--- In [email protected], "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Ravi Chivukula <chivukula.ravi@> wrote: > > > > What's with this slander Barry - first it was Xeno and > > now you? This is totally malicious and completely > > uncalled for. You guys seriously need some help for > > your malicious, vindictive nature.
He's been disastrously unsuccessful at getting Ann and me to do anything but laugh at him lately. This was his "Hail Mary" pass, a desperate attempt to bait us. It failed too because the ploy was so obvious (not to mention absurd on its face). > > What threatens you guys so much - his intelligence? > > brilliance? loving sensitivity? maturity? wisdom? Barry was never able to understand Robin's posts. That scared the daylights out of him. Robin did write several posts, specially designed to be understandable by Barry, that laid bare Barry's character traits and tactics. These posts were also hilariously witty. Barry couldn't come anywhere near such an analysis of Robin, in terms both of insight and wit. > > Take your pick Barry baby. > > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:28 PM, turquoiseb > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > ** > > > Except for the success / top-of-the-ladder thang. > > > > > > http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/how-to-spot-a-sociopath-hint-it-could-be-you.html > > > Robin is intelligent and has a peculiar kind of brilliance - > he may be sensitive, or could be faking it I'm not sure how one can "fake" sensitivity. > - he certainly shows certain aspects of maturity and has > wisdom. But there is something essentially strange about him, > and I think to some people, scary. What's "scary" about him? Do you find him "scary"? If not, who does, and in what ways? > I found his posts manipulative, very much so. I never saw even a hint of manipulativeness in his posts. Let's see some quotes from them that you interpret as manipulative so we have some idea what you're talking about. > Ravi, it is very difficult to tell on a forum if anyone > is threatened by anything, Not really. Not when it's a repetitive pattern over many years. Not when the person showing this pattern is so obviously insecure and needy. > although that word is used frequently. Barry even uses it, > though in Barry's case it is a lure with a thread attached, > out of sight is a flexible pole with a reel. That's what Barry likes to think. What he doesn't understand is that his motivations are as transparent as glass. > I tend to think that when you (and Judy) use the word > 'threaten', you are serious about it: correct me if I > am wrong. Depends on who we're using it about in what circumstances. I think you are *very* threatened by Robin. (And as with Barry, you have good reason to be.) > None of us here are exactly an 'average' person, but on a > scale of averageness, Robin departs significantly from > average, I would agree that Robin is in no way "average," but if he "departs significantly" from average, he isn't *on* a scale of "averageness," he's off it. > and some of those divergent traits at one time > brought about his downfall. Such as? > And why is he not on the forum now? Everybody here gets > criticised - no way to escape it. Sociopaths get bored, > always need to be doing something. This is very funny. People move on and off this forum all the time for a wide variety of reasons. Yet you want to suggest (you think you're being subtle here, but in fact you're as transparent as Barry) that Robin is not on the forum now because he's been criticized, and/or because he's a sociopath who got bored. Your take on Robin, Xeno, is just bizarre. > That does not mean Robin is a true sociopath, but like me > he shares some traits that could be sociopathic though we > have a different mix. And what are Robin's "sociopathic traits"? Be specific, please, and provide quotes from his posts that you interpret as showing these traits. > Things like meditation also develop traits that could > be sociopathic as these practices may take one's sense > of identity out of the conventional view that 'I am a > person' and 'I am in a world much larger than myself' > (and depending on the individual, such practices may > fail to do this as well). So "things like meditation" may do, or not do, any number of things that might, or might not, include developing traits that might, or might not, be sociopathic. Did you actually *say* anything in this paragraph, Xeno? > As one of the early posts on FFL stated concerning Robin, > after his 'enlightenment' things got very strange. Which post, by whom? Did this person know Robin? Was this person in Robin's group? What did they mean by "very strange"? How long after his enlightenment? > There are numbers of people that learned TM for example, > that cracked up in some way after learning the practice. "For example" *of what*? Numbers of people "crack up in some way" whether they've learned TM (or other meditation techniques) or not. > Meditation techniques mess with your mind in ways that > are not entirely predictable. If you are fortunate, after > the screwy spiritual path part of life's journey, you may > become more or less normal again. Xeno, really, you are babbling. On the evidence of this post, among others, you have quite a long way to go before you become "more or less normal again." (On the other hand, it may be that meditation techniques have nothing to do with your screwiness.)
