wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <fairfieldlife@>
> wrote:
> >
> > on 5/12/06 12:26 AM, authfriend at jstein@ wrote:
> >
> > > Rick, I don't imagine you'll bother reading this,
> > > because you prefer to rest comfortably in your
> > > assumptions, but I want it on the record anyway.
> >
> > I did read it. I just woke up and am going to keep this brief.
> > Maybe more later if need be. No one is saying you are totally in
> > the wrong and Curtis or anyone else is totally in the right.
>
> Well, yes, that's exactly what they're saying,
> actually, including in the email from a "friend"
> you just posted.
>
> No one is throwing absolutes at you,
> > and if they did, they would probably soften their statements if
> > they were pointed out. People, even Barry, have acknowledged
your
> > good qualities. But there seems to be unanimous consensus about
> > your "bad" ones. Someone even went to the trouble of developing
a
> > web site: http://www.aaskolnick.com/junkyarddog/.
>
> Wow. Iceberg time. Do you have any idea who the
> person is who created this Web site, and why they
> did so? Have you read any of it?
>
> Oh, never mind. I forgot you don't care what the
> *facts* are.
>
> > I have my critics on this forum, and
> > when any of them criticizes me I don't brush them off or go
> > ballistic trying to defend myself. I feel somewhat chastised and
I
> > take a moment to reflect on whether their criticism may be true.
>
> Rick, think a minute. Why do you imagine my first post
> to Curtis was as cordial as it was? And why did I try
> to keep him from provoking an argument with me?
>
> Why do you think I've been cutting short the arguments
> Shemp has tried to start with me lately?
Those aren't arguments I'm trying to start with you, Judy, those are
attempts to have fun at your expense.
I long ago learned that I can't win any arguments with you. You
have never been wrong.
>
> Please give this a moment's reflection.
>
> When you've been doing your best to *avoid* the kind
> of thing folks have expressed their displeasure at,
> and they then accuse you of doing it anyway, it's very
> difficult not to speak up and point out that *this*
> time they've gotten it wrong. You'd have to be a
> masochist, or have very low self-regard, to meekly
> take the attacks without objection.
>
> You see me being testy, but what you *don't* see is
> all the times when I've refrained from being testy
> recently. I've been genuinely trying to refrain more
> and more.
>
> That's why I attempted to abort the discussion with
> Curtis.
>
> For instance, I realize that I have
> > been overly obsessed with the MMY/sex thing and I've done a fair
> > amount of soul searching on why that bothers me so much. If
> > virtually everyone who cared to comment were repeatedly pointing
> > out to me that I had a tendency which seriously annoyed them, I
> > think it would result in some reflection.
>
> It did with me, and I've been acting on it. Not
> perfectly, but I've been trying.
>
>
> >
> > Why are we on this forum? Why have we been meditating all these
> years? We
> > realize that our original perspective may be flawed or occluded
and
> we want
> > to clarify it and see things as they really are. That's what
> enlightenment
> > is, as I understand it. To expend large amounts of time and
energy
> pointing
> > out the flaws of others and demanding that THEY be honest is to
> misdirect
> > our attention and retard our evolution. To quote Byron
Katie, "turn
> it
> > around." To quote Jesus, "You hypocrite! First remove the beam
out
> of your
> > own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of
> your
> > brother's eye." (Matthew 7:5)
> >
>
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