Hah! I'd intended my praise for Sal! (He seems particularly downcast by today's developments.)
But as I enjoy your posts (and prose) also please share the honours between you. As there seem to be a fair few of us who'd prefer a more take-no-prisoners approach to an internet group maybe we should all start a brand-new TM-related site - the only rule being that there are no rules. Re "my relationship here is through Rick": can't you have a quiet word with him to pour oil on troubled waters while FFL still has some members left? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote : --In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote : Blimey! I hope you're not leaving us - or about to get the order of the boot. I've praised your writing style twice in recent weeks so I won't repeat myself. I've found your contributions some of the most thought-provoking on FFL. Heretics are essential for an orthodoxy to gain self-understanding and to learn to become self-critical. Me: Right back at you brother. I really appreciate your contributions here and thanks for the high five for my own writing. I don't believe that anything I have written here would be viewed by Rick as grounds for getting booted. Buck may try, but my relationship here is through Rick, and I trust him not to let that happen as long as I don't provide the rope needed to swing. S: Are you a member of any other groups, Yahoo or not? Me: I only post here. S: Like you, I can't understand while FFL members get so upset by robust, critical posts. I'm happy to meet true believers defending MMY and the TMO and also happy to meet those who have long since fallen out of love with the Movement. I read what both parties have to say and make my own mind up in each case. So sometimes debates become heated and insults get exchanged . . . but why would anyone allow a little argy-bargy to spoil their day? Me: It is the patronizing legacy of the movement that causes people to try to treat other adults as if they know better about how they should express themselves, I believe. It comes from a hierarchical model that encourages people to believe that their internal frame of mind is superior. They believe that they don't have to be judged by the actual content and meaning of their words, as adults do when they discuss ideas on their own merit. It is the intellectually lazy way and was ubiquitous in the movement. And you know what? I bought into it too till I was 31 and figured out how hollow it was. So I get where he is coming from but I do not respect it. S: Like you say there is now a real danger that this site could become terminally boring if the more colourful members drift away. Me: I believe it has already had a chilling affect on posting creativity. Content providers should not be controlled by someone whose intellectual contributions can be summed up as a finger wagging "tisk tisk." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <geezerfreak@...> wrote : The hypocrisy from Doug/Buck is breathtaking. What's next from you, Poland? The bloke is an arsehole. If he'd had a millionth of the things to say that the people he's just deleted have this place might limp on for a bit longer but he's just a dumb fuck who reads off the TM bliss brochure to make up for the fact he gave up free thought decades ago. You'd have to be as brainwashed as he is to think otherwise.
