"authfriend" wrote: "Edg, I think you're going waaaaaaaaay overboard about all this (not just Willytex's post but the whole thing).
Edg: Yes, I am going way over the top in "tender feeling level sensitivity," and, for me, it is a tiring and a tedious labor to lay out in words why the use of one word, such as "obviously," challenges the philosophy behind the dictum "sweet truth." My other anti-flaming posts were equally challenging to create. I have been doing an exercise -- to see if I could conjure the clarity to embrace the sweet truth "in action" at that level of least excitation that I personally was capable of "residing at." I don't claim I have the ability to be at the deepest ritam level, but I sure do claim that I and everyone else I've ever met are very sensitive to very subtle levels of insult and almost always know instantly when one has been hurled. That's a "psychic" phenomenon that is palpably real for all of us in daily life -- we're always reading the energy of others with almost god-like power "to see." Again, I've seen everyone do this -- even young kids with IQs of 40. To me it is just as good a "scoping out of another" as flat out mind-reading. My exercise in being cop was worth it, I think, because I at least showed where I personally encountered the beginning of the slippery slope. If subtle smears of others are allowed, then the avalanche is, in principle, authorized. I don't say that my "cut off point" is where to draw the morality line in the sand, but I do say that everyone can understand my citations even if they think that the infractions are too minor upon which to base an arrest and punishment of an offender. Flaming is an art form, and some folks here are seemingly "hell bent" to be Beelzebacasso. I think this dark creativity is the same type of creativity shown by Nazis making lamp shades out of human skin. A troll's intent is to disrupt by any method, and a flamer is merely a subset of troll to me. Being clever about it is just whipped cream on a pile of do-do. I'm rubbing Rick's nose into the first infractions, just to set the bar as high as I can, and then see if it is honored as a goal or if everyone wants a much lower level -- say, that level where posters can call others "pansies." If so, then, indeed, I have set the bar much higher than that level, and I'm probably not going to be comfortable here -- on a regular basis. Thus, I should leave, rather than reduce myself to being some creepy proselytizer to a group unconcerned about the presence of emotionally immoral thugs. Stay tuned. Edg
