Some here have expressed skepticism when I have said that Barry is dishonest.
Following is a clear-cut, utterly unambiguous example (from #151367): --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > 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. > > She has stalked me from forum to forum ever since Barry is, of course, referring to me. The first paragraph is Barry's *opinion*, even though he states it as if it were established fact. He's totally wrong, but he's entitled to hold wrong opinions. The dishonesty is in the next line: > She has stalked me from forum to forum ever since This is a lie in the narrowest sense of the term, in that Barry knows it isn't true. He has repeated it many times here and elsewhere. Here are the facts, of which Barry is very well aware: Barry and I have been on exactly three of the same groups: alt.meditation.transcendental, FairfieldLife, and Knapp's blog, TMFree. I encountered Barry for the first time on alt.m.t, so obviously I couldn't have "stalked" him there. I was a member of FairfieldLife before Barry ever joined it. I didn't read it regularly or post to it, however, until after Barry had joined and *invited* everyone on alt.m.t to participate in the discussions on FFL. "Stalking" can mean several different things. One thing it does *not* mean is responding to an invitation by the purported stalkee. And I was posting comments on TMFree shortly after it went live, *well before* Barry had posted anything there himself. If anything, he stalked *me* there. Again, Barry is very well aware of all these facts. His claim that I have been "stalking him from forum to forum" is a deliberate lie. This is not an isolated example; it's not some kind of aberration. It's very far from the only lie he's told, here and on alt.m.t and TMFree (and goodness knows where else that I'm not aware of), about me, and about others. But as I say, it's an unambiguous example, and it's something anyone can verify for themselves. Finally, just as a bonus, note the phrasing "ever since," following Barry's claim about what had happened 13 years ago. In fact, for 11 of those years, until 2005 when I started posting to FFL, alt.m.t was the *only* forum Barry and I were on together. "Ever since" is therefore deliberately deceptive, making it sound as though the purported "stalking" has been going on for 13 years. It's a lie on top of a lie.
