On 05/26/2012 07:21 AM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend"<jstein@...> wrote: >> --- In [email protected], turquoiseb<no_reply@> wrote: >>> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu<noozguru@> wrote: >>>> ROTFL! Anyone reading your posts know you're an asshole and >>>> a fool and have been for years. We put up with you and mostly >>>> ignore you. >>> I haven't been following whatever it is you're responding >>> to, but I would suggest that the only problem with your >>> comment above is the word "mostly." >> Really? Because not even you manage to ignore me completely >> (the post I'm responding to being obvious evidence of that >> fact). >> >> Why Barry is so oblivious to his frequent self-contradictions >> is a mystery. For example, in addition to the one above, he >> has for *years* been trying to promote the notions that (a) >> nobody pays any attention to me and (b) nobody *should* pay >> attention to me because I never say anything of any >> consequence. If (a) were the case, why would he even need (b)? >> (And if he were ignoring me as he claims, how would he know?) >> >> Of course, (a) is *not* the case, and when he's not >> attempting to convince folks who know better of its truth, >> he's attributing to me the power to induce many participants >> here to join my purportedly anti-TM-critic cause and direct >> them to engage in character assassination and demonization >> of innocent, well-meaning TM critics like himself and Vaj >> and Curtis. Not sure how I could manage that if everyone >> were ignoring me. >> >> Well, Barry's often claimed that it's a sign of spiritual >> development to be able to hold two contradictory ideas in >> the mind at once. Perhaps that's the solution to the mystery. >> > My view of this last paragraph is that contradictions disappear in holistic > experience, but if you try to express that, the contradictions reappear. > Holding two contradictory ideas in the mind at once might be more like > cognitive dissonance, but then it is necessary to suppress one of the ideas, > become unconscious of the logical discontinuity. Barry shows an interesting > mix of maturity and little boyishness (something my family members bring up > about me rather frequently and I am in my seventh decade!). We guys never > quite grow up. > > I wonder how the two of you would communicate or non-communicate in a social > setting, God forbid that should ever happen. On the Internet, perhaps > something more of our true personalities show, that is, the life of our inner > mind, than in face-to-face contact. > h > Barry's writing style I find humorous sometimes, and it is frequently > taunting. Yours I find precise and often abrasive, I think perhaps it's the > abrasive character that incites some peoples' reactions to you. If find this > characterisation inaccurate, I have at my side a box of Habanos aged Cohiba > Siglo V cigars, just in case. > > In the event Barry needs a supply, they can be found at the Habanos shop in: > > Conservatorium Hotel Amsterdam > Van Baerlestraat 27 > Amsterdam 1071 AN > > As for that abrasive quality that I sometimes experience reading your post, > it is mostly absent from this post. Only the opening word 'Really?', seems to > be a reflection of that (in my opinion). I have responded to your post. You > have not been ignored. Well done. > >
Well other than you and I and Jason the other day no one else tries the chat room. I even posted a joke their yesterday about that. ;-) I might suggest if one wants to check back to post a time their going to check back and maybe we can get chats going. Discussing this thread on a progressive chat room yesterday folks said the Krugman position is neoliberal which I had an intuitive sense it was and indeed given that Judy and Raunchy support Hillary they're probably more neoliberal than liberal or believe that running the country like a corporation is the way to go. If anything I am very anticorporate. Been sick over the years of dealing with those types and watching a fun company that I worked in become a nightmare because they felt they needed to "grow it" because that's what corporations are supposed to do. Now we can sit back and watch the barrage of refutation to what I just said. :-D
