Rick, please check the filter in your mind (to claire, long)

SJane Weisiger assissi@yahoo.com
Sun, 26 Apr 1998 10:38:13 -0700 (PDT) (00893630293, 19980426173813.15532.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com)




>>>CLAIRE
Dear Rick: I would have e-mailed you privately, but I would like to publicly correct a misperception you seem to have about my opinion of Dick Jones. I praised a specific message he sent. You neglected to mention that I have sent several messages to this list criticizing him for being vulgar and insulting. I am disappointed that he has been vulgar and insulting, especially since I am aware that he is quite capable of NOT being that way.
>>SJANE
Claire may have "praised a specific message he [JONES] sent", but she has certainly praised him in every way possible. For example:
>ERRANCY ARCHIVE
Dick's credentials, etc., should not be an issue. Claire E. O'Connor claireoc@softdisk.com Fri, 24 Apr 1998 CLAIRE <snip the stuff about penis size> As for his [Dick Jones'] degrees, or his money, I have no way of verifying those things, but I do have some reason to believe him. I have seen his e-mails to another list. He is clearly an intelligent, well-educated person who seems to have the leisure time to search for interesting anecdotes to mail to the other list. There are many people who have both MD and JD degrees - some of them contribute to *Medical Economics*, which my father receives. There are also a small number of people who are independently wealthy due to their making smart, timely, and lucky investments. It is unlikely that anyone just starting out now in real estate investments could make a fortune, but Dick Jones started a long time ago. So I believe that he could have a lot of money, as he says. My point is this: It is quite possible that Dick Jones is telling the truth about himself. (I have made it clear before that I believe him.) I don't think his credentials and his wealth are really an issue anyway. If anyone wants to pick on him for something, it should be for making vulgar ad hominem attacks, especially since he is capable of refraining from such insults. It seems to me that he has recently been less vulgar on this list (but that could just be my imagination). For all those who think that I am just a gullible "xian" who has been fooled by Dick Jones, may I remind all of you that there is little or no cost to me if it turns out that I am wrong and Dick Jones has no degrees and is not who he says he is. I am not sleeping with him. I am not going under his knife on the operating table. I am not hiring him as my lawyer. I am not handing over my life savings for him to invest for me (I don't have any savings anyway - I just have debts). All I am doing is reading and responding to some of his messages. At worst, I might lose credibility on this list when people say "I told you so". Since many of the atheists on this list already think that I have no credibility anyway, what more do I have I lose? Can I have a credibility of *negative infinity*? Maybe I already do. But there's not much I can do about that anyway, short of renouncing my faith and becoming an outspoken atheist. My Catholic faith has become stronger since I arrived on this list, so I see little likelihood of THAT scenario.
>>SJANE
It is true that Rick neglected to mention that Claire had sent several messages to this list criticizing him [JONES] for being vulgar and insulting:
>ERRANCY ARCHIVE
I wish Dick would refrain from making vulgar insults. Claire E. O'Connor claireoc@softdisk.com Sun, 05 Apr 1998 CLAIRE Since I went on record as stating that I believed Dick Jones was telling the truth about his education, etc. (and I still believe him), I will now go on record as saying that I find it painful and disgusting to read the vulgar insults he has been hurling at SJW (and others). He is certainly capable of doing a lot better than that.I realize that my "pain" is of no consequence, but I just wanted to put my "two cents" in.
>>SJANE
I am very suspicious as to why she feels the need to defend him. If you will recall, Dick said that one of the reasons why he is on this list is to recruit members for.....well, I can't find out why he is recruiting anyone. Hmmmm, it may be that Claire is one of Dick's potential victims....I mean.....recruits.
>ERRANCY ARCHIVE
Dicks real purpose.... box191@iland.net box191@iland.net Tue, 31 Mar 1998 Four people from this list are now communicating with me privately which is how most of my recruitment begins. This looks like a most promising group. <snip> Over half of my recruits are atheists. My system teaches that God doesn't exist which appeals to some atheists. and Jim, I have reason to believe Dick. Claire E. O'Connor claireoc@softdisk.com Sun, 05 Apr 1998 WASHBURN Claire's trust in Dick Jones is increasing over time. She has progressed from asserting that she didn't believe the hypothesis that Dick Jones is lying to now asserting that she believes everything Dick Jones claimed about himself. I can't say I'm a bit surprised, given that the Catholic Church has brainwashed......... CLAIRE Jim, Dick has communicated with me privately, and I have no reason to doubt his credentials......<snip>
>>SJANE
Claire, please stop letting yourself be brainwashed. How can you think someone is intelligent when you can see for yourself how vulgar and insulting Dick is. If Dick was intelligent, he would not feel the need to hurl senseless insults and vulgarities. You said: "For all those who think that I am just a gullible "xian" who has been fooled by Dick Jones...." And to this I say that I am one among "all of those". SJane Weisiger Dick's numerous insults follow for those new to the list:
>From Dick to Nancy 4/5/98
I didn't say I wouldn't be back, you lying bag of shit. But in fact, you dumb fuck..... .....so you're just a meddling busybody liar. Don't believe everything you're told, except that you need to clean your ass once in a while.
>From Dick to Sjane 4/5/98
Same here, BB brain. Since you've had your head stuck up your ass.....
>From Dick to Sjane 4/5/98
You dumb fuck..... .....At what's right in front of you, you stupid ass. The Father of Lies is that Great Serpent, the Devil, who controls you from Hell. You worship him everytime you open your fat mouth with your foul lies. Oh, you stupid Bitch........ That's because you're just plain too dumb and plain too evil to understand what you heard. Not to mention the only news for you is an eternity in Hell. Screw you, sweetheart, not that I'd be willing to touch you with my two foot pole. DO YOU YAHOO!? Yeah, SJane does, everytime one of those cowboys paying her a quarter gets on.
>From Dick to Sjane 4/11/98
Wrong, fatass, that's not what I said. Try using your head for something besides sex. Wrong as usual, fatass. I don't believe in anything.......... You're only a wiseass fool. Does reality always upset your tummy? Maybe you're preggie? You do seem to "think" with your hormones, come to think of it. What figment of your imagination is this, fatass? Rhetorical only, fatass,as I don't "argue" with fools.
>From Dick to Adnan 4/5/98
Look, Mohammed Adnan, I have no idea which backward non-Christian nation you were spawned in, with your Islamic upbringing.........
>From Dick to Drew 4/12/98
But once in a while a grown up does happen along and swats some of the dirty little butts hanging out here. But then most of the regulars here seem to have no idea who their father was, or even who their ancestors were.
>From Dick to Drew 4/13/98
It seems very clear that you are an ignorant fool..... It seems abundantly clear that you're an ignorant fool..... .....it is clear that this ignorant fool, i.e. "Drew Walton"
>From Dick to Helen 4/12/98
You are one pathological lying bitch. .....but that never stops you from opening your lying mouth to make pronouncements about it. Well, you ignorant bitch..... You ignorant bitch..... This ignorant bitch can't even spell its, a most simple three-letter word. Why aren't some of you anti-Biblicists beating this moron about her head? Nancy, the one with the anal fixation on apostrophes, where's your moral condemnation of this ignorant bitch?
>From Dick to Helen 4/13/98
Helen, you mindless nitwit.....
>From Dick to John H. 4/12/98
Well, yet another ignorant fool who exhibits "sloppy thinking".....
>From Dick to Dave E. 4/13/98
Dave Everett foolishly wrote.....
>From Dick to Till 4/13/98
.....preferring to exercise your fat mouth and skinny brain on personal attacks Well, Till, here you're just a windbag of shit..... _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com