---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
In other words, you made up this whole "Buck" act out of whole cloth so you could attack the people YOU wanted to attack and whine endlessly and hopefully make lurkers think that TMers were being somehow persecuted when they weren't. How evolved of you. Nice of you to finally admit it, however. Now everyone can ignore your silly ass without feeling the least bit guilty about it. No wonder you're identifying with Willytex these days...you're just like him, a total fiction. The main trouble with "Bucks" fanaticism is that - like Willytex's - it isn't very effective in securing its aims. They both come across as utterly demented and it doesn't matter how many times it's pointed out to them they just carry on regardless thus painting the True Believer as an unaware obsessive. Or maybe that's the idea.... A better approach would surely be to put your opinion forward reasonably like everyone else does round here and then let it stand or fall on its own merits or back it up with further arguments if necessary. It's not complicated. From: "dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 4:07 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: List Culture and The FFL Post Count Back sometime ago when Marek was with us, by his example I advertized then that the FFL list to be more complete as a communal discussion group of substantial material should need a 'public defender' of the TB-faithful to present the TB-TM thought here during periods when it was not represented by TB'ers themselves. ---In [email protected], <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : That was for the community here. No one came forward so that was when the voice of Buck arrived, a practical old experienced voice of transcendentalism to push skeptics and apostates back alike who had then rolled over the FFL community as like the fanatical fundamentalism of IS has swept over whole areas of Syria. ---In [email protected], <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : A push back, a kind counter-offensive evidently was in order for all the damage being rendered in the reduced scope of communal discussion on our FFL community by a character of intolerant writers cutting good people down at their knees by employing a methodical crossfire of unkind personal invective as weapon against both the TM-TB's and the experiential-based transcendentalist members then present on the list. ---In [email protected], <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : This larger thread is a larger search for better diversity of thought here on Rick's FairfieldLife at Yahoo-groups. Anartaxius, whoever you are, in your spock-like unfeeling way for this point you go ahead and condone the unkind culture of the snark here because you practice it. Lot like that article Geezer posted recently about how people can be led into their [cult] beliefs given over to a control by their beliefs if they first are led to act on them.. Seems you've been led far down a low path here with some others, possibly so far out of the light to see your way back up very clearly. An evident consequence of this is that the whole communal discussion here suffers for your plight. As they say, change happens within, hopefully you and others can make some way in your vile meanness for kindness and we may all be better off here. That might take some courage on your part to change. -JaiGuruYou ---In [email protected], <richard@...> wrote : It looks like somebody posted a false analogy. According to what I've read, a false analogy is a rhetorical fallacy that uses an analogy (comparing objects or ideas with similar characteristics) to support an argument, but the conclusion made by it is not supported by the analogy due to the differences between the two objects. ---In [email protected], <anartaxius@...> wrote : I think, Buck, what you call collaboration is a situation where everyone agrees with you. ---In [email protected], <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : I have no problem with considering divergent opinion. I am quite happy reading it here, as Rick had originally intended. But I do brace at the ruinous hurtful way you and others presenting here have on the discussions here. Buck, you need to realize that we are dealing with people who think they can win a religious debate by spreading a rumor that you are a drunkard. Although you may have given up that kind of childish bullying in grade school, some have not risen to that level of discourse or social skills. ---In [email protected], <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : 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.
