Barry, you are such a douche bag! Nine out of ten doctors agree. ;-) --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- 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. > > > > > 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 > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz
