--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price <bobpriced@...> wrote: > > > > RD, > > What was that u said about lawns? > > > I love old Bubbles, he rarely disappoints; normally he needs a bit of editing > to save the audience from hanging themselves, but I think I'll just leave > this one *as is* because I can't imagine a post that better illustrates > everything that's been said about you and your homeys. And "a word to the > wise", when you're having some doubts about where you're coming from, take a > look around and check out who's agreeing with you. > >
So how many players are on your team, Captain? I'd say you're outnumbered. Sorry, you lose. http://youtu.be/JerVrbLldXw > > > > ________________________________ > From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, December 9, 2011 3:41:59 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey Ravi > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> wrote: > > > > Ravi is a performance artist? la Lady GaGa? That's a good > > one. Got me again. I thought "The Existence" wrote his script. > > Now I find out he writes his own material. What a hack. He > > needs a bigger venue then FFLife. Here's a thought. You could > > promote him by having him take a dump on your lawn. Then you > > say, "Good Doggie" and everyone joins in the hilarity celebrating > > his brilliance. Good to know you have such high standards for > > funny. > > Raunchy, I've been trying to stay out of the "dump on > Ravi" thang because, as stated before, I consider him > somewhat mentally ill. Have since Day One. This may be > an inaccurate assessment on my part, because after all > I am not a trained therapist, but it is my honest > assessment. > > He may actually from time to time consider his many > flip-flops to be "schtick," but his very choice of > "material" suggests to me serious personality disorder. > As does his *memory* of what he has claimed in one post > versus the next. He'll say outright one day that his > whole presentation to Rick of having had an enlightenment > experience was a put-on and that he was just taking advan- > tage of Rick's naivete, and then the next day claim to > be enlightened again. And by far the overriding aspect > of his posts is a near-pathological craving for attention, > whether positive or negative. This really just isn't > something a fully sane person would do IMO. I think long- > term TMers are cutting him too much slack because they've > seen such behavior around them in TM environments so often > over the years that they've come to consider it almost > normal, writing it off as either mere eccentricity or > "unstressing." I don't hold to that view. > > I don't think he was in any way faking the excesses of > his early days on this forum, and how close he was to > the ragged edge of insanity or suicide. I think that's > a claim he made up afterwards, after the manic episodes > had subsided to some extent. I similarly don't think he > was faking any of the more recent compulsive lashing > out he did at you, or Alex, or others here. It "reads" > to me (now that I've gone back and read some of it) as > hypomania, or just plain mania. He gets into a manic > state and just dashes off anything that makes sense to > his disordered mind in that particular manic state, and > then presses Send. > > I personally don't think it's safe to interact with > him, so I have limited such interactions pretty much > since the beginning. Others here seem to be taken in > by how he appears during his less manic periods, and > feel no qualms about either praising him (that is, > amplifying his narcissism and thus inflating it) or > ragging on him (provoking a hysterical overreaction > that we are by now all too familiar with). > > I don't think it's schtick. I don't think he has any > control whatsoever over this acting out of his. And > I, for one, am not willing to provoke it by interacting > with him personally. I take the same approach when > dealing with such behavior that a psychiatrist I once > knew took to dealing with patients who had demonstrated > similar behavior in the past. "If the behavior seems > to have cleared up, give them at least a year before > you believe it thoroughly. Otherwise they could just be > 'laying low' and trying to sucker you back into former > patterns that have been proven unproductive." > > Ravi's "one year clock" hasn't even *started* ticking > for me. If others feel differently, that's their > business. > > Then again, I feel pretty much the same about MZ/Robin > (with slightly different pathologies and forms of acting > out, of course), so you should either weight or dismiss > my theories about Ravi accordingly. > > Thanks for your mainly common-sense comments on all > of this. > > > Â >
