It occurs to me that the match that lit the fire under Barry's current meltdown-- although part of it was a hangover from his crashing and burning the previous week--was that I wouldn't go along with a claim Nabby made: _____
Re: Coming to Fairfield, seek to learn. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > Barry's been messing around with one technique > > after another, one guru after another, for > > decades and hasn't found anything he wants to > > settle down with and commit himself to. > > This, obviously, strikes at the core of the > frustration and pain the Turq displays on FFL. > > Guru-shoppers tend to end up frustrated and > confused. And after a couple of rounds with > different Masters, serious Gurus won't have > anything to do with them. They are denied access. > > Have you heard this story about Barry before, say > in the late '70's, in California ? Yes you have. Never heard of Barry before I encountered him on alt.meditation.transcendental in 1995. _____ After all the abuse Barry has piled on me and the vicious lies he's told about me in the past 15 years, here I had a chance to throw some dirt at him and give Nabby some credibility by pretending to have heard a nasty story about Barry 30 years ago, and I wouldn't do it. That was so contrary to the way Barry behaves, it was intolerable. He'd been trying to provoke me with his Dick and Jane bit, and it hadn't worked. He proceeded nonetheless to claim it *had* worked in a post addressed to Mike, but he could do that only by grossly misrepresenting what I'd said. So in response to my comment to Nabby, he took a desperate swipe at me by conjuring up the past, making a big deal about my having been slightly off with the date of our first encounters, and implying--knowingly falsely--that I'd started our feud, in a post to somebody else: "...she recently claimed that she hadn't encountered me until 1995. But she was *already* in full 'Gotta Get Barry' mode back in 1994. Google still has the posts." And it all went downhill for Barry from there. While continuing his attacks on me in other posts, he went rummaging around on Google to find something he could use to back up his lie. All he could come up with was a post in which I pointed out, in some detail, the deliberate misstatements *he* had made about an email exchange I initiated with him in an attempt to explain to him why I maintained TM was the most effective meditation technique currently available for householders, for which he had been putting me down repeatedly, in public. I had tried to respond reasonably but couldn't get through to him. I thought we could talk it through amicably if I could discuss my stance in terms of TM's private instruction; I didn't want to do that in public. The post of mine he reproduced details what happened from that point on--his gross intellectual dishonesty in the email exchange and then his public misrepresentation of it. *That's* what started the feud. I realized he couldn't be trusted, and he realized I wasn't going to meekly submit to his dishonest bullying. He quickly bailed out of that discussion, but from then on he had me in his sights. Anyway, in the present, it was my refusal to confirm Nabby's story that really set him off. That meltdown was seriously aggravated by his continuing failure to get me to "perform" for Mike, and then his humiliation at the post I stumbled across of his from 1994 in which he denounced the TM critics on alt.m.t in terms he heatedly rejects today. And he's still melting. He simply cannot get it through his head that he can't "win" by lying. He's also never figured out that his pose of not taking anything seriously is repeatedly belied by these meltdowns; they just demonstrate what an abject phony he is.
