Dotey OT
Re-Membered
I am going to go a bit further, and say this, to you my old friend, on this message board. You may never read this, maybe you will. Maybe your kids will. But if this goes badly for me, I will post your names, and my name here in this forum. This will be the written history of it.
There are good things that have come from your experience. No one will say that you haven't gotten something out of it. That is real to you, no one argues this. There is more to the story. You know this is true. Just ask yourself the question "where is everybody?" You say that is the way it is with all new religions. That all new religions are attacked. That might hold some truth, possibly, for some religions. What if a brilliant person thought up this as a ruse? A clever combining of truth, to something not deserving of such effective cloaking or coloration.
So as a result of speaking with me, and hearing me out, you have decided to apply ethics and write me up. Your action will cause trouble for two people in the short term. I will survive and "make it go right" in my life. But you. You are not able to know what you don't know, and to not be able to apply your inherent rationality, because of the effect on you that your decisions are having.
For you and your better half, I feel bad, because again, there is something that you don't know, and don't want to know. For you two, I do feel badly.
But there is the matter of your children. You, and you alone, well, both of you, are responsible for the safety of your children. I am sure that you have had sleepless nights, as every parent has. I bet you have had to make important medical decisions as well. You probably had to study things in regards to medical issues. You probably had to go on the internet and look things up. You did that, freely. That is your job, to ensure they are safe. You influence their safety, even past the age where they go on their own, by telling them what is right and wrong in the world, what is safe and what isn't. You influence their lives. You are probably the greatest influence in their lives. You are so sure that what you believe about what you are getting them involved in, you are not willing to look.
You know that it is just a bunch of disgruntled people on the internet, that write bad things about everything that they possibly can. You know that to be true, right? Without even knowing if that is true, that is what you know to be true. What if you are wrong? What if that is not the case. It actually isn't, but you wouldn't know.
In spite of all this, I do not want to see you live this life in a lie. I especially don't wish that of your kids. I thought and still do think that. It is worth it to me to go on record with you on this. Whether or not it has the effect that I desired, I tried. I could have gone at it anonymously, but I trusted your judgement.
I think I will have more to say, but that is it for now.
There are good things that have come from your experience. No one will say that you haven't gotten something out of it. That is real to you, no one argues this. There is more to the story. You know this is true. Just ask yourself the question "where is everybody?" You say that is the way it is with all new religions. That all new religions are attacked. That might hold some truth, possibly, for some religions. What if a brilliant person thought up this as a ruse? A clever combining of truth, to something not deserving of such effective cloaking or coloration.
So as a result of speaking with me, and hearing me out, you have decided to apply ethics and write me up. Your action will cause trouble for two people in the short term. I will survive and "make it go right" in my life. But you. You are not able to know what you don't know, and to not be able to apply your inherent rationality, because of the effect on you that your decisions are having.
For you and your better half, I feel bad, because again, there is something that you don't know, and don't want to know. For you two, I do feel badly.
But there is the matter of your children. You, and you alone, well, both of you, are responsible for the safety of your children. I am sure that you have had sleepless nights, as every parent has. I bet you have had to make important medical decisions as well. You probably had to study things in regards to medical issues. You probably had to go on the internet and look things up. You did that, freely. That is your job, to ensure they are safe. You influence their safety, even past the age where they go on their own, by telling them what is right and wrong in the world, what is safe and what isn't. You influence their lives. You are probably the greatest influence in their lives. You are so sure that what you believe about what you are getting them involved in, you are not willing to look.
You know that it is just a bunch of disgruntled people on the internet, that write bad things about everything that they possibly can. You know that to be true, right? Without even knowing if that is true, that is what you know to be true. What if you are wrong? What if that is not the case. It actually isn't, but you wouldn't know.
In spite of all this, I do not want to see you live this life in a lie. I especially don't wish that of your kids. I thought and still do think that. It is worth it to me to go on record with you on this. Whether or not it has the effect that I desired, I tried. I could have gone at it anonymously, but I trusted your judgement.
I think I will have more to say, but that is it for now.