I'd like to, but what happens if the teacher catches me passing notes?
--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote:
>
> DrD/Jim--
>
> Rory has apparently chosen not to read my posts, so if I
> may, I'd like to ask you to pass this on to him:
>
> He has twice seriously misrepresented what I said to him.
> I corrected him the first time, and he appeared to
> understand and thanked me for the "clarification."
>
> Then he misrepresented me again, the same way. I had to
> correct him again, but he didn't respond to that post, so
> I assume he didn't read it.
>
> Now, in his post to you, he's done it *again*, worse than
> before. He seems determined to take my comments about two
> very specific things he said as a total condemnation of
> him as a person, and that's just so wrong. *That* crosses
> a major boundary with me.
>
> Has nothing to do with Rory's "trying to have civil
> conversations with Turq and Ravi." That's insulting in and
> of itself, especially given that at one point I actually
> *defended* him from a nasty remark of Barry's. (I also
> supported him on more than one other occasion, but it
> seems he's wiped those from his mind as well.)
>
> This post to you, DrD, will be the only overture I'll make
> toward Rory. If he wants to straighten things out between
> us, it's up to him now. He's welcome to contact me via email
> if he would feel more comfortable talking privately.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In [email protected], "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@> wrote:
> >
> > OK, I am genuinely curious, Jim -- I have always enjoyed respectful and
> > heartfelt conversations with you, and you seem to understand Judy and Ravi.
> > I do get your saying Ravi "has a bug up his ass," but what boundary of
> > Judy's did I cross, other than trying to have civil conversations with Turq
> > and Ravi, to get anointed with "the most egregious ego I have ever seen,"
> > twice, followed by "Bullcrap" and "phony as a three-dollar bill"? In what
> > way was this speaking my language? Again, on some levels this I find this
> > very funny, but on others I do not.
> >
> > What I have learned from it is to keep them both at arm's length, because
> > after having opened my heart to them as true friends, the intense physical
> > shock felt like an actual heart attack.
> >
> > As some of the symptoms persisted over several days I finally went to the
> > clinic and they sent me to the ER, but the EKG, blood tests and lung X-rays
> > (don't ask me why they felt those were necessary) came back clean, much to
> > my and my wife's relief.
> >
> > Go figure!
> >
> > *L*L*L*
> >
> > --- In [email protected], doctordumbass@ <no_reply@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sometimes you must speak another person's language to communicate with
> > > them. Maharishi said this, meet them at their level of consciousness, so
> > > rather than going on and on about compassion and my fellow man, sometimes
> > > a good go fuck yourself serves equally well. It is not said in judgment,
> > > but rather in context. An attempt at behavioral modification, as would be
> > > used on a very stubborn and angry adult child. It shows them immediately
> > > that there is a boundary there. Not something one would expect to have to
> > > do around adults, setting social boundaries, but some are childish in
> > > their state of emotional development. Sorry if it looks ugly from the
> > > outside, in, but not sorry enough to stop it, if necessary.
>
