Poor Judy. Still stuck on bullet points 1, 5, and 6 of the classic TB cult response:
1. Shoot the messenger. Do anything you can to demonize the person or persons making the criticisms. Your goal here is to undermine their credibility and get other people on the forum to ignore what they're saying. 2. Call them liars. One of the best methods of sabotaging a critic's credibility is to pretend that he or she is a chronic liar. The lurking TBs you're trying to appeal to would rather believe that the critics *are* lying than believe the criticism anyway, so if you call them liars enough times, the TBs will stop listening to them. 3. Call them crazy. Speculate about the horrible things that happened to them in the past that made them this way. If you're of the Willytex persuasion, you can even make up crazy shit. All that's important is that a few fellow TBs see them as psychologically disturbed. 4. Nitpick them into arguing with you. Any nitpick will do, but the best is some kind of semantic nitpick about one or two words in something they posted that doesn't really have anything to do with the criticism you're trying to D-E-F-L-E-C-T. If you can get them -- or other posters -- all involved in a meaningless nitpick side argument that has nothing to do with the original criticism, they aren't involved in the criticism. You've won. 5. Trash their supporters. Anyone who says anything positive about the critics you're trying to silence is your enemy, and thus Fair Game. 6. Do all of these things while claiming that the criticism itself -- the thing that has your panties in a twist and halfway up your anal canal -- isn't what you're really responding to. ________________________________ From: "authfri...@yahoo.com" <authfri...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry's Chopra quote scam And BTW, what does it make Salyavin to put the URL for the roboquote site under a genuine quote, as if that's where it came from? (So funny, he can't make himself write the word "mistake" when it applies to him.) Note that Barry couldn't tell whether it was a roboquote or a genuine Chopra quote. Even Share thought it was genuine (so she says, anyway). That makes Barry dumber than both DoctorDumbass and Share. Turq made an assumption. Because the original quote was followed by the link to the 'bot site. But I don't feel bad about having poked Jim with this because 1) his reactivity and defensiveness -- especially as an "enlightened one" -- has been so much fun to watch, and 2) Jim is so dumb he wouldn't have been able to tell if it had been one of the shorter quotes.
