[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-18 Thread merudanda
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@ wrote: Here I

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-18 Thread feste37
hey, MZ, I ain't no girl! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: Judy: thank you for the tip on the gender of feste37. It seems to me I recall responding to feste37 near the beginning of posting on FFL. *He* wrote in appreciation of a number of my posts. At

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-18 Thread maskedzebra
Yes, now I know, feste37. It is too complicated to explain here, but consider my mistake a compliment to you. As in a certain kind of sensitivity and grace that I associate with a woman. That you are one of us, that makes it even more interesting. Refinement of nervous system? Something like

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-18 Thread Bob Price
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgCpkduEQ7Ufeature=related From: maskedzebra no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 4:26:29 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE  :-) Yes, now I know

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: Score one for the Fest. Case closed. Wrongaroonie. Only way the case could have been closed and feste could have scored would be if his question had put me in a tough spot. Obviously, it didn't (as you now know, if you

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-18 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: As are you. But of course you'll never admit it. *Now* the case is closed. Technical wins are you specialty. I think your record is unblemished after 20 years. But that untwisting out of a pretzel sometimes. How long does

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: As are you. But of course you'll never admit it. *Now* the case is closed. Technical wins are you specialty. I think your record is unblemished

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-18 Thread feste37
I'm afraid you're wrong on that, authfriend. I never used the word evil to describe the intentions of the people who made the ad. I said they just wanted to sell their stuff. As you might say, don't put words in my mouth! Pay more attention! Read what I wrote! --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-18 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: Technical wins are you specialty. I think your record is unblemished after 20 years. But that untwisting out of a pretzel sometimes. How long does that take?

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: I'm afraid you're wrong on that, authfriend. I never used the word evil to describe the intentions of the people who made the ad. No, you didn't, but I didn't put it in quotes, either. I said they just wanted to sell their

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-18 Thread feste37
I don't consider evil to be the correct word in this context, which is why I didn't use it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I'm afraid you're wrong on that, authfriend. I never used the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: snip Hilarious, if you ask me. It reminds me a little of the overreaction here on FFL yesterday by deadender cultists to the suggestion that they...uh...might belong to a cult. :-) Let's just squash this bug every time Barry

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: anThe clothing line Benetton has long indulged in...uh...provocative advertising. This time they've hit the jackpot, because the UNHATE campaign showed images of world leaders getting over their hatred of each other and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread Bob Price
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5IQnQhzMSI From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 8:26:38 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE  :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread feste37
It's a disgusting picture and the Vatican is right to sue. Benetton has no message of unhate at all; it is just trying to get attention for itself so it can sell more of its stuff. All the pictures are disgusting, but most people have been brainwashed by the liberals into thinking that to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread authfriend
I don't think the pictures are disgusting at all. They're just *smooches*, for pete's sake, not passionate soul-kisses. They might as well be air-kisses for all the sexuality they convey. And if the world leaders and their flacks find the photos offensive, that's kind of their problem. I think

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread Bob Price
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKdF-IP7rE0 From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 10:03:22 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE  :-) I don't think the pictures are disgusting

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread feste37
I think you have an odd idea of cute, but that is your business. I don't see this as having a positive message embedded in it all. It's deliberately, cynically designed to be offensive. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: I don't think the pictures are

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: It's a disgusting picture and the Vatican is right to sue. Benetton has no message of unhate at all; it is just trying to get attention for itself so it can sell more of its stuff. Well, duh. It's an ad campaign. I thought it

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread maskedzebra
Here I have to disagree with Judy, feste37, because once I caught the quality of experience that made you say what you said here, I found myself in agreement—at least so far as this: your perception/judgment goes deeper than Judy's perception/judgment—even though of course I can entirely

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread Bob Price
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6E547V188Mfeature=related From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 10:36:48 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread maskedzebra
Interesting, thoughtful comments here, Barry. Don't step outside of this context and you'll be fine. And I won't have anything to say. I don't say I agree with all your reflections here, but at least you are being reasonable and keeping the hate out. This makes for the right kind of experience.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread maskedzebra
Reading this a second time I am in the presence of two simultaneously valid realities, each of which contradicts the other. For me, Judy, this is the paradigmatic example of postmodernism—which itself originates in the metaphysical ambiguity originating in the absence of God. You are, then,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: I think you have an odd idea of cute, but that is your business. There's something inherently cute about people puckering up for a smooch, as far as I'm concerned. I don't see this as having a positive message embedded in it

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread maskedzebra
Believe it or not, Judy, I think feste37's reaction goes deeper than this. For you to prevail here would mean feste37 being able to experience, in reading your comments, something which would explain her spontaneous response to these photos. And if she is unable to alter or modify that original

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: Here I have to disagree with Judy, feste37, because once I caught the quality of experience that made you say what you said here, I found myself in agreement—at least so far as this: your perception/judgment goes deeper

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread authfriend
Robin, I don't see anything in my exchange with feste for either of us to prevail about. We're each expressing our opinions and explaining our subjective reactions. (I'm pretty sure feste's a guy, BTW.) If he's offended and disgusted, he's offended and disgusted; that's his subjective truth. Mine

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread feste37
If I were to cobble together an image of you kissing Sal Sunshine, or Barry Wright, would you find that cute, too? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I think you have an odd idea of cute, but

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: If I were to cobble together an image of you kissing Sal Sunshine, or Barry Wright, would you find that cute, too? Good question. I wouldn't find it cute, but I wouldn't be outraged and disgusted and offended by it, because I'd

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: Here I have to disagree with Judy, feste37, because once I caught the quality of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: If I were to cobble together an image of you kissing Sal Sunshine, or Barry Wright, would you find that cute, too? I'm gonna go with Jayne on the good ship Serenity's view on this one; I could stand to see a little more.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread Bob Price
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XvmPPJqaUwfeature=fvsr From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 12:02:58 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE  :-) --- In FairfieldLife

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread Tom Pall
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Bob Price bobpri...@yahoo.com wrote: Let's just squash this bug every time Barry lets it loose. Nobody overreacted yesterday to that suggestion. Actually, everybody underreacted. The proper reaction should have been a slew of atta boys towards my post,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread Bob Price
...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 4:15:56 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-) On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Bob Price bobpri...@yahoo.com wrote: Let's just squash this bug every time Barry lets it loose. Nobody overreacted

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread Tom Pall
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Bob Price bobpri...@yahoo.com wrote: Yo Tom, Although I'm always pleased to be mistaken for Judy, I'm not sure she would want me taking credit for her insights; the quote below should have been attributed to her. I'm sure you enjoy sharing clothes,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread authfriend
Robin, gotta give this short shrift because there's a pile of work I need to be doing this evening. It's an interesting issue; maybe we can take it up again soon. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra no_reply@... wrote: snip If it is all a matter of pure subjectivity, and we can

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread seventhray1
Bennetton has always done this. They go for shock value, and I agree that it is tasteless. But as a company they have pretty much lost their cachet, at least as I understand it. So much is foisted upon us as being sophisticated. I don't go for it. On the other hand, I haven't watched a TV

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread Bob Price
Was it something I said? From: Tom Pall thomas.p...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 6:15:32 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-) On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Bob Price bobpri

[FairfieldLife] Re: The hate caused by UNHATE :-)

2011-11-17 Thread seventhray1
Score one for the Fest. Case closed. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: If I were to cobble together an image of you kissing Sal Sunshine, or Barry Wright, would you find that cute, too? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: ---