish I still shared it. I do not. Some things on this planet deserve to be poked fun at and prodded, if for no other reason than to "puncture their pomp- osity" and reveal them as the thin, balloon-skinned bags of hot air they really are. I do not shirk from being the "prick" in this scenario. Actually, I kinda enjoy it. :-)
