From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of curtisdeltablues Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:04 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: What Fairfield and Fairfield Life Could Become
"If someone is mean, out they go, and that goes for Edg and everyone else. One strike, out you go." If I wanted this kind of judgment on my expression I would have stayed in the movement. Does the term "Age of Enlightenment News" mean anything to you? Once trollish behavior has been identified, anyone responding is doing it by choice. Some are obviously nuts or on the outer edges of odd. Some are entertaining if you don't take it personally. Limiting content freedom is a dark path. If you just control what you read, ignore posts that don't interest you and pay attention to what you like, no one will have to kick people off because you don't want to read their stuff. Self control, not group control. Curtis said it much better than I could have. Since many of us seem rather juvenile at times, try to remember the old childhood saying, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me.” Here’s another one we used to say: “I’m rubber and you’re glue. Everything bad you say to me bounces off of me and sticks to you.” And one from the Yoga Sutras: “Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.” Negative posters tire themselves out very quickly if you ignore them. I use my real name, live in FF, founded this forum, and make some pretty controversial (and unfounded) statements. I take some pretty serious flak for this sometimes. When this happens, I remember the Robert Burns poem: “O would some Power the gift to give us To see ourselves as others see us!” I can’t blame these people for seeing me as some rakshasha-possessed, Maharishi-bashing ne’r do well. That’s how I used to view people who did what I’m doing. Are any of us completely innocent of doing the things we accuse others of doing? Look at your recent interchange with Nabby, Edg. He claimed to have flown 24 feet, and you went ballistic, using expletives, threatening physical violence, etc. Or this more recent interchange. I only read a fraction of the posts and may have missed many juicy details, but I gathered that someone called you some name and rather than ignoring that childish insult, you exploded, blowing smoke out your ears and threatening a law suit. You responded to a BB gun with a bazooka. Anyway, Curtis said it all: “Self control, not group control.” No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.10/977 - Release Date: 8/28/2007 4:29 PM
