Who would have guessed that a person could miss so much by going away to the cottage for a day?
On this thread alone, we have Bryan, who is convinced that my daughter and I are one person, apparently symbiotically linked to CEDU in some formal way. He offers me the services of his mother--no thanks, Bryan, if she is indeed a psychologist, as you've said, I'm sure she has lots to do as it is.
Then there is Mikehunt (which I must confess, I continue to see as a puerilely unfortunate name) who, surprisingly enough, seems to find some comic relief, or perhaps, some dialectical/clash-of ideas value in my posts.
There is SOS who has reached 100 posts, and is happy about it, it seems: congratulations are in order---some of them were really pretty good, I have to say, regardless of your basic orientation on CEDU.
And there is Deborah, who posts enormously long diatribes/treatises all the time, and never gets critiqued the way I do for droning on and on--- that, of course, is the value of posting where just about everyone is going to agree with what you have to say, regardless of how you say it.
And last, but certainly not least, we have a "new" poster, now using the screen name of Manchester. Have to say that he/she sounds hauntingly familiar, the "borderline" theme and so on. My first reaction is to be mildly irritated at this person, who impresses one as a real fruit-loop at first glance, but then, also, I find it intriguing that she/he is trying so hard to get a rise out of me.
I suppose I should make clear that, for me, it is of no particular importance if this character thinks, on whatever basis, that I am "borderline" or anything else, although it is kind of unfortunate when people try to use psychological terms to make a self-serving case, or to slam other people----that's really why it is unethical (if Manchester is a clinician, I don;t remember his/her current claims) to do that sort of thing on a chat-room basis.
We can anticipate that, perhaps, next, Manchester will decide that I am the second coming of the Easter Bunny, a reincarnation of Elvis, the Devil---really, the possibilities are endless when they are based on nothing concrete at all.
My only other comments on our "newest" contributer relates to this theme of the "time" I must spend at this site, the length of my posts, etc. I continue to be amazed at how much effort some others must put into this, because I really don't spend much time here at all---I just read what it is written and respond--I suppose some people, perhaps like poor old Manchester, must be approaching the whole thing in a much more laborious way!!
Well, as I've said before, feel free to ignore me, or, if you like, address me---and, if the subject is mutually interesting, perhaps the "dialectic" can indeed be worthwhile.
And, while all this has been undeniably interesting, I feel remiss because I do owe SOS, the birthday boy, a response from yesterday---if I get back early enough this evening, I will try to do my duty and respond to his reasonable query, instead of getting caught up in these new and extraordinary additions to the Fornits site.
[ This Message was edited by: ottawa5 on 2004-09-18 17:00 ]
