--- In [email protected], "wayback71" <wayback71@...> wrote: <snip> > I did not read this post, just the first few sentence - and > I read nothing of any post between you and Judy. I stop as > soon as I get a wiff of your interactions with each other. > I think you need to stop reading her posts, and stop replyng > to her and stop writing about her in your posts. And stop > alluding to her in your posts or calling her a TB. That > would, for you, put an end to it. Judy might continue to > be angry and to didssect your posts, but you would not know > about it or reply or engage. Prtty simple, really.
I have to say I find it utterly fascinating that anybody would ever tell anybody else not to read a third person's posts. I have no problem reading the most hostile posts directed at me; why should anybody else have a problem doing the same? And no, wayback, I wouldn't "continue to be angry" because I haven't been angry to begin with. Barry to me is a freak show and a fraud. You can't be angry at someone so helplessly twisted in their own egotistical delusions. But boy, those delusions, and the arrogance with which they're presented, are an irresistible target for dissection. It says *volumes* that you believe the only way for Barry to live with my presence on this forum is to pretend I don't exist. That's the kind of thing you might advise a little kid who's not yet up to dealing with the real world. But Barry's in his late 60s, for pete's sake. Why would you want to advocate that he *increase* the degree to which he's divorced himself from reality? Seems to me that's the real "enabling" behavior here. A big part of the reason he's telling everybody not to respond to me, BTW, is that if they do, and they're not on his do-not-read list, he risks being exposed to to some of what I've said in what they quote from my post. He's just going to have to keep adding to that list if he can't bear to read the quotes. I think it would be far better for him to realize that there are quite a few folks on FFL who think he's a jerk and to find out *why they think that*. This is the reality. He can then decide to change his behavior or tough it out, but what good does it do his growth as a human bean if he just blocks out that reality?
