Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-02-01 Thread jamesalan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Feste, Your response has many inaccuracies and incorrect assumptions, many of which arise from your lack of understanding of what addiction is: Routine activities - 'things we like to do on a regular basis' - are not addictions, and your statement that they are is complete nonsense. In this

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-02-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Don't call me Shirley - I already told you, I'm not gay. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : You kidding? Richard loves cruel posts directed at him. It's like a whip from his favorite SM gal. He doesn't seem to like nice posts directed at him (you won't get a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-02-01 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Was it something I said? richard j williams http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=richard+j+williamsl=fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=richard+j+williamsl=fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com richard j williams

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-02-01 Thread feste37
I thought your post about Richard was somewhat cruel, and I was trying to soften the impact so that Serious Richard might feel a little less unwelcome here. You are of course correct about a difference between routine behaviors and addiction. But I am unconvinced that Serious Richard is any

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-02-01 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
: Sunday, February 1, 2015 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!   Feste, Your response has many inaccuracies and incorrect assumptions, many of which arise from your lack of understanding of what addiction is: Routine activities - 'things we like to do on a regular

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-02-01 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
You kidding? Richard loves cruel posts directed at him. It's like a whip from his favorite SM gal. He doesn't seem to like nice posts directed at him (you won't get a reply). On 02/01/2015 11:52 AM, feste37 wrote: I thought your post about Richard was somewhat cruel, and I was trying to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-02-01 Thread jamesalan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think your concern for Richard is genuine, but mistaken. In any case, there are many other ways to show your concern than to condemn me as being 'mean-spirited' (an approach, as I have pointed out, you use regularly here), or to make wildly mistaken statements about addiction. You also

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-02-01 Thread feste37
We all wear masks here on FFL, some of them benign, some of them grotesque, but behind them, and then behind the masks that we make for outselves in real life, we are all the same— or at least, not too dissimilar. Is this not so? I took Richard's part because he was subjected to a raft of posts

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-02-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: jamesalan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   Hi Feste. Yes, I agree with you - we all wear masks of one form or another, and at the most fundamental level, we are 'not too dissimilar', as you put it. I know that you took Richard's part because 'your heart went

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-02-01 Thread jamesalan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hi Feste. Yes, I agree with you - we all wear masks of one form or another, and at the most fundamental level, we are 'not too dissimilar', as you put it. I know that you took Richard's part because 'your heart went out to him', so to speak. And,without doubt, that was good of you. ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-31 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
feste, it came to me this morning that Richard is like the Don Quixote of yahoo groups (-: From: feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 5:34 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!   I like Serious

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-31 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
So it's all about Richard. As far as I can tell, the charge of obsession falls completely on the shoulders of those who are so attached to their beliefs and so petty as to get uptight when they encounter ideas contrary to their own. Bitching about others having such ideas is weird, and IMO

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-31 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
(-: *From:* feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Friday, January 30, 2015 5:34 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack! I like Serious Richard. He is rather a witty poster. ---In FairfieldLife

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-31 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
: feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 5:34 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack! I like Serious Richard. He is rather a witty poster. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-31 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Richard, I admire your courage. From: rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!   It's all about the cognitive

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-31 Thread feste37
You can call it addiction if you want to be mean-spirited. Most of us have addictions of some kind or another. We can also think of them simply as our routine—things we like to do on a regular basis. In that sense I am addicted to checking my email, playing Lexulous on Facebook, checking into

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-31 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Richard was posting like FFL was Twitter. Maybe he has no followers on Twitter. FFL is not Twitter and using it like one can be annoying to most. On 01/31/2015 09:41 AM, feste37 wrote: You can call it addiction if you want to be mean-spirited. Most of us have addictions of some kind or

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-31 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
, 2015 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack! It's all about the cognitive dissonance, Share. The discomfort experienced when someone simultaneously, both at the same time, holds two or more conflicting cognitions - two or more opposing beliefs, ideas

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread salyavin808
Rick or Alex, If memory serves this arsehole has been barred from posting. Please send him back to wherever he's been dragging out his miserable existence since he last wasted everyone's time here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : You are not even making any

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I suppose our best response is not to comment on his posts. Perhaps Alex or all of us could write Rick that his resumption here was under false pretences as per Salyavin's comment below (in red). ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
It's all good, I just didn't want you to get bored on FFL, so I thought I would respond when you mentioned me. If you have any questions just let me know. You probably feel better when you have someone to talk to. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Probably got bored

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
It sounds like you're trying out to out someone. Anyone can post comments here anonymously if they want to. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : I suppose our best response is not to comment on his posts. Perhaps Alex or all of us could write Rick that his resumption

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Rick let me subscribe to the group because some informants were still talking about me and I wanted to post a few replies.So, I promised not to out anyone's real name - now this is funny - since I subscribed three people in the group have outed me. You can't make this stuff up, Alex. LoL!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Probably got bored with The Peak. There's more Maharishi talk here than you'll find over there. On 01/30/2015 09:21 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Rick or Alex, If memory serves this arsehole has been barred from posting. Please send him back to wherever he's been dragging out his miserable

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
You sound really scared. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Rick or Alex, If memory serves this arsehole has been barred from posting. Please send him back to wherever he's been dragging out his miserable existence since he last wasted everyone's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, j_alexander_stanley@... wrote : Don't look at me. When I saw the subscription request, I left it for Rick to handle. Richard made no attempt to conceal his identity, so Rick approved the subscription, knowing fully well who it is. Rick's kind of a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread jamesalan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, j_alexander_stanley@... wrote : He had emailed a few days ago that people were still talking about him on FFL and that it is only fair that he be let back in to respond. It's Friday afternoon and I need a I'm not surprised, look at what I wrote a few

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
He had emailed a few days ago that people were still talking about him on FFL and that it is only fair that he be let back in to respond. Then he sent in a subscription request, which Rick approved. I have no idea if there was any further communication between Rick and Richard. With respect to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Don't look at me. When I saw the subscription request, I left it for Rick to handle. Richard made no attempt to conceal his identity, so Rick approved the subscription, knowing fully well who it is. Rick's kind of a softie about stuff like that; after some period of time, he usually lets people

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, j_alexander_stanley@... wrote : He had emailed a few days ago that people were still talking about him on FFL and that it is only fair that he be let back in to respond. But this is the problem, he doesn't respond and he never did. By his own

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : Probably got bored with The Peak. There's more Maharishi talk here than you'll find over there. Really? I thought that was the point of it. Discussing the long climb to the summit and that sort of thing. I thought maybe Jim was

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread jamesalan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And Richard has posted 10 comments in the few hours he's been back here, whereas he's posted around 18 comments in the past two weeks on the The Peak. Oh good, he prefers us ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : I like Serious Richard. He is rather a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread feste37
I like Serious Richard. He is rather a witty poster. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richard@... wrote : It sounds like you're trying out to out someone. Anyone can post comments here anonymously if they want to. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anartaxius@... wrote : I

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2015-01-30 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
A picture says a thousand words. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jamesalan735@... wrote : And Richard has posted 10 comments in the few hours he's been back here, whereas he's posted around 18 comments in the past two weeks on the The Peak. Oh good, he prefers us ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderator! Texan Attack!

2015-01-30 Thread jamesalan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And so Richard is back, and here is my prediction of how his behaviors will play out. Richard will continue to exhibit classic behaviors of a person with an addiction. As I noted in a previous post (included below), he is (and clearly was, prior to his banning) unable to control his