Yes pitiable. He evidently isn't reading how the wind is blowing [direction and 
speed].  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sun...@yahoo.com> wrote :

 The ramp up begins...................
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :

 Doug, in all seriousness, if what you say below is true, this should be the 
last time we hear from you on the subject of "moderation," right? 

 

 I mean, if no one is hurling "personalized invective," there will be no one's 
posts to delete, and more important THERE WILL BE NOTHING FOR *YOU* TO COMMENT 
ON.
 

 No more 1,600+ word rants spammed to Fairfield Life every other day for 
months. No more posts from you that *intentionally* attempt to preach the "need 
for moderation" or that attempt to blame it on a small group of people with 
whom you just *happen* to disagree on most philosophical points. 

 

 It looks as if your job is done. Good. And goodbye. Not to mention good 
riddance. 
 

 We fervently hope that your quest as moderator from here on out is both 
successful, and SILENT, and that we never hear from you on the subject of 
"moderation" again. Ever. 

 

 From: "dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 6:18 AM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Synthesizing a Vedic Psychiatry
 
 
   
 This evidently is progressing.  As I read through this thread I feel you all 
moderating yourselves in accord with the advice of the Yahoo-groups guidelines. 
I find no need now to step in here between you all. Had it completely devolved 
simply to the personal belligerence of a spitting contest, 'you're angry vs I'm 
not angry' ad nauseam I should advise self-moderation and that you take 
yourselves off-list and spare the community your personalized argument. 
 

 However this thread in process seems to be resolving itself in thoughtful way 
around the content. Generally if it were to continue on devolved as just a 
pissing contest I would request that folks take their personal argument 
off-line and spare the list otherwise or else suffer having the flow of their 
posts as they write to FFL be moderated, and then possibly released to the list 
for general reading as I may get around to them. 
 
 
 More succinctly, we've learned a lot about Edg here by his writing in this 
thread and people seem to be self-moderating as this goes along. If this or any 
other argument devolves to personalized arguments of “You're a [..insert 
insulting slur] person. - No, I'm not [insult]” endlessly, folks will feel the 
levers of moderation pulled in accord with the Yahoo-groups guidelines. 
-JaiGuruYou
 


 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <richard@...> wrote :

 Well, yes, this is what subscribers are supposed to do: read the messages and 
post their comments. Moderators are supposed to also read all the messages and 
then delete the inappropriate responses. It's not complicated.  
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote :
 

 "he has to scrutinise a lot more messages, which I would think is a thankless 
chore, and then make some kind of judgement call that seems fair in relation to 
the group's dynamics and all the other considerations."
 

 All you have to do is just follow this simple rule: 

 1. Keep it PG-13: Never write or say anything on the internet that you 
wouldn't let your kids read. It can really come back to haunt you later.

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :

 When is someone going to get that I'm fucking having funzies here with my 
creativity that often features the anger tone?   Geeeze.  If I'm vociferous, so 
the fuck what?  
 

 That's fine.

And it was an ad hominem, because the issue was "Is Edg a quality thinker?" -- 
unexpressed, yes, but, no, IT WAS EXPRESSED.  And to deny this when everyone 
here knows that Steve was trying to elbow my ribs is ANOTHER ACT OF AGGRESSION 
AGAINST ME.
 

 No, you are just reading that into. I did not read the same message. When you 
see a certain irregularity on an animal cracker, do you read some significance 
into that?

Hee hee, fucking hee......I loves me da capital letters.

Can I get angry in a nanosecond?  OF FUCKING COURSE I CAN.  Can't you?

Can I have love flowing instantly?  OF FUCKING COURSE I CAN.  Can't you?

Have I lived a mostly normal life?  OF FUCKING COURSE I DID.  Didn't you?

I have been every kind of person -- shitheel, joker, leader, teacher, priest, 
lover, devotee, businessman, sportsman, psychologist, father, son, brother, 
husband, uncle, cousin, loser, winner.  Got me tons of success and tons of 
failure.  OF COURSE I HAVE HAD EVERY EMOTION A THOUSAND TIMES AND CAN RECALL OR 
RE-INSTITUTE THOSE WORKINGS OF MY NERVOUS SYSTEM.

