On Jan 18, 7:02 pm, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think your idea falls apart when comparing our virtual salon to IRL > conversations. Allow me to elaborate: > > If someone walked into a bar for the first time, and was subject to a jerk > hassling them, would that then reflect on the bar itself? Perhaps, if this > was a repeated incident occurring with multiple regular patrons. In most > cases, however, it's simply that there are jerks everywhere you go. > > There's no "shadow" for ME to own, given that the basis of your entire > premise is based on you walking into a virtual bar, having a bad encounter > with a patron, and then spending a whole lot of time dwelling on that > encounter, and what it says about "the bar", which in reality, is nothing. > In fact, given that this virtual bar stepped up fairly quickly to correct > out of line behaviour, your premise is entirely fallacious. Whatever you imagine, I don't want a long wrangle. You seem entirely too focussed on me being some sort of egocentric or narcissistic attention-seeker and troublemaker. If you can't see any objective content in anything I say, I won't waste too much your time and mine with an entirely pointless and petty personal squabble (which, may I remind you, I did not start! - and yes, I can guess exactly how bored you are to hear that). I was not saying that Minds Eye (minus yours truly) has a shadow, of which I am an innocent victim. I'm saying that there is always a shadow, everywhere. And I even think there is a weird way in which I bring a bit of extra shadow with me, wherever I go. (The "Jonah" remark, in another thread - which I jumped into as soon as some unfortunate person started it! However, he did mention the "bad mood", and the "bad mood" does seem to focus on me!). It's not something I do deliberately. Nor, on the other hand, am I being scapegoated for some dark secret. (Like, what was that Western - Bad Day in Black Rock, was it?) I think it's something stranger and more interesting than either of those two easy possibilities. Also, this thread uses the example of my recent minor tribulations here only as a way into talking about something objective. A finger pointing to the Moon - is that what they say? But you won't let go of my finger. I have learned quite a lot from today's events. But it doesn't look like I am going to be able to share much of what I have learned. I did have a long conversation with my daughter, who has also been running into a little "group" problem today (as I might almost have predicted, just based on what has been happening to me here today - there are these weird links). We talked about delusions of grandeur, among other things. As I was telling her about mine, she fell asleep. :-)
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