Mary Friend commented August 26th 2014: ----------------------------------------
During a hiatus of 2 months I deliberately set the Lilasquad to open posting, in anticipation of being unable to moderate. Yes, there is one individual who posts extravagantly under multiple emails. Now that I am back, this has stopped. I apologize to all who normally post reasonably, including Bo, John, Dave, 118 and others. The deluge of bizarre posts are my fault as administrator and should in no way be construed to reflect negatively on other posters. If I may be permitted one comment, the degree of smugness demonstrated by Arlo, DMB, and Ant is unbecoming. There is no place for this attitude in the high country of the mind. Ant McWatt comments: Mary, Just for the record but I certainly did not mean to sound smug concerning Bodvar's out-of-character behavior. Apologies if this seemed to be the case... Otherwise, I've known Bodvar for about 20 years now so, above all, I'm worried about him and, to be fair to both Arlo AND DMB, I personally didn't detect any hint of smugness from their recent MD posts about this issue either. Best wishes, Ant Original Message from Dave Buchanan, August 25th 2014: Arlo had said: As Bo has refused to stop hounding my personal email, I thought I'd make this response public. ...And then I went to Google groups and read the the posts to LilaSquad. ...What a bunch of incoherent, unintelligible, and outright moronic nonsense. The majority of contributors appear to be schizophrenics who've gone off their lithium. I am not exaggerating here... Horse and DMB (anyone else with a functioning frontal lobe), if you haven't you simply must check this out: https://groups.google.com/forum/&!forum/lilasquad dmb then said: Yes, I'm aware and it really is as bad as you say. You're not exaggerating. I still have at least two cyber-stalkers from that particular nuthouse, including Bo, even though I've repeatedly asked them to leave me alone. Every celebrity gets their fair share of psychotic fans, I suppose, but Pirsig gets way more than his fair share. I guess that's because Phaedrus is brilliant, heroic, and insane (sort of). It seems to celebrate the misunderstood genius, which makes for a much better self-image than the medically diagnosed guy with average intelligence. I mean, it's easy to understand and to sympathize with them as afflicted souls - but that certainly doesn't mean their philosophy is worthy of the name. I go swimming in larger ponds and sadly, this kind of mental illness is fairly common. I see it almost every day and I have to remove someone from a philosophy forum several times each week because of it. Many of them are "religious" in bizarre or fanatical ways. It's pretty depressing, just as you'd imagine. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
