A REQUEST TO ALL

I request every group member not to engage in fruitless deliberation with a particular member, by now known to you all, who is disruptive, distracting and distasteful in his arguments. Do not accept his bait of a disorienting comment or two or even more, in case he cannot elicit from you a response, that progressively leads you to verbal desperation whereupon you lose your composure and peace of mind which is wholly unwarranted. Time is precious and so is energy and concentration of mind and these must not be frittered away in chasing wild geese. I, thus, exhort all members to disengage themselves from this particular member and allow him the self-space to ruminate in silence, reflect on Netaji and Gandhiji and all his heroes, fatally flawed or otherwise, for in it constitutes the well-being of all, the offender and the offended alike, and in this last bit of use of adjective, I am not exempting any from my disapproval considering the progressively declining standard of conversation in the group of late. Further alerts will be forthcoming in case the present one fails to elicit the requisite response from group members.