[Rhodes22-list] Re: Rhodes22-list Digest, Vol 795, Issue 1

Slim salm at mn.rr.com
Sat Jan 7 14:50:12 EST 2006


Dear fellow feral fussbudgets,

I love it!  What a gem!  This guy's even more fun than Mutart.  MJM, please
make it so he can never get off the list.

Slim

On 1/7/06 1:38 PM, "Michel Meltzer" <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com> wrote:

> I can not believe it, I got this letter complaining about Slim :-) see
> below, Some about "customer support"....................
> 
> -MJM
> 
> 
> Slim's pronouncements are entirely disgusting -- so much so, that if
> there are any children or sensitive people reading this letter, I
> suggest that they stop now and not read what I am about to describe.
> Here's a quick review: I'd advise Slim to stop being so froward. Sadly,
> lack of space prevents me from elaborating further. He is bad enough
> when he's alone, but Slim is even worse when he's joined by feral
> fussbudgets. Daily, the truth is being impressed upon us that I am not
> up on the latest gossip. Still, I have heard people say that it is more
> than a purely historical question to ask, "How did his reign of terror
> start?" or even the more urgent question, "How might it end?". No, we
> must ask, "Why doesn't he reveal the truth about himself?" As you ponder
> the answer to that question, consider that if you can make any sense out
> his profligate epithets, then you must have gotten higher marks in
> school than I did. Above all, Slim has no evidence or examples to back
> up his point. 
> 
> Slim's ramblings can be subtle. They can be so subtle that many people
> never realize they're being influenced by them. That's why we must
> proactively notify humanity that Slim writes a lot of long statements
> that mean practically nothing. What's sneaky is that he constructs those
> statements in such a way that it never occurs to his readers to analyze
> them. Analysis would almost certainly indicate that Slim's trucklers
> don't represent an ideology. They don't represent a legitimate political
> group of people. They're just flat inaniloquent. Something recently
> occurred to me that might occur to Slim, as well, if he would just turn
> down the volume of his voice for a moment: I want to see all of us
> working together to complain about huffy hell-raisers. Yes, this is an
> idealistic approach to actualizing our restorative goals. Nevertheless,
> you should realize that Slim ignores the most basic ground rule of
> debate. In case you're not familiar with it, that rule is: attack the
> idea, not the person. As stated earlier, he says that his decisions are
> based on reason. What balderdash! What impudence! What treachery! This
> is a free country, and I feel we ought to keep it that way. This raises
> the question: In view of Slim's gormless criticisms, what does it make
> sense for us to do now? The answer should be self-evident, so let me
> just point out that Slim claims that individual worth is defined by
> race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. I respond that there are
> lessons to be learned from history.
> 
> Now, why all this fuss about a few insolent agendas? Simply put, it's
> because it has been said that one difference between Slim's yes-men and
> other dark forces of anarchy and hatred is that the former intend to
> pour a few drops of wormwood into our general enthusiasm. I, in turn,
> maintain that even when the facts don't fit, Slim sometimes tries to use
> them anyway. He still maintains, for instance, that my bitterness at him
> is merely the latent projection of libidinal energy stemming from
> self-induced anguish. I suspect that the best way to overcome
> misunderstanding, prejudice, and hate is by means of reason, common
> sense, clear thinking, and goodwill. Slim, in contrast, believes that
> the sun rises just for him. The conclusion to draw from this conflict of
> views should be obvious: When a mistake is made, the smart thing to do
> is to admit it and reverse course. That takes real courage. The way that
> Slim stubbornly refuses to own up to his mistakes serves only to
> convince me that he says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were
> to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions
> -- even our library records. Why on Earth does he need to monitor our
> library records? You see, he labels anyone he doesn't like as
> "incontinent". That might well be a better description of Slim.
> 
> Slim has, at times, called me "unenlightened" or "insipid". Such
> contemptuous name-calling has passed far beyond the stage of being
> infantile but harmless. It has the capacity to make a mockery of our
> most fundamentally held beliefs. Let me give you an important hint: When
> trying to understand what he is up to, look at what he is doing and what
> he has done. Don't let yourself be distracted by the patter and the
> hand-waving; keep your eye on the shell that has the pea under it. And
> focus your mind on the fact that those of us who are still sane, those
> of us who still have a firm grip on reality, those of us who still
> assert that mankind, with all of its accumulated knowledge, wonderful
> machines, scientific methods, and material power, still has much to fear
> from lecherous trolls like him, have an obligation to do more than just
> observe what he is doing from a safe distance. We have an obligation to
> upbraid him for being so sadistic. We have an obligation to admonish him
> not seven times, but seventy times seven. And we have an obligation to
> beat him at his own game.
> 
> You don't have to say anything specifically about Slim for him to start
> attacking you. All you have to do is dare to imply that we should
> indicate in a rough and approximate way the two depraved tendencies that
> I believe are the main driving force of modern isolationism. I am not
> going to go into too great a detail about deplorable miscreants, but be
> assured that if you think you can escape from his deranged wisecracks,
> then good-bye and good luck. To the rest of you I suggest that Slim's
> desire to conspire with evil is the chief sign that he's a filthy
> menace. (The second sign is that Slim feels obliged to rule with an iron
> fist.) The bottom line is that Slim provides simplistic answers to
> complex problems.
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org [mailto:rhodes22-list-
>> bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Robert Skinner
>> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 2:28 PM
>> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Re: Rhodes22-list Digest, Vol 795, Issue
> 1
>> 
>> Slim,
>> 
>> I know it's a foreign concept for someone lucky enough to be using the
>> relatively stable Apple operating systems, but you did forget to tell
>> him to change his internet parameters and reboot his machine.  Or, for
>> that real outsourced-customer-support feel, you could have advised him
>> to fire up regedit make some changes...
>> 
>> Carry on!
>> 
>> /Bob
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