--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > Is there anyone here as embarrassed as I am > > > > to have ever been part of the spiritual > > > > organization that could have created such > > > > a mindset in one of its followers? > > > > > > Marek, this is the kind of thing I was talking > > > about--entirely gratuitous, vicious insults of > > > TM supporters. No need to "stir up the nest," > > > this kind of bee stings compulsively without > > > having been provoked. > > > > > > See recent post. > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/123578 > > > > > > And Judy, IMO, > > > > "Marek, this is the kind of thing I was talking > > about--entirely , vicious insults." > > > > would have gotten the point across. Perhaps without the "vicious". > > Technically I dont see vicious in the Turqs words. > > You don't? Really?? > > I'm astonished. > > And what's your problem with "gratuitous"? That's > factual: There was no personal provocation of Barry > in what Lawson said. > > My reference was to what Marek had said to me about > not stirring up a hornet's nest, after having said > he and others thought I was always the provocateur. > I responded to him that the hornets in question often > sting without provocation--i.e., their insults are > gratuitous--and I was citing this insult of Barry's > to Lawson as an example of what I was talking about.
My point is that while your points may be accurate, I hold there are less inflamatory ways of conveying the same thought. Perhaps we disagree. Ok. The thing is, some here, including you at times IMO, have a hair-thin trigger finger. Firing at slight provocation. My thought is to reduce the provocation, and reduce the firings and bloody gunfights at slight provocation. With a modest amount of care in writing -- and a focus on criticizing posts, not posters -- I think we can clean up Dodge City here.
