Dear Susan, I know you are a very busy person with dogs to walk, kids to care, friends, movies but I have the following list of the bottom of the can, low-vibe, slimeball, idiotic retards on this list who continue to be enthralled, enticed and entertained by the troika of the King Baby Barry, the mediocre reviewer, Vaj, the liar and HH Curtis, the messiah of the intellectual dishonesty.
Steve, Rick, Barry 2, Susan, Sal.. Please help me keep this list updated and I apologize again if I missed any other obvious idiots. Thanks for you support !!!! Love, Ravi On Dec 29, 2011, at 10:32 AM, Ravi Chivukula <chivukula.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Susan, > > Thank you so much. Yes I agree it's not enough that we only have cream if the > top, the intelligent, creative, emotionally healthy people like the Judy's, > the Jim's, the Bob's, the Robin's, the Rory's, the Denise's, the Obba's. > > We also need the mediocre, the dumb, the retarded who time and again show > their strong commitment to their lives in cocoons. I'm glad you have taken a > strong moral stand and your unconditional support so the troika of the King > Baby Barry, the mediocre reviewer, Vaj, the liar and HH Curtis, the messiah > of the intellectual dishonesty continue to entertain, enthrall and entice the > bottom of the can, the low vibe, slime ball, idiotic, retarded of this list. > > I apologize for not mentioning you in this list. > > Love, > Ravi > > On Dec 29, 2011, at 5:21 AM, "Susan" <waybac...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Lately, I skip about 99 percent of the posts on FFL. I get that a few people >> are delighted to have an audience, anyone who will engage. I avoid them >> entirely. But for me the even bigger question is: why does anyone want to be >> that audience? Maybe I missed something along the way since I don't read >> these attention-seekers at all - not since reading their first few posts. >> Don't they and all the people who keep replying to them and stirring the pot >> have work to do, books to read, walks to take, dogs to walk, movies to see, >> friends and/or family to spend time with, dishes to wash, food to cook, >> meals to eat, even meditation and yoga to practice? You can analyze it well, >> but I mean, seriously, who cares for these people, and their audience? Who >> does the daily living stuff for them? How do they earn a living, live and >> then spend all this time posting about, about mind-jumbling uninteresting >> concepts. Just saying I noticed the same things as you did here and it is >> interesting to hear that FFL is not the only place seeing the same Wonder >> what the next stage will be........ >> >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: >> > >> > I've been wondering about this lately, because so many forums I'm a part >> > of have been invaded by hordes of what I tend to call ( for want of the >> > proper Sanskrit term :-) attention sluts. You know the type of person >> > I'm talking about. Insecure, not many real-life friends, and seriously >> > in need of attention. Any kind of attention will seemingly do. So the >> > attention sluts tend to post a LOT, eating up bandwidth and >> > automatically rendering themselves uninteresting to those who don't >> > gravitate to Chatty Cathy types. >> > >> > If no one replies or gives them the attention they seek, the attention >> > sluts tend to practice one or more of three primary strategies. The >> > first is to talk about themselves, pretty much non-stop, as if telling >> > everyone how great they are will make these people think they're great. >> > This tactic tends not to work on spiritual forums, because it's rightly >> > interpreted as runaway ego, and who wants to talk with a runaway ego? >> > >> > The second tactic is to praise other posters, or "love bomb" them, >> > hoping that they too are insecure enough and in need of attention enough >> > to reply to the flattery. The idea seems to be that if the attention >> > slut can get a person to focus on them by flattering them, maybe they'll >> > *keep* focusing on them. In my experience, this tactic only tends to >> > work on other attention sluts, and tends to result in the formation of >> > cliques, in which groups of attention sluts chat mainly with each other. >> > >> > The third tactic, when the above two have failed, is to try to insult or >> > badger or abuse other people into replying. After all, the only thing >> > that's important to an attention slut is the *attention*. It doesn't >> > matter what form that attention takes. Again, this tends to work only on >> > those who are so ungrounded in their own self as to feel the need to >> > "defend" that self when it's insulted. >> > >> > The thing I see lately on multiple forums lately is that attention >> > slut-itis is rampant, almost epidemic. I blame this on the emergence of >> > social media like Twitter and Facebook, in which the entire game is >> > about how much attention you can attract. "How many followers do you >> > have?" >> > >> > https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/408664_283013468313\ >> > 9_1552286745_2594704_2120755496_n.jpg >> > >> > <https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/408664_28301346831\ >> > 39_1552286745_2594704_2120755496_n.jpg> >> > But if you think about it, aren't compulsive attempts to get other >> > people to focus their attention on you kinda...uh...un-spiritual in the >> > first place? On pretty much all of the forums in question, those voices >> > that are most universally appreciated and held in some regard belong to >> > people who don't utilize any of the three strategies above. Instead, >> > they tend to talk only when they have something to say, and reply only >> > to people who have actually said something interesting. And they stay >> > out of protracted arguments and generally skip the small shit. Because >> > it IS, after all, small shit. >> > >> > Call me crazy, but these folks seem to figured out something valuable >> > about the nature of chat forums that the oh-so-needy Chatty Cathys >> > haven't. Maybe they just spend more time in meditation and immersed in >> > the Self than the attention sluts, and thus have no need to try to pump >> > up the self by sucking attention from other people. Or maybe they're >> > just grownups...I don't know. All I know is who I avoid and who I want >> > to engage in conversation with. >> > >> >>
