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

Slim salm at mn.rr.com
Sun Jan 8 02:16:32 EST 2006


Yikes!  The guy's bipolar/OCD.  (obsessive, compulsive disorder)
Not fun anymore.  MJM--Get him off me!

On 1/7/06 4:53 PM, "Michel Meltzer" <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com> wrote:

> Holy sh-t, the guys now created a web site
> http://www.pakin.org/complaint?title=&firstname=Slim&gender=m&shorttype=
> f&pgraphs=3
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org [mailto:rhodes22-list-
>> bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Bill Effros
>> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 5:46 PM
>> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Re: Rhodes22-list Digest, Vol 795, Issue
> 1
>> 
>> Looks like a complaint generator to me...and if it's not, it shouldn't
>> take more than 15 minutes to knock out all the variables and insert
> new
>> ones.
>> 
>> Bill Effros
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>> Michel Meltzer 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
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>>>> 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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