--- In [email protected], "Ravi Yogi" <raviyogi@...> wrote: > > Barry I have read your message and I disagree with > everything you say :-).
Ravi, that is your right, and I encourage you to continue doing so. :-) Compare and contrast to several other people's approach on this forum, in which disagreement is seen as not only a sin, but an indication of a fatal character flaw. I will, in fact, retract my suggestion that you only seem to be able to come up with something to say when it's "piling on" to one of the three folks on the Enemies List. You have gotten into other conversations here, and contributed to them. I commend you for that and hope that you continue that trend. My comment was to poke you a little over the -- as I see it -- LAZY aspect of your contributions here. It really doesn't take a lot of intellect to play "pile on." Another thing I was pointing out is that the *instigators* of the ongoing Bash The Three Bad Guys sessions tend to be the same five people, over and over. It's as if -- from my point of view -- they harbor a grudge, and are desperate to get in the "last word." And not just once, but over and over and over. We have an opportunity right now to see whether I am correct. One of these instigators, told in no uncertain terms that from the other person's point of view the long, protracted discussion / argument he'd been lured into had reached its conclusion and that nothing new was ever going to be said, the person who wanted (some would say desperately) to prolong it responded by posting 360 lines (2,345 words) of retort, as her "last word." I think it'll be interesting to watch, and see what happens. The other party has an opportunity here to allow her to *have* the last word she craves so desperately, and just let the matter drop. He also has the opportunity to fall for one more attempt to get him to punch back against Uncle Remus' tarbaby and get himself stuck in the argument again. I personally hope that he takes the latter route, because if he does that will set up an interesting experiment. How would the instigator react if he fails to? Will she let the argument drop and post about other things -- NOT just for the rest of this week but for weeks and months in the future, or will she just lie in wait for the victim's next post, no matter what the subject, and attempt to insult him back into a head-to-head again? My point in all of this -- IMO proven by the things that the instigator carefully snips out of her compulsive replies to every post in which I mention them -- is that what we're dealing with is OBSESSION. My suspicion is that whether the victim becomes one again and gets sucked back into this particular argument or not, she will within a very few days attempt to start another one. It's like a law of nature. She's obsessed. Or, I could be wrong about this. Watch, and decide for yourself. I no longer reply to anything she says, and rarely bother to read any of it because by this time I've learned that I can tell what is going to be said in the first two lines. As, I suspect, can pretty much everyone else on this forum. Vaj also rarely bothers to interact with her one-on-one because he's seen the movie before, and know that doing so will inevitably devolve into a long waste of time ended by her declaring "victory." Maybe Curtis -- saint that he is to still be willing to talk with her at all -- will do the same, and limit himself to the first two exchanges in any post in which she hides her true intent and hasn't managed to turn it into a Bash Curtis Session again. If so, WHAT WILL SHE DO? What will her "posse" do? My suspicion is that they'll go a little batshit crazy and turn up the OBSESSION dial to 11, and over the next few weeks redouble their efforts to start all the bickering up again. But only time will tell. I've made my prediction. Now it's up to the instigator herself -- and you, as one of her co-dependents -- to see what you're going to do. If we ignore you, will you have the strength of character to do the same with us? Your call. Over and out...
