"It was a generalised analogy about how it feels to be faced with no escape."
No escape? On the Internet? Here's seven of them. Escapes, that is: 1. Step away from the networked device. 2. Go to a different site. 3. Turn off your networking device. 4. Stop, and then share your impressions directly with the poster. 5. Breathe deeply, think it through, and recognize your part in it. 6. Examine why, in a voluntary, public, virtual group, you felt faced with "no escape". 7. Have some pie and coffee. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote: > > > Doc, cringing at being likened to a clam, I'm gonna use part of Xeno's > > analogy anyway. Now imagine our little clam not only having an evasively > > prodding starfish to contend with, but also a big crab with sharp claws > > and a bunch of slithery stingrays jabbing at her with their acidy > > tendrils. No wonder she blew a gasket and dropped a bomb on all of > > them! Psychologically raped! Then a wonderful pod of dolphins arrived > > and told our little clam that her bomb was on target. > > I was not imagining you as a clam, specifically. I was imagining anyone in > Robin's grip as a clam, including myself. It was a generalised analogy about > how it feels to be faced with no escape. When a clam is attacked, it clams > up. When no threat, it can open up. This is why techniques such as > meditation, contemplation, and questioning everything tend to be more > effective in the long run, than having one's stuff ripped open forcefully. > When the time is ripe, one's dark stuff will flow like blood in a massacre > unaided by any external prod. >
