Just wanted to add one point to this: --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> > wrote: <snip> > > I don't care if you don't speak out against a guy you > > consider an ally here. And I hope you understand > > better why I feel the same way about getting in between > > you and Barry. > > With a very few exceptions of people who don't pull a > lot of weight here, I don't make any such distinctions > about whom I speak out against when I think they're > being unfair. You obviously do. You consider Barry an > "ally," so you don't want to risk chastising him no > matter how despicable his behavior is.
Barry's most recent Big Lies about me, as it happens, were contained in two posts *addressed to you*, in response to posts of yours. You didn't reply to either of his posts, but I strongly suspect you read them, because there was a lot of more general stuff in them as well. So it isn't as if you were just virtuously not reading exchanges between him and me. These were posts *to you from your ally*, posts he clearly wanted you to read, telling you things about me that you knew were not true. And even then you couldn't bring yourself to do the right thing and speak up. That's really a step beyond simply not "getting in between" me and Barry. If Jim were to respond to one of my posts with what I knew to be lies about you, I wouldn't hesitate for a split-second to call him on them. Frankly, I wouldn't want to *have* an "ally" who was a liar. Just for kicks, here's a list of the specific lies (i.e., deliberate untruths), which you knew were lies, in those two posts Barry addressed to you: --I'm a "TB." --I told you I was in the room with MMY when he was lecturing. --I have consistently "attempted to imply" that I've sat in an audience with MMY. --I'm "outrageously sensitive" about never having spent time with MMY. --I present myself as "the most knowledgeable about what MMY taught." --Barry got me to "post out" in a single day with one sentence. --My assertions that I don't lie are "laughable." --I've never displayed a sense of humor. There were other lies, including about his own behavior. And it really won't do for you to claim you aren't sure any of the above are lies. But you swallowed them all with nary a peep. I'm sorry, but I think that really shows a profound lack of ethics on your part, a "sin of omission," as it were. I'm hardly the only person he lies about, either. He causes a tremendous amount of dissension and anger on FFL because of his lack of concern for truth. You know as well as I do that his criticisms of MMY and TM aren't what folks are primarily objecting to. He respects you, or says he does. If you'd speak up once in a while and let him know you don't approve of his behavior, you'd be doing a service to FFL and everyone on it, including him. Shutting your eyes to it makes you complicit. > Barry's a special case. "Unfair" doesn't begin to cover > it. He's at the Rush Limbaugh level of "unfair." Worse, > actually. No comparison with anything Jim has ever said.
