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WELL JIM, ENJOY THE BED YOU HAVE MADE: Quix's latest Opus Installment
TrueBlueRINOs antifreeper site ^ | « on: Today at 11:38:49 AM » | Quix

Posted on 07/04/2012 1:16:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

Wellllllll Jim, Enjoy The Bed You’ve Made . SUMMARY: . IN COMPLEX INTERPERSONAL SITUATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS—WHO CAN KNOW WHAT IS “REALLY REAL?” APPEARANCES ARE WHAT IS REAL TO THE OBSERVER CONCERNED. So, in many respects, the REAL might be the opposite of the statements below. However, the statements ARE PERCEIVED TO BE—APPARENTLY REAL ENOUGH for evidently thousands of FREEPERS that only idiots would fail to give such assertions fitting prayerful pondering.

1. Your leadership and leadership culture are consistent with those of a fairly complex person—like many of us.

2. Your leadership and leadership team CAN be quite generous, forgiving, kind, patient, understanding, compassionate, stalwart, tough, durable, endearing, perceptive, sensitive, thoughtful, persistent, occasionally self-effacing, prefer peace and peacableness; . . .

3. Your leadership and leadership team CAN also be quite arrogant, mean-spirited, harsh, abusive, very foul-worded, hypocritical, mercenary, spiteful, !!!CONTROLLING!!!, narrow, rigid, brittle, prickly, vengeful, judgmental, erratic, flip-floppy, irrational, arbitrary, hypocritical, petty, shallow, prefer flailing about in bitter harsh ways . . .

4. Like all of us with such disadmirable traits, such junk MUST come from your early history and less than ideal fathering (or possibly mothering and/or both).

5. For whatever reasons you have failed to work such junk through very far or very thoroughly.

6. Which might be largely neither here nor there in the larger scheme of things—EXCEPT THAT—you HAVE BEEN GIVEN OF GOD an incredible honor, opportunity, calling, gift, mandate—which you have appeared to increasingly squander to alarming degrees on arrogance, greed, foul, petty, dishonorable ugliness and ineffectual chaotic nastiness, conflictedness, unnecessary contentiousness and the like.

7. As I’ve often said—it’s fine with me if FREEPERS make you rich every day. If a million FR users and lurkers wish to give you a dollar or 5 dollars a day or a month the rest of your life—GREAT. FR gives lots of usefulness, pleasure, relationships and community to many thousands of people daily day in and day out; year in and year out.

7.1 Given the importance of the financial aspect to so many people . . . here’s some comments I posted earlier:

7.2 There is FARRRR tooooo little transparency and candor in terms of finances generally and specifically.

7.3 There is FARRR TOOOOOOO much abuse of even long time users and big time donors. What kind of management brilliance does it take to run off for petty shallow reasons folks who donated $2,500 PER FREEPATHON . . . and folks who donated $500 PER FREEPATHON . . . folks who just left in disgust if not hurt and anger over the petty abuse they took (or their friends or people they respected took) for no good reason. There's evidently some sort of spiritual and psychodynamic sickness at the deep root of such nonsense. And it appears to be getting worse instead of better.

7.4 Begging for funds with various kinds of shallow manipulations and funky hogwash could just be harmless fun among friendly family . . . except that . . . those giving such funds faithfully for more than 10 years are NEVER REALLY SECURE in the RELATIONSHIP and not even in being able to enjoy the FR HOME THAT THEY PAID FOR AND HELPED BUILD from virtually the ground up.

7.5 At some point, the arrogant dogmatic !!!CONTROL!!! freaque domineering fist pounding that "IT'S HIS HOUSE!" "IT'S HIS LIVING ROOM!" is outrageous, hypocritical and just plain factual nonsense. It is FREEPERS who have built up the readership of FR. It is FREEPERS' creativity and writing skills and interesting personalities who have build up FR's once great attractiveness to a wider audience.

7.6 Who paid for the carpet? Who paid for the paint? Who paid for the furniture? Who paid for the pics on the wall? Who pays for the electricity? Who pays for the heat and air conditioning? Who pays the insurance? Who pays the other utilities? Who pays for the internet service? Who pays for the gardening? Who pays for the groceries? Who pays for the transportation? Who pays for the "coming soon servers" that never quite seem to arrive?

7.6.1 Just who is the guest of whom?

7.6.2 It appears that with readership down 16-20% over the last 6 months or so . . . an increasing number of people are flushing the 'guest' out of their lives.

