Did anyone notice that the bash-Barry fest last night was all ABOUT afflictive emotions?
One drama queen, still smarting from a largely imagined offense months ago, misrepresents what happened, *in order to get some kind of 'payback' to the person who he still has a grudge against*. The next person, bearing even more of a grudge, piles on and tries to expand this fit of dwelling in the past and drama queen hysterics, and tries her best to get as many other people involved in it as possible. She goes on and on for several posts trying to do this, almost as if it were some kind of (dare I say it?) obsession for her. Meanwhile I was asleep, not a party to any of this at all. Since waking up and noticing it, I've tried merely to point out what should have been obvious from the start. This was all about afflictive emotions. Two people with a *grudge they cannot get over* leapt upon the first excuse presented to them to act out about it again. Addicted to the Spite OS, they just couldn't wait to indulge in it again. You may see this whole thing differently, but that's how I see it. It's about indulging in the afflictive emotions, and the residual obsessions that form in those who *do* indulge in them when they do it for many years.
