I'm all for rules!!!! I knew if I upped the heat in the kitchen something would budge.
Rick -- you rejected my offering to impose an "oath" of "good manners;" you said you didn't want to be a morality cop. "Jane you ignorant slut" is a standard SNL line everyone knows, right? I was doing satire. And the word "bitch" is one of the most poetically used words today. Judy is a fierce warrior-warrioress-whatever. She's in with mostly boys (all arrested in their developments at early ages) here and smacking them right and left like she was as immune to karma as Mary Poppins, and I just felt she should get some smacks back. She wages battles for years, and you do not tell her to back off the negative, abusive, demeaning attitude, and then, she, emboldened by the group passivity here, came at me for no offense other than that I was following your "no abuse" rules regarding Turq posts -- some of which thoroughly challenged my POVs. If you've changed your stance, maybe you could tell us how that transition came about. Sorry, sorta, if it was in fact my rude attempts to amp it all up and make it ridiculous enough to get folks to move on this issue of "abusive trolls" here. Slick as they are with lingo, trolls're all in emperor's togs when it comes to anyone here seeing their energy, their reckless disregard for the tender feeling level, their almost vampire-like feasting on any dissonance they can stir up, their sheer psychic vandalism. I've contributed many a piece here that was holy in intent. Trying to lay a little imagination down and take a risk here or there, open up a bit, and yet, who can do anything subtle and ritammy when fire alarm emotions are being toggled by stalking, insult-zombic, creepazoid terrorists with kill-me-and-be-reduced-to-my-level divisive-bombs strapped to their souls daring us all to boot them out of this small universe and thus show the same impotency that these feral marauders feel every second of their miserable existences. I mean, Ron is, like, HOLY compared to Judy. He's posting his heart, but Judy's posting her gall bladder -- hence her dark bile ink. Turq posted like he was Hemmingway wandering an ancient town covered with moss and dripping with culture, and some troll up and calls him a drunk. I mean, what the hell is that shit, Rick? We all have egos that could soar to incredibility if we weren't all armed to the teeth with shotguns aimed at anything that moves in the heavens and calling it ready-to-roast duck no matter if swan or angel crashes dead but sometimes only wounded at their feet. Yeah, gimme some rules. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We reached a consensus on the excessive posting issue and all but a few > rebels have appreciated and adhered to the guideline. How about if we reach > a similar consensus regarding abusive language? I'd like to hear some > feedback on how people feel about this sort of behavior, either observing it > in others, being the brunt of it, or even dishing it out? Do you actually > feel better after verbally abusing someone, or does it leave you feeling > polluted? If I were to mandate behavioral guidelines, it would violate the > democratic, community spirit I've tried to establish on FFL. But if we can > collectively agree upon some basic standards of respect and decency, perhaps > we'll all feel motivated to live up to them. Also, I won't be playing the > "heavy" if I have to ban someone for a week for violating something we have > all agreed to. > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.8/993 - Release Date: 9/6/2007 > 3:18 PM >
