you'll have to come up with something other than, "I am the authority on this matter" Put your sniffing out skills on this, and see what you can come up with.
I'll wait.... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote: Robin has, as I've already pointed out, described all this in his posts. There was nothing new in the post Stevie misremembered. And obviously, as I also pointed out, Ann is not going to reveal any additional specific details of Robin's private life that he may have mentioned to her but not written about in his public posts, nor am I. But we both can tell you he wasn't meeting a friend in Starbuck's for "confessionals" every day. And if your memory wasn't crippled, you'd know that too, because (again: as I said) he'd already written about his interactions with his friend a number of times. You are way, WAY off-base with this, Stevie. Robin is not reading FFL, by the way. So, are you just going to keep on ignoring your whopping goof about Robin never having addressed Ann directly? So, you say I am mistaken about where he might have met with his friend, but you don't say where the meetings or get togethers might have taken place. For all we know it was Starbucks. You say that I am mistaken that it was not a "confessional", but you don't say what it was. All you say is, "I am an authority in this matter", and we know that "Appeal to Authority" is a fallacy. I am afraid at this point, my dear, we are stuck with two competing versions of what might have happened. I have surmised something from his statements. You say I am wrong, Now funnily enough, there is probably someone who is reading all this, (hint, hint), who could clear everything up - stand up guy that he is. What is the term - MIA? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote: Anne, you are saying, "Trust me, because I know what is going on. I'm not going to tell you anything about it, but I'm in the know" No I'm not. I am saying the post you retrieved from the archives has nothing to do with your memory of what Robin said. It is just that I know who he is talking about in that post and what his relationship is to that person. There is no mystery or "in the know". Just read what he wrote to see the discrepancy then simply read what I wrote and put one and one together and you have the fact that you were mistaken. Well, I don't operate that way, and I don't know many who do. So as they say, and I don't mean this in an impolite way, but put up, or shut up. There is really no other way to say it. There is nothing to "put up". I said it all. Any more details about any of it is up to Robin to give you, not me. But you have the basic facts: he doesn't go to Starbucks to make confessions to strangers. He has a friend who he talks to and has helped him for a very long time, a friend who knows him well. Simple, straightforward. As for being willing to admit a mistake. I need to be shown where I was mistaken, other than, "You are mistaken" ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote: Anne, This post was over a year old. In the body of the post at some point by one of the participants is mentioned "Starbucks". Now if you wish to fault me over this detail, or any other detail, no problem. But I stand by the my overall point that Robin had a friend that appeared to call him out on his "stuff". My apologies that I indicated the setting was at Starbucks, or that I called it a confessional. But I feel my recollection was close enough to what I originally indicated. Like I said, I don't really care one way or another. I know more about Robin past and present than anyone here and I know of whom he speaks when you mistakenly thought he meant some guy at Starbucks. It's fine, but why is it so hard for some of you here at FFL to admit you made a mistake? I, frankly, don't give a crap because I know who and what he was referring to that you got so badly wrong. But what is the deal with not being able to admit you made a mistake about this? This is a rhetorical question, BTW, I don't really need to know the answer to this but you might. Now if others wish to make a federal case out of it,be my guest. But you may have to try me in absentia. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/328672 Interesting to read this again, I don't ever go back and search and re-read stuff here. But I don't see anything about any confessionals at Starbucks. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote: Judy, I don't know what the point of arguing about it is. If he said it, it will be there in the record. Without being too boastful, my memory is pretty good. My impression is that he had nothing to do with e-mails, and seemed to predate his participation here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote: You've got something screwy here, Stevie. He may have been talking about email, in which case he probably meant with me. But there was no "daily confessional." My recollection is that he did, indeed say that he has a friend he meets with most everyday, at Starbucks, (I believe), in whom he confides thoughts, feelings. I would say this was a couple months before he stopped posting. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote: emptybill doesn't know what he's talking about with regard to Robin, his reams of quotes notwithstanding. "Daily confessional with his friend at Starbuck's"?? Robin never said anything remotely like that. Both Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox theologies have clearly explicated the nature of union with God – at least as far as that is possible for humans. However, he never appeared interested in learning more - whether about Catholic/Orthodox Christianity, Yogic Vedanta or Shankara’s Advaita Vedanta. I attribute this to a lack of genuine humility although he was constantly espousing a pseudo-humility. Sorta my take on the whole thing. On the other hand, we do have the "missing" years when he was substitute teaching. Could get some checks in the humility column for that. And then we have his daily confessional with his friend at Starbucks. Do I have that right?
