Am I the only one who finds it odd that we think the right to privacy to be sacrosanct, but the right "to not be gratuitously attacked with character assassinations" eh, not so much.
If Maharishi ever put his finger on a concept that had practicality, it was "take care of the tender feeling level." I doubt anyone here has the rationalization potency to argue against this proviso; surely all here see it at least as "generally good advice." When I first barged in here with guns blazing, I pretty much showed how little I cared about the TFL concept; my only defense being that I had been reading FFL as a lurker, so when I finally did post, I had already been accustomed to the stomp-romp here. My bad. Not that I could pull of being a saint who spoke only 1. sweet, 2. necessary 3. truth, but I do love this three-rule filter as a way for determining if the golden rule is honored. If, magically, the FFL posters did honor the TFL, who would need privacy rights? On the TV show Kung Fu, our hero steps -- barefooted -- into a pit filled with rattlesnakes. Each snake had the attitude and venom of ________ (fill in the blank with the name of any FFLer who is known to personally attack others.) Kwai Chang Caine walks the length of the pit, and while doing so, he remembers his blind master telling him: "If you see yourself in others, others will see themselves in you, and who harms himself?" He doesn't get bit. Has anyone here NOT been bit on their jaunts in this pit? Even Marek gets blasted herein. What would it take to stop, say, Judy, from uncoiling with deadly intent to shut down someone's mind with an injection of her privately concocted poison meant to kill someone's esteem? What would harmlessness look like to her such that she'd relax? Here's the hard part: she, like all of us, would know it if she saw it, and she'd calm down. Judy as a "Saint Meter" -- gotta love the idea, eh? Of course, my using her, as an example "of someone who is known to ignore the TFL," violates the TFL's rules, but, I'm just sayin'! To me, knowing that every post of mine will be subject to a scalding retort of some sort, makes it impossible to show my heart here any more than I've attempted. Share a photo of a beloved child in my arms here? Yeah right. Share a love poem? Confess a foible? Big fucking risks to take here when it's all too easy to see an array of fangs poised in hissing mouths agap. Hell, even admitting here at FFL that I watched American Idol was a bigass decision for me, because watching it is one of those guilty pleasures that I indulge in despite there being no reasonable explanation for why it "does me likes I wants me to be done." History's host of truly talented singer-composers can easily put almost any American Idol singer to shame, but I go to that small pond nonetheless to watch what "less than world class" singers can do. Go figure. Who here will champion the TFL? Not Rick, that's for sure. He thinks it tickles when Nab posts yet another storm of stings, so what's the TFL to Rick if I call Turq an odious clod? (Two of the TFL's rules broken....1. not sweet, 2. not necessary to say what everyone already knows.) Rick will not censor me. Nor, get this, will Turq show it if somehow the words that I post get past his defenses and he feels the sting, so I cannot hope that Turq will weep for shame in public here and truly instruct me by showing what I've wrought. Others here will chime in if they want to pile on Turq, or they'll pile on me to defend him, but who brings up the TFL as the first concept to consider when dissonance is apparent? What FFL really really needs is a Rodney King. We need someone to, you know, sin in some minor way like going ten miles over the speed limit, and then having some FFL cop pull him over and then seriously beat the shit out of him and gets a few other FFL cops to gather around who add a kick here, a tasering there. Get it? I want someone to be soundly fucked over by FFLers in some sort of Lord Of The Flies moment. Maybe that'd do it. To have us standing around a prone body and see someone so thoroughly and truly hurt emotionally that their blood and bruises cannot be denied, and there are we, the mob of savages with badges, suddenly confronted with the fact that we've almost killed a person on the side of the road for almost nothing. Rick, what would you do then? Would "we're all just having fun at a party and we've got to put up with folks who like to throw their drinks into the faces of others" be your defense as our FFL Rodney lays there groaning? Edg --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of ruthsimplicity > Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Respect people's right to anonymity > > > What brought this issue up Rick? I haven't been around much lately. This is > the issue that worries me about this forum. I have seen several people here > bring up real names and given that I don't read everything, don't have a > long history with you folks, I can't tell how they learned the names and > whether they were being outed. > > > > Someone here has been posting under an alias. He used to post under his real > name. Someone else figured out who he was and posted his name and street > address. I feel that people should have the right to remain anonymous. Of > course, before being outed the fellow who was outed had threatened physical > violence against the guy who outed him, and I don't appreciate that either, > but I don't take it too seriously, since they live on different continents. > OffWorld often vents his Scottishness by threatening violence, and I don't > take it seriously. Hard to know where to draw the line, but I'm just > requesting that we all respect others' desire to remain anonymous. > ------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a message to: [email protected] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
