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

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

Collaboration? Could many folks dare at all to publicly disagree here on FFL 
anymore given the lack of self-restraint in the culture that remains on FFL? 
What is mostly missing now from the dominant FFL writing is a kindness to 
process, a love enough of collaboration that seems necessary enough for there 
to be creative thinking between people. Instead what we have is a culture of 
rudeness that has long interrupted the communal thinking here and driven people 
away.The cultural place that was FFL seems to have been poisoned. The place 
evidently has died for lack of a willing collaboration as an oxygen that could 
include other points of view other than some caustic character of dominant 
internet haters and personalities in method. The cost to FairfieldLife at 
Yahoo-groups has been the loss of a forum for communal thinking.A pervasive 
unkindness in ad hominem-istic snark parading as 'intellectual retort', it's 
the dominant 'culture' here at FFL 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.