I'm having five thoughts per second -- I can cherry pick any emotion I want and 
by attending it, amplifying it into a full flown mental event with tons of 
processing.  CAN'T YOU?  Or rather, DON'T YOU SEE THAT YOU DO THIS TOO?
 

 I don't have that many thoughts per second, if you are referring to different 
mental streams, different subjects and emotions in those thoughts

If you haven't been all roles of life and gotten really muddified, shame on you 
for wasting a life.  

Am I angry right now as I type this?  NOOOOOOO!  THIS IS FUN !  I'm writing!  
I'm putting words together "just so."  

If I was angry, you'd not know  it until the boom was lowered -- would not want 
to give you advanced warning...that I was just now stepping up onto your 
porch....with a blunt instrument.....hee hee....see?....I just put an onerous 
image into your mind......writers get away with this shit.

And, me?, angry at the pissants here when I have had REAL ENEMIES WHO DID 
MASSIVE DAMAGE TO ME IN EVERY WAY?  Get real -- no one here is worth my anger.  
And by the way, I have never taken revenge on anyone in the real 
world.....though I did win three lawsuits.....I mostly mean punching someone in 
the nose -- haven't been in a fist fight since I was 13 years old.  Not saying 
that Willy's nose wouldn't be bloodied if I was stuck in an elevator with him, 
but God has protected me by not putting me in said circumstances.  Lucky me, eh?

The real issue that I was addressing with satire is that Steve's trolling is 
too subtle for the likes of Doug to moderate.  Doug can't nail Steve for having 
an evil intent, because it would require a massive trial and gathering of facts 
-- impossible.  THAT WAS MY POINT. Doug is going to fail at moderation, because 
everyone would fail at it.
 

 Your writing style, like that of Ravi some years ago seems to give the 
impression to others that you are not quite right mentally.

And how much more does it take for Doug to declare someone a misfit troll out 
to make someone feel bad?
 

 I would say your previous post might trigger some action, based on a rather 
literal reading of Yahoo guidelines.

Does it really have to be such a large deal like someone asserting a lie that 
amounts to legal libel before Doug will ban someone? 
 

 Doug may be feeling compassion. Perhaps he thinks you should be hospitalised.

It's obvious that there's many here who LOVE TO DIG AT SOMEONE and get them 
riled up, and yet, Doug has not addressed anyone's MANY sins since he "took 
over here."  See? That's proof about how hard it is to pull it off -- Doug's 
probably regretting this, heh. 
 

 I think, based on what Doug posted recently, is he is trying to get the feel 
of what is going on. I am not sure how many of everyone's messages he read 
before, but now he has to scrutinise a lot more messages, which I would think 
is a thankless chore, and then make some kind of judgement call that seems fair 
in relation to the group's dynamics and all the other considerations. It's a 
new job for him and he has a number of people here not liking the idea he a 
moderator, thinking he will be too strict and narrow minded, and on the other 
side there is Rick, who could yank the moderator job away from him if he gets 
too enthusiastic about the job, and there are those who do favour moderation 
with a firm hand, but those could just go over to The Peak and see what happens.
 

 So after reading the above, we should not take anything you say as being 
representative of anything you actually think, or of reality in general?
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote :

 Steve did not commit an ad hominem 

 All he said was:
 

 1.  Doug was a moderator and not responsible for vetting all content (that 
would be rather difficult because Doug has to go outside and work). This is 
basically a factual statement.
 

 2. He said Doug was not a therapist, which is also probably a factual 
statement. Then he expressed an opinion that you had personal issues with 
anger. This may or may not be true. But his short post was not concerned with 
any argument you made supporting some position, so it is not an ad hominem. Ad 
hominem refers to logical argumentation as was discussed in post #416814. With 
out supporting arguments an opinion is just that, a surmise. Based on your 
response, I think Steve's surmise has some merit, but that is still an opinion. 
Nobody knows exactly what a person's inner emotional state is, but people do 
make judgements based on the perceived outer behaviour of a person, gestures, 
what they say, how they say or write.
 

 Your response to Steve appears to be what is called a diatribe which is 
defined (courtesy of google.com):
 

 A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.
 

 synonyms: tirade, harangue, onslaught, attack, polemic, denunciation, 
broadside, fulmination, condemnation, censure, criticism.
 

