what did you think it should have been? Given the fact that it was started by a
former TM teacher who had been kicked out of the Domes for seeing another
spiritual teacher (so-called) and most of the people posting here were current
or former TM meditators it was inevitable that discussion of the pros and cons
of TM would be discussed.
When you have people like sri and nabby who claim Marshy's utter infallibility
colliding with info on Marshy's sexual and financial escapades sparks were
bound to fly. Not to mention post like nabby's claiming that the space brothers
were on the verge of saving us all... come on Doug!
From: "[email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count
The cultural place that was FFLseems to have been poisoned. The place evidently
has died for lack ofa willing collaboration as an oxygen that could include
other points ofview other than some caustic character of dominant internet
hatersand personalities in method. The cost to FairfieldLife atYahoo-groups has
been the loss of a forum for communal thinking.A pervasive unkindness in ad
hominem-istic snarkparading as 'intellectual retort', it's the dominant
'culture' here atFFL now, as the evident lack in thoughtful community culture
here. Folks otherwise have come instead to fear to spend their time thinking
here reading let alone posting here. It is a sad commentary on how it has gone
down for FFL. 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.Salon, saloon or shalom; who would enter in to a place met with the
likes of, “You Suck..” or “Fuck you” as first text lines or “You lying Fuck” as
a subject heading? 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.
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