by Bendrr 91 Replies latest jw friends
Dave, when I talked about arguments and all I wasn't including you in that part. You handled yourself just fine. I was just trying to point out to some others that this board is watched by so many in need of help that we have to carefully consider what we say before we 'left click'.
Oh, and would you quit beating yourself up over being duped? We're human dude, it happens to the best of us!
Mike.
"You can't have everything, where would you put it?" -- Steven Wright
Pris,
Your right, people were very understanding. I'm thinking about running for hall monitor next election. Can I count on your vote?
Big hug little sister
Mike,
Thanks man, you have been too kind. I'm not beating myself up, I'm just a little pissed off. I'll get over it. I never stay mad for very long. Life is too short.
Dave
Bendrr,
Very good post.
You asked how could this Danni experience benefit us, pointing out that situations like this one is likely to happen again. You liken it to a drill that we failed, considering how creative Danni was and how well she executed her plan.
Well, this type of ruse has already happened. Some here will be able to tell you of a supposed governing body member who started posting on the old h2o just before it closed. Many were pumped up about *that* imposter also. Many seemed to buy the ruse. Turns out, it was a fake, too.
That's why for me this Danni issue points more to us and the residual problem that exits within US than to a supposedly "sick" perpetrator who cleverly plays on people's emotions. Some of us want to latch onto any negativity aimed at the Society whether it's true or not and run with it.
Danni had no power—none whatsoever—over those who were skeptical from the beginning or kept an open mind that allowed them to see, if not outright holes in her story, good reasons to disbelieve her story. That's the key. We were being led down a dead end street and no one knew it at the time, but there were signs along the way that should have clued more people in had we not allowed the emotional angle to take over but used our heads more.
If we haven't learned this simple rule of life in the aftermath of this Danni episode we are just "marks" waiting for the next imposter to do it to us again. It's just that simple, really.
Which person would you say is the sickest: the person selling the Brooklyn Bridge... or the person buying it?
tj
"Trust everybody in the game, but always cut the cards." -- Cowboy wisdom.
Thanks for sharing Dave. You get a 100 million points for being a man and openly apologizing.
I had reservations, but I wanted to believe the whole story. I guess one of my biggest faults is still being gullible. It helps to know that there are other good intelligent people out there who display gullibility too. (that probably isn't a word, but it worked for me, LOL)
TW
Thinker Wife,
Thanks for your kind words. As I said many times before I do not have a problem admitting mistakes. I also said that for the most part this looks like a hoax. Until evidence comes to me to the contrary I have to believe that this is a hoax. If this story has any truth to it at all I have made it very easy for those claiming to be Mark or Danni to get in contact with me with the phone number of Danni's department for me to have absolute proof. As of yesterday that phone number has never been sent to me.
If I get a number to call at a later date and I can prove that Danni is real then I will again have to apologize and post the new information. As I have stated to the person who keeps emailing me claiming to be Mark, that if he is real, it is very simple to prove it. All I get is a run around about why a phone number cannot be provided.
I would like for Danni to be real and if she is I will do everything in my power to help her. If she is not then it is my first responsibility to this board to keep you all informed about the latest findings.
I can't do much else with the information I have at this time.
Take care,
Dave
Wow. Not sure what to make of all this, but having been a JW for 37 years, it is quite easy for me to decide that in fact Danni was telling the truth, and that all of this really went down just as she said.
It won't keep me from looking any less the fool on this board, but it'll keep me from feeling like a fool so much to myself, and that is the important thing. Faith to move molehills!
Dave,
***It ended a little feud they had going and I hated it because I considered both of them friends. Now they are friends and to me, that's what it is all about. We are all in this leaky boat together, the less we make it rock the better off we are. Everything else is just stuff***
You got that right my friend. I have been away from the board no peeky for several weeks, 'everything else is just stuff' has a new meaning, when almost every new thread, just looks like more stuff.
I'am tired of stuff, so will probably continue my extended vacation.
I value as you do all the friends I have made here. So please know I think about you and all, even though Iam not as active anymore.
Call me anytime Dave.
Danny
Still don't know who Danni, Mark or KylishLee are. But I now do know what a Sam BrownE is:
:)
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Teejay,
You just wont let this go will you? What is your purpose in grandstanding and continuing to pat yourself on the back for being skeptical about this issue from the beginning? Do you continue to blow your damn horn because Alan F called you a twit? Why don't you act like an adult and send Alan an email and talk to him one on one? Why do you continue to hide behind this thread and take pot shots at those who tried to give Danni and this story the benefit of the doubt? What do you gain from this besides pissing people off? Are you that god damned starved for attention? Do you need people to tell you over and over again that you may have been right? Have you been wrong so many times in your life that you need this issue to gain a little self respect?
I told you that you and I had made peace but you continue to make comments like the little Brooklyn bridge scenario. You made an innuendo that I and anyone else who believed in this story is sick. Do you get off on that teejay? Does that make you a big man? If your purpose was to make yourself look like your are much wiser than everyone else you have failed. All you have accomplished as far as I am concerned is to piss me off. I have been very understanding when it comes to you but that doesn't seem good enough for you. You just won't shut the hell up and let it go. I am beginning to understand your comments to me about you not being very popular on this board. Frankly it looks like you don't give a shit just as long as you can get your jabs in. Grow up or shut up!
Get over your damn insecurities and get in touch with Alan and stop playing us all as a bunch of fools. If this is all a hoax to cause problems on this board you have done your best in adding to those problems. My trying to understand you and your insecurities is over. Deal with your problem like an adult and quit using this issue for you own agenda.
We all know you didn't believe it and we all know that your feelings were hurt because big bad Alan F called you a twit. We are all standing in a semi circle giving you a little golf clap for being the most skeptical person on the board. You can stop standing on your damn soap box screaming out "I told you so." You forget that I said this still may be true. I for one want it to be true more now then ever, just so it shuts your god damn mouth up! I have tried to ignore your childish little game for as long as I could but I can no longer ignore it. I am going against my own thoughts about keeping peace on this board and just trying to ignore the trouble makers but you just had to add that last little straw that broke my back. I hope your obvious insecurities and your little ego are having fun with this! It takes an extreme amount of stupidity to piss me off and you have reached that level of stupidity.
Are you happy now Teejay? You pissed me off! You should be damn proud of yourself. I'm not one to resort to calling people childish names but you have pushed me to it, Alan was right, you are a twit!
Dave
Dave,
Please see Jt's lates post "invisible poster" Looks like Kylishee is still hitting and running.
wendy
BTW when I grow up will you marry me? You are the epitome of a true gentleman.
wendy