7.7 Clearly, it's the FREEPER SHEEPLE who have been paying through the nose in the face of erratic, arbitrary, irrational abuse year in and year out--never knowing when the mean-streak is going to strike out and slap them hard or even ban them--sometimes in the foulest language any "Christian" was ever known to utter or write. And then their EXTENDED FAMILY that has become so dear and precious to them—sometimes their literal life-savers--will be suddenly flushed out of their lives with absolutely no recourse whatsoever.

7.8 It is ACTUALLY ABOUT AS REASONABLE to say that JR and family are the squatters in the FREEPERS' HOME. . . . you know . . . that old founding documents thing . . . OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE?

And even that wouldn’t be soooooo outrageous IF a REPRESENTATIVE sample (REPRESENTATIVE—AS IN “REPUBLIC”!!!) of the FREEPER COMMUNITY had a seat at the table to offer input and advice THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY THOUGHTFULLY AND FAIRLY CONSIDERED each quarter. But, NOPE, the fist pounding, insecure, arrogant !!!CONTROL!!! freak domineering junk always rules.

8. HOWEVER, the mean-spirited, arrogant, hypocritical etc. junk has APPEARED to poison your well from the beginning. There have been gross hypocrisies. Early on you were reportedly utterly convinced (with good reason, actually) that Bush was complicit in drug running through Arkansas etc. Yet, fairly early on, you became convinced or persuaded that any discussion of conspiracy stuff on FR had to be forbidden—and mocked as absurdly untrue.

9. You would pontificate at length about maintaining a CONSISTENT stance as a Republic on the unchanging values and foundation of the founding fathers and founding documents. You claimed therewith to be the Premier Conservative website etc. in support thereof. All this was repeatedly stated with great pontifical emotion and fanfare while your leadership and leadership team APPEARED TO BE an erratic, irregular grossly inconsistent, grossly petty, shallow, flip-floppy and often a pathetic chaotic, haphazard, directionless mess.

10. Some folks have documented that few of the political figures you have ended up supporting have won. I don’t know that THAT means a huge lot, given the globalists insuring that the whole SElection/voting mess is 98% farce, charade, futile. However, there’s been a great deal of emotion, energy, expense, time, angst UTTERLY AND TOTALLY WASTED on !!!DEMANDING!!! that loyal FREEPERS support person XYZ and NOT ABC under pain of banning. Only to wake-up the next morning and have to flip-flop with the FR leadership team—too often—seemingly 180 degrees. And to do that with a straight face as though it were rational, made sense and was of benefit to the Republic has been more than a little off the wall and mystifying to thousands of FREEPERS. I don't know where folks were supposed to check their brains and integrity as they complied with the FR Pied Piper in following that nonsense lock-step.

11. You have evidently repeatedly and reportedly from the early years--returned evil for good. That’s been true toward individuals and toward classes and groups of individuals. There’s no excuse for that. None. There’s dozens of ways to avoid that in any kind of disagreement. SOMETIMES it has APPEARED that you and/or your leadership team have gone out of your way to do that—SOMETIMES SEEMINGLY in the meanest, harshest ways handy. Scripture is quite clear about the consequences of that kind of sowing.

12. You can be glibly self-effacing and disarmingly dismissive of the quality of your own Christianity, your leadership, your understanding . . . a list of things in that paragraph that ON THE SURFACE sounded and appeared impressive. Sadly, shortly after, it appeared to be merely propaganda for the FREEPATHON. It became quickly unclear how much of an earnest, heart-felt confession it really was—largely because there was no follow-up fruit of such a confession. It soon rang hollow and a farce. The arrogance, harshness and arbitrary and erratic !!!CONTROL!!! freak stuff quickly returned.

13. You and your leadership team have pontificated, exclaimed and wailed about !!!LOYALTY!!! and !!!BETRAYAL!!! while demonstrating the most petty and absurdly based disloyalty and outrageous betrayal of anyone who was ever a part of FR. You have absolutely no room to talk or complain about either one of those issues. You have merely reaped A PORTION of what you have so chronically, persistently and often mean-spiritedly sown in such regards. And your reaping is far from finished on such scores.

