--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" <emptybill@...> wrote: > > Yep, exaggeration is the essence of your proclamations: > > I'm also free to ignore the friend who repeatedly beats her dog. > I am free to ignore the woman who has fallen in the street and can't get > up. > I am free to ignore the fact that my house is on fire. > I am free to ignore the fact that I am bleeding from a knife wound in my > neck. > I am free to ignore a baby bird who has just fallen out of a nest. > > Yep, it's limitless calamity, horror and destruction if you let Barry > say whatever, as your examples so effortlessly demonstrate.
You must live a very subdued life indeed if you think my examples above are characteristic of "limitless calamity, horror and destruction". Baby birds, tripping women and a beaten dog are hardly calamitous as unpleasant as they may be. You need to get out more, oh empty one. I, in the meantime, will continue to address what I feel needs addressing, be it a knife in the neck or your characteristically dry and humourless configurations of words you call "posts". > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ wrote: > > > > > > But are you free enough not to need > > > to indulge in exaggerated claims? > > > > What "claims" are you talking about? Are you talking about the fact > that I have the freedom to ignore just about anything, including Barry? > Is that exaggerated? Or was I saying that to ignore Barry is nearly > impossible because he is about as benign as any of those things listed > below which, is to say, not very. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Now it can be told - > > > > > > > > > > People who don't like Barry's posts > > > > > are always free to ignore them. > > > > > > > > I'm also free to ignore the friend who repeatedly beats her dog. > > > > I am free to ignore the woman who has fallen in the street and > can't > > > get up. > > > > I am free to ignore the fact that my house is on fire. > > > > I am free to ignore the fact that I am bleeding from a knife wound > in > > > my neck. > > > > I am free to ignore a baby bird who has just fallen out of a nest. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This type of selective attention is the refuge of > > > > > anyone who realizes that human life is temporary. > > > > > > > > > > When evaluated by that standard, a large number > > > > > of FFL denizens of must be "heavenly immortals". > > > > > > > > > > How refreshing to find this out. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" > > > > > j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm referring to Barry being hugely in favor of posting > > > > > > > limits that are, at this point, all about Judy. Which > > > > > > > is not to say that others are not equally focused on Barry. > > > > > > > > > > > > 206 posts' worth this past week, either replying > > > > > > to something I posted, or mentioning me, just from > > > > > > the four core members of the MGC alone. Overall, > > > > > > subtracting the posts *I* made from the total, I'm > > > > > > mentioned or cited in over a third of all posts. > > > > > > > > > > > > I think one could make a case for "focused on." :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
