--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Interesting thread from the past, Richard: So, Barry > punched his brother very hard in the stomach, to stop > him from beating up a neighbor, after the brother beat > up his Dad. Then you have Barry with his anti-social > tendencies, who is only prevented from physical abuse, > by the distance between his keyboard, and those he hates. > > One word: DNA.
LOL. But I'll react to it the way Robin should have: "Yes, I struck my brother. It wasn't a punch, it was a short, focused 'shuto' strike to the solar plexus that left him sitting on the floor gasping for air for several minutes, but I struck him. "I felt it was appropriate at the time, because he had just beaten up our 70-year-old father and was trying to do the same with a 70-year-old neighbor, screaming that "You people don't even EXIST." I felt that it was appropriate to remind him that we did, and that he was out of control. "In retrospect, I could have accomplished the same 'reality check' with a straight jacket, as the facility we had to check him into did, but I didn't have one handy. Mea culpa." Several words for Doc, paraphrasing his approach: "Yes, I'm enlightened, and that makes me so much better and more compassionate than the rest of you who aren't!" :-) :-) :-) > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <richard@> wrote: > > > > > > My guess is we've all done wrong and or stupid stuff > > > > at some point in our lives including lying and > > > > physically hurting others even those we love. So I > > > > vote for pragmatic and universal compassion. > > > > Just to be clear, by pragmatic compassion I don't > > > > mean the allowing of abuse. I mean something along > > > > the lines of hate the wrong doing, have compassion > > > > for the wrong doer but don't allow them to continue > > > > wrong doing. > > > > > authfriend: > > > I guess you're not talking about FFL, then, huh? Unless > > > you have some magical formula that prevents wrongdoers > > > from continuing their wrongdoing. > > > > > > As to "physically hurting others," I suggest you speak for > > > yourself. My own guess is that most of us have managed to > > > avoid physical violence, to those we love as well as to > > > those we don't. > > > > Barry hit his brother in the solar plexus? > > > > "That was a general-purpose rap that had nothing > > to do with my brother. It was about the silly > > solipsist wannabees on this forum and about solip- > > sists in general." > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/176100 > > > > > > For yourself, steer clear of abusive behavior and > > > > do what's necessary to protect those who aren't > > > > able to protect themselves. > > > > > >
