--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Vaj you say: > "Once Robin had made a complete and utter fool out of himself, you're right, > he did have that reason to make a quick 'exit stage left'." > > Are you speaking of his Open Letter to Barry here? Because shortly after that > he left. And if you contend that he made a fool of himself in his letter I > don' think you and I read the same post. If you think he made a fool of > himself because he said he had struck people within the context of Sunnyside > how does that compute? He still asserted, as I did, that he did not hit > people or engage in physical assault in any way at seminars. That had been > the question and that was still the answer. It is like asking someone if they > drank beer when they watch football. "No", they say. Then they admit > later,"Well, but I did drink beer when I used to bowl ten years before that." > How does this make them a liar? > > Then you write,"But there's no excuse for an old friend not to give a kind > "hello" or > > some words of acknowledgment to you. No one's that busy. And you were > > a pretty important person in his circle." > > Who are you to comment on my relationship with Robin and what he should or > should not do? First of all, FFL is hardly the place to start inviting people > to tea or, at the other extreme, to welcome someone back into one's life > given the circumstances and the rare and complex nature of what that life was > for the two people before. We aren't talking about old college roommates > here,"Hey bud, how's it goin'? Long time, no see. How's it hangin'? We should > go out for a couple a beers, eh?" I would never expect or want Robin to > approach me via FFL. This place is not what our relationship in the past was > about and I would not want it to be what it may have become in the future. He > and I both respect that unspoken fact. And it gives me optimism that we still > understand each other on some fundamental level. So Vaj, at the risk of > sounding really rude, you are placing the most mundane expectations on a far > more complex relationship than you obviously grasp. Stop trying to define > what would be inexcusable or not for Robin (your really don't know him AT > all, whether you were there all those years ago or not, ultimately you have > no idea who he was or is). And because of that fact I have changed my mind > about addressing the last part of your post. If you don't get it by now Vaj, > you never will. Whether it is because you just aren't able to or because you > willfully continue to be perverse I don't know. And at this point I am > starting not to care. Sorry about that. >
In my opinion, "perverse, subtly vain, narcissistic, prone to hypomania, personality disorder" nails it.
