Do you need help--from the pain and turmoil you have suffered? Would you
like to have help?
I am not asking whether others nned help--or whether I need help. Goodness
knows, there have been times when I was badly in need of help. Some
colleagues know of this; some do not. But I am not right now concerned
about the needs--or transgressions--of myself or others. Do you need help?
Would you like to have help?
I should also say that I am not concerned about the philosophic and research
debate which has evolved, who has the better position, and from what
criteria or vantage point. In fact, I have been extremely busy of late and
have deleted about 80% or 90% of them without reading them. So, I hope you
can understand and forgive me that I cannot take a stand on these issues.
So, my questions are very simple ones which a simple single affirmative or
negative word would answer. Do you need help? Would you like to have help?
If you would care to respond, you could answer me directly
(cromwell@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu) or on the pcp net. It makes no difference.
Sincerely,
Rue
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>Bob,
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>Do not compare the pain of your shame to the misery =
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>that has been brought upon me, my family, and others =
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>who have attempted to honor truth. You have not addressed =
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>our pain, you have judged and dismissed it. The Kelly cult is
>unwinding before the public eye. I have asked you to address =
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>specific theoretical and methodological points and specific =
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>abuses of the truth and of my person. I have done this over =
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>the years from the series of academic dumps that the =
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>bandwagon condemned me to. And I have done it over a series =
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>of net postings. You have consistently responded with your =
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>typical patronizing speech making. You always speak as =
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>though you are giving a "state of the PCP union address." =
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>That you were not my teacher and did not write letters of
>recommendation are beside the point. That I am your =
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>contemporary and at very least your intellectual equal, has =
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>been more relevant. Your friends and coterie wrote the words =
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>and told the lies and ignored my research and criticisms of =
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>the poor scholarship that ya'll have mass produced. And =
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>sometimes, they rejected my articles in order to
>protect you from my direct criticisms of your work. Just =
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>as they are attempting to do so now on the net, in =
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>their cowardly, devious and condescending little ways.
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>You were irresponsible in your public and sophistical =
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>judgements of my scholarship. You have been the editor =
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>of the construct theory journal and very influential in the =
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>conference industry and in the publication of books.
>As an editor of a scholarly journal, you have a responsibilty =
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>to the WHOLE TRUTH. Instead, you have done what you
>could to degrade PCP into a junior high school pep rally. It =
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>would not surprise me if you have been selling t-shirts with =
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>your image on them. As vain as you are, I could see you =
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>going to Yugoslavia, trying to sell these BOB shirts, telling =
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>them how great you are and how sophomoric truth and =
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>goodness are. They ( and the rest of us) need people
>like you like "a nail in the head." You have no idea of how =
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>many people have told me what an offensive person you =
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>are to them, Bob. They won't tell you Bob, they fear you and
>your coterie too much. You want to know why so many prefer =
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>anarchy to organization? All they have to do is look at you
>and the bandwagon. Their nausea convinces them.
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>Until the net, its been the bandwagon's game. No more. =
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>My work has not been given its due notice. Nor has the =
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>work of the many fine PCP psychologists who
>preceded you, your journal and your empire. Thanks to =
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>the bandwagon, the very idea of Truth has been degraded =
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>to a mere dogma of the little people who have nothing but =
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>the truth. "Let them eat cake (truth), if they are not one
>of us." Who the Hell do you think you are?
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>The hubris of a person like you writing a history of =
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>personal construct psychology right out of graduate =
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>school, with your inexperience, modest intelligence, and
>superficial grasp of Kelly, and then assuming the =
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>editorship of a journal at such an early point in your =
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>career is shameful. The editorships should have gone
>to people of the caliber of Adams-Webber and Fransella. =
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>Bob do you know the meaning of hubris. =
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>Your treatment of my arguments concerning death threat =
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>theory were sophistical and irresponsible. You still seem =
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>unwilling to face the fact that your getting famous on death =
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>threat theory may have been at the price of others' pain. =
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>Your recent superficial and patronizing response to Gwyneth's
>distress underlines your own willingness to justify the =
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>bandwagon's failures as ' acceptable losses.' I am not an =
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>acceptable loss, nor is Gwyneth, nor is Devi- in the conflict =
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>he must now be facing after reading Mancuso's
>Manifesto for the Bandwagon. The "horror upon which your =
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>fame has dined" is not just a sound byte on the net. Its dead =
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>and dying people, mentally ill paitents, struggling scientists =
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>and therapists- and their families who have had to suffer the =
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>ever 'going and growing' hubris of the band wagon.
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>Now you say I do not doubt my self. I conducted a lot of sound
>research to test my ideas. I have been asking others to doubt me =
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>and to try the grids themselves for years. While you were climbing =
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>the ladder of fame by riding the coat tails of Landfield and Epting, =
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>and simply declaring your self Mr. PCP( and subsequently =
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>Mr. Constructivism), my students and I were analyzing =
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>thousands of grids, reading, reading, reading, and testing our =
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>logic and observations. Bob I have never seen or heard a =
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>suggestion of self doubt on your part. You are a man of superior =
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>confidence; a .......... man. As someone put it to me the =
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>other day, "Bob thinks he is God." =
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>=0D
>Bob, you are not divine. Bob, try to be a man rather than a =
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>weasel. In your latest posting you seem to be suggesting that your =
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>ineptitude is a function of being a holy man, a Christian. Your =
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>suggestion that Christians make poor soldiers is a lie. Christians =
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>have defeated coterie after coterie of relativistic, intellectually and =
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>morally degenerate bandwagons. My father; a Christian, fought =
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>the NAZI's and my mother- also a Christian- dodged their
>bombs in her youth in England while making ammunition in =
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>British factories. They both then forgave and befriended their =
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>enemies, as Christian's have done since Jesus. They spent =
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>their subsequent lives working in factories, making clothes for =
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>people like you to dress up in and play professor- while you =
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>make a mockery of truth. Don't you dare say Christians make =
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>poor soldiers. The thing is, Bob, is that you are having trouble =
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>fighting the truth. YOU, not Christians, nor Moslems, nor Buddhists, =
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>nor Aethiests are the bad soldier. Its Bob's favorite person; YOU. =
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>Now get used to the fact that Bill (whether he is or is not a =
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>Christian or Platonist) is a Warrior for Truth. The more you and =
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>your coterie ignore me and try to bluff your way out of this fix, =
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>the closer people will take notes on your behavior. Oh they may =
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>hide at first, and dismiss me as a nut, but their days of being =
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>intimidated and mystified by the bandwagon's sophistry are =
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>numbered. I am systematic, Bob. In time, the Truth adds up, =
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>no matter how the weasel wiggles. =
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>=0D
>Bill =
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>=0D
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