Just out of curiosity I Googled Blair "better writer than you" Houghton. Sad, sad, sad.
Just two things from the search (see below) say enough. His quotes and those of others show me he's beyond reach of logic or reason.
The "Film Industry Reform Movement" started by $cientologist and anti-Jewish whiner James Jaeger. Houghton has been there and been defended by Jaeger for crazy statements -
http://www.homevideo.net/FIRM/archives/arch09.htm
And here's a one about him from http://www.psicounsel.com/sense.html -
How much sense, honesty, and civility is evident on the INTERNET? Unfortunately, much too little, even among the most educated.
We could have a much more viable communiation medium if these three attributes were cultivated.
Here in part 9, this example, we will deal with the matter of "sense," "honesty," and "civility."
This is not about the positions held, but the *arguments* that attempt to support them, whether they make sense, are honest, and civil.
I don't care what a person's views are, from the political right, to the political left, from the absolute disbeliever in the paranormal, to the faithful regarding ghost activity.
Whatever the view, and whatever differences we discuss, the absense of...
SENSE
HONESTY
and
CIVILITY
...is a major polluter of the INTERNET.
In the examples of a lack of the above, I usually show examples of a deficiency of one of the above.
With Blair Houghton, however, we have a perfect example of the lack of all three.
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June or July 1997
Subject: Blair Houghton paranoid cynic
Cynic=a sneering faultfinder; one who
disbelieves in the goodness of human
motives, and who is given to displaying
his disbelief by sneers and sarcasm.
In this typically deceptive manner,
quoting me, BDK, out of context:
"It is absurd for people to ask me ... It shows a collective mentality... and for one person right after the other ... USENET KANGAROO COURT... the combined lot of you creeps who lie about me..."
Bruce Daniel Kettler, paranoiac.
end quote
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No, it does not show me to be paranoic, but rather for Blair to dishonest, uncivil, and lacking sense in his expression.
I reserve the right to be uncivil while writing against the practice, when answering people who have initiated attacks on a person's character and mentality.
My reference to a "Kangaroo Court" contains no hint of paranoia. The slang term means a mock court, and there's nothing about it to fear.
"Collective mentality," in context, is quite clearly about a cult mentality, and not a reference merely from my imagination.
YAHOO (www.yahoo.com) SEARCH ENGINE
TYPE: skeptics what they do and why
I have shown, in indisputable ways, that certain people have lied about my writing. This is obvious, as the USENET ARCHIVES (www.dejanews.com) indicate what I'd previously
written.
Taken in context, and considering the evidence of what I write to be true, my writing does not indicate what this writer attempts to convey.
So, we can disregard these accusations of me being paranoid, trying to give that a cause for
my perception of what you, and what all those lying cynics do. I'm not the only one who sees
you people for what you are. I have quotes of others on my web pages referenced above.
Books have been written about this cult. Here's one:
The New Inquisition
by
Robert Anton Wilson
Bigot=a person intolerant of creeds,
opinions etc. other than his own.
(Webster College Dict.)
Blair wrote to Edmond Wollmann:
If you just go away you serve my world
better than anything you can do by staying,
because your paranormal nonsense is a drain
on the time and resources of honest people,
and that's not a positive thing.
You are, obviously, paranoid to assume that people who are believers of Astrology are some threat to your "world" that we are a drain on the "time and resources" and that somehow, in your delusion of grandeur, (which goes with paranoia) you are on some sacred mission to "save" all these poor people from what you see as "devilish" like Edmond and myself. (BDK)
Edmond wrote to Blair:
I asked you to remove alt.astrology and this
would ensure I "went away" from your
reality-but in the usual cynic paranoic
fashion...
Yes, a cynic paranoid. It's so common for paranoids to think others are paranoid. It's called
"projection." Above, wrote that I was, supposedly, "paranoid." (BDK)
Edmond Wollmann (Email Removed) wrote of Blair Houghton:
...not content with yourself as I am
and could not stand to believe that
perhaps we have different realities
and just prefer different things-you
believe that you must attempt to down
others to lift yourself this is
simple psychology reflecting your level
within the hierarchy of needs
and their resolution.
Your anxiety and fear is evident-and your
contempt is because of your own disbelief
in your own power to be all you can be in
integrity-so you lash out to attempt to force
opinions down others throats-a sure sign
you don't believe in the power of them yourself.
You are a social dog, a carrion-eating hyena.
A kunos of the worst order.
...the level of your inability for
logical argument and objectivity. And
that you have run out of other ways to
approach the subject.
Edmond continued to Blair:
...much as I would have fun making another
example of the simplistic and negative attacks
from someone ignorant of the subject (Astrology)
and person of which they speak, I think for
the benefit of others and simple positive and
constructive logic, I will let you go as you
seem to be miserable enough as it is.
Best to you,
Ed
Edmond H. Wollmann P.M.A.F.A.
© 1997 Altair Publications
http://home.aol.com/ewollmann
That's okay, Edmond, leave the fun to me. This post, as part of a series, repeatable on a regular basis, will be an education to many on the INTERNET. (BDK)
In the examples of a lack of the above, I sometimes show a deficiency of all three of the above in one writing.
Here we have only one of the three: "sense."