 Now that sounds like someone who is angry, that anger directed at Steve in 
this case. This pretty much looks like a personal attack, whereas Steve, it 
seemed to me (opinion), was just making a suggestion. If any one has violated 
the guidelines here in this exchange, you have.
 

 I have to admit though, it is very entertaining. People to not require a Ph.D. 
to determine whether they think someone is angry or unbalanced, though 
eventually other factors may intervene for that someone, such as law 
enforcement officers or medical professionals working in the area of mental 
health.
 

 If I were to comment on 'your case', I would have the opinion you have low 
self esteem, that you blow up some simple comments into a vast conspiracy 
against your person.
 


 

              

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :

 Steve, You are labeling me as someone with stored up anger....."to whatever 
degree"....and for a large part of my adult life.

This is an ad hominem -- in a public forum.  

How so?

Quite simply I have not reported (here at FFL or elsewhere online) my inner 
emotional states throughout my life with any detail such that a, what?, couch 
psychiatrist?, can insinuate about my past or present or future emotional 
states.....let alone present a logical assembly of my posts that would 
demonstrate to a scientific prognosticator enough information for that 
"decider" to say, "Oh, yeah, that kind of mind, piss on it, that anger just 
clouds his judgment and it's just not worth dealing with this fuckwad."

Yet this is exactly the intent of your post.  You with no credentials are 
asserting something untrue about me.   
This is a foul accusation about me.  I protest to Doug.  

Doug?  There are not enough facts in evidence that I am someone with stored up 
anger -- which is merely code for "might blow at any minute."  My online 
history is checkered with every manner of emotionalism, because I'm a writer 
and give myself permission to be silly, satirical, rude, outrageous, poetic, 
raw, real, fake OR WHATEVER.  To interpret who I am from my online posts would 
require a PhD jury to authenticate some candidate's findings.  AS FUCKING IF.  
This is an outrageous smear job by any decent minded regard.

Aaaaaaaaand, further, the question: "Does that make sense?" is clearly another 
attempt to present the concept "Edg is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fucking 
stupid, you have to treat him like child, and always double check what's going 
on in that little noggin' of his."  

It is this sort of tactic that everyone here understands for what it is:  plain 
old trolling -- with a smirk that assumes there's denial ability to shield all 
protests.  "What?  I never meant that. Why how dare you accuse me of having 
such a low intent." -- like that. Like fucking that.  That's the tactic -- to 
me, it's Gestapol shit.

Now, in the past, I would enter into a delightful tirade of withering 
statements about you, personally, that would leave stains on your soul, but 
DOUG IS WATCHING, so I won't.

But you have violated the intent and spirit of the guidelines -- IN MY OPINION, 
and I call for Doug to arbitrate this issue and give us the benefit of his 
wisdom -- here in the public forum where the "act" occurred. Let's see if you 
have, indeed, befouled our pristine and new intent to be civil here, or if I'm 
mistaken and, truly, everyone thinks I'm way over the top in my interpretation 
of your below text.
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote :

 He's a moderator Edg, not responsible for vetting all the content that passes 
through here in terms of its future efficacy.  Or present efficacy for that 
matter. 

 Nor is he a therapist to help you process whatever anger you have stored up 
from what appears to be a large part of your adult life participating in this 
movement.
 

 Does that make sense?
 
 

 


























  



  



 
 

 
 

 
  
 

 "he has to scrutinise a lot more messages, which I would think is a thankless 
chore, and then make some kind of judgement call that seems fair in relation to 
the group's dynamics and all the other considerations."

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :

 When is someone going to get that I'm fucking having funzies here with my 
creativity that often features the anger tone?   Geeeze.  If I'm vociferous, so 
the fuck what?  
 

 That's fine.

And it was an ad hominem, because the issue was "Is Edg a quality thinker?" -- 
unexpressed, yes, but, no, IT WAS EXPRESSED.  And to deny this when everyone 
here knows that Steve was trying to elbow my ribs is ANOTHER ACT OF AGGRESSION 
AGAINST ME.
 

 No, you are just reading that into. I did not read the same message. When you 
see a certain irregularity on an animal cracker, do you read some significance 
into that?

