Posted by vwoolf on November 3, 2010, at 0:51:25
In reply to Re: C'mon, pro-block members, chime in, posted by alexandra_k on November 2, 2010, at 21:55:59
Believe it or not I do support blocks, and I have said so often before.
I think it is like the frame in therapy, without which it is not therapy. And like the frame in therapy, everyone hates it.
I think that if we as posters are prepared to look, we will see ourselves reflected in the way we respond here on Babble. Bob is merely representing, in a shadowy internet kind of way, something internal to ourselves. He stays so far out of Babble that we can't know what he is really thinking. And so we start to project.....The frame (or block) represents the edge between ourselves and reality, and so defines us. It's not really about Bob at all, although of course he is the one who holds the frame and so catches all the crossfire.
I still maintain that PsychoBabble is therapeutic, in a funny, laid-back kind of way, and it is this that distinguishes it from other sites, and what brings blocked posters back after even very long blocks.
But I do feel very sad when people I like are blocked.
poster:vwoolf
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