14. You have rightly and honorably claimed Christian values as a hallmark of your personally held priorities as well as FR’s priorities. Sometimes you have followed through—such as with your very admirable and honorable tenacious insistence that prayer threads be allowed in the main NEWS forum. By the same token, you have frequently demonstrated a hideous tendency to lapse into harsh, abusive, foul-mouthed communications publicly and privately—which would make many a sailor blush. None of us is 100% free 100% of the time of 100% of all hypocrisy. However, the frequency and ruthlessness of such foul-mouthed and arbitrary harshness out of clearly a mean-streak is NOT AT ALL a fruit of Holy Spirit. AT some point, perceptive, thinking and discerning folks have to ask themselves: Where is the real JimRob and just how much of an authentic Christian is he? And what game is he REALLY playing for what goal(s)? And doe HE even know or have a clue who he is and what he's about?

15. Many of us have been prayerful and seriously concerned about your health problems for a long time. However, sadly, even there some of us are troubled. Given the relationship between the MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT, one has to wonder if your health would be significantly better if your spiritual health and persistent demonstrations of your spirituality were more consistent with the advertising. In short—mean-spiritedness produces a troublesome harvest in the body, in relationships, in the psyche and certainly in the spirit. At some point, all the prayers in the world will not force a STUBBORN, mean-spirited ARROGANT soul to be better, healthy. As Scripture notes:

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. . . .” I don’t know if the rest of that verse applies to you at present, or not. I know you’re on slippery ground on that score.

16. And IDOLATRY will NOT WORK for anyone—even the king of FR. It doesn’t matter if one nurses one’s own bitterness as idolatry; or if one idolizes one’s country; or one’s own press releases; or one’s FR baby or whatever. Idolatry is a deadly poison.

17. I’ve agonized for many months over how to write the compassionate but stern rebuke I felt pressed so strongly in my spirit to write. People either seem to suck-up to you in fierce psychophant fashion—or to trash you as a minion of satan. I see you more as a typical Attachment Disordered man hung up on some serious spiritual and psychodynamic flaws like most of us in our era. So what. However, to stubbornly cling to one’s arrogance, stubbornness, meanness . . . and to ALLOW, much less seem to exalt in spewing such all over the thousands of folks who give money for your support and the support of your baby . . . that is at best unwise and at worst a pretty hideous example of human excess.

18. I don’t know what God intends to do with you and/or FR. I know you are NOT indispensable. I know that FR will NOT significantly influence the corrupt farce of a November SElection process—if we get that far in any kind of functional shape as a Nation.

19. I know that you have been given a priceless gift and honor of ENORMOUS potential good for the Nation, millions of individuals and the Body of Christ. And you & your leadership team have appeared to squander horrendous chunks of that potential on pettiness, personal pique, arrogance, stubbornness, meanness, willful blindness and willful ignorance. I know that many thousands of people in and out of the Body of Christ who COULD HAVE BEEN FITTINGLY AND USEFULLY WARNED about the spiritual and practical hazards of satanic globalism as well as the fallen angel UFO stuff have not been warned because of y’all’s junk and the junk of the likes of JeanS and Dirtboy and their cadre of harpies. To the degree THAT is true, there will be embarrassing amounts of blood on such hands, come judgment day—unless confession and repentance are heart-felt effected before then—and even then, though it may cover such sins redemptively with Christ’s blood—it will not save thousands who would have otherwise been saved had such a sobering responsibility been carried more fittingly and Biblically earlier.

20. Yet again, as all of us every day—have a choice. You can continue as is most likely—as you have for decades. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. And, I am well aware that you have rarely to never demonstrated, to my awareness, the least bit of a constructive response to negative feedback. It’s more likely that such a msg will result in a hardened heart, more arrogance and more stubbornness. That will be however it will be, with the responsibility for individual choices resting with each individual on your leadership team as well as on your supporters.

21. I only know of one priceless brilliant Christian in the upper levels of FR respect, who could likely help pull FR out of such a mess. You know who that is. You probably know they would be highly unlikely to ever say anything—particularly unasked. And, even if asked, they would likely be very sparse with their words—and it would be easy for you to discount, dismiss and ignore their wisdom. They would not push it. Shoot, they likely even would help you circle the wagons unless God made it clear they needed to do otherwise for your spiritual and other health.

22. Time is running out. Your options are shrinking daily in a list of ways as they are for all of us--unless we abide in Christ. I don’t know if Fresno is at a high enough elevation to escape coming traumas for California. I don’t think it is. Besides, the Chinese are not likely to be kind to Californians when they arrive to take possession of so much that they now own. I don’t’ know if HumbleGunner’s place in Texas is far enough from the coast and from Mexico to be wise either. I just know, you and all on the planet need to do MUCH BETTER at getting your spiritual house and your practical house in order--faster.