Hee hee, fucking hee......I loves me da capital letters.

Can I get angry in a nanosecond?  OF FUCKING COURSE I CAN.  Can't you?

Can I have love flowing instantly?  OF FUCKING COURSE I CAN.  Can't you?

Have I lived a mostly normal life?  OF FUCKING COURSE I DID.  Didn't you?

I have been every kind of person -- shitheel, joker, leader, teacher, priest, 
lover, devotee, businessman, sportsman, psychologist, father, son, brother, 
husband, uncle, cousin, loser, winner.  Got me tons of success and tons of 
failure.  OF COURSE I HAVE HAD EVERY EMOTION A THOUSAND TIMES AND CAN RECALL OR 
RE-INSTITUTE THOSE WORKINGS OF MY NERVOUS SYSTEM.

I'm having five thoughts per second -- I can cherry pick any emotion I want and 
by attending it, amplifying it into a full flown mental event with tons of 
processing.  CAN'T YOU?  Or rather, DON'T YOU SEE THAT YOU DO THIS TOO?
 

 I don't have that many thoughts per second, if you are referring to different 
mental streams, different subjects and emotions in those thoughts

If you haven't been all roles of life and gotten really muddified, shame on you 
for wasting a life.  

Am I angry right now as I type this?  NOOOOOOO!  THIS IS FUN !  I'm writing!  
I'm putting words together "just so."  

If I was angry, you'd not know  it until the boom was lowered -- would not want 
to give you advanced warning...that I was just now stepping up onto your 
porch....with a blunt instrument.....hee hee....see?....I just put an onerous 
image into your mind......writers get away with this shit.

And, me?, angry at the pissants here when I have had REAL ENEMIES WHO DID 
MASSIVE DAMAGE TO ME IN EVERY WAY?  Get real -- no one here is worth my anger.  
And by the way, I have never taken revenge on anyone in the real 
world.....though I did win three lawsuits.....I mostly mean punching someone in 
the nose -- haven't been in a fist fight since I was 13 years old.  Not saying 
that Willy's nose wouldn't be bloodied if I was stuck in an elevator with him, 
but God has protected me by not putting me in said circumstances.  Lucky me, eh?

The real issue that I was addressing with satire is that Steve's trolling is 
too subtle for the likes of Doug to moderate.  Doug can't nail Steve for having 
an evil intent, because it would require a massive trial and gathering of facts 
-- impossible.  THAT WAS MY POINT. Doug is going to fail at moderation, because 
everyone would fail at it.
 

 Your writing style, like that of Ravi some years ago seems to give the 
impression to others that you are not quite right mentally.

And how much more does it take for Doug to declare someone a misfit troll out 
to make someone feel bad?
 

 I would say your previous post might trigger some action, based on a rather 
literal reading of Yahoo guidelines.

Does it really have to be such a large deal like someone asserting a lie that 
amounts to legal libel before Doug will ban someone? 
 

 Doug may be feeling compassion. Perhaps he thinks you should be hospitalised.

It's obvious that there's many here who LOVE TO DIG AT SOMEONE and get them 
riled up, and yet, Doug has not addressed anyone's MANY sins since he "took 
over here."  See? That's proof about how hard it is to pull it off -- Doug's 
probably regretting this, heh. 
 

 I think, based on what Doug posted recently, is he is trying to get the feel 
of what is going on. I am not sure how many of everyone's messages he read 
before, but now he has to scrutinise a lot more messages, which I would think 
is a thankless chore, and then make some kind of judgement call that seems fair 
in relation to the group's dynamics and all the other considerations. It's a 
new job for him and he has a number of people here not liking the idea he a 
moderator, thinking he will be too strict and narrow minded, and on the other 
side there is Rick, who could yank the moderator job away from him if he gets 
too enthusiastic about the job, and there are those who do favour moderation 
with a firm hand, but those could just go over to The Peak and see what happens.
 

 So after reading the above, we should not take anything you say as being 
representative of anything you actually think, or of reality in general?
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote :

 Steve did not commit an ad hominem 

 All he said was:
 

 1.  Doug was a moderator and not responsible for vetting all content (that 
would be rather difficult because Doug has to go outside and work). This is 
basically a factual statement.
 

