--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... <no_reply@...> wrote: > > "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. >
8. Eat a chicken sandwich. Hat tip, Dr. Pete. > --- 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. > > >
