Doug, I would say, rather, it shows something different.
Here you have people, who for the most part have similar beliefs, politically, culturally, spiritually, and yet after a decent interval of tolerant discourse, it has become toxic, and one group blames the other for its demise. Differences of opinions become grudges, which then become hardened, and last for an eternity, basically. Rick's "hands off" philosophy is one that I generally endorse to because it shifts the burden of the quality of interaction onto the participants. What's the phrase from Benjamin Franklin when the US Constitution was drafted, "It's a democracy, if you can keep it" I don't think we've "kept it" at least as it pertains to a generally respectful place for the subjects discussed here. Hey, it's Saturday morning. Does that qualify as a "rant" (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Thanks 7Ray. Is just more of classic 'Turqb' asserting large strawman-like assumptions in method about people and then using the opportunity to publicly degrade and humiliate folks here with the insinuating slur. It is formulaic meme with him and some others here in a writing methodically to abuse and hurt people. Often in complete violation of the Yahoo-groups guidelines that way, the guy is simply toxic to the community of the group here. Rick as owner of this yahoo-group should set in motion something and do something about this. It should improve the forum of this yahoo-group. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote : And yet, Doug is who you continually write about. And your social interaction is primarily on the internet, in front of a television, or sitting alone at a bar drinking a beer. A frustrated writer stuck in a rut writing variations of the same theme to get a rise out of people, out of the misguided notion that you are doing them a favor. It might be sad, but it's really of greater interest as a study in narcissism. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : I don't know about you, but I prefer spending the rest of *my* incarnation with people who live in the present, not in dreams of the past and how important they think they were in that past. I really can't justify interacting with Doug and people who think like him any more, because it seems to only encourage them to invest more heavily in their delusions, as opposed to shaking them off. "In other words, they're fuckin' delusional."