 2. He said Doug was not a therapist, which is also probably a factual 
statement. Then he expressed an opinion that you had personal issues with 
anger. This may or may not be true. But his short post was not concerned with 
any argument you made supporting some position, so it is not an ad hominem. Ad 
hominem refers to logical argumentation as was discussed in post #416814. With 
out supporting arguments an opinion is just that, a surmise. Based on your 
response, I think Steve's surmise has some merit, but that is still an opinion. 
Nobody knows exactly what a person's inner emotional state is, but people do 
make judgements based on the perceived outer behaviour of a person, gestures, 
what they say, how they say or write.
 

 Your response to Steve appears to be what is called a diatribe which is 
defined (courtesy of google.com):
 

 A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.
 

 synonyms: tirade, harangue, onslaught, attack, polemic, denunciation, 
broadside, fulmination, condemnation, censure, criticism.
 

 Now that sounds like someone who is angry, that anger directed at Steve in 
this case. This pretty much looks like a personal attack, whereas Steve, it 
seemed to me (opinion), was just making a suggestion. If any one has violated 
the guidelines here in this exchange, you have.
 

 I have to admit though, it is very entertaining. People to not require a Ph.D. 
to determine whether they think someone is angry or unbalanced, though 
eventually other factors may intervene for that someone, such as law 
enforcement officers or medical professionals working in the area of mental 
health.
 

 If I were to comment on 'your case', I would have the opinion you have low 
self esteem, that you blow up some simple comments into a vast conspiracy 
against your person.
 


 

              

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :

 Steve, You are labeling me as someone with stored up anger....."to whatever 
degree"....and for a large part of my adult life.

This is an ad hominem -- in a public forum.  

How so?

Quite simply I have not reported (here at FFL or elsewhere online) my inner 
emotional states throughout my life with any detail such that a, what?, couch 
psychiatrist?, can insinuate about my past or present or future emotional 
states.....let alone present a logical assembly of my posts that would 
demonstrate to a scientific prognosticator enough information for that 
"decider" to say, "Oh, yeah, that kind of mind, piss on it, that anger just 
clouds his judgment and it's just not worth dealing with this fuckwad."

Yet this is exactly the intent of your post.  You with no credentials are 
asserting something untrue about me.   
This is a foul accusation about me.  I protest to Doug.  

Doug?  There are not enough facts in evidence that I am someone with stored up 
anger -- which is merely code for "might blow at any minute."  My online 
history is checkered with every manner of emotionalism, because I'm a writer 
and give myself permission to be silly, satirical, rude, outrageous, poetic, 
raw, real, fake OR WHATEVER.  To interpret who I am from my online posts would 
require a PhD jury to authenticate some candidate's findings.  AS FUCKING IF.  
This is an outrageous smear job by any decent minded regard.

Aaaaaaaaand, further, the question: "Does that make sense?" is clearly another 
attempt to present the concept "Edg is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fucking 
stupid, you have to treat him like child, and always double check what's going 
on in that little noggin' of his."  

It is this sort of tactic that everyone here understands for what it is:  plain 
old trolling -- with a smirk that assumes there's denial ability to shield all 
protests.  "What?  I never meant that. Why how dare you accuse me of having 
such a low intent." -- like that. Like fucking that.  That's the tactic -- to 
me, it's Gestapol shit.

Now, in the past, I would enter into a delightful tirade of withering 
statements about you, personally, that would leave stains on your soul, but 
DOUG IS WATCHING, so I won't.

But you have violated the intent and spirit of the guidelines -- IN MY OPINION, 
and I call for Doug to arbitrate this issue and give us the benefit of his 
wisdom -- here in the public forum where the "act" occurred. Let's see if you 
have, indeed, befouled our pristine and new intent to be civil here, or if I'm 
mistaken and, truly, everyone thinks I'm way over the top in my interpretation 
of your below text.
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote :

 He's a moderator Edg, not responsible for vetting all the content that passes 
through here in terms of its future efficacy.  Or present efficacy for that 
matter. 

 Nor is he a therapist to help you process whatever anger you have stored up 
from what appears to be a large part of your adult life participating in this 
movement.
 

 Does that make sense?
 
 

 




































 


 











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