On 9/3/2014 8:29 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Dang Richard, when can you come over for dinner. You and the Rita. (-:
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Thanks. I'll check with Rita. LoL!
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote :
On 9/3/2014 10:59 AM, awoelflebater@... <mailto:awoelflebater@...>
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Actually Richard, you arenot in my top four of odious posters
here so I can live with you no matter how many times you feel it
necessary to post here. I don't get why you do it nor do I have
the time or inclination to avalanche this place like you do, but
so be it...
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That's a relief.
Seriously, you have been so nice to me since Judy disappeared that
I feel that I owe you an explanation.
First, a confession. My posts really are for the lurkers. My
personal goal in this is to post something, anything, that makes
the forum look good to outsiders if they should wander in here for
whatever reason.
Years ago, when the internet was just getting started (1994) I was
surfing around and ran across Usenet - discussion groups. At first
I subscribed to a site that discussed ISKCON, because I had been a
participant in one of their temples for about a year (3716 Watseka
Ave in L.A.) and I was taken with their devotion and depth of
knowledge. Some members had started a news group discussion on the
internet and I started to read and lurk there for a few weeks. I
was very impressed with some of the topics discussed and the
responses.
Then I discovered alt.meditation.transcendental (now Google
Groups) and so I decided to join. What a disappointment! It was
like a bar room brawl - Judy was there and Barry and Lon P. Stacks
(RIP) and they were thrashing it out with that "Asshole Nick"
(Andrew Skolnick) the science journalist. Judy did her best to
defend her position but for appearances the whole group was just
an exercise in futility - it was, and still is, a "cess-pool" of
misinformation.
So, I decided to post some of my own messages, not so much to
prove anything, but just to improve the look and feel. Anyone
surfing there would have thought TMers were all buffoons and
gimcracks, for all appearances. So, I started writing up some
nifty essays with fancy subject lines, not so much to get
attention but to make the place look like a forum with useful and
insightful analysis.
So, for years I posted my essays to AMT to try and make the forum
look good. I must have posted 8,000 essay from 1999 - 2003. I
didn't get a response from Judy for close to fours years to any of
my cogent postings. And, only two from Barry. Maybe they were
JELLOS - I don't know. Then, they started spewing and posting
political propaganda, in what I thought was an attempt to make the
site look like a pile of crap and they tried to make the place
look like a dung heap. One day I disputed Judy's claim that George
W. Bush was a "liar" and so I posted a retort. That's about when
it hit the fan!
Ever since then she has hated my guts - nothing to do with TM or
the mechanics of consciousness - just hateful slander and personal
attacks, all directed at me. So, I either had to shut up or leave.
But look, I've got an ego about as big as Mt. Rushmore so I don't
back down without a fight - never have and never will. I am a
military brat from Texas and I know everything about everything
and I'm living at the center of the universe.
So, at some point several of us left the Google Groups and came
over to Yahoo Groups. Now it looks like this place going to shit
too - there's no moderation, nobody gives a crap, and nobody will
stand up for the Maharishi. They aren't even proud of their past.
All they want to do is post fluff and drivel - you can read it
here every day. It's sometime just pathetic what some people will
post to the internet.
So, now I've got a 26 inch screen, a screaming quad-core CPU and I
can key in test at 100 wpm - that's what I do for a living -make
money. It's easy for me to whip out a short post and hit Send. The
real challenge is to write cogent, on-topic essays that anyone
would want to read. But, let's face it - there's hardly anybody
out there interested in TM, TMers or anything to do with
discussing the mechanics of consciousness. All some people want to
do is wreck the place and sound off. That's cool too.
I don't take any of this seriously anymore - I'm here for the
entertainment. I've already written a book while they were posting
one-liners that end on one line and all begin with RE: But, it's
true that I sometimes get caught up in the conversation. Some
people really do feel better when they have someone to talk to.
It's not personal. It's just like a video game. Some people like
World of Warcraft. To each his own. It keeps me at home and out of
trouble. I'm on Facebook too.
So, I don't have a real formulated viewpoint or a goal - /I
believe in life; what it does to you and what your do back/. I'm
already perfectly enlightened - just trying to burn off a little
karma before I go into that good night. Sure, I do want to leave a
legacy of some sort. These words are forever, or at least until
the vandals are at the gate and the servers go down.
Selections from the Usenet Archives:
http://www.rwilliams.us/archives.htm
