--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, khazana108 <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> wrote: <snip> > > Robin offered a friendly invitation to prove he is a normal > > human being. > > To whom?
To anyone who is interested, obviously. > Obviously I am not in question. I am living in a different > continent and have only marginal interest in all of this. > I base my judgments on what I read here, based and backed > up by my experience of a lifetime of meeting all kinds of > people, crazy and sane. Non sequitur. The issue is, why are you carping at Robin because he invited people to come meet him? That makes no sense whatsoever. > > Why are you are choosing to see this as a challenge? > > What's the point in trying to 'prove' anything at all, > especially to people who were harmed once? Don't you see > where they may perceive the danger? The very harm was in > those 'confrontations'. So, Raunchy, be realistic, how > would those people feel, who were once manipulated, when > they where asked to meet the man who obviously manipulated > them, because he needed to tell them something 'very > important', and that would be that he has changed? This is insane. Nobody *has* to come meet him. It was an *offer*, an invitation, not a demand. > Why can't he just say 'Mea Culpa, mea maxima culpa'? HE'S DONE THAT ALREADY MANY, MANY, MANY TIMES. > > Can you imagine what it must feel like be in a position > > where you need to prove you are good and decent person, > > now changed from 25 years ago? > > That's my point: where's the need to prove it? That's so > absurd. And then Raunchy, anyone, anywhere, will not just > be a trustful to believe someone has changed just on the > hearsay of it. So what? Why the NEED to convince? That in > itself makes him suspicious. This person is mentally ill. That is not a normal way of looking at this. > > What else would you have him do? > > Nothing. Just let people have their opinions. He's doing that. He's also offering to let them see what he's like now, if they're interested. > > Where's the compassion you spoke of? Diagnosing Robin > > with BPD is a heaping pile of inappropriateness on your > > part, IMO. > > > I didn't even mention Robin when posting the link. You are > interpreting a little too much into this. Everybody here knows why you posted it, khazana. You didn't have to mention Robin for that to be obvious. Your dishonesty is not helping you.