Wow...
At Rick's encouragement, I rejoined Fairfield Life a few days ago. Reading the
last few days of posts I can see I made a mistake. I trust this e-group serves
your evolution, although I confess that I am at a total loss to understand how
that might be. Frankly, why do you all bother with the complete and utter
waste of life the vast majority of posts here are?
Spend time with a child... Play with your cat if you don't have a child... Go
out dancing... Make love for a few hours... Enjoy the stars without imagining
anything about jyotish or celestial beings or Maitreya or some other bullshit
someone else has convinced you to believe... The stars are pretty awesome just
as they are - no embellishment needed. So are you.
Sincere best wishes and a friendly goodbye,
Cliff
--- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <snip>
> > But just for a moment, try to imagine what it
> > *feels* like to have someone just *explode* with
> > his own simmering hatred of self, and aim it at
> > you, and put it into the most carefully-crafted
> > attempts to *hurt* he possibly can.
>
> Gosh, I don't have to imagine it, Barry. I've
> been dealing with it from you for a very long time.
>
> > That's what it's been like for me to post to
> > the Internet FOR THIRTEEN YEARS.
> >
> > Thirteen years ago, on another forum, someone
> > else developed the same kind of twisted fixation
> > on me, confusing me with all the things she hates
> > in herself but cannot accept or recognize in
> > herself.
>
> The projection in this remark is just astounding.
> If he actually believes it, it's frightening.
>
> > She has stalked me from forum to forum ever since,
>
> No, she has done no such thing. That isn't a
> delusion, it's a quite deliberate untruth.
>
> > with rarely even a one-week break in the invective
> > and criticism she aims at me. Richard Williams,
> > the troll from Texas, picked up the same mindset
> > from her and has been doing the same thing, for
> > almost as long. A couple of other people here
> > seem to have also "logged on" to this particular
> > notion of fun, and consider me their personal
> > punching bag.
>
> Barry indeed has many critics. But for the record,
> and from my perspective, the only unfair criticism
> of Barry I've ever seen, on both alt.m.t and FFL,
> has been the recent spate of rants from Edg
> concerning his fantasies about Barry's behavior in
> his private life.
>
> (Well, with the exception of some of Willytex's
> posts, but "fairness" doesn't really apply in
> his case.)
>
> Edg's posts were so outlandishly unfair that even
> I had to jump in to defend Barry.
>
> From the early days on alt.m.t right down to the
> present, Barry has spent *most* of his time
> putting down other people, without the slightest
> regard for fairness or accuracy or intellectual
> honesty. That's why he's come in for so much
> criticism.
>
> <snip>
> > The more that these people rag on me and spew
> > their bile at me, the more I try to "channel"
> > that hatred and use it to inspire me to write
> > more, and to write well. If I can read one of
> > their hate-filled posts and, immediately after-
> > wards, sit down and write about something that
> > inspires me and makes me happy, and might also
> > inspire someone else, then I have practiced the
> > dharma of Living well is the best revenge.
> >
> > And I have managed to do so without being sucked
> > into a head-to-head confrontation with them, and
> > giving them what they want, which is my attention.
>
> Oh, yes, we've noticed how assiduously Barry has
> avoided head-to-head confrontation.
>
> When he's feeling particularly self-righteous, he
> actually *does* manage to avoid it for a while,
> instead putting his vicious insults and dishonest
> characterizations in posts purportedly addressed
> to the group, like this one, utterly oblivious
> to the gross hypocrisy involved.
>
> Sorry, but writing a few happy-happy posts doesn't
> make up for the rest; and the rest call into
> serious question just how genuine the happy ones
> are.
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