Very nice suggestion on your part. Just OWS (Occupy the White Self) to fight the top 1% that is The Mad Yogi Inc.
Or prepare to be steam rolled by the meanest, most narcissistic, insane machine. Thanks Barry. On Dec 6, 2011, at 1:16 AM, turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@...> wrote: > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/297571 > > > > Clean it up a bit or your outta here. I'm serious. > > Rick, I don't read his posts, including the one > cited above, so I don't know what occasioned this. > Nor do I care. I pegged the guy as what he is in > his first days on this forum and have been reacting > (or more accurately, not reacting) to him based > on that assessment ever since. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_ignoring > > I'm commenting because I think the problem is deeper > than just one person suffering from classic mania > and Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The deeper > problem is low standards among other posters, and > them not *recognizing* when they're dealing with a > seriously disturbed person. > > For their *own* personality-disordered reasons, what > seems to happen is that a small group of people glom > onto weak-minded disturbed people when they appear > here. They may seek an ally in their petty grudge > wars, or in supporting their claims to know "the > truth" about something, or they may just have such > low standards in writing that they consider the > crazies entertaining. Whatever. > > I guess all I'm suggesting is that posters should > probably think to themselves before writing, "Is > the person I am about to respond to by either prais- > ing them or ragging on them SANE?" If you suspect > that the answer is no, step away from the keyboard > and just leave them alone. It's kinder and more > compassionate in the long run. > > The personality-disordered FEED on attention. Look > at Willytex. Now look at what has evolved over the > years as most people on the forum have learned to > tactically ignore him. He's rarely a problem any > more; he just spouts his craziness and everyone > ignores it as if it were never posted. But part of > the reason for this is that NO ONE would want > Willytex as an "ally" in their petty grudge or > dogma wars. > > But they *DO* want some of the other crazies as > their allies. And IMO the reason they want this is > that when it comes to sanity, the "encourage the > crazies" crowd are a few cans short of a full six- > pack themselves. So they glom onto the crazies and > "cultivate" them, never thinking about what that > kind of attention DOES to someone who is already > borderline crazy, or worse. > > I guess all I'm saying is that it's your playground, > Rick. Do whatever you want with this particular > crazy. I don't think my little rap here is going to > affect either him or the other folks here who IMO > brought this situation about by *encouraging* him > along the way with their attention. I think that the > major "encourage the crazies" players are FAR too > locked into their own disturbed behavioral patterns > to be able to hear what I'm saying. I'm just comment- > ing to state for the record that I think *THEY* are > as much to blame for Ravi's aberrant behavior as he is. > > Interestingly, Willytex himself gave us the solution > for dealing with this brand of craziness: "Don't feed > it." Doing this *worked* on him. I'm just suggesting > that it might work for the other crazies as well. If > you think the way I do that many of these people > are delusional, do what a therapist (or even a truly > compassionate human being) would do and DON'T FEED > THEIR DELUSIONS. To do so is IMO bad karma for > all concerned. > >
