You could be right, Judy. Sometimes Xeno is too subtle for me. In any case, I thought it was a wonderful post. I found FFL very lively, full of shakti, this past week.
________________________________ From: authfriend <authfri...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 7:44 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Counts & The Underbelly of FFL --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > Xeno, I think it's good to expose the underbelly. Otherwise > everything just keeps festering, poisoning the entire system > unbeknowst. Just think what would happen to all those lovely > skyscrapers if the rusting, rotting foundations were not > dealt with! I don't believe Xeno meant to suggest that the foundations of skyscrapers were "rusting and rotting." By "chewed up down below" he was referring to the streets being torn up to get at the wires and cables and pipes and such that run underneath them and make repairs or other modifications to those. > Fortunately or unfortunately, dealing with it first involves > exposing it. It seems only then can repairs be undertaken. > > And I very much appreciate how you used your real life > experience to talk about unlimited posting in a creative and > I thought, profound way. I thought it was a bit tongue-in-cheek, actually. > > > ________________________________ > From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius <anartaxius@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 1:18 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Post Counts & The Underbelly of FFL > > > > Â > The Underbelly of FFL > Recently I was in the Big City, I wanted to see again the place where my > family came into the United States; so I took a trip to see Ellis Island, > which unfortunately was closed due to Hurricane Sandy damage, though I could > see it from afar. It was made into a park in 1954. > FFL to me is kind of like seeing New York from a distance at first, big > imposing, beautiful. Ah! FFL is about spirituality! > But as one approaches closer, one begins to grasp that there is a hustle and > bustle that belies that deceptively serene appearance that one might have on > distant approach. > Finally one gets close enough, there seems to be a dark current of decay and > corruption as one looks under the surface. > The Big Apple seems more chewed up down below than I can remember, and now > with posting limits off on FFL, it is more difficult to find the beauty among > the lines here at FFL now that the dark undercurrents have been given full > reign, the untrammeled desire of mere human intrigue and he said/she said > dialogues take to the fore, the mental equivalent of flapping jaw muscles, > the nourishing equivalent of junk food. > Still, there are some gems in here. Before it was like tunneling for gold. > Now it is like strip mining, and sifting through tons of material to get to > some pure shining metal. > In some ways though, this also dilutes the inner corruption. With the reduced > posting, the dark side becomes in some ways more visible, gets more > concentrated, the vile tendencies of human psyches to project their inner > value to the surface for all to see. >
