Dear Share,
Can we compare notes on Ann, Emily and Judy.
Here's what I have
Ann - arrogant and mean
Emily - Mean - needs lots of prayers and blessings
Judy - I'm confused? What was your strategy? Mean, arrogant too?
Are we assigning humorous and emotional to any of them?
On 7/5/13 2:44 PM, Ravi Chivukula wrote:
"I'd say Ravi's writing is the most emotionally expressive on FF. And
it makes me laugh especially when I'm not his target, but sometimes
even when I am. "
Anything that helps you to reduce your dissonance, your discomfort. I
really don't want to trigger you, you have enough problems as it is.
So remember this dear - I may sound like I'm being very harsh on you,
people may perceive this harshness and may even comment on it but
remember it's just humor. Yep - humor it is, are you listening guys?
Same thing with Xeno, no need to worry about his sociopathic traits,
his devious, droll disinterested-ness, his self-professed lack of
empathy, emotion - he is profound, emotional and humorous.
This has to be your plan for success on FFL. We need to assign
everyone roles so we don't trigger you, we don't want to aggravate
your attachment disorder.
Let me know if you have any questions about the process, plan i.e the
role we should assign to Ann, Judy, Emily so we can reduce your
discomfort.
On 7/5/13 2:30 PM, Share Long wrote:
Xeno, I *almost* always enjoy your writing. I only say almost because
I'm sure there has been at least one time when I did not enjoy your
writing. I find your writing to be simple but profound and often
humorous, one of my favorite combinations. Hmmm, I bet there's a
spiritual practice in there somewhere (-:
Anyway, I actually think everyone's writing is a combo of emotions
and thoughts. How could it be otherwise? We are all a mix of thoughts
and emotions and physical states. In one way or the other,
consciously or unconsciously, these thoughts and emotions and
physical states will be expressed in every word and action of ours.
So I imagine a continuum with intellect at one end and emotions at
the other. We all fall somewhere on that continuum. I think I'm
pretty much in the middle, call it being intuitive and blame that on
my Venus Mercury conjunction ha ha. I'd say Ravi's writing is the
most emotionally expressive on FF. And it makes me laugh especially
when I'm not his target, but sometimes even when I am.
As a Literature major I learned to find emotions in the subtler
aspects of writing such as word choice and phrasings. For example,
when turq tells me to STFU or don't be an ass, I think he's
expressing an emotion. I like the spontaneity of his word choice, the
honesty of his emotion. I think his recent writing about being home
is beautiful.
Some writers here are very good at masking their emotions. I wouldn't
put you in that category. Nor do I think you are without emotion. My
guess is that your default emotion is benign interest or amusement.
As for Robin, I can't tell when he's being straight forward and when
he's being ironic. It's just one aspect of his writing that makes
communicating with him challenging for me. But when I reread his last
exchange with Curtis, I came to the conclusion that sometimes Robin
can't help himself. I think at some point in that exchange, his brain
simply shifted into another mode of functioning. And I'm not
ascribing any psychological label to this.
As for taking responsibility for one's actions: that goes without
saying. But I also believe that we are in relationship with others
and they have a certain amount of effect on us. To think otherwise is
to delude ourselves IMHO. Better to have that out in the open. Just
for fun: Honey, when you squeeze the toothpaste from the middle, I
think you don't love me. So many ways a spouse could reply to that,
right?
Ok, Xeno I think you've inspired what's rare for me: getting to 50
posts. That's it til tomorrow. I don't like to post on Friday night.
Just one of my loveable quirks.
PS to Emily regarding Attachment Disorder: yes, thank you, I seem to
be getting better, am less reactive and suffer less. I'm grateful.
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*From:* Xenophaneros Anartaxius <anartax...@yahoo.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Friday, July 5, 2013 11:02 AM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: Announcing the Robin Carlsen Memorial
Narcissism Award
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com>, Share Long
<sharelong60@...> wrote:
>
> turq, I enjoy some of what Robin writes and think he adds to the
richness of FFL so would welcome his return.
That would be interesting, but post length limits, and paragraph
length limits might make it easier to wade through.
