--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" wrote: > > There's no way that Barry is more distraught about Robin than you are > about Barry. In fact, I'd say your a thousand-fold more distraught about > Barry - in fact, about seventeen years worth of distraught. 1996 - 2013. > Now that's being distraught!
Amen. I think I made my feelings known about Robin Carlsen when he first appeared, but I'll do so again, just for the record. I knew basically nothing about him, his silly posturing back in the day being long after my time in the TMO. So pretty much the only things I had to judge him by were his posts. And the posts, from Day One, were insane. Stark, raving bonkers. I don't think I've encountered a more classic example of abusive Narcissistic Personality Disorder in my life. He was almost completely self-absorbed, and didn't seem to give a shit about the people he was supposedly conversing with (the "wall of words" being a classic example of both). And he was manipulative to the max. The more stories that came out about his past, and how manipulative and abusive he'd been as a minor cult leader, the more obvious it was that *nothing had changed*, and that he was still trying to run the same numbers on naive FFLers. So I wrote him off. I've spent far too much time with crazy, abusive people to want to spend any time conversing with another one. The thing that surprised me, however, was how some people on FFL *fell for his act*. Some actually seemed to be able to plow through his narcissistic stuck-in-his-mind egobabble, and some seemed to actually like it. I wrote that off as, "There's simply no accounting for taste." But a few -- most notably Judy and Ann -- actually fell for his act enough to become *disciples*. They fawned over him like teenagers stalking a rock star, seemingly unaware that the only rock star Robin was the counterpart of was "Fat Elvis." I felt mainly embarrassed for these people, and fearful for what their failure to see how crazy he was said about what TM had done to them. The *lack* of discrimination was downright scary. *From my point of view*, Robin barely tolerated his groupies here. He almost never had any long conversations with either Judy or Ann, preferring to "save himself" for more classic NPD goals. He wanted to "win over" those he perceived as having some charisma or personal power, and "convert" *them* to become his admirers/disciples. At this he failed miserably, and they laughed at him. Not able to handle that, he switched over to Abuse Mode again, and tried the same act Judy has been running for years -- yell at people and insult and abuse them and accuse them of things *until* they respond by arguing with him. He failed at that, too, and then when Curtis blew him off and he realized how badly his act was bombing, he ran away and hid. Again. Running away and hiding seems to be the only thing Robin Carlsen was ever good at. The very *idea* of anyone being "jealous" of Robin Carlsen just doesn't compute, if you any degree of perception going for you. How could someone possibly be jealous of a dangerously disturbed psychopath? I'm pointing this all out again for the benefit of possible newbie lurkers. Quite a few people on this forum thought Robin was crazy as a loon. Some of them knew him "back in the day," and agreed with my assessment that *nothing had changed*, and that he was as abusive and manipulative in the present as he was in the past. They made their views of him -- both past and present -- very clear. So don't fall for the sugar-coated fantasies of him trotted out by his remaining two cult groupies here. They're still trying to find some way to justify why they glommed on to and defended a psychopath, and to put down the much larger number of posters who figured out he was one within a few days of his arrival on the forum.
