--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Judy, your analysis is, of course, dead on accurate. But, I can't > help but think you take Barry far more seriously than he takes > himself. I always assume he's just joking around when he posts > bullshit just to get a rise out of people.
In my observation over more than 10 years, Barry adopts the *pose* of not taking himself seriously, but it's only that, a pose. It's designed to allow him to wiggle out of his dishonest statements and attacks when someone catches him. The attacks themselves are deadly serious, as is his intention to mislead and deceive others. You can't really tell that this is the case unless you've followed his posts and exchanges over some time. Just for instance, he'll say something untrue in a post that one *could* view as just kidding around, but then sometime later he'll bring the falsehood up again in a serious discussion as if it were established fact and base an argument on it. He's sometimes pretty clever about it. I'd bet that if you were to have taken a poll immediately after he'd posted what I quoted about the issue in the thread being the right to express oneself--i.e., his bogus parallel with the Muhammad cartoons thread--a majority of those who read that post would have thought he had a point. And that's a pretty serious charge, that those of us who have been criticizing Feste don't think Feste has a right to express his views. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
