Re: Ping Arlene

Arlene wrote:
<snip>
> I doubt he is "refusing" to recognize that we are real people. I think he
> is doing the best he can, but he lacks relational skills. Furthermore,
> people who are into playing games are usually quite intelligent and quite
> slick and quite smooth and manipulative. They use language and twist
> language in a way that makes you scratch your head and wonder how they
> managed it. Tom is not capable of using language in that way... so I just
> don't think he is playing games. And finally, he is harming nobody.
> Probably, his long writings (in his website) and his music (which is NOT
> awful... probably just about as mediocre as my own) is a good way for him
to
> express himself. Everybody needs an outlet, and he's entitled to his.


OK, good thing we decided not to diagnose anyone over the 'net.

;-)

We can argue about this for months (and probably will...) At this point, it
seems unlikely that Tom will change the way he posts due to influence from
the shocked (SHOCKED!) masses of RMMGA. It's even LESS likely that
RMMGA'ers will stop responding to him...the current crowd will grow tired of
it, and a new crew will pick up the cause.

Eventually, either Tom will find something else that amuses him more, or the
flame wars will cycle through all the regular posters. I thought we were at
that point a month or so ago, but it seems like everyone got a second wind.

I barely have time to read the posts I WANT to see here, so it hasn't been
much of a problem to ignore Tom. A few days ago, I logged on, and all the
threads seemed pretty empty and boring...I laughed out loud when a quick
check revealed the mondo Musea thread.

Circles within circles....we've been here before.

- Mike


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