A phenomenological interpretation of Parmenides appear when one considers our various sensory modalities as constant form-specific containers, and their received contents as the variable matter.  Thus, the Heraclitan stimuli flit into and out of our perceptual fields, while they, form-wise, Remain-Here-Now in an Eternal-Present, Parminidean manner.

Yeah.  Bill Roh.

I sincerely hope that the Pied Piper guru of other-than-worshipful-clone totalitarian intolerance, logorrheal browbeating, Stalinist silencing, vicious, vituperative ad hominem, off-list conspiratorial plotting, and cornucopially vomitous and vile mother-slander is not being invited back from his most blessedly long absence to infect and inflict his megalomaniacal self upon this beleaguered site yet again.  That long absence is the only reason I agreed to forgive the unjust and unfair railroading I experienced here and return at all, hoping that time had clarified and cleansed the poisoned well which, with his twisted help, this forum had become.  I had actually despaired of its ever recovering from such extremist fanatically fervent zealotry as he had nurtured and, by example, inspired in some emotionally-blinded-to-logic-and-evidence dittohead minion sheeple here, and had actually, and sadly, expected him to succeed in his stated ambition of ramrodding this site into completely abandoning any pretense to balance and objectivity and becoming just another nauseous Said-Rall-Fisk-Pilger+Chomsky-genuflecting clone of such paragon-of-fringe-mentality sites as the Democratic Underground, Indymedia, Zmag and the Yellow News.  I quite simply will not cohabit this site with such sick, demented and disgusting detritus.

And thank you most muchly, Jonathan, for taking up the baton that was ripped from my unwilling hand and running with it so well.  Your blackness made you ideal for that purpose; it would've been ludicrous beyond measure for the former South African white boy (apologies to the much more rational and reasonable Blunderov) to have attempted to plaster YOU with the racist label he so mightily, pitifully and pathetically strove to staple to me with a superglue gun.

Fair enough.  I will accept your word on this.  But I do have a question for the list members: Elven stated to me that the individual in question conspired with him offlist to co-ordinate attacks upon me.  He also stated that he was far from the only one so co-ordinated.  In fact, he told me that this action was one of the things that soured him on this nefarious individual and persuaded him to speak up/out concerning him, after which it seems that, due to fear of opposing him publicly, Elven's privately communicated off-list support failed to publicly materialize, leaving him feeling abandoned and betrayed.  Would the rest of the members involved in that rancid scheme do me the favor of fessing up?  I am quite willing to let bygones be bygones as far as those who were persuaded to aid and abet his anti-me putsch-plot-pogram-persecution are concerned; I'm just curious as to how broad and deep it went, and think that it is only fair that I be so enlightened.  It is quite alright with me if the individuals involved, due to understandable shame at their involvement in such vile machinations, prefer to enlighten me privatly rather than publicly.  I promise not to betray their confidence.