Actually, I found Unc's campfire post amusing (in a good way) and insightful, well--- entertaining at least -- a late night rift -- him posing as if someone like "curley" from those billy crystal movies -- a tough weathered, few words, word and grip is lke iron, type cowboy.
Saying "we all have our stories to tell. Some of them is simply spun yarns, fiction, but with some good moral to it. Some are what we have found out on the deep trails. If you don't like the stories, ride on hombre. We here don't care much what strangers think none-way." It just seemed to me he got a bit carried away. And then in his next several posts, aggessively and repeatedly broke all his campfire rules of the trail, of the campfire brotherhood. Which made me laugh hard. Not at him, but the irony. And part of my laughter was due to not being totally sure if he was even conscious of his contradictions. Or if it was a conscious choice, an exercise in aghori breaking of boundaries as if he were saying, "If you are so stupid as to have believed what I just told you, that campfie shit, then you do have shit for brains. wake up!" Both options were funny. Switching rapidly beween such views was even funnier. My response to his rift was on being new new young green gunslinger sitting at the campfire for the first time. Cautiously, a bit respectfully, a bit smirkingly, a bit increduously, listening to the old drunk cowboy go on and on about how his generation, his hombre compatriots really had it down. And then having a wry smile as the old cowpoke went out into town and broke every rule he so earnstly had just set down. So from that angle, in that role, I teased the old cowpoke a bit in my post. Quite gently given the huge chasm between his words and actions. I found it amusing.It made me laugh. Some may have laughed to. Some, like Jim, who did not see the connection to Barry's campfire rift -- were clueless. And in knee-jerk fachion, called upon old biased "lenes" to see me beating up ferosiously on Barry. When indeed, I was paying a bit of homage to the old cow fart. Hard to have missed the link to Barry's campfire rift, my couner rift was full of references to the campfire, campfire creed, etc. But thats the general problem on this list. People don't get the fact that some posters actually make references to past posts. If you don't get the references, you don't understand what is being satirized. Yet the references - for the most part -- are pretty in your face. Spairg has some subtle ones sometimes that make you laugh a bit later, when it clicks in. But mostly, they are pretty obvious. If your mind is a bit playful and open to a bit of irony. --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Recently he was attempting to bully TurquoiseB, as per this > > > exchange: > > > > > > And you can't see that the post he was responding > > > to was at least as bullying? And completely lacked > > > the overlay of humor, was just plain belittling and > > > nastily patronizing? > > > > I didn't see that. My take on TurquoiseB's posts during that > > exchange were that they were right on, as I expressed at the time. > > It's not the content, it's the tone. Plus, as I said, > the hypocrisy. That was what braaahman was primarily > picking up on. > > On the other hand, I did find a posting by T-B to you recently to > be > > really insulting, and mentioned it at the time. But in this case, > no. > > > > > And was grossly hypocritical to boot? > > > > > > Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. You > > > picked a bad example, Jim. He was right on this one. > > > > > > > TurquoiseB: > > > > > Do you really *need* the affirmation of a 'guru,' to > > > > > justify your belief in something? Or science? > > > > > > > > Fox (akasha108, braaamaan): > > > > Ditto. > > > > > > > > And you got my story all wrong. I think maybe you got wax in > your > > > > ears, old-timer. Anyway, its my story, misunderstnd it all you > > want, > > > > but don't sit and try to re-write my story to suit you.! Got it > > > > partner! Else we and de boys will show you something you will > > give a > > > > flying fuck about. > > > > > > > > TurquoiseB: > > > > > Whatever happened to trusting in one's own experience? > > > > > > > > Fox (akasha108, braaamaan): > > > > I don't know. Maybe your infallable intuition can help us find > > out? > > > > Dig it out of your saddle bags, gabby. > > > > > > > > TurquoiseB: > > > > > That's what all the saints you revere did. Learn from > > > > > their example. > > > > > > > > Fox (akasha108, braaamaan): > > > > But you aren't sellng ay advice are you? So you are just > talking > > to > > > > yourself, making a mental note for something for YOU to follow > > > right? > > > > Else you would be breaking the old-timers campfire credo. And > if > > you > > > > do that,there will be SHIT to pay at the old coral tomorrow, > Dab > > > > gumm IT! > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Dying to be thin? Anorexia. Narrated by Julianne Moore. http://us.click.yahoo.com/abEMxA/sbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
