--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > I bow to Judy's more extensive experience working with > > > the Inquisition. I didn't know the man personally, but > > > I presume from her answer that she did, and still has > > > strong feelings of loyalty for her former boss. :-) > > > > > > However, I cannot help but wonder (given the contemporary > > > sloppy use of 'phony' as a noun and not an adjective) > > > just what about Torquemada she considered *non*-phony. > > > > > > For example, many would agree that as a torturer he was > > > not a phony. He had that down pat...the Real Thing. But > > > as a human being or a "man of God?" > > > > > > Anyway, it's good to know the kind of people whom Judy > > > admires and considers "non-phonys." It helps us to > > > figure out who *she* is... :-) > > > > It'll be just as helpful as all the rest of your > > wildly imaginative fantasies about who I am, Barry. > > Ok, we get it. Either your past life memory is > fuzzy or you don't want to talk about your time > as an Inquisitor. > > However, just out of curiosity, you keep calling > me a 'phony.' A phony *what*? > > I've always found 'phony,' used as a noun, to be > a lazy kinda weasel word. The word implies that > the person it's aimed at is pretending to be some- > thing he is not,
Exactly. It's usually used to describe someone to an audience that is familiar with the persona that person presents, so the audience already knows the "what" that is being described as phony... but what *exactly* is it that you > think I'm pretending to be. ...so the missing piece in "He's a phony" isn't what the person is pretending to be--since the audience knows what that is--but what he really *is*. And I'm pretty sure I've made it quite clear here what you really are: shallow, dishonest, vicious, ego-ridden, pretentious, pompous, and hypocritical, just for starters. You're also often delusionary, and you're wrenchingly profoundly attached to your own point of view, unable to tolerate perspectives that differ from yours. You have an elaborate set of inflexible rules about how others should think and behave, accompanied by an equally elaborate set of fantasies about how they *do* think and behave. > I'm interested in your answer not because it'll > affect me, but because I'm hip to how unaware you > are of the amount of projection in your posts. So > whatever it is that you think *I* am pretending > to be will really be what *you* pretend to be, but > cannot accept in yourself. (Oops, you got a little confused here. You meant to write "what *you* pretend NOT to be but cannot accept in yourself.") Just as a very recent example of how you are not what you pretend to be, in your immediately previous post addressing me, you wrote: "You do realize, Judy, that many of us have no desire to *ever* deal with your 'points' or have any kind of real interaction with you." Yet here you are, only one post later, interacting with me. So rant away...tell the > world *exactly* what it is that you think I'm > pretending to be, and allow us to get yet another > glimpse into your own fantasies. :-) As noted, what you pretend to be is what you present yourself to be on this forum. We all know what that is; it's the opposite of the list I provided above of what you really are. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
