--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@>
> > wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > I really hope you're able to have such an experience someday,
> > > even though I suspect when it happens you'll run screaming
> > > out of the room within a few short hours. But even that running
> > > away will be better than sitting there clinging to the same
old
> > > mindstates, the same old angers and hatreds, the same old argu-
> > > ments, and...well...the same old same old. Good luck finding
> > > someone who is patient enough to deal with your spiritual heel-
> > > dragging; I certainly am not.
> >
> > Judy, here is an example where Barry (aka Turq, Unc) *gets* you,
> > again. He feeds off your continued passion, what he refers to as
> > attachment, for things like answering a question according to
agreed
> > upon parameters. You painstakingly researched the numerous times
> > when he hasn't held himself accountable here and the result was
that
> > he laughed at you. He only exists from the reactions to his
posts.
> > He neither feels responsible for what he says, nor accountable
for
> > anything he may post. I'll say it again, its all a game to him.
> >
> > There is nothing to learn. Per his post above, he feels he is
doing
> > you and any who disagree with him a service by supposedly
blasting
> > us out of our old mind states, kind of like a one-trick pony. I
read
> > the posts from 2000 on the other web site. This has been Barry's
> > schtick for years and years. The outrage he can cause by feeding
off
> > of yours and others concern for various spiritual topics, or
facts,
> > albeit somewhat ghoulishly, is not to be taken seriously.
> >
> > To feel what it is like to be Barry, it would be like one of us
> > visiting a site devoted to chess for example, and stating things
> > like, "the pawn is more powerful than the Queen", just for
reaction
> > and effect. As long as people kept responding to our statements
> > because of the falsehoods they perceived in them, we win; we
> > continue to exist on the forum. We are then free to riff on
others'
> > confoundment and call it anything we wish, spawning further
> > confoundment and by extension, our continued existence on the
forum.
> >
> > For now this phenomenon fascinates me, because I am aware of its
> > simple genesis-- the ability by Barry to challenge anything said
> > here, with the result being he continues to exist. Unprincipled,
> > unnacountable, and meaningless perhaps, but in the spotlight.
> >
> > Once you take it seriously, he wins. He is not playing by the
same
> > set of rules that you are. Its really a little bit childish, and
> > quite easy to decode once you see what his game is. He appears
to
> > make it valid by the claim that anyone seeking accountability
from
> > him is just not getting it, is angry, or caught up in
boundaries.
> >
> > This, as a few seconds of reflection will show is utter
foolishness.
> > And at first you may respond to the unfairness of it all. But
that
> > is where Barry wins. To take him seriously, you automatically
lose,
> > for it is only a fool's game he plays.
> >
> > So do you continue to play as his fool, or not to play at all?
Your
> > choice, of course.
>
> You remind me of Charley on "Lost."
>
> Whereas I remind me of a combination of Des and Hurley.
>
> See Jim...if you had broadened your horizons a bit and
> watched a little TV you'd actually get this. :-)
>
> Unc
>
> P.S. You forgot to say, "Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz."
>
Oh, the answer is in TV? Or is the 'answer' only in your head? I
just can't take you seriously any more, though I do enjoy your
dancing, as one enjoys a jester. Dance away- we'll be fools together
for the moment...
