Richard, I am appreciating your calm clarifying of 'fallacy' here as it comes down with these clear definitions. The definitions are particularly revealing though when these arguments of fallacy get employed in method as an invective within communal discussion. It is one thing when folks might innocently make fallacious points in thinking but it becomes a different and large unkindness in nature to the discussion here whence some folks, some quite smart and capable writers, employ fallacy like these as personal invective to hurt people. This use of fallacy in personal invective is a kind of bullying which by character of some personalities has become an overtaking endemic culture here on Fairfieldlife poisoning the place as a thinking place for discussion. -'Om', the bell tolls for what once was Fairfieldlife at Yahoo-groups.
---In [email protected], <richard@...> wrote : About all we're left with posting to FFL is a few science-writers, some lurking reporters, an occasional linguist and a few informants that got kicked out of the TMO decades ago. All the others left the group - now we are alone on the spiritual path. Nobody wants to give us any spiritual help. Where is Share when we need her? ---In [email protected], <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Many of the writers left here have in many ways become the people they revile, bullies like they see Bevan or others in the movement community... That's the cognitive dissonance, Buck. If we are guilty by association like Salya seems to think, then everyone is a "bully" to a certain extent - it's sort of built into the system, it's a feature not a flaw. The problem is that we have no Correctors anymore, to sort of level things out, so the present inmates just get to run roughshod over the TMers. It's starting to look like there are only 3 or 4 TMers left on FFL - and only one single real TMO insider informant. So, we are probably not going to get much news about the movement on this forum. Go figure. 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. Sooooooooooo, turns out that there WERE ZERO posts since last night.Just another tell that FFL is going down for the count.
