Brent---
I almost feel like crying. You, who exposed the Assembly, and know how it's system
works, say I am motivated by "hatred of God's people"? If I were motivated by that
I would be tracking and hunting down the "perpetrators" who "did this to me" 20 years
ago. I don't feel that way at all. You invited the people to this board Brent. I hadn't
"argued" with anyone in a long time, except with Verne over predestination and election,
in fact, I enjoyed coming to the BB just to talk with old friends.
I have been wondering why you haven't been stepping in and asking anyone to "cool it"
accept for the posters on this BB. This last post almost feels as though someone is using
your name. You have been a friend of mine on this board, and I have always greatly respected
you. This stings deeper than anything has in a long time. In less this is some attempt on your
part at the darkest form of sarcastic humor---in posting as someone whom we well know posts,
then I feel like I have lost a brother.
The loss of my brother through suicide is a much deeper wound than having to sell a car over
20 years ago Brent. Yes, it hurt at the time when those events transpired, I was very young
and easily hurt. But there wasn't a "good reason" to do it Brent, there was an "Assembly reason"
to do it. I talk frequently with a couple of people who were involved at the time, in fact, one of
them I E-mail almost daily. He is a dear brother, and I can say that I love him. Excuse me, but I
truly feel as though I have had the wind knocked out of me. With everything that is in me I wish
I could say something bad about you Brent in response to this, but I can't. I love you brother.
God bless you, Joe
I'm sorry guys,
I assumed you would all see the irony in what I was saying. It is a joke Joe, always was.
My point is that people are trying to tell you about yourself, and what your true motives are, when they have never met you. furthermore, one of the people doing this isn't even using his own name.
By stating the absolutely absurd things I was saying, I was hoping to get a response telling me how riduculous my ideas were.
Instead, people have misunderstood me, probably due to my own multi-level, dark deep sarcasm.
I happen to agree that Verne wronged Sondra, however I do not agree at all with Bob Smith's thing that he's doing with Joe.
I was attempting to demonstrate the absurdity of it all, but my point was totally lost.
Joe, I'm sorry. I'm not posting under another name, and I'm not possessed. This thread was obviously a joke from the beginning, and I was using irony to point out how silly the discussion over your car is...that's all.
I really mean what I am saying now....everyone is far too sensitive about this. This is all madness.
We have a board, SWTE, whose function appears to be to take posts from this board and hold conversations about the people who wrote them, without them being present. It is an odd sort of commentary to say the least, however I suppose it has its purpose and has in fact brought out some good points.
Nevertheless, this fellow Bob, doesn't know you, wasn't there, and won't even tell people who he is....yet he feels like he knows what your problem is and can see into your soul. I think it's silly. I really do.
The discussion about moderating the tone about how evil the Assembly was, and tempering some of the firey rhetoric is one thing. However, this new twist is really, totally silly.
That's what I was hoping to illustrate by being totally over-the-top and obtuse.
Sadly, I hurt your feelings, and I apologize.
Brent