--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" <steve.sun...@...> wrote: > > > Ravi Chivukula <chivukula.ravi@> wrote: > > Damn, mouses = mice, I'm falling off the Beethovenesque > > standards that Rick has set for me, I love him and I hope > > I can continue to be in his good books to slowly navigate > > up on the food chain from FFL -> BATGAP. > > Good luck with that. For what I understand, you have to be > recommend by two of the five posters there. Then there is a > 30 day probationary period. And then I believe you are required > to have BATGAP tatooed above your left ankle. Many have tried, > and almost as many have failed.
Thanks for this, Ray. Your first line almost caused me to spit out my morning coffee laughing. :-) To be fair, I think there are at least 7 members of BATGAP. And interestingly, possibly as a result of the cross-pollenation of FFL and BATGAP recently, some of them even dare to disagree with each other. Quietly and gently, in a "I still affirm that you are almost as highly evolved as I am but on this issue you make be full of shit" way (without the actual "full of shit" line, of course, more like "I'm not sure you've considered all the ramifica- tions of believing this"). For example, given a quick read-through yesterday, someone's declaration that the scam-healer Trivedi's recent comment that he could clean up the oil spill instantly via his all-powerful Woo Woo "if only he was asked to" was greeted by (Gawd help us) actual skepticism by at least two people. And when another person tried to advance the POV that Germans who viewed Hitler as their personal portal to God were really finding God there, that got some WTF feedback from a couple of people, too. I'm thinkin' that there is either Trouble In Paradise or a few of the 7 members of BATGAP are in danger of having at least one foot still on the ground. And, since I'm commenting on the differences between the two Rick-spawned groups, I do have to mention at least one significant difference I've noticed. On BATGAP, there seems to actually be...and it's a good thing I don't believe in God because He might strike me with lightning for saying this, given my history... less ego on BATGAP. That is, there is a comparative absence of people trolling for attention and reacting badly if it is not bestowed on them. Part of this may have to do with the "No Raging Arguments Here" sign clearly posted at the door...those who seem to live for arguments and do everything they can to provoke and prolong them would not be tempted to troll there, because it's not their kinda fishing hole. But this difference also shows up in the cases where someone actually does speak up and not buy into another poster's sales pitch. The reaction of the rejected salesperson does not seem to be a retreat into infantile Tantrum Yoga, ego-assertion, and name-calling. That seems to be a specialty of FFL. Just subjective impressions on my part, not declar- ations of truth. In other words, opinion...
