The town of Uzès, pronounced "ee-oo-ZESS," NOT, as some who don't like me much might suggest, "ooozes" :-), is the small town closest to where I'm staying. See http://uk.uzes-tourisme.com/ <http://uk.uzes-tourisme.com/> , and if you want to fully see the horror, decadence, and depravity of the place Turq would choose to go on vacation, watch the video at that link.
I wasn't going to bother writing anything to FFL for the next couple of weeks, just to see how crazy the stalkers get when the object of their hatred is withdrawn from them, but this cafe is so pleasant that I figured I'd write a little something anyway, just to share my overall SOB (state of bliss), and thus piss them off and encourage them to reveal who they really are and what motivates them in life. :-) Me, I'm enjoying what motivates me in life -- sitting in a nice sidewalk cafe, watching people (Uzès is famous for being home to some of the most lovely women in France, both French and ex-pats who have settled here), and rapping about Odd Things That Occur To Me. Today's Odd Thing may be a "replay," in that it's a personal theory of mine that I may have mentioned here before, and I know that may piss off Those Who Didn't Get It First Time I Mentioned It, but frankly, if they're that dense, why should I worry about them? It's Turq's Judo Theory Of How Pretty Much Everything Works. The science of Judo (a "sportified" version of Jiu-Jitsu, Aikido, and other Japanese martial arts), is all based on one basic idea -- spend most or all of your energy pushing *against* something, and you render yourself off balance, and thus make yourself "easy meat" for anyone who knows something about the martial arts. Think about it. If you're pushing *against* something or someone, you are *by definition* off balance. All that your opponent has to do do defeat you is to step out of the way, and your own off-balance momentum causes you to fall flat on your face. That's it, the whole theory, in case you're already bored, and want to stop reading. :-) For those who aren't clueful enough to get it without further explanation, this theory covers the mechanics of behavior in battle, in social activities like politics, and in "social networking" activities like...uh...FFL. In battle (or pseudo-battle, such as Judo matches), people who throw themselves off balance by pushing *against* their opponent...uh...LOSE. End of story. They have in essence defeated *themselves* by allowing their self to become so attached to "defeating" the person they're pushing against. In politics, this same Judo Theory Of Everything explains (at least to me) the whole sad story of revolution/counterrevolution over the ages. Think the Russian Revolution. Everybody was so fixated on pushing *against* the czars that when they went away, they suddenly found themselves in the position of having nothing else to push against. And with that realization came another -- they'd never thought about what was going to happen if the czars went away. They were so obsessive about what they were *against* that they'd never put any thought into what they were *for*. Therefore, when their enemy was withdrawn from them, they had no idea what to do. So they made up *new* enemies, from within their own ranks, and created a *new* revolution against *them*. This scenario has repeated itself over and over and over throughout the centuries. On social media, you see exactly the same thing. Think FFL. There are people here who *still* fly into a rage and lash out *against* someone like Andrew Skolnick, with whom they have not interacted for more than a decade, and who never once posted to this forum. There are still people who cannot go a month without lashing out *against* someone like Curtis or Vaj or Sally Sunshine or Ruth or others who gave up on this place as a waste of their valuable time long ago. And I would suggest that the reason is that the people who do this are Lazy Fucks, who have never put any thought into what they're *for* in life. For most of those lives, they've pursued the Easy Path, of only focusing on the things and people they're *against*. When those things or people are withdrawn *from* their focus, they panic, and keep pushing against them anyway. NOT that I'm suggesting this might be happening on FFL the last few days, since their favorite "push against" victim stopped posting as much. It *can't* be that the folks who rag on him non-stop (or who emerged from the woodwork like roaches just so that they could rag on him again) can't think of anything else to do. That would be *embarrassing* for them, and we all know that their whole lives revolve around micromanaging their images to pretend that they're *never* embarrassed by their own behavior. :-) Anyway, that's my theory, which is mine. You may agree with it, or disagree with it, and -- either way -- I don't really give a fuck. As much as it may pain those who focus on me non-stop may like to believe it, NOTHING they write affects me terribly much. None of the people doing the writing are *interesting* enough for me to pay much attention to what they write, or give much more thought than this cafe rap as to WHY they write it. I just parse their actions through my Judo Theory, and that pretty much explains everything about them I or anyone else ever needed to know. YMMV. If it does, you may feel free to expound upon *your* explanations for why people who seem to dislike one person so intensely that they spend most of their online writing time trying to "get" him or "silence" him become so panicky when he decides to go...uh...silent. Feel free to suggest your alternative theories.
