Dewey's post
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@Tom-K said in Dewey's post:
One think that troubles me though: Steve Miller said over there:
"The most memorable thing about that visit was learning that Larry in person was exactly the same as Larry on line."
I really wonder if that is true.They probably saw each other for five minutes.
The magic of "in person meetings" and the forging of deep understandings of who a person truly is, way deep down, is one of the most consistently overstated bits of nonsense one finds on online forums.
wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 06:41 last edited by@Horace said in Dewey's post:
@Tom-K said in Dewey's post:
One think that troubles me though: Steve Miller said over there:
"The most memorable thing about that visit was learning that Larry in person was exactly the same as Larry on line."
I really wonder if that is true.They probably saw each other for five minutes.
I think it was way more than five minutes. But, yeah, Steve always said that about Larry.
As for Dwain....I'm actually really disappointed. My memory of him is vastly different from the man who wrote this post.
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@Horace said in Dewey's post:
He wasn't really a religious person at all; the whole subject only mattered to him insofar as it bolstered his extreme right-wing politics.
One of the little peccadillos of (some/many) Protestants is to step into the shoes of God Almighty and declare judgement on some other Protestants that arenât in full theological agreement as âunsavedâ and âunbelieving.â This may be the case with Dewey here. I didnât follow the Larry-Dewey wars all that closely but Iâm sure Larry had a similar pronouncement. (As a Catholic I donât get into these internecine arguments and actually the one thing that just about all these Protestants agree on is that Catholics are âunsavedâ and âunbelieving.â) Anyway, I do take issue here with Deweyâs appraisal. I remember when Wacky Iraqi was on the board and had terminal cancer Larry stopped his usual harangue, changed his whole demeanor, and tried to convert Wacky to the Gospel and save his soul before he died. It is exactly what Christians are supposed to do. Larry really impressed me by how he took his faith and Wackyâs salvation so seriously. It didnât even occur to me to do something similar. And not that I would have even if it did. But Larry did it and that would be a Christian.
Well, thereâs that. As to the tone of Deweyâs missiveâDewey was butt hurt by Larry and heâs just expressing what he feels. Larry, Iâm sure would do something similar is the shoe was on the other foot. Next door the people there are pretty much dancing on Larryâs grave. They were sometimes on the wrong end of Larryâs personal invectives and are venting. The gleefulness is a bit troubling, but that is the sandbox we all play in. But those over there tend to see the mote in Larryâs eye and not see the plank in their ownâright from the beginning they expected to lecture the poor conservatives on the error of our ways with equal measures of condescension and pity and they expected us acquiesce to their wisdom, but instead to their surprise they got one hell of a fight. All good.
One think that troubles me though: Steve Miller said over there:
"The most memorable thing about that visit was learning that Larry in person was exactly the same as Larry on line."
I really wonder if that is true.wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 11:59 last edited by@Tom-K said in Dewey's post:
@Horace said in Dewey's post:
He wasn't really a religious person at all; the whole subject only mattered to him insofar as it bolstered his extreme right-wing politics.
One of the little peccadillos of (some/many) Protestants is to step into the shoes of God Almighty and declare judgement on some other Protestants that arenât in full theological agreement as âunsavedâ and âunbelieving.â This may be the case with Dewey here. I didnât follow the Larry-Dewey wars all that closely but Iâm sure Larry had a similar pronouncement. (As a Catholic I donât get into these internecine arguments and actually the one thing that just about all these Protestants agree on is that Catholics are âunsavedâ and âunbelieving.â) Anyway, I do take issue here with Deweyâs appraisal. I remember when Wacky Iraqi was on the board and had terminal cancer Larry stopped his usual harangue, changed his whole demeanor, and tried to convert Wacky to the Gospel and save his soul before he died. It is exactly what Christians are supposed to do. Larry really impressed me by how he took his faith and Wackyâs salvation so seriously. It didnât even occur to me to do something similar. And not that I would have even if it did. But Larry did it and that would be a Christian.
Well, thereâs that. As to the tone of Deweyâs missiveâDewey was butt hurt by Larry and heâs just expressing what he feels. Larry, Iâm sure would do something similar is the shoe was on the other foot. Next door the people there are pretty much dancing on Larryâs grave. They were sometimes on the wrong end of Larryâs personal invectives and are venting. The gleefulness is a bit troubling, but that is the sandbox we all play in. But those over there tend to see the mote in Larryâs eye and not see the plank in their ownâright from the beginning they expected to lecture the poor conservatives on the error of our ways with equal measures of condescension and pity and they expected us acquiesce to their wisdom, but instead to their surprise they got one hell of a fight. All good.
One think that troubles me though: Steve Miller said over there:
"The most memorable thing about that visit was learning that Larry in person was exactly the same as Larry on line."
I really wonder if that is true.Missing your target a bit.
Most protestants don't think Catholics are unsaved or unbelieving. We do reject sacerdotalism and don't understand how y'all got so hung up on that Mary thing. And we'll just mark that building the Church on Peter idea, down to a reading comprehension problem.
As for protestant vs. protestant, most don't sweat the small stuff. I don't care if Pentecostals believe they need to speak in tongues, or Baptists abhor taking an alcoholic drink, etc. Where I do have a problem with any Christian or somebody who identifies as Christian, is when they portray something irrefutably sinful as being okey-dokey. It just doesn't work that way.
And be we whatever shade of Christianity, those pastoral letters still apply to the leadership of the church. The clergy is held to a higher standard. They don't always meet it, but they must strive to do so.
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@Horace said in Dewey's post:
@Tom-K said in Dewey's post:
One think that troubles me though: Steve Miller said over there:
"The most memorable thing about that visit was learning that Larry in person was exactly the same as Larry on line."
