--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" <steve.sundur@...> wrote: > > Dan, > > You realize that this is slanderous and cowardly. And although > it does not affect me, I would say that it is grounds for > suspension from the group. That would be my recommendation. > You are, what's called in the trade, a coward, Dan. A coward > is someone who resorts to innuendo when they have nothing > to back up their accusations.
7ray, I'd say that Dan just "drops right in" lately to the general level of obsession and insanity that Fairfield Life has devolved to. Fascinating that my done-for-fun satire yesterday about me and Vaj and Curtis being designated as Schedule I drugs because people become so obsessed with us that they literally become addicted to the obsession was proven so incredibly Right On, eh? As for "grounds for suspension," quite frankly I think that you're dreaming. Rick is clearly asleep at the wheel, and either doesn't care that the forum he created has become a refuge for crazy people, or he really doesn't get it. >From my point of view, he has now allowed at least three certifiably mentally ill people to post here, people who are in desperate need of either therapy or commitment to a mental institution. Rick doesn't seem to even notice. Maybe that has something to do with the people he interviews as "everyday enlightened role models." He's lost touch with reality, as perceived by most of the world. He also doesn't seem to notice that over the years the "quirkiness quotient" surrounding TM and the TMO has grown so huge that these mentally ill people are not being recognized as the mentally ill people they are. Instead, people who on any other forum would instantly recognize them for what they are and either compassionately ignore them or actively encourage them to get help instead *encourage their craziness*. They *go out of their way* to get these already mentally ill people to become more so. And in the process become a little less sane themselves, with every post. Do you remember how many people reacted when Ravi *first* showed up here? Exactly as I suggest above. They were CONCERNED about him, afraid that he was having a breakdown, afraid that he'd do harm either to himself or his wife, and urging him to get some kind of professional help. Now they treat him as if he's NORMAL, and *encourage* him to act out even more. They do the same thing with Robin, and more recently with Dan Friedman. Obsessing on another person to the point that people do it on this forum is *not* normal. The only even remotely benevolent way I can see the phenomenon is that the people engaged in it -- over a dozen of them, now -- just Don't Have Lives, and this behavior has taken the place of what other, more sane people do for fun and entertainment. But it really is past the point of funny or enter- taining now. You've got people here who think it is NORMAL for someone to threaten another person with physical harm because they embarrassed them in front of their wife a year and a half ago. I honestly think that a lot of it really *IS* attributable to the Cult Experience. Those who have come to believe that their behavior on FFL is NORMAL are comparing it to levels of craziness they've seen around them in other TMers for decades now, and come to take for granted. They don't see anything the least bit wrong with becoming this obsessive, or acting out one's obsessions in this way. Thanks for occasionally being one of the relatively sane voices here, Steve. You're definitely in the minority these days, and that's a compliment.
