Theos-Talk Archives (September 2002 Message tt00059)

Bill Meredith wrote:
> Of course, not responding remains the option I most often choose. But 
> I must admit that I appreciate other's various responses because, as I 
> said earlier, I find Brigitte's games amusing even if I don't wish to 
> play them with her.

My feeling was that in her alias as "Brian", Brigitte wasn't playing
her games. She was arguing facts instead of personalities, she wasn't
making false accusations, and she was answering questions that were
posed to her. In my previous post on the tactics of trolling (which was
taken from a site where Brigitte had never appeared), it was clear that
Brigitte was using virtually all of these tactics. "Brian" has not been,
with the exception of the recent Aurobindo stuff, where "Brian" answers
a question with a quote which, when examined, demonstrates the
questioner's point rather than her own). But at least now she HAS a
point; that Theosophy is invalid. And she has brought up some things
that are worthy of discussion, rather than irrelevant juxtapositions of
quotes. 

As long as "Brian" refrains from Brigitte's trollish behavior, I have
no problem at all with her presence. In spite of her statements to the
contrary, my push to have her thrown off the list before was due to the
fact she was a troll, and not because of any dislike I had for her (note
that are several members with whom I have had quite hostile
conversations, yet I never even hinted that they should be thrown off
the list). 

Bart Lidofsky