Is this an obituary? I'm trying hard to shed a tear, but it's just not happening. (-:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote : This place may just fade into the woodwork. It does get tiresome. I am pretty sure Barry was feeling wearisome about it. He did post many marvellous things. His not being here seems the result of a personal vendetta at the hands of the moderator. The problem with power is it reveals one's corruption. Judy seemed to lose interest, maybe she just got tired. Her method of posting did not seem to have changed. Barry challenged people at the gut level as well as at the intellectual level. The gut level is much more difficult to respond to because it activates the lower emotional brain functions, and the intellect goes into hibernation as a result. You even see this in the Bhagavad-Gita: 'From anger delusion occurs, from delusion bewilderment of memory, after forgetfulness of memory, the loss of spiritual intelligence, and losing spiritual intelligence, one perishes'. From: "jason_green2@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 12:50 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick, Time to shut down FFL (Great Beyond Dispatch #2) Both, Barry and Judy are no longer posting here. I also losing my inclination to post here. Is it time for Rick to shut down FFL? Nothing lasts forever. All things must end. If Barry were around he would have quoted Nietzsche. "Not only the wisdom of centuries --- also their madness breaketh out in us. Dangerous is it to be an heir." ~ Nietzsche --- <salyavin808@...> wrote : I must say I'm impressed at your patience with this bullshit Xeno. But perhaps it's time to point out the irony in what's happening. Here we have a bunch of people with not much to say about anything claiming that "mean old Bawee" stopped them from posting because he was such a mean old meanie. And here they are pouring abuse on you in the same way they claim he used to get at them! I've said these people have no sense of awareness but isn't this taking it too far? I think that amoeba I posted about yesterday has a better grasp of what's going on than Ms "Back for More". Lets make a challenge out of it. If it was the Big Bad Wolf stopping conversations here then why haven't they started again? How come it's looking more like a teenage girl's facebook page every day? If you were being prevented from posting, start posting. Start a thread, say something interesting, tell us something we didn't know, give us an insight into something - anything. But stop this dumb harassment of Xeno, you're just making yourself look stupid, he's got more to say than the rest of us put together. If you can't manage a whole thread you can share brain cells until you've thought of something. Better still, have a look back through the archives at some of Barry's pieces about creative writing. He posted some good essays on how to get started on the subject because, like me, he got fed up of the lack of participation and one line posts that add nothing that infest this place. But any appreciation of Barry's writing and contributions about archaeology, travel or history or even TV reviews would be a way of admitting that he made up a huge part of what was worth reading. Can't have that eh? Got to paint him bad and use him to blame your lack of meaningful participation on. When was the last time Judy started a thread? Hell, when was the first time Judy started a thread! Make an effort, stop the hypocritical bullshit or this place will drown in bland your pap.
