Duh. So sorry to disappoint you. No, I have not addressed the issue you raised. By the way your comments on the CBO report seem to be accurate. http://www.factcheck.org/2014/02/the-aca-losing-job-vs-choosing-not-to-work/ http://www.factcheck.org/2014/02/the-aca-losing-job-vs-choosing-not-to-work/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote:
And yet Xeno seemed to care enough to go dig up a post of Barry's from the archives that I had quoted and (as I said) ostentatiously report that I had misidentified the person Barry was referring to. His "not caring" appears to be conspicuously selective. That's what I find odd. Perhaps needless to say, he hasn't addressed that point. No it is not odd. I am old enough now that I just do not really care that much about what people say. Lying and deception drive whole populations to behave in certain ways, whether something is true or not does not mitigate the effects. We live the effect of untruth all day long. It's in our brains, our programming. Human misunderstandings, mistakes, 'deliberate' deceptions are a part of life. One will go crazy trying to right every one. I would prefer to think I have no standards at all rather than a double one. Everyone here on FFL has at one time or another been hypocritical one way or another; there are too many contradictions in life to avoid them all. Your crusade to end hypocrisy simply has failed 100%. Long live injustice! For if you wish to have justice alone, you will always be faced with its opposite. Comportment with truth has nothing to do with any of this dualistic engagement. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote: It's odd, isn't it, that most people here in this "place for the insane" nevertheless manage to get their facts straight most of the time and ground their opinions in those facts rather than in hallucinatory fantasies and deliberate distortions, especially regarding other FFLers. Doesn't mean they always get everything right, or that they're always fair, but they do make an effort. What I suggested Xeno check on, of course, was a fact, not an opinion: Did Robin make any "demands" in his final post, as Barry claims? It's pretty easy to tell; you just have to read the post in question (for which I provided a link). Xeno appears to think it's perfectly OK for Barry to tell outrageous falsehoods and deliver wildly distorted "opinions" not based on fact but on his own hostile fantasies. But Xeno went to some trouble to look up a quote from a post of Barry's that I had accidentally misidentified as being about Robin when it was about Ravi, and to make a post of his own carefully pointing out the mistake. What's wrong with this picture? Why does Xeno feel compelled to defend Barry's misstatements while ostentatiously pointing out one of my rare errors? Xeno, if he's honest with himself, knows Barry's portrayals of Robin, Ann, and me do not accord with the reality. It really isn't the case that one opinion has the same value as any other, not in the world most of us live in. And it most certainly is the case that lies and misrepresentations have the same value as facts and opinions based on facts. I would say Barry's memory is "exceptionally pliable," all right, but on a scale of 1 to 10, that pliability is at least a 9, while that of most people here--even Xeno's--is quite a few points lower. What accounts for the difference? And why, pray tell, should Barry get a pass for exploiting that pliability--especially with regard to people he doesn't like--because he enjoys starting fires by saying things that aren't so and likes to bask in the heat? How is this acceptable behavior, to deliberately slander people? Xeno claims to live in a different world than the rest of us--one in which everyday values like honesty don't count--but he seems to want to participate in our world as well while importing his own value-free outlook in his commentaries with regard to the folks he sides with, and applying everyday values to those he doesn't like. That strikes me as pretty shoddy behavior. Such double standards are hypocritical, to say the least, in the world most of us here live in. << Barry does not seem to aspire to the kind of precision you enjoy. He seems mostly to rely on his writing skills and memory when posting on FFL. And we all know human memory is exceptionally pliable. He posts things he is interested in, occasionally replies to people, and there is a certain category of his posting that is designed to keep the rats running on their treadmill, a Pavlovian thing. So checking on Barry's claims is largely a waste of time as he is proffering opinions, not facts, and is stoking the campfire so he can bask in the heat generated. He has to deal with certain factual material if he is writing about science for clients. If there other places in his life for such concepts as facts and truth, it probably is not here on FFL. This place is for the insane; perhaps there are a few amateur sociologists and researchers hanging in here collecting data, but who might they be? >>
