--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" > > <babajii_99@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" > > > > <babajii_99@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > So, hopefully Seattle, is calming down again, since I am > > > > > back; > > > > > At least for a while... > > > > > > > > Robert, I can only hope that you are joking. It's > > > > often hard to tell with you. If not, I think you > > > > should look into getting some psychological help. > > > > > > Thanks for your suggestion Turq., I'll be sure to look into > > > it... > > > > ROTFL! > > > > Barry Wright, Master of Inadvertent Irony: > > > > "The 'them' folks could be playing with their kids > > next to the barbed wire, collecting wildflowers for > > the dinner table back home, and the 'us' folks > > watching from inside the barbed wire prision [sic] > > they built around themselves will be convinced that > > they're planting land mines." > > > > (Or, in this case, convinced that they're ready for > > the booby hatch.) > > Did I mention "booby hatch?"
Ooh, it seems I hit a nerve. > I'm pretty sure what I said was that he might want > to look into getting some psychological help, not > an unreasonable suggestion to someone who has just > speculated that he *personally* was responsible for > this string of ugly murders because he wasn't home > in Seattle doing his program there. Just a bit of hyperbole (you know, like you so often use). The "unreasonable" part, of course, was your uncertainty over whether Robert was being facetious. > If I may restore the part of the post you so care- > fully snipped from your reply in your haste to slam > me, Robert's own words: <snip> > What I'm waiting for next is how much you'll snip > of my Lennon post when you slam me for that one. Actually, I hadn't thought of responding to that one. But since you mention it, I'll just call attention to this paragraph from that post-- "*To* say this indicates to me an implicit belief in 'them vs. us,' and a corollary belief that 'us' is always better. 'Sane' is defined as 'on the program' or 'loyal' to MMY, doing exactly what he says. 'Insane' is defined as doing something -- anything -- else. At this point in my life, I suspect *that* position is more than a little crazy." --another bit of inadvertent irony from someone who has just advised a TMer to "look into getting some psychological help" because they expressed their faith in the Maharishi Effect in a humorously hyperbolic form, and you were afraid they were dead serious. > My bet is that it'll be all the parts that mention > the people who talk big about believing in TM but > who never *do* anything about it. > > Which course was it you said you'd signed up for, > Judy? I mean, it's not even as if you have to take > off that much time from work, right? You could do > your extra "round" and continue to edit manuscripts > in your hotel room, probably without missing any of > the "knowledge" meetings. Well, probably not, for a lot of reasons. But the money isn't why I can't make it. I'd go if I could, but it's just not possible. (How long is it supposed to last? If it's still going a couple of months from now, I might be able to wangle it.) > All talk, no action. And slimy talk at that, as in > this post where you do the *very* thing you accuse > others of over and over here -- snipping content > from a reply in order to hide it. Oh, nonsense. I quoted the essential point at the top. Not only that, folks will have just read the original; your response followed his post by only seven minutes and was the very next in the posting order. (I mean, given how deeply disturbing you appear to have found the post, surely you wouldn't think others who have read it would have already forgotten it, would you?) Whereas you, as is your wont, have carefully avoided addressing the point of *my* post--your penchant for projecting your own traits onto others--and have in fact done everything you could to distract attention from it, by quibbling over "ready for the booby hatch" versus "get psychological help," and then going off on several irrelevant tangents designed to shoot the messenger. There's more than one way to "hide" context you don't want folks to think about. Oh, yeah, I did have one more minor comment on your Lennon post: "(There's something essentially wrong with that image of putting one's butt where one's mouth is, but I'm typing fast and can't think of another metaphor right now :-)" Actually, this was WLeed's metaphor (see message #106789). To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
