--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Is there anyone here as embarrassed as I am > > > > > to have ever been part of the spiritual > > > > > organization that could have created such > > > > > a mindset in one of its followers? > > > > > > > > Marek, this is the kind of thing I was talking > > > > about--entirely gratuitous, vicious insults of > > > > TM supporters. No need to "stir up the nest," > > > > this kind of bee stings compulsively without > > > > having been provoked. > > > > > > > > > See recent post. > > > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/123578 > > > > > > > > > And Judy, IMO, > > > > > > "Marek, this is the kind of thing I was talking > > > about--entirely , vicious insults." > > > > > > would have gotten the point across. Perhaps without the "vicious". > > > Technically I dont see vicious in the Turqs words. > > > > You don't? Really?? > > > > I'm astonished. > > > > And what's your problem with "gratuitous"? That's > > factual: There was no personal provocation of Barry > > in what Lawson said. > > > > My reference was to what Marek had said to me about > > not stirring up a hornet's nest, after having said > > he and others thought I was always the provocateur. > > I responded to him that the hornets in question often > > sting without provocation--i.e., their insults are > > gratuitous--and I was citing this insult of Barry's > > to Lawson as an example of what I was talking about. > > My point is that while your points may be accurate, I hold there are > less inflamatory ways of conveying the same thought. Perhaps we > disagree. Ok.
I can't honestly think of any less inflammatory ways of conveying that an insult was gratuitous. I can think of *more* inflammatory ways, but not less inflammatory. And I couldn't just leave it out, because it was the whole point of what I was drawing Marek's attention to. > The thing is, some here, including you at times IMO, have a > hair-thin trigger finger. Firing at slight provocation. My > thought is to reduce the provocation, and reduce the firings > and bloody gunfights at slight provocation. Yes, I understand. But I think you're better off focusing on the provocation--the gratuitous insults-- rather than the responses to them, because to the extent the gratuitous provocations are reduced, the hair-trigger responses will be automatically reduced, because there won't be as much to respond *to*. Also, I think it's actually easier to refrain from gratuitous insults than it is to refrain from responding to them > With a modest amount of care in writing -- and a focus on > criticizing posts, not posters -- I think we can clean up > Dodge City here. I think you're doing a fine job so far.
