From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 8:33 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] a REALLY important meditator meeting today 1:30pm
It's obviously fulfilling some sort of function for them, I wonder if they log off at the end of the day with a sense of satisfaction of a job well done? What I wonder about is what some of them -- such as the woman who has been doing this non-stop for almost 20 years now -- will do when they "log off" at the end of LIFE. Will they put on their headstones: I NEVER LOST AN ARGUMENT ON THE INTERNET SO THERE It reminds me of these twitter spats that go viral, someone says something vaguely contraversial and the rest of the world tries to get them to apologise. I don't know why because it would be howlingly insincere if they did, but they get badgered incessantly until they do. The point of it seems to be control, a sort of "You may disagree with the herd but we'll humiliate you by getting you to publicly say something you don't believe" It seems to make people feel better. Go figure. It's a control issue. And the element of control can be completely and totally petty, such as feeling that they "forced" Nabby to post the way that *they* want him to post so that they can obsess more easily on meaningless shit said on an unimportant chat forum so that they can better argue about it. Or that they "forced" Share (or someone else they obsess about) to respond to them. Don't any of these people have LIVES? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] a REALLY important meditator meeting today 1:30pm > > Reading your posts these days is like visiting a mental hospital. > > >Reading *any* posts made by *several* people here is like visiting a mental >hospital these days. You can always predict that when the petty squabbling >dies down for a few days they'll react to that by rushing in and trying to >start it all up again, attacking their standard enemies and trying desperately >to suck them back into "confrontation" mode. What I don't understand is how they -- and in particular I mean Ann, Emily, Judy, Doctordumb, and Richard -- believe that this neediness reflects well on them, and actually produces a "payoff." I mean, isn't it wiser -- when you have nothing to contribute -- to STFU, rather than trying to start yet another fight and thus *demonstrating* that you have nothing to contribute?