I really wonder if that is true.They probably saw each other for five minutes.
The magic of "in person meetings" and the forging of deep understandings of who a person truly is, way deep down, is one of the most consistently overstated bits of nonsense one finds on online forums.
I think you're very wrong about that. Steve didn't look into the deepest parts of Larry's soul for those five minutes, but there's much more information that gets conveyed in person which you would otherwise never get reading what someone wrote.
wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 12:00 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Dewey's post:
but there's much more information that gets conveyed in person which you would otherwise never get reading what someone wrote.
True. For example, I donât even look like a key
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I guess one could be wrong with the initial in-person impression but as someone who has met scores of forumites over the years there are some who are pretty much the same as online and there are some who are very different in person, often times in the latter case itâs people who are far more argumentative online but not so much in person. (Quirt is an excellent example of the latter).
wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 12:03 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Dewey's post:
I guess one could be wrong with the initial in-person impression but as someone who has met scores of forumites over the years there are some who are pretty much the same as online and there are some who are very different in person, often times in the latter case itâs people who are far more argumentative online but not so much in person. (Quirt is an excellent example of the latter).
I hope so, since the man can be an absolute asshole on-line.
OTH, most lawyers like to argue. Maybe that's why they seek out the profession.
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wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 13:07 last edited by
Quirt is a lot of fun in person. Can be here too. I always felt he saw internet discussion as an online gym to keep his lawyerly skills sharp.
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wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 13:09 last edited by
I got to know Quirt pretty well when he lived in this area - I liked him a lot. He's a lot of fun to hang out with.
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wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 13:56 last edited by Jolly 8 Aug 2022, 13:57
I'll take y'all's word for it. Seems like a nice lady he's married to, so he must have some redeeming qualities.
Me, I'm just me. I write like I talk, except it's hard to convey the redneck accent in text. I try to have manners, have known to be cordial on occasion, tend to say what I think and if I think you are trying to intimidate me, I'll rip your ears off and feed them to you.
I'm just a big teddy bear đ§¸.
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I'll take y'all's word for it. Seems like a nice lady he's married to, so he must have some redeeming qualities.
Me, I'm just me. I write like I talk, except it's hard to convey the redneck accent in text. I try to have manners, have known to be cordial on occasion, tend to say what I think and if I think you are trying to intimidate me, I'll rip your ears off and feed them to you.
I'm just a big teddy bear đ§¸.
wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 16:03 last edited by -
All I can think of as I watch this piling on from both âsidesâ is that Larry would have loved this sh*t. Itâs actually made me laugh out loud a couple of time. Sorry, Iâm in a weird place in my mind lately. A weird and sometimes overwhelming grief that pops up at strange times from losing my Dad and both of our cats this year, along with my momâs dementia that has taken her mostly away, even though her body is still there. Really hard. So death has been on my mind a lot lately.
wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 16:51 last edited by@jodi said in Dewey's post:
All I can think of as I watch this piling on from both âsidesâ is that Larry would have loved this sh*t. Itâs actually made me laugh out loud a couple of time. Sorry, Iâm in a weird place in my mind lately. A weird and sometimes overwhelming grief that pops up at strange times from losing my Dad and both of our cats this year, along with my momâs dementia that has taken her mostly away, even though her body is still there. Really hard. So death has been on my mind a lot lately.
:woman-heart-woman: Tough times. I will send positive thoughts to you.
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I'll take y'all's word for it. Seems like a nice lady he's married to, so he must have some redeeming qualities.
Me, I'm just me. I write like I talk, except it's hard to convey the redneck accent in text. I try to have manners, have known to be cordial on occasion, tend to say what I think and if I think you are trying to intimidate me, I'll rip your ears off and feed them to you.
I'm just a big teddy bear đ§¸.
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wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 17:05 last edited by
I used to have a few guns and a couple of boxes of ammo.
Sadly, I lost them in a boating accident...
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wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 21:23 last edited by
There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented. Personally, I suspect the narrative that Larry was almost complete fiction, is more fictitious than the stuff he wrote about himself. But confirmation bias, as always, rules the day in the minds of many.
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wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 21:26 last edited by
These are Trump haters you are talking about
Alternate reality is not a problem
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wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 21:28 last edited by
Amen.
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wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 22:15 last edited by
But at least we have a cool nickname....The Wolfpack.
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wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 22:50 last edited by
@Jolly said in Dewey's post:
But at least we have a cool nickname....The Wolfpack.
I'm not part of that bullshit, though, right? I could never abide any clique so crass and irreverent that it'd have the likes of me as a member.
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@Jolly said in Dewey's post:
But at least we have a cool nickname....The Wolfpack.
I'm not part of that bullshit, though, right? I could never abide any clique so crass and irreverent that it'd have the likes of me as a member.
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There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented. Personally, I suspect the narrative that Larry was almost complete fiction, is more fictitious than the stuff he wrote about himself. But confirmation bias, as always, rules the day in the minds of many.
wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 22:55 last edited by@Horace said in Dewey's post:
There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented.
Itâs a shame you never met Vince.
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@Horace said in Dewey's post:
There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented.
Itâs a shame you never met Vince.
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wrote on 8 Aug 2022, 22:59 last edited by Mik 8 Aug 2022, 23:02
Vince was a grade a hoot. I was lucky enough to meet him in a belly dancing restaurant in DC, along with Aqua, Ax and his family, Lufin, M&Ms and their family, Improv...
He nearly got me into a fight with the neighboring party who I suspect were relatives of the dancers. Vince was the friend who comes to town to party with you. You all end up in jail and you can't wait for him to come back and do it again.
