Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

MJ, there was a long period of a poisonous malignancy here in the postings 
between a few people who came on before you came along and added to it in your 
way.   FFL is just not a safe place for well-meaning people to loiter or join 
in hence most folks wandered out. Meditators and people around Fairfield here 
always go 'whew-phew' and roll their eyes about the reputation of FFL as a 
place for thoughtful dialogue whence FFL gets mentioned. FFL got wrecked a 
while ago as a community place that way. mjackson74 wrote, well Buck how do you 
account for the departure of all the people who used to post on FFL in the 
years before I joined? Looking back at the archives, there were a whole bunch 
of folk who had already dropped out before I came along, so the fact that Judy, 
Anne, Jimmy the Enlightened and Nappy Nabby jumped ship does not seem to be 
that much of a recent trend. Yep, even Rick chooses to post substantial 
material elsewhere now instead of posting to FFL as to just shark-feeding for 
what is left remaining of FFL. A long list of people is now gone before us who 
had once helped further the culture of the list, mostly been driven off by an 
aggressive and appalling unkindness of culture in the ongoing personal 
shark-like attack by the ad hominem that evidently has become endemic here; 
that seeming 'professionals' default to use in their writing method instead of 
simply dealing with material posed. And those same complain about originality, 
thinking and lack of creativity.. Nothing to see here folks. Just another 
person trying to blame the fact that he and the people he likes can't think of 
anything intelligent to say on the people they don't like.  :-) Good timing, 
Turqb, Left or driven off?  This as your thinking is fine as intelligent retort 
on one level Anartaxius except, the low post and dwindled active member counts 
may show something else.
 Looking in on the culture of what is FFL now, is it a surprise the numbers 
have dropped off when there is so much about Fairfield or larger spiritual 
matter being talked about otherwise by others actively involved in it? No, it 
is like the well was poisoned here by some. Ironically there is an evident 
invective that is intolerance to conversation here and to divergent idea by a 
concentration of some few who remain active posting here. If could be we are 
just getting on with our lives. Now that most of the TB crazies have left, some 
of the tart, sharp conversation has dwindled, and there are less opportunities 
for intelligent retorts. I think you would have welcomed the change. 
'Intelligent retort'? We've not been very good at discussion here for some time 
on FFL and the place as a forum is nearly dead. Yep, visiting looking back in 
on Fairfieldlife at yahoo-groups evidently this is mostly a sad inhospitable 
place rendered down to some pulp substance of travelogue, movie reviews and the 
personal bickerings of a few.  Om, for what once was Fairfieldlife, 
Sooooooooooo, turns out that there WERE ZERO posts since last night. Just 
another tell that FFL is going down for the count.