Dewey's post
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If Dewey’s apostate then so is the Church of England, easily the best church in the world, for obvious reasons.
So he’s in good company.
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@Mik said in Dewey's post:
Hell, Phibes, even a heathen like me has a better chance than Anglicans.
We have a special heaven just for us. No Americans allowed. As a lapsed Canuck, you might be allowed to visit.
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@George-K said in Dewey's post:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Dewey's post:
And discussing somebody over here who doesn’t post is just like discussing somebody who’s dead. They’re not here to defend themselves.
This thread is not the only time this has happened on one of our forums.
Yeah, Trump could come by if he wanted to, but he's fucking scared, I tell ya!
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@LuFins-Dad said in Dewey's post:
I have fewer issues with Dewey than I did with Larry, and I have quite a few issues with Dewey.
Yeah, but Dewey ain't dead.
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@taiwan_girl said in Dewey's post:
And lets be honest, if the situation were reversed, I do not think Larry would have been all lovey-dovey towards Dewey in a memory post.
When Wacki-Iraqi made it known his cancer was back, and he had only a short time left, it was Larry who started a thread, reaching out to bury the hatchet so to speak. Many others (friends and adversaries) joined in as well of course. It was a pretty nice moment for the forum.
So if I had to guess how Larry would have handled Deweys announcement of a terminal illness, or news of his death, I believe it would have been along those lines.
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@Jolly said in Dewey's post:
@LuFins-Dad said in Dewey's post:
I have fewer issues with Dewey than I did with Larry, and I have quite a few issues with Dewey.
Yeah, but Dewey ain't dead.
I don't like slagging off recently deceased people at all. People are almost certainly out there hurting, and you've always got to wonder who's reading.
I kind of raised the timing of the post with Dewey, admittedly in a bit of a half-hearted way - other people just ripped into him, which is never going to work on Facebook, you're really just virtue signaling since they're going to block you.
Having said that, I had lots of issues with Larry, but if I'm honest I never really felt like I knew him. I don't know whether the warm-hearted guy who occasionally paid for people's groceries was really him, or whether the guy who boasted about all kinds of stuff was really him. He did sometimes make me laugh like a drain, which is always good. In the old days, lots of people stayed anonymous on the internet, and I think Larry was of that generation. Now, we probably all share way too much about our real life.
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@Mik said in Dewey's post:
@Horace said in Dewey's post:
Many posts in this thread have been pointless blather, totally agree. My posts have been excellent though.
Yes. High end blather
Premium artisanal hand crafted old world blather.
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@George-K said in Dewey's post:
@Horace said in Dewey's post:
Premium artisanal hand crafted old world blather.
Hand crafted? Video, or it didn't happen, Bay-boy! I wanna see the keyboard video...
Maybe I’ll leave an air of mystery and take my chances with what people say about me after I’m gone.
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@Horace said in Dewey's post:
@George-K said in Dewey's post:
@Horace you misspelled "mysterie," destroying any credibility you had.
So, bye.
Be seeing you
LOL!
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@Mik said in Dewey's post:
All this is really pointless blather. I’ve lost my friend and, flaws acknowledged, the place will be less without him.
I agree on the latter.
On the former, I nod while reading Phibes' posts, although I'm sure Dewey expected it (maybe he's lurking here?) when he posted it publicly on FB. I think I made my position on Dewey clear in my earlier posts but to repeat myself (which Larry knows I do quite frequently)... I enjoyed meeting Dewey once, enjoyed his contributions (wish he still participated in TNCR), thought his FB post was crass and of no purpose other than catharsis, and to that end, I hope it brought him some peace.
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@Horace said in Dewey's post:
@taiwan_girl said in Dewey's post:
I dont a problem with it. People react differently, and obviously Dewey had some pretty strong feelings about his interactions with Larry (most of which I probably dont know about). I dont know the Bible well (actually not at all LOL), so I dont know what it says about talking about someone after they die.
It's about making a claim about someone else's belief, recently deceased or otherwise. While I'm sure it's the emotional truth of many that Larry was not a believer in Christianity, for Dewey to make that claim would be against the rules of how he's supposed to comport himself within that same faith. I am sure you have issues with people who don't practice what they preach, but in this case, you also know that Larry was mean, so the rules don't apply to him. That's nice.
For me, a minister is no more or no less perfect than me or anybody else. It appears that Dewey knew Larry much longer and closer than me (and maybe you also). Maybe they had conversations about this subject.
As I said, I probably whould not have reacted the same way in the same situation, but it really does not bother me. Maybe it should, but it doesn't.
As I am not very religious I am sure has some bias on my reaction.