Humblegunner is alive and well - just taking a break catching up on the blogs.
Posted on 03/24/2023 1:50:12 PM PDT by Lazamataz
Some people hated him, he could be contentious.
But I didn't. I liked the guy. We got along famously when we met in person.
I haven't seen him around here for a while, so I looked at his latest posts. His last post was 1/21/2023.
I hope he's okay.
humblegunner, if you are ok, let me know in here or on Facebook.
Good riddance.
bingo!!
ahahaha! cute!
His grilled pork ribs are exceptional.
And we won’t even mention his shrimp en brochette.
(Sublime.)
He is a member of the Doberman bee spitting group.
Humblegunner is alive and well - just taking a break catching up on the blogs.
I have wondered about Lurkinandloomin, with his “assistant democrats” description of the GOP. Where’d he go?
Now that is humorous. Thanks. One sentence blog pimps did warrant reproof, but it seems he went too far.
As one who sets (under https://freerepublic.com/perl/settings) the articles page to 250, and to show the (up to) 100 text leader (https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?brevity=full) then I have often exhorted posters who only paste a sentence or two of a article to try to provide the 300 word excerpts that are usually allowed. But without being acerbic. As in An exhortation to those who post thread (normally post as much of the meat of the article as allowed, describe videos, etc.)
Try this.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:humblegunner/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change
He was on a mission. It may have cost him his life......
When I post an article I try to err on the side of caution and post only the first couple of paragraphs. If I post too little of the excerpted amount allowed, then I apologize since I do not do a word count when selecting the portion to include. Of course, we also have the certain publications which have informed this site that none of their work can be published here at FR, in addition to some sites of which attribution is banned altogether such as Zerohedge. Those sites are hard to keep track of and the list is not often brought to the forefront to remind posters of those sources which are not allowed.
I assume that since we here are taking other people’s work and using it for our discussions, the least we can do is encourage people to go and actually read the article which the original author put effort into publishing. So it is a fine line as to juggling how much or little to excerpt, which sites can’t be published, and which sites are not allowed.
I do the best I can.
Wow! I went to the link and read his comments to so many people. I’d forgotten exactly how hateful he was to so many regular Freepers. If you take a look at his comments, he never added any useful discourse to any conversation. It was only immediate insults to the originators of many articles posted here at FR.
As I said, he is vile and I would be happy not to see his hateful comments again. However, I wish him the best in Belize
Up to his old attitude. Go to My Sister Was Murdered This Morning (11:36 am), then go to the blog link. He comments there.
I have had some discourse with the “humblegunner.” Whoever or where he is, he had a nasty note for most of us on FREE REPUBLIC!
I will chalk it up as, a person who had problems, a lefty antagonist who could not resist playing the opposite role of, “humble,” or just someone who liked to mess with us to get our reactions.
So, “EH?’” I say.......
An original!
I started lurking in ‘98 after reading about a FReeper rally that made national news. I think it was in DC. I remember everyone you named except maybe Don Morgan. I remember Ash Alerts and also Registered’s hilarious memes before memes were a “thing” (“I’m so baked I think I voted for Buchanan”) and I had a Sore-Loserman printout on the bulletin board in my office.
I remember Classy Green Eyed Blonde before the truth came out. LOL
I finally joined in early 2001 because a local FR chapter was starting up in Houston. Man, we had some great FReeps back then.
Believe me, I get it. I am trying hard to be a Christian. It isn’t easy for me. I have a real problem with the concept of loving my enemy.
I have feelings of anger towards a lot of things in this seemingly insane world. I feel as if I am brimming with it, like a simmering pot on a stove filled all the way up to the brim.
I need real perspective, and I feel the only way I will get it is through Christ.
The other day, I had a Freeper, out of the blue, just jumped on me (linguistingly-speaking) and was very hostile and rude because he disagreed with me. It isn’t treatment I take kindly to, and in life, my response has always welled up unbidden in me, and my anger has taken control of me, even as I have known I shouldn’t let it.
I just see red. It isn’t good, I don’t enjoy it (as some seem to do) and I wish I didn’t have such a hot head.
So, when that Freeper just attacked me in a seemingly irrational fit of vitriol, I felt my response just come to a fast boil instantly.
But I thought about that person, and knew in my heart that I knew nothing about him. Nothing. Had no idea of what paths he has walked in life. Where life has taken him. Who he has known. What he has seen.
As I thought about it, I went to his Freep page, and read his short history. War vet. Disabled. I realized that, even though the attack on me and the hatred that permeated it was so unexpected it almost didn’t register, he was someone I just felt was in real pain. And I know so little of that in my life that I should give the benefit of the doubt to someone who has known pain.
And that is how I have tried to view humblegunner. I realized after a while that nearly everyone has some good in them, for certain people in certain aspects of their lives, what thye do doesn’t bring it out in them. I figured for humblegunner, discourse in this way with people just brought out the wrong side of him.
It doesn’t play to his strengths, IMO. Could be alcohol or drugs. Could be health. Could by the psychic trials we all face as we age. Could be a rough spot in his personal life. Or he could be like many of us, disheartened, and outraged by some of the things we see, and just lashing out at people he doesn’t know.
I am trying to be a Christian, so I am trying to keep those things in mind, that I have not walked in people’s shoes, so I just don’t know. It doesn’t mean I excuse bad behavior, but it does mean I keep in mind I don’t know everything, and I hope someone might give me the benefit of the doubt, the way I am trying to give it to them.
And I am trying to accept that there is one thing, and one thing only in life you have full and complete control over, and that is your reaction to the world and events. So I have taken (with mixed success) in this forum (and my life) that if I can control my reaction to things, I am going to be happier and more level, which will keep me from eating myself from the inside out. And it is what I have been trying out in this forum. With mixed success.
And so it is with the un-named Freeper above.
And so it is with humblegunner.
Don’t forget Navigator and...who was he always squabbling with?
I was for awhile telling him he needed to drink some prune juice as he seemed… uptight.
Maybe he did - and drank too much.
I’m sorry, Mr. Gunner.
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