Much more eloquent than my simple "Whatever," while conveying the same sentiment.
Sorry to hear about the virus thang. But it led to you creating and posting the perfect metaphor for what it's like to deal with this shit, so the virus may have been dharmic. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > After spending over an hour responding to your responses last night I was attacked by a virus which has now eaten up 3 hours of my morning. It is a pernacious bastard that uses popups to pretend it is an aniti virus program that you must buy. No matter how I attack it it comes back. I may now have it on the run, finally being able to run my blocked malwarebytes program after renaming one of the virus files. > > I am now typing on my Ipad without any of what I wrote which may or may not be preserved in Firefox when I get through with this ordeal. But I am going into this detail because I experienced an emotion of frustration fighting this thing that keeps coming back in different forms that I recognized. It is how I feel in the endless defenses that I am asked to mount for both you and Judy. But unlike my situation with my computer where quitting is not an option, with you guys I can and will throw in the towel. This quote from your post below pretty much sums up how differently we are viewing our roles on FFL: > "I find this an abdication of your moral responsibility, and if you don't see > this, then that is in itself an extraordinary indictment of you. > > I am still waiting to hear an argument that makes sense of this, Curtis." > > There is no better summation that distills the 180 degree difference in how we view our role in each other's life here. And I know that Judy would heartily agree because in a thousand different forms she has said basically the same thing to me many many many times. > > So here it is Robin. You have made your case about my failings and have expressed your outrage that I am this way. You have found others who share your view and perspective on my faults. And what makes it even more of a match, Judy ( among all the others who have your perspective on me) actually has the same enthusiasm to write endlessly about my lacks, taking each defense as an invitation to double down and attack in a different way to get her point across. So you two need to discuss this topic together if you wish, but I am out. > > I am not going to give Barry the shit you seek. You may do that yourself if you wish. I am over the Bob thing for good. I will treat your posts as I do Judy's. If the topic interests me I will pursue it. (My faults will be unlikely topics of interest to me but you can give it a shot I even defend myself to Judy sometimes for a round or two before I realize I am getting nowhere.) > > Your relationships with other people online don't interest me. Your view that I am legislating reality does not either. You are welcome to type your fingers off about my failings and faults. You and I do not share the same values, you share Judy's. > > I was thinking about your challenge that I consider what I would tell 12th graders about our interaction. I would tell them that if you are on an internet forum and someone seems endlessly interested in discussing your faults that you yourself did not invite and do not agree with, you should stop interacting with that person. They are looking for someone to argue with and you can piss away hours of your life defending yourself to someone who doesn't care about you. I certainly couldn't look the in the eye and justify the hours I have spent trying to defend myself. > > So now we know the score about what values we share and what ones we don't. We'll just have to see if we share any common interests. By at least you have found a kindred spirit in Judy and I look forward to reading the posts that you will surely create in simpatico.
