From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote :
Xeno, if you check your folders, fluffy and otherwise, you'll discover that indeed Curtis has written 2 posts about this in the last 24 hours. I simply referred Richard to them. Share, read what Curtis actually said and how he tried to engage Tex and then see how any attempt at discussion was rebuffed in favour of mailcious abuse. I know you try and see the good in everyone but surely even you can tell now that Willytex is just here to cause trouble. It's all he's ever done, as far as I can see he has no redeeming features whatsoever. Can you therefore stop encouraging him. He's a troll, he's got nothing constructive to say and he should join the gang at JimboWorld if he dislikes us so much but I doubt they'd want him as all he does is try and piss people off. Some life of spiritual development huh? I have to agree with Salyavin here, Share. If you really can't see what's going on with Richard after these recent exchanges, there actually may be something seriously wrong with YOU. Sal's phrase "he has no redeeming features whatsoever" may be the key to it. He has been a troll from Day One, when he first appeared on alt.meditation.transcendental. Over there he did exactly the same thing -- posting excessively and intentionally trying to disrupt any conversations just as they were starting to get interesting. I developed a theory about him back then, which I still hold today. He's JEALOUS of the "good conversations," because he's afraid that he can't really participate in them. Back on a.m.t. he was always horrifically jealous of TM teachers because he'd never become one, and was pissed off that because of the hierarchy of the movement they always treated him as "lesser" than they were. I don't think he ever got over that. Judging from the stories he's told over the years, and how they contradict one another, I don't think he's EVER managed to study with a real, live spiritual teacher or be part of any organized spiritual teaching. He's always been a loner whose "spiritual path" was only in his head, driven by JEALOUSY of the people who were accepted into such groups when he never was and had actual real spiritual adventures. He feels inadequate to really join in with sophisticated discussions here because he feels he doesn't have the real background to do so. (And in this he is correct.) So what he does instead is find stuff on Wikipedia or elsewhere on the Internet and post it as if he wrote it, and use that to imply that he *would* know enough to participate, if he really cared to. In reality, he never engages because he knows that if he did everyone would figure out that he's a spiritual know-nothing within a few posts. So because he feels "shut out" of these conversations, he does everything he can think of to derail them and take them off-line into personality conflicts and irrelevant crap. He's *panicking* right now, because almost all of the people he'd fooled into thinking there might be something to him besides vindictive jealousy are leaving this forum. He knows that he would never fit in over on The_Peak because he would be expected there to actually have something intelligent to say, and he really doesn't. He knows that they'd figure out very quickly what a spiritual lightweight he really is, so he doesn't dare participate. So he's having a meltdown here -- making literally hundreds of posts, trying everything he possibly can to disrupt things. I honestly don't understand how Rick has stood for this as long as he has, but it's his forum so it's his call, and there is nothing the rest of us can do about it but to try to ignore Richard and carry on. That's my current plan. All of his posts are still routed directly to my Trash Bin. Every so often I scan through the list of posts on Neo and through quotes of his in other people's posts that other people cite, just to see whether he's "crossed the line" from merely crazy and abusive to outright libel (and thus criminal action). The day he does that -- calling me or other people here something that is intended to harm them in the real world -- I will have the cops on his ass so fast it will make his head spin. Until then, I can't really do anything but ignore him and suggest to other people that they do the same. He really isn't sane. Pity him if you want, but don't be taken in by his game. EVERY time in almost twenty years someone has done that and gotten somewhat close and friendly with him, he has just waited a few weeks or months and then turned on them, too. He'll do that with you, too, Share. Curtis and I are trying to warn you about a train wreck that we can see coming and you can't.