22. The question was raised in the FREE QUIX thread you closed yesterday about whether I’d like to return to FR. (A) I don’t feel the freedom to do that without your confession, repentance and evidence that you are going to sincerely back such confession and repentance up with “fruit” as the Bible might put it. Confess and repent about what? Whatever of the above that God would confirm as having validity and truth in your life. I suspect hell would freeze over before you’d humble yourself sufficiently to confess and repent. BTW, it needs to be public because your junk was flung about so freely publicly. (B) I don’t feel the freedom to return unless my posting options would cease to be curtailed by mindless, ignorant boundaries. That would include about globalism AS WELL AS the fallen angel UFO topic. I miss the relationship connections but God is God and always will be God and makes even that OK. Besides, folks can find me on this TBL forum.

22.1 Yes, THIS TOO is done as I’d want done toward me IF I’d demonstrated the junk you and your leadership has demonstrated for 11+ years. I’d want someone to care enough to try and starkly but caringly get my attention about such horrors in my life and turf.

23. I do thank you for the years I had on FR of many fulfilling and meaningful exchanges with very interesting people of great diversity but a lot of shared values. May God richly reward you for the humble part I had in all that.

24. I do pray that you earnestly do what you can to, by God’s Grace, truly get your act together. Reaping what we have sown can be a troublesome challenge for all of us. Given your evident current bent, I’d much hate to see any further reaping what you have sown.

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To: rogue yam

“But I do not support abandoning the GOP to the crooks and RINOs.”

They already own it. We cannot abandon that which we no longer possess. So why do you keep ignoring all the posted exxamples of your contradictions (lies) ?

Think they will just go away? Or is that the TBL way?


761 posted on 07/05/2012 11:21:12 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Jeff Head
A few months later, in July-Aug 2001, Klamath Falls came along and good friends being trampled on by out of control Federal over-reached beckonfed again, ands I was happy to go there and help too.

I remember "The Battle of Klamath Falls" very well, and your willingness to step up to the plate against oppression of decent hardworking people by government.

Its one of the events I recount to others to inspire hope when sometimes it seems all hope is lost.

In my book, you are an American hero, and will always have my deepest respect.

762 posted on 07/05/2012 11:21:35 AM PDT by sockmonkey (She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick)
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To: Star Traveler

“we’re not really talking about some kind of “whacko” here”

Wasn’t he really into the Alien stuff?


763 posted on 07/05/2012 11:21:49 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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764 posted on 07/05/2012 11:22:05 AM PDT by Titanites
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To: CharacterCounts
the whole thing looks a little suspicious.

Amen to that!

765 posted on 07/05/2012 11:22:05 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Until the 52K LDS missionaries claiming Christian faith is bogus quit, I will post LDS truth.)
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To: Jim Robinson
I recognize some of the screen names over at TBL, including one that has been as vile, nasty, and obnoxious to me here at FR as Quix complains about in his post.

I don't think I'll be signing up over there.

766 posted on 07/05/2012 11:22:38 AM PDT by GSWarrior (Democrats have finally figured out how to tax the air that you breathe.)
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To: Finny

There’s no question about it ... Quix, while here on Free Republic, was a sincere, dedicated, Bible-believing and energetic Christian - helping and posting whenever and wherever he could.

And being the above doesn’t always translate into being a “politically correct talking” Christian ... that some others think that Christians should be. You should read some of Jesus’ comments to others ... Yikes!


767 posted on 07/05/2012 11:27:22 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: trisham; Colofornian; svcw; Zakeet; Tennessee Nana; aMorePerfectUnion; Godzilla; fishtank; ...
Bump post 752

Thanks, Trisham.

768 posted on 07/05/2012 11:27:36 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Until the 52K LDS missionaries claiming Christian faith is bogus quit, I will post LDS truth.)
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To: greyfoxx39

Thank you, greyfoxx.


769 posted on 07/05/2012 11:30:16 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: greyfoxx39

Less than 600 people determined the fate of America not that long ago. Bot this guy thinks that 60,000 can’t.

Boy howdy, that there is some seriously solid logic. In today’s schools it would get a red star and an “I Participated” trophy to go with the PHD.

That settles it. FR has been invaded by the DNC. No conservative, or even RINO would spout that nonsense.


770 posted on 07/05/2012 11:30:16 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: xzins

Correction — I miscounted. Make that 178, not 168.


