Frankly I'd like to see Fleetwood come back over to FFL periodically and also have Rick protect him. Fleetwood was one of the only people with both the perspective of actual spiritual experience and courage to survive writing so long here. With that clarity of his experience and ability to write he always helped ground and mitigate a brand of unkindness in skeptical argument as personal attack that has impelled an intellectual exclusivity that is now Rick's FFL. By contrast I don't feel that having everyone on FFL go over to The_Peak at Yahoo-groups would improve what is going on there. I am glad that Fleetwood has it in hand over there in a way that encourages and allows other illuminated people to write freely without becoming the victims of the personal attack that goes on with Rick's list now. Fleet could still help ground the conversation over here alternately as he visits. I hope for the best, -Buck in Fairfield, Iowa
---In [email protected], <jamesalan735@...> wrote : Thanks very much, Seven. Yes, please intercede on my behalf. That would be wonderful. Jim has not responded to my request to join The Peak. If you could ask him why (or post this on The Peak), and get back to me that would be great. I know I'm positively obsessed with Jim and Buck. I can't stop thinking about either. So, I would appreciate any thing you can do for me. Please let me know...:) Thanks again, James ---In [email protected], <steve.sundur@...> wrote : James, talk to me. Would you like me to intercede on your behalf to see if I can persuade Jim to come over for a visit? Or maybe you can start a petition drive here. I mean, for a guy who was positively ecstatic that Jim went over and started the peak, you positively can't stop talking about him, or Buck for that matter. What's up with that? Here, I know. Now, this might be breaking new ground for ya, but, try, try if you can, to just focus on issues here, and just let things be at The_Peak. You'll thank me, you'll bless me, after you go over this Jim obsession. (-: Feel better know? I know I'm not Jim, but at least you got a response from a regular at "The_Peak. Sincerely Yours, seventhray ---In [email protected], <jamesalan735@...> wrote : Me bad. Talked to soon. Things are brewing over up on The Peak: ---In [email protected], <sharelong60@...> wrote : dear Fearless Leader, I pray this is not a sign that the_peak is about to be transformed into a slippery slope. A slippery slope greased by the idea that we can assume how people are in their day to day life by how they express themselves in writing. Further greasing comes from the idea that some ways of being in the world are inherently better than others. I certainly have my preferences about that and wrt online topics and writing styles. But so what?! As for comparing one poster to another, that to my mind, goes quite beyond being curious. Color me disappointed. ---In [email protected], <jamesalan735@...> wrote : I'm not that surprised. He's the Pied Piper and most of his TB followers who took themselves away from FFL to join him (or at least to join his Dr. Jekyll personality) have placed themselves in a position where if they criticize him, they're showing themselves up to be idiots. I remember when that other poster posted the venom that Fleet was posting here, while he was simultaneously posting his Mr. Hyde sweetness and lite (!) over there, it was quite funny to see how some twisted themselves into a pretzel to defend him. He'll be back.... ---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote : Fascinating that no one called Bimbo on spouting negativity over on the All Sweetness And Light All The Time forum, eh? I guess language is "negative" only when it's referring to one of them or someone they like. From: "anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 12:19 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Fri 23-Jan-15 00:15:08 UTC ---In [email protected], <jamesalan735@...> wrote : Just saw this over on The Peak. Fleet is needing to put the knife in again. Fleetwood: So, to be in the presence of what I call an ego-maniac, is to witness someone who tears down any sign of external spiritual progress, attacks religion, God, and any organization dedicated to the rebirth of the soul in all its glory. Further, such individuals often have serious issues aligning themselves in the world - An inability to form healthy relationships, or to further any development of themselves, in any direction, financial, creative or loving. Their main purpose is to raise themselves up at the expense of others, blind to their ever increasing failures, with nothing but venom issuing from the deep insecurity of their isolation. This is Jim's basic view of Barry (TurquoiseBee). Most spiritual progress is invisible to the outside world, and religion, which even in Maharishi's view represents a corruption of spiritual ideas (assuming he wasn't lying here), certainly needs lots of attack to keep it from destroying civilisation, the history of religion is not pretty in this regard. Jim has some insight, but I think he might be overestimating his progress. And Barry refused to acknowledge his 'enlightenment'. That seemed to annoy him to no end, and he made up a tale about Barry's life that does not seem to have any factual reality, other than Barry goes after egos like Leatherface in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And that is why The Peak was created as an alternative.:-) Laughinggull108, take that back you cowardly ad hominem-istic running-dog, you. That is pretty low what you have just attempted. 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