Good morning ladies, well, those of you who are here!!! As I was reading last nights posts on the "Off topic" thread, I was reminded that all groups however small, are microcosms of what is happening in the wider world. None of us need reminding of the horrendous spiteful and frankly, childish squabbling which is presently threatening the stability of the forum, and which, during the day and early evening many of us seem to be doing our best to preserve.
Last night, a new thread, requesting "Amoment of your time" was started by Mat, who said, publically that he had removed himself from "the other" site on the grounds that the person who he believed to have set him up was a different person and when he said the things he said to the people he said it to it was because someone else had told him that the other person had said things about him! Confused, ladies? Believe me, by the time I'd finished reading, SO WAS I!!! The whole thing reminded me of how many of our villages, towns and cities change personality at night, and what may be a pleasant place to meet friends for lunch or supper, becomes something totally other after 11pm. Thus it was last night. The thread rapidly descended into a free for all in which the foulest of language was being thrown around and Mat was, once again, showing signs of the paranoia which caused the problem in the first place. His belief, (never, it seems, far from the surface, worries me, not least because he uses it a means of not having to take responsibility for his own behaviour,) that he is being persecuted, indicates that he is likely to fire the gun before asking the question, as IMO he has done in his dealings with Grahame. It also indicates serious errors of judgement in his readiness to trust the wrong people which could end up placing him in a position from which he cannot easily extricate himself if he doesn't do something to address it.
What ever it was that was driving forward last nights dialogue, I'm very thanful not to have been part of.
