cyclissimo wrote:
Well .,on another thread In Gear says go to Dianetics ,so I'll not be reading posts of his-hers .I had difficuly with those Scientologists , needed a psychitrist ,cylcing helped me back to good order in my head . At least now I can do my job again to.
I like cycling and driving ,Im still getting my head into all the stuff on the site .very interesting.
Blimey you lot take things literally!
He was being what we call up 'ere in cloth cap and clogs land - "Nowty Gears"
I think you do know darned well that we are Catholics (oops - not perhaps wise to admit this either given the fracas om a "for cyclists only forum" over the Pope, a German guy called Andreas.. who was so - er Catholic - if you sawed in half - emblazoned like a stick of Blackpoo! rock
... aided and abetted by the Swiss Andreas who was up until then a "fallen Catholic" and ended up having to read his Bible at serious cruising speed to keep up with the argument and post in synch with his little chum.
We had words when we found out about all that..
But brought up as Catholics .. and I guess when we die we will want the last rites as Catholics like the late Dave Allen can jest about their religion.. but will always instinctively "cross themselves and light candles" Yes .. I will be attending Midnight Mass with my wife and kids.
IG was being a bit "nowty" given the nature of the post to him. I think you must surely realise that it was quite an unpleasant and uncalled for post and I think he was really suggesting that the guy needed help... but also trying to suggest he was part of a minority cult at the same time as he just referred to Dianetrics which apparently preceded the writer's later "Scientology" thing as I understand.. But then I know very little about Scientology and don't really want to know.
But some of these on a "for cyclists only" place... do not seem to do much else than play on the internet all day.
Andreas occasionally pops up on radarfalle and somewhere else. IG only posts on here and to a "for cops only"
I post on here and on PH as does my wife.
We ain't got time for playing around on the internet chat room sites from 8 am to 4.30 pm as a constant. We do have committents to our jobs after all and to those paying us to do them. Some of the rather .. um..
in politically correct lingo attempt - and trying to be polite given what the person did post and has posted somewhere else "exciteable" people claim they commute to work and are productive when they are at work. I look at the post volume, timing and length of the posts..
When you do that .. you cannot help but .. well .. form an opinion as to veracity of their claims of "productivity in terms of completed and satisfactory worK".. can you?
It also seems that he knows of someone via his wife or sister who had to do one of those "touchy feely nonsense" sessions at work. The "guru" leading the course told the person he knows of about "needing Dianetrics to counter stress levels." IG's the sort of person you look to for a blunt take on life
Person asked IG if he'd heard of it and if he had .. what did he think of it? IG says he was his normal sledge hammer self once he'd stopped laughing ...
at what the person said she had to do on this course
(Something to do with the StUN and standing on a table.....
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He reckoned the person was "suppressing anger" (per the alleged guru) as a result of having to behave like a t:censored:t in public
Spoke on phone to him jsut before he disappeared to his choir thing in the local Cathedral and asked him about that post.
Could feel the laid back grin down the phone ...
He said he just could not resist it.. he'd had to look up what it was in the first place and thought it the sort of thing the poster might be into
But if someone thinks Scientology is for them..free country and they can if they want to same as I have the freedom to practise my own faith. Likewise - if they think Dianetrics which on looking it up appears to be recognising, confronting and getting over a perceived upset .. sounds almost like hynotism - regression as it seems from a quick scan of the blurb that one "closes one's eyes and you recall the problem and confront it"
I think much depends on the person and the mentor .. like normal counselling really....
But what works for one does not work for others and really I'd refer the rather violent poster concerned in that other thread to a man holding a strait jacket in one hand the and keys to a padded cell in the other.
I dunno whose the worse wind-up merchant in my wife's over large family.
But read his posts again mate. and er -
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and then decided to have little look-see. Not really saying much different in terms of accepting and coming to terms with whatever real or perceived "grudge" - and basically, mate, from the tone of that post, the rabid nonsense which is posted and which gets in the way of our normal discussion on real safety issues - getting the COAST message out to all those angry drivers who hit this site looking for help and sometimes laying into me as "someone who enforces these laws" - then just maybe they will take COAST on board as the five main principles which control their speed to safe and legal levels as well as help them not collide with anything at any darned speed.