[FairfieldLife] Re: If Robin had anything he wanted to say to you...
Admit it Barry, you miss Robin. This post says it all - you took the time *again* to repost this exchange. I've re-read the first one and I think Robin was beautiful in it. Be grateful you had any opportunity at all to slander the fellow; you may never get the opportunity again. How about a little gratitudeThank you Robin for sharing yourself with FFL in a most *real* way. You have enriched my life for now and into eternity. Love, Barry. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: I find it strange that I should find a cafe rap bubbling up out of me as the result of an offhand remark by Willytex, but hey!...as Zaphod Beebelbrox was fond of saying, Anything for a weird life, so here goes... The remark made me want to go back and read Robin's Parting Post to this forum, and see what he had to say *in* the last thing he wanted to say to us -- to *any* and *all* of us. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/340466 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/340466 You should realize that going back to read this is a somewhat heroic act on my part, because I had trouble forcing my way through Robin's posts in real time, much less in the rear-view mirror, but I did it. And, as a result, I find that I have some musings to share about it. They are what *all* of my posts here are -- pure opinion -- so anyone silly enough to read them should probably oughta take them that way. *Unlike* Robin, I am NOT trying to say that my opinions equate to truth or reality, whatever the fuck those things might be; they're just my opinions. That said, it strikes me that this Parting Post can be seen in a number of ways. Some -- the obvious ones -- have been discussed here before. But because people here seem to enjoy fixating on Robin and unraveling for us the mysteries of who he is and what his message to us might have been, I will discuss some of the less obvious ones. On the surface, this post is clearly a last-gasp attempt to suck Curtis into replying to him and continuing to engage in one of Robin's confrontations with him, after he had pushed his intended victim over the edge by writing yet another fictitious post and signing Curtis' name to it. If this is the only way you view Robin's Parting Post, the attempt failed. Curtis did not reply. More interestingly, however, neither did anyone else. No one. Including the people who have made him almost into their poor, persecuted Saint Robin in the time since. Which brings me to one of the less obvious interpretations of this Parting Post -- that it was a form of Tantrum Yoga. One way to look it is, THIS is what I want to talk about here. THIS is pretty much the *only* thing I want to talk about here. And in order to even *qualify* as worthy of me talking to you, you *have* to go back and read all four of these posts I made to Curtis. Then, if you still 'side with Curtis,' and choose to argue with me about it, I may, 'if possible,' reply to you. No one replied. No one. Doesn't it make you wonder where the people who now seem to think that Robin was the best thing since sliced bread *were* when he implored them -- or *anyone* -- to talk about what *he* wanted to talk about? I would say, in retrospect, that the clear message he received from Fairfield Life was, Sorry...we *don't* want to talk about your petty ego-squabbles with Curtis, no matter how cosmically you try to reframe them. To his credit, when Robin received this clear message, he STFU. And now his supporters, who remained completely silent at the time, and who had nothing whatsoever to say about the only thing he wanted to talk about, can't seem to STFU themselves. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Re: If Robin had anything he wanted to say to you...
Oh, Barry, you *know* that when you tell deliberate falsehoods, you're going to get corrected. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: (snip) Which brings me to one of the less obvious interpretations of this Parting Post -- that it was a form of Tantrum Yoga. One way to look it is, THIS is what I want to talk about here. THIS is pretty much the *only* thing I want to talk about here. And in order to even *qualify* as worthy of me talking to you, you *have* to go back and read all four of these posts I made to Curtis. Then, if you still 'side with Curtis,' and choose to argue with me about it, I may, 'if possible,' reply to you. No one replied. No one. Doesn't it make you wonder where the people who now seem to think that Robin was the best thing since sliced bread *were* when he implored them -- or *anyone* -- to talk about what *he* wanted to talk about? Barry is not so stupid that he's completely misunderstood the gist of Robin's final post. He has intentionally twisted it in an attempt to make it seem Robin was saying the opposite of what he actually meant to convey. There are three possible reasons why any given person here didn't comment on that post: 1. They read the exchanges closely and found that they agreed with Robin and had no criticisms to make. 2. They read the exchanges closely and found that they agreed with Curtis, but didn't want to bother to make any criticisms. 3. They weren't interested enough to read the exchanges. Robin really *didn't* want to talk about any of it any more, with Curtis or anybody else. He was willing to entertain criticisms of himself, because he is a person of integrity, but only if the critics had something significant to say. He maintained (correctly, IMHO) that nobody who hadn't carefully read those exchanges could have any significant criticisms of his part in the dispute between himself and Curtis. It was way too complex, and he was sick of the uninformed criticisms from people who had no idea what it was about. Far from imploring any of us to talk about that dispute, he was posing a challenge he was pretty sure nobody was going to take up. He felt he'd done his best to respond to Curtis and was tired of the whole thing. He accomplished exactly what he intended with that post: He brought the discussion to an honorable close and felt free to leave. Exactly the opposite of what Barry maintains. Check it out: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/340466
[FairfieldLife] Re: If Robin had anything he wanted to say to you...
A, you just NEED A GREAT BIG HUGGIE!!! 3 3 3 Now, dry your tears, and stop your sniffling... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: I find it strange that I should find a cafe rap bubbling up out of me as the result of an offhand remark by Willytex, but hey!...as Zaphod Beebelbrox was fond of saying, Anything for a weird life, so here goes... The remark made me want to go back and read Robin's Parting Post to this forum, and see what he had to say *in* the last thing he wanted to say to us -- to *any* and *all* of us. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/340466 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/340466 You should realize that going back to read this is a somewhat heroic act on my part, because I had trouble forcing my way through Robin's posts in real time, much less in the rear-view mirror, but I did it. And, as a result, I find that I have some musings to share about it. They are what *all* of my posts here are -- pure opinion -- so anyone silly enough to read them should probably oughta take them that way. *Unlike* Robin, I am NOT trying to say that my opinions equate to truth or reality, whatever the fuck those things might be; they're just my opinions. That said, it strikes me that this Parting Post can be seen in a number of ways. Some -- the obvious ones -- have been discussed here before. But because people here seem to enjoy fixating on Robin and unraveling for us the mysteries of who he is and what his message to us might have been, I will discuss some of the less obvious ones. On the surface, this post is clearly a last-gasp attempt to suck Curtis into replying to him and continuing to engage in one of Robin's confrontations with him, after he had pushed his intended victim over the edge by writing yet another fictitious post and signing Curtis' name to it. If this is the only way you view Robin's Parting Post, the attempt failed. Curtis did not reply. More interestingly, however, neither did anyone else. No one. Including the people who have made him almost into their poor, persecuted Saint Robin in the time since. Which brings me to one of the less obvious interpretations of this Parting Post -- that it was a form of Tantrum Yoga. One way to look it is, THIS is what I want to talk about here. THIS is pretty much the *only* thing I want to talk about here. And in order to even *qualify* as worthy of me talking to you, you *have* to go back and read all four of these posts I made to Curtis. Then, if you still 'side with Curtis,' and choose to argue with me about it, I may, 'if possible,' reply to you. No one replied. No one. Doesn't it make you wonder where the people who now seem to think that Robin was the best thing since sliced bread *were* when he implored them -- or *anyone* -- to talk about what *he* wanted to talk about? I would say, in retrospect, that the clear message he received from Fairfield Life was, Sorry...we *don't* want to talk about your petty ego-squabbles with Curtis, no matter how cosmically you try to reframe them. To his credit, when Robin received this clear message, he STFU. And now his supporters, who remained completely silent at the time, and who had nothing whatsoever to say about the only thing he wanted to talk about, can't seem to STFU themselves. Go figure.
