Brian wrote:Ya know, I may not have a dog in this fight but I am seriously hurt Tim! Dag gone it I am....arrggg!!!! I am struggling on whether to go down this road or mind my own buisness. But seriously Tim seriously I am really upset! I stuck out my hand out to you on more than one occasion, and while I may be a nobody from ho dunk nowhere and while I may not have money, influence, or the brains to even register on your radar I thought that maybe, just maybe I could show that not everyone is a mean snide selfrighteous bigot of a christian. (not at all saying that anyone else here is)
Brian, I am here, in part, because I like you. I wrote my last email just before going out the door to catch the bus, and after the computer was turned off I thought, I should have appended something to the effect that most are not the hyenas I was talking about. Brian, you are definitely not a hyena. You don't have that spirit at all. In fact, several of the hyenas aren't very active these days, and in my opinion, that makes things here a lot more pleasant.
You gave me some very good advice in a PM. Let me give you and others some good advice in return: Don't struggle for my soul. Just be my friend. You'll fail at the first, but you, Brian, are very good at the second, and I highly value your friendship and upright and kind spirit. But, trust me, no one is going to win me to anything. I am here as a human being with other human beings, some of whom I enjoy, like you, some of whom I don't enjoy.
"And just when you think you've got me figured out, remember, No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man." --Heraclitus