--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: <snip> > Welcome to FFL, dude. I look forward to you posting > more. Don't pay too much attention to the Troll Trio > of Judy, Willytex, and Edg. IMO they were all three > cloned from the same piece of asshole tissue and > separated soon after their test tube birth. :-)
Translation: The three of us are among Barry's severest critics here, so he'd really rather you not read our posts, because they might clue you in to what a phony he is sooner than you'd realize it otherwise. <snip> > Judy also makes pronouncements about the "definitive" > interpretation of things Maharishi taught, while > never having met him herself. She doesn't like it > when I point this last little fact out. One thing you'll quickly discover about Barry is that he lies like a rug. What I "make pronouncements" about is what MMY *actually said*, the words I've heard him speak on video/audiotape or those he's put his name to in print. Barry tries very hard to make it seem as though it's somehow not legitimate for me to quote him from these sources given that I never met him. (As Willytex would say, "Go figure.") And I don't give a hoot how many times Barry "points out" that I never met him, given that I've pointed this out myself many times. She won't > like it when I point out that her indignant claim > in this thread that she *has* traveled and lived > outside the US dates to (in her words, in a post > here), the "early 50s." In her mind, traveling and > living in Europe with Daddy and Mommy that many > years ago qualifies her to comment on what it's > like to live outside the US as an ex-pat now. :-) Er, and Barry also does a lot of fantasizing about what's in other people's minds. He's never yet gotten it right in my case, as he doesn't here. Note that I never said anything to suggest what he fantasizes was in my mind; he invented it out of whole cloth. Note also that the dates are irrelevant in any case; Barry didn't specify *current* travel in his own post when he claimed I'd never left the U.S. or lived in another country. (His objection is what we call an "afterthought," crafted in an effort to cover up a big goof. Barry does that a lot as well, because he makes so many howling errors. Since he obviously remembers my having talked about my trips, you can decide for yourself whether he was simply sloppily forgetful or lying when he said I'd never traveled abroad.) FWIW, I made a second trip to Europe some years later, making the crossings alone by ship, joining my family in Vienna for several weeks then traveling with them during the summer to another batch of countries, finally flying to Paris by myself for a solo stay there before catching the ship home. (Didn't mention this before because I didn't "live" in one place in Europe on that occasion.) One definitely has different types of experiences abroad depending on when one travels. In the case of my first trip, it was soon enough after the end of World War II that we could see many of the scars it had left, both physical and psychological. In Munich, we lived on the top floor of a four-story apartment building; the building itself was fairly elderly, but our floor was brand-new. The top story had been bombed out and then reconstructed. So we were reminded of the ravages of the war every time we went downstairs and saw the difference between our floor and those below. My second trip, we went to Berlin, then still divided, and as Americans were allowed to venture into East Berlin for a quick tour in the car. The contrast between East and West, between communism and capitalism, in the quality of the streets and buildings and stores and the clothing and expressions on the faces of the people--drab and depressed rather than colorful and lively--made quite an impression. And the view of the Wall from the western side of the city was unforgettable. Anyway, all this is a perspective one doesn't get from living in a glitzy Spanish tourist-trap town. Each to his own.
