--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Exactly. It's a "prosperity fence." Building one, even > if it's a two-foot-high symbolic fence, around your > property will make you more prosperous.
No, sorry, this is just a lame attempt to justify the mistake you made. >From your quote: "This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste. A strong and lofty wall girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron. The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within." And your comment in your first reply: "I posted the quote because of the parallels to the mentality of people who deal with the problems of the world by hiding in their houses -- however high the fences around them, or whether there even *are* fences. The mentality of hiding from the world to ensure one's own 'prosperity' is what I had in mind." Your theme obviously concerned the "mindset" that purportedly leads TMers to shut themselves up in their houses and hide from the world. It was not, initially, about "magic." The quote had nothing to do with "magic." I asked you to explain why you thought the TMers were "hiding from the world" in these houses or their neighborhoods, any more than anybody else does, and you were unable to do so. <snip> > And Judy's hung up on how high the fences are. Nope, that would be *your* hangup. What's important is whether the fences were designed to put up a barrier between those who live in the houses and the rest of the world. Nor, of course, does your attack on me for not reading "Masque of the Red Death" have any merit; it's just an attempt at distraction. (I have read it, years ago, but that's just as irrelevant as your attack.) The entire rest of your post, and that of Curtis (and no doubt that of Vaj when he chimes in), is also nothing but gross intellectual dishonesty in a deeply pathetic attempt to avoid having to say, "Oops, I made a mistake." The reason the mistake is so embarrassing that you have to compuslively go through all this nonsense to pretend you didn't make it is that it reveals how *twisted* your thinking is about everything TM-ish. It would be one thing to make fun of SUV-dwellers for thinking the design of their homes will improve their prosperity; that would be perfectly legitimate. But you can't *stop* at that; you have to pretend that belief is a symptom of raging paranoia that leads TMers to "hide from the world" and wall themselves off. But you made that up; it's a function of *your* raging paranoia. On some level, you realize that, or you wouldn't have to go to such lengths to try to disguise what you were thinking.
