Xeno, it sounds like you and turq are concerned about FFL and so would like me
and Richard to continue discussing the porn site issue elsewhere. To that end,
you would like me to take your opinions of Richard into consideration. And I
think you have a good insight about how Richard and I are similar.
What is strange for me about your analysis of me is that here in FF I am
considered very un Pollyannish. Certainly compared to many others in FF. Some
people here walk around smiling all the time, which I do not. And I tend to
have an attitude of "it's all grist for the mill" and that it's a funny, old
life. These are not the dominant memes of your typical FF bliss ninny!
It could simply be that compared to some others on FFL I seem hyper positive.
But I know myself to be grounded and certainly far from hyper positive and if
FFLers knew me in person, that would be clear. This limitation of online
relationships is, I think, almost always influencing how I post here. Meaning
that I don't expect online relationships to be genuine friendships. I think
people have to know one another in 3D life to be genuine friends.
So though I care about the people here, and wish the best for everyone, I don't
think any of us can know each other fully and deeply just from these online
exchanges. Consequently, I don't tend to share my own journeys into the heart
of darkness. Given the limits of time and attention, I am guided by the
intention to be of benefit as best as I can. And to enjoy myself in the
process. IMO, life is too short to do otherwise.
Share, I did not listen to the Hammond event. I have been reading Curtis'
reports. I am basically ignoring Hammond because I do not think he is all
there. Richard however is pointlessly prolonging this thing about Barry,
already long past. Like Barry has expressed, I think Richard has sucked you
into his world and that you do not have sufficient discrimination to see what
is happening. Barry can be mean, no doubt of that, but Richard is wallowing in
it in a very unhealthy way. FFL is for adults but not an 'adult site' in the
way that term is normally pejoratively used and Richard is trying to skew the
sense of what goes on here, which you seem to think is funny because you are
air-headed in a good natured, but unperceptive way. I think of Richard as
strangely devious. Barry is normally absolutely direct. I would much rather
deal with Mr. Enlightened Flanegin than Richard because he is also direct in
his clumsy and sometimes dismissive way. The only time I have seen you really
sharpen up was when when you got in a huff over things Judy said to you and you
responded like a normal human being. Your Pollyanna* act is hard to take
sometimes.
*'Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter. The title
character is named Pollyanna Whittier, a young orphan who goes to live in
Beldingsville, Vermont, with her wealthy but stern and cold spinster Aunt
Polly, who does not want to take in Pollyanna, but feels it is her duty to her
late sister. Pollyanna's philosophy of life centers on what she calls "The Glad
Game," an optimistic attitude she learned from her father. The game consists of
finding something to be glad about in every situation. It originated in an
incident one Christmas when Pollyanna, who was hoping for a doll in the
missionary barrel, found only a pair of crutches inside. Making the game up on
the spot, Pollyanna's father taught her to look at the good side of things—in
this case, to be glad about the crutches because "we didn't need to use them!"'
'With this philosophy, and her own sunny personality and sincere, sympathetic
soul, Pollyanna brings so much gladness to her aunt's dispirited New England
town that she transforms it into a pleasant place to live. The Glad Game
shields her from her aunt's stern attitude: when Aunt Polly puts her in a
stuffy attic room without carpets or pictures, she exults at the beautiful view
from the high window; when she tries to "punish" her niece for being late to
dinner by sentencing her to a meal of bread and milk in the kitchen with the
servant Nancy, Pollyanna thanks her rapturously because she likes bread and
milk, and she likes Nancy.'
As a result, it seems like you are escaping and avoiding when people like Barry
are actually trying to connect with you in a positive way. I think you are the
only one here where Barry has made a real attempt to genuinely break through
that Pollyanna shell you project. I almost think it frustrates him. It's like
at a carnival where you throw a ball, or some rings at a target and it is
rigged so almost always, the ball bounces back or the ring misses and the prize
is lost. Things thrown your way bounce off, but always with the feeling of
superficial and inconsequential connection, as if you are not really there as
an intelligence that apprehends and ascertains. Perhaps that is why you and
Richard have linked up, because Richard does not seem to connect with anyone in
a legitimate way. I sort of see why the mean girls club ragged on you so much.
Seeing the good in everything is not the same as acting as if everything is
good and of no consequential import. Seeing the good in everything is seeing
and understanding how the universe flows and how those flows fit together, and
sometimes that means seeing into the heart of darkness, and the places in our
own mind we would rather not visit. But if we visit them consciously, we
eventually sail past them into still, imperturbable waters.
Why not do the conversation with Richard in private where it is less likely to
endanger FFL?
From: "Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2014 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Richard and Share
Xeno, Curtis has posted something very cool about the Hammond event. Why
not focus on replying to that and simply ignore me and Richard? Wouldn't that
be more logical?
From: "anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2014 3:33 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Richard and Share
Maybe you should take this conversation over to the_Peak. We would prefer
to discuss something more important here.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote :
Richard, your second paragraph about turq posting all the porn he wants just
had me laughing my head off. Then laughing my head off at my own thought: can't
wait!Obviously I've lost it, whatever it is (-:
From: "'Richard J. Williams' punditster@... [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2014 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Stop The Porn, was Fairfield and M. Effect
On 12/1/2014 10:32 AM, Share Longwrote:
>
turq, thanksfor explaining. But would it be so awful if FFL was an "adultsonly"
site?
>
We are all adults here,Share, so it makes since to make this an adult site.
That way, Barry could post all the porn he wanted to -pornographic text
messages, slang words for masturbation,pirated photos of rodents humping,
photo-shopped images oftransvestites, and even cartoons of Lord Buddha with
gender biascaptions using the "c" word.
I don't know what his problem is, he is after all the "UncleTantra" and the
"TurquoiseBee." Cognitive dissonance I guess.
Now he's trying to prove he's an offended prude andporn-free - as if he has
never posted anything that wouldoffend. Which is kind of weird, seeing as how
seven FFL membersjust quit the group because of his smutty language. Gofigure.
But, you need to watch out - the lasttime Barry joked and chatted with a female
on FFL,he reported her to Interpol and the Dutch police.Obviously he is
monitoring our conversations.
>
TurquoiseB wrote:
>
Share, I'm going to takethe trouble to explain something to youthat it is
possible you don'tunderstand, being a relative newcomer toFairfield Life.
Richard'spost to Rick saying that FFL is a pornsite was *not* a joke, and
*not*friendly, given events in the past. Inthat past, a disgruntled FFL
poster,angered over something petty, stalkedoff in a snit and then posted
somequestionable sexually-explicit photosand/or text to FFL himself, and
thenwent to Yahoo Administrators to "blowthe whistle" and get them to declare
FFLan "Adult Only" site.
As Iunderstand it, Rick and Alex had to jumpthrough hoops to get Yahoo to
understandthat this was an exercise incyberterrorism by this
disgruntledasshole, and allow FFL to remain at itscurrent status.
Richard made his postfully aware of this history, and thusfully aware of what
he was trying toaccomplish by calling FFL a "pornsite."
If you didn't knowthis, it might have been possible foryou to see Richard's
actions as ajoke. Now that you do, I don't see howyou possibly can. He was
attempting touse the charge that FFL was a pornsite to possibly get the site
eithertaken down or moved to a much moreprohibitive status. He was being asmuch
of a cyberterrorist as theoriginal asshole was.
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