771 posted on 07/05/2012 11:30:44 AM PDT by Finny (A deal with the devil is ALWAYS a losing proposition. Voting for Romney to avoid Obama is just that.)
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To: Antoninus

I’ve noticed that someone else becomes a “blight” if they disagree with one’s own position ... LOL ...


772 posted on 07/05/2012 11:32:28 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: CatherineofAragon

“Romney’s apparent plans to institute his health care plan with the help of FL attorney general, Pam Bondi. One of the more vociferous Romney supporters called me a deranged liar, LOL.”

You are right about that as I heard/saw Romney say it. He said she is going to work with him on healthcare encouraging states to develop their own healthcare like Mass. did. He said this during the time of the Florida primary.


773 posted on 07/05/2012 11:33:22 AM PDT by Marcella (The power to tax is the power to destroy.)
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To: rogue yam
To: Colonel_Flagg

You know as well as I do that the Massachusetts system was rigged in favor of the 'Rats in ways that are completely absent from the federal system.

You are being profoundly dishonest in pretending otherwise.

I am sick of Romney-haters acting like evil lying commie scum.

You are a disgrace to this forum and to humankind in general.

71 posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:02:02 PM by rogue yam [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 70 | View Replies | Report Abuse]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2889540/posts?q=1&;page=51

Maybe your doppleganger wrote this little gem too.

I stand behind everything I've written on this board.

That explains a lot. I really don't care what you think about me but it's always refreshing to see you post to JR. He seems to be the only person who opposes you that you won't personally insult. Good for you.

774 posted on 07/05/2012 11:33:53 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Conservatism is not a matter of convenience.)
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To: rogue yam

The old school gop’ers have made it clear that they will do everything they can to styfle and mute the new tea party members. And they have done that quite well.

They have made it IMPOSSIBLE for the new ones to be the “face of the GOP”, sorry.

Go ahead and do what you can, but there is a brick wall there that cannot be penetrated.

Except by completely abandoning the GOP and not voting for their liberal candidates.

That is my proposal, and it is the only one that will have any effect.

The GOP has asked for this. Too many Conservatives will NOT support the GOP-e

Keeping supporting them tells them that they can continue to get away with dissing Conservatives.

They didn’t want McCain to win, so he supported Obama a few weeks before the election

I wonder what Romney’s October suprize will be???


775 posted on 07/05/2012 11:34:19 AM PDT by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: Finny
Correction — I miscounted. Make that 178, not 168.

If I'm not on your "never vote for romney" list, please put me there.

776 posted on 07/05/2012 11:34:25 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: rogue yam

Post 752 makes the case about your poo-flinging just fine, thank you.


777 posted on 07/05/2012 11:34:44 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Star Traveler
There’s no question about it ... Quix, while here on Free Republic, was a sincere, dedicated, Bible-believing and energetic Christian - helping and posting whenever and wherever he could.

...and THEN he went over to the dark side at TBL, was running down JR and FR even before he was zotted and he is STILL doing it.

Quix, for all his "hail fellow well met" is a hypocrite.

Did you read the post at No. 1?

778 posted on 07/05/2012 11:34:44 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Until the 52K LDS missionaries claiming Christian faith is bogus quit, I will post LDS truth.)
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To: greyfoxx39
You really are protesting muchly about this.

Somebody on TBL speculated that you were the one who signed up as rogue yam, but it was not me and I would not even think about making such a claim as I have no idea who it was that did it.

I do believe that it was not rogue yam though, and if it wasn't RY, a freeper enemy would be my first suspect.

That you are that enemy is not my accusation.

If you simply say "it wasn't me" I think most will take you at your word until they have reason not to.

But remember, whoever it was that signed up as RY had no problem using a vile name in reference to this site's owner.

779 posted on 07/05/2012 11:34:58 AM PDT by Tribune7 (Fire Obama)
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To: greyfoxx39
In THAT case, please inform the MittBots who are blasting those of us who are sticking by our principles and refusing to be bullied into voting for Romney, that they can now SHUT UP because "we aren't relevant".

60,000 votes in the context of the popular vote, as that poster was advocating for his "plurality" theory, are meaningless. Nobody cares, and it has zero effect on the results of the election.

But the impact of 60,000 votes on the electoral college can be determinative, as it was only a few hundred that determined the outcome of the 2000 election.

780 posted on 07/05/2012 11:34:59 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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