An Open Letter to Those I Care About Who Refuse to Engage

https://imyourmoderator.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-those-i-care-about?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web ^ | 9/11/2022 | chris paul

[bitt]

You have not considered what it would mean for you if I am right. You need to. Now.

To those I care about:

That you think I’m crazy is not primarily an insult to me. It makes me feel sad for you.

If you feel insulted in what’s to follow, ask yourself how I must feel, having spent days, weeks, months, or longer trying to convince you to reconnect to your humanity.

And please do not do yourselves or me the favor of pretending, “well, I don’t think you’re crazy, but…”

I don’t care to be lied to. I do not lie to you.

The extent to which it bothers me that you think I’m crazy is the extent to which I have overestimated who we are to one another.

I know you think I’m crazy because if you did not, you would have to admit I might be right. If I am, you would be wrong about most of what you believe when it comes to how the world works and your place in it. That horrifies you.

It should not horrify you because there is still time for you to understand.

I will not try to convince you that by coming to terms with the fact that most of what you know is wrong, the world becomes a far better, more open, more honest, and more exciting place, though it unquestionably does.

I want to focus on the fact that if you examine your mind, you’ll discover that you have not once thought about what it would mean if I am right. You know I’m not stupid, or lazy, or uninformed, or malicious, or dishonest, or mean-spirited, or gullible, don’t you? I know you do.

So you tell yourself instead that I am crazy. But you don’t even go that far, because it seems too extreme. Moral clarity frightens you. You convince yourself, ‘he’s not crazy, but he’s crazy about this’, as if that’s even a coherent thought. You think it makes sense because you mistake passion or focus for insanity. Have you never been passionate about something? Have you never been focused on something?

Can you only know you’re not crazy when certain other people agree? Do you understand that my view of these important issues now shares vast majority support? Your view is now the view outside the mainstream. Your view is shared by everyone who stands to continue benefitting from the mass adoption of the belief you hold and virtually no one else.

The number of people continuing to benefit from the world your position has created is decreasing, ever more rapidly. The number of people being harmed by the world your position allows is increasing. As the harm grows, people reach a personal precipice at which they understand it is the worldview itself creating the harm. At this point, they release their hold on the false reality your worldview espouses.

...more..much more...

[CatHerd]

Okay, I’ll take you off ignore for this one post to welcome you back. Hope you are all better. We were worried about you:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4098062/posts?page=159#159

Although I must admit it was nice to get a vacation from your annoying GIF glopping up my ping page.

[Lazamataz]

You're not a nice person, Bagster.

Hang on for a tick. I'm the most not-nice person on Free Republic. No poseur is going to take that title from me, dammit!

[Jamestown1630]

I’m not a fan of novels in audio.

I only listen to UFO stuff, popular gossip, news and religious works in audio - they make the housework less boring.

But thanks for reminding me of Middlemarch!

[humblegunner]

Yeah, OK.
You know that 93% of the reason y’all look so retarded
is because of greasy old ladies being treated as legitimate
when they come up with the stupidest junk imaginable.

[Jamestown1630]

You have a long way to go to match Bagster’s ‘not niceness’.

(You and HumbleGunner both.)

[bagster]

Your obsession with me continues to embarrass you and bore everyone else.

Notice I don't follow you around on your old lady threads. But when a pretentious cat lady calls me dumb, I feel its my duty as an American citizen to retort. Why do all you old crows feel like I'm obsessed with you? You wish.

You’re not a nice person, Bagster.

No, I'm not. Which makes me wonder why you continue to insult me. You must know I'll do the watusi on your cyber skull, right? I think you like the attention.

You delight in stringing people along in nonsense, and I don’t doubt that you are somehow being paid to do it.

If not, I should be. My words are liquid gold. But for now, I'll take my pay in sammiches. Fetch them hither.

[meyer]

Love ya a little Bitt!

[Jet Jaguar]

liquid gold.

2 weeks payment in the mail.

Keep it up.

[bagster]

Okay, I’ll take you off ignore for this one post to welcome you back. Hope you are all better. We were worried about you:

Awww, you do have a secret crush on me. I knew it. Girls like you always love the bad boys.

Watch out though, Jamestown will claw your eyes out. She's the jealous type.

[Jamestown1630]

I’ve always felt perfectly safe here.

I just don’t suffer fools.

[CatHerd]

I agree on the audio books. Just not the same as reading the actual book. At the time, I had a huge job to do after a death in the family (housework to the tenth power — lived there 60 years, so a big job) and needed something to listen to while I tackled all that. A nice novel set in a previous century fit what I needed at the time.

[bagster]

You have a long way to go to match Bagster’s ‘not niceness’. (You and HumbleGunner both.)

[Jamestown1630]

You’ve certainly followed me around on this one - and I didn’t even respond until your third ping.

You’re so desperate for attention, you’re an object of pity.

[meyer]

Today’s college game demands that letter be T!

Go, vols!

And yes, I agree with Bitt.

[Jamestown1630]

I’ll have to give it a try. Maybe Ray Bradbury would be nice in audio.

(We’re going through something similar now, with clearing out a relative’s home.)

[meyer]

Some people understand, some don’t.

[bagster]

You’ve certainly followed me around on this one - and I didn’t even respond until your third ping.

You can't follow somebody around on the same thread. You either respond to them or you do not. I respond. You ain't gonna get away with the retarded things you say as long as I'm Sheriff in these parts.

[CatHerd]

Lol! Fahrenheit 451! I had moments when I thought oh, just call in a bulldozer or burn it down, but of course I didn’t.

[Jamestown1630]

You look pretty wobbly on your feet.

Drink too much, or just very old and fat?

[Pilsner]

I respect Jim’s request that Q threads are left to Q-Tips, and don’t go and mock you for your delusions on them. But you won’t stay on the reservation.

You know if you had the sense God gave a goose, you would understand that your arrogant, sneering assumption that you and Q, whose pronouns I won’t presume to assume, are privy to great secrets, and if you didn’t treat everyone else as if you are a Chess Grand Master discussing the subject with a child who is not certain which of the bishop and rook move diagonally, then you might have more success as a prophet of Q. At least until those you proselytize work out that there is no there, there. As it is, your behavior saves people the time they would waste investigating Q.

Wait! Is that it? Have I cracked the code? You aren’t a Q-Tip at all! You are an agent de dégoût, touting Q in a manner such that no Freeper ever reads something you write and says to himself hmm, that kinda’ makes sense. Perhaps I should find out more about Q?

My compliments sir. Please carry on.