Kulahola is at it again

[Hmoll]

Is there any way she could get a gentle nudge to behave herself?

As amusing as it is to read her - and the responses to her - this type of one-note-Johnny posting is detracting from the actual exchange of ideas.

[Antnee]

Yeah why doesn't she just get along with us, or perhaps we get along with her. I wish she would post elsewhere besides the teacher forum... She probaby has lots of advice she could give...'tis a shame...  

-Tony-

[Spatula]

What's wit her? Kinda like me??? clue me in yo.

(maybe its the same person! ooh ooh ohh oooo!   )

[ahmedito]

She seems to be gone.... this is a mystery... was she someone else? a cruel joke? was she killed by a pressured to mental illness student of hers?

well never know, I guess

[bernhard]

She seems to be gone.... this is a mystery... was she someone else? a cruel joke? was she killed by a pressured to mental illness student of hers?

well never know, I guess

Of course we will, Ahmedito! Haven’t you got it yet?

JSBach = Kulahola.

Every now and then you see someone posting something really provocative and outrageous. I always like such posts. I think they are very interesting. And I always reply to them to the best of my ability.

However, sometimes, the provocative poster, when challenged, rather than rise to the challenge will rephrase his/her original position and come up with a revisioned version that is anything by provocative. At this point my time-waster detector tells me to go and do something else. Needless to say I will not bother with that poster again.

Take Kulahola’s assertion that she would “severely” beat up their students. Now I find this very provocative and interesting. I want to know more. Unfortunately as several members of the forum (including myself) started probing this statement, Kulahola backed down. Suddenly, she didn’t beat her students at all! She just said it to obtain some sort of reaction. In fact it turns up that she may even use stickers and colours in her lessons! Needless to say I will not bother with such a poster ever again. Whatever their personal motives, they are not serious. (Let us not confuse  serious with solemn).

If you read through Kulahola’s posts they follow this pattern:

1.      Make an outrageous claim.

2.      When challenged, say that you were misunderstood.

3.      Rephrase the claim so that now it is not outrageous anymore, in fact the new claim is now trivial and common-sensical. So much so that no one in his/her right mind would bother discussing it.

4.      Make sure you phrase your claims – either the provocative ones or the trivial ones - so that you have plenty of veiled insults in them (e.g. "Are there any serious teachers in this forum, or are you all into colours and stickers?", or "Teachers are in it for the money").

5.      Complain that you are being the target of a vendetta from people who are treating you unfairly, and all you wanted was to share opinions in a civilised way. At the same time make your own posts as obnoxious as possible.

6.      Have no contribution of any value whatsoever in your posts.

After a while, people catch on, and the provocative poster is left to his/her own devices. As a consequence his/her fun is finished. What can one do? Change names. Hence Lallasvenson – Kulahola – JSBach. The subject may change, but the style is always the same. Kulahola claimed that she was going for a month’s holiday in China. The next day, JSBach turned up. Just compare language, grammar and argumentation.

I see actually no evidence that this person – and others just like him/her (whoever they are) have any knowledge of the subject, or indeed that they are piano teachers/students. My personal opinion is that they are posting from some mental/penal institution, and that joining a forum in the net was a brilliant idea from their psychologist/councillor as a safe first step to reintegration in normal society, since they would not be able to handle a face to face interaction.

It is important not to fight evil. To fight evil is to give it strength. Instead, make resolute progress on the way of good. Nothing hurts evil more than indifference.  Hence this is my last post in this particular subject.

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[ahmedito]

Bernhard, help me out.

Every time I see one of his posts I cant control myself.

[faulty_damper]

Think about homosexuals and how many people do not like the idea of them having a state-sanctioned marriage.  These anti-gay-marriage people will fight against it so that they will "maintain the sanctity of mariage".  They may be successful in the short run by trying to legally define marriage as between two people of opposite sexes.  But the commotion they caused in getting to that point plants the idea of homosexual marriage into the minds of everyone, whether or not they agree or disagree with the issue.  The more commotion they cause, the more the idea spreads.  After the initial commotion and anger has subsided, the idea soon becomes common that gays are being discriminated against and the protest against gay marriage starts to turn the other direction.  Soon, slavery will be outlawed, inter-racial marriages are accepted, and gay marriage will be accepted into common thought.

Now if people were not such bigots, then the dogmatic things they think would be secure as they are not bringing the isue into common thought.

Every time I see one of his posts I cant control myself.

I was like this when I was younger.  When something was said that I found to be indifferent to, I would get angry and such.  This is no longer true.  Now, when something similar is said, I use it as a gauge to know just what ticks me off.  If it ticks me off, then I know it is something that I am not secure about.  If I am not secure about something, then I can be said to be insecure and we all know how animals behave when they are cornered.  But when we are insecure to ideas it is not because we have been physically cornered and could die, it is because we choose to be mentally cornered and when this happens, no learning can take place.  It's your choice.  Sticks and stones hurt but do words have sharp egdes?

[kulahola]

and I am not JS Bach.

Please stop spending so much time commenting my posting, it seems to do you no good.

I have some interesting stuff to say about what i saw at the Beijing Central conservatory and at the Beijing Chinese conservatory, if somebody is interested.

[bernhard]

Hey, guys, guess what I found?

Once upon a time Kulahola roamed the forum as Lallasvenson. Check this out:

https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=teac;action=display;num=1066662050

October 2003: Reply #1:

i am a new piano teacher and new to this forum. I am teaching a cutie, 5 year old, who is quite bright but her motricity is not developed at all. She just CANT play 2 notes legato. She plays all notes 1 by 1. Of course she cant play with round fingers at all and it is very difficult to make any progress. Do you have students who have that kind of difficulties and how do you help them?

Reply #3
yes I have played for her and i am sure she can here the difference between her playing one by one and my playing when i show her. She is really quite bright and hears well. We make a lot of games, i play her piece with voluntary mistakes and she finds them, and she has to blunder and guess where the tone i just played is and she is really quite good.

Wow! Did I read that right? Lallasvenson/kulahola, the strict student-beating teacher who has a grudge against fun, colours and stickers PLAYING GAMES WITH A STUDENT!!!!

What has the world come to!



Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[kulahola]

Hey, guys, guess what I found?

Once upon a time Kulahola roamed the forum as Lallasvenson. Check this out:

https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=teac;action=display;num=1066662050

October 2003: Reply #1:

i am a new piano teacher and new to this forum. I am teaching a cutie, 5 year old, who is quite bright but her motricity is not developed at all. She just CANT play 2 notes legato. She plays all notes 1 by 1. Of course she cant play with round fingers at all and it is very difficult to make any progress. Do you have students who have that kind of difficulties and how do you help them?

Reply #3
yes I have played for her and i am sure she can here the difference between her playing one by one and my playing when i show her. She is really quite bright and hears well. We make a lot of games, i play her piece with voluntary mistakes and she finds them, and she has to blunder and guess where the tone i just played is and she is really quite good.

Wow! Did I read that right? Lallasvenson/kulahola, the strict student-beating teacher who has a grudge against fun, colours and stickers PLAYING GAMES WITH A STUDENT!!!!

What has the world come to!



Best wishes,
Bernhard.

You are such a forum nerd with too much time in your hands, really. I do play aural games which could be called drills if you prefer. But certainly no colours nor stickers should distract my students from reality.

[Tash]

You are such a forum nerd with too much time in your hands, really. I do play aural games which could be called drills if you prefer. But certainly no colours nor stickers should distract my students from reality.

wow what's wrong with stickers? how are they distracting i love getting stickers and i'm 18! distraction from reality i'm really not seeing this, they're just there when you've done some good work, they're the best!