--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> 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 <no_reply@> 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.
>
I think anyone who reads Barry's posts regularly is aware as he said
that he writes to unwind, for fun, on the spur of the moment, not to
debate his writings. More like a blog than items for further
discussion, and that is the spirit in which to read them. Try to
call him on his stuff and it'll just drive you nuts.
