--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: <snip> > > I'm chuckling, remembering when you suggested the > > Byron Katie approach to me some time back, and I > > rejected it on similar grounds to what Barry's > > putting forth here. > > > > He proceeded to try to kick me in the nuts for > > purportedly spinning rationalizations on why not to > > try it. (You refrained from doing so, apparently > > because I didn't seem to you to be metaphorically > > on crack waving a pistol around.) > > Thank you for settling, at long last, the question > of whether you *have* nuts. :-)
Barry, my nuts have always been your fantasy. > Thank you also for settling the question of how > long you can go after one of your long, relaxing > weekends away without falling back in to the "Gotta > trash Barry" routine. :-) Exactly as long as you don't provide me with targets. > But just for fun, is this the post that you char- > acterize as "trying to kick you in the nuts?" If > so, I guess I'm trying again. What I thought your > motivations were with regard to realization then > are exactly what I think of them today. And there > is no more of an attempt to "kick you in the nuts" > in my reposting them than there was in posting them > in the first place. And no less of one, either. The purpose *of* posting them > is to show you the stories you tell yourself about > the past, and the way that you tend to remember -- > or misremember -- that past. No stories, no pain. > True stories, no pain. Imagined stories, seemingly > a great *deal* of pain, equivalent in your mind to > being kicked in the nuts. Not. You missed the word "try." And this story wasn't imagined, either; thanks for confirming with your repost. Rory and I had a terrific discussion, and others chimed in with wonderful insights. Barry, almost needless to say, missed the point completely; he was, as usual, more intent on putting me down than actually following what Rory and I were talking about, let alone dealing with it. As I said at the time, he was distinctly hors de combat in that exchange. My response to the post of Barry's he goes on to quote is in message #64354, if anyone is interested. It's still hugely amusing to see Barry now taking *my* side and trying to kick *Rory* in the nuts. (I have no doubt that Rory's nuts, quite unlike mine, are not just a figment of Barry's imagination, but even so he fails to land his kick.)
