{"id":337,"date":"2001-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-03T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=337"},"modified":"2011-06-03T00:37:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T05:37:58","slug":"some-sunday-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/some-sunday-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Sunday thoughts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, let me be the first to shout out how much I love Amber. A lot of people have a hard time with hearing the truth.  Much less, in an &#8220;In-our-face-pull-no-punches&#8221; style. Certain hateful people decided to go on a &#8220;morality-kick&#8221; and we were all suddenly expected to be held to some ridiculous standard like we&#8217;re public officials or something.<\/p>\n<p>Her reaction was the same as mine.  &#8220;So what?&#8221;.<br \/>\nGame. Set. Match.  End of conversation.  The only true way to squelch a controversy.<\/p>\n<p>We had a long talk this week about &#8220;being in each other&#8217;s corner&#8221;.  Deep down inside, she has a heart of gold, and despite being burned will still go out of her way for a friend.  She doesn&#8217;t have to spew bile and hatred to get attention, then play martyr, then have to convince people &#8220;I&#8217;m not really like this&#8230; I&#8217;m a nice person if you get to know me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amber&#8217;s the real deal&#8230;. and I couldn&#8217;t think of a better person in my corner.<\/p>\n<p>Same with John, BWG, Jim, Al, Matt, and Jon.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more.  There&#8217;s lots more&#8230; but these are people stuck in between camps, that the price of speaking out against this small (but loud) minority is too much to pay.  I know, and I still love you.<\/p>\n<p>Randall Van der woning (aka &#8220;The Big White Guy&#8221;) was Debbie&#8217;s biggest victim.  As I stated in my newsletter last night, he lost his mom to cancer as a child, then his dad to cancer at the time he met &#8220;Kaycee&#8221;.  If anyone should want Debbie&#8217;s head on a stick, it should be him. On top if being victimized, he then became a suspect in a massive conspiracy (hell, I&#8217;m ashamed to admit I even had my doubts)&#8230; all for being good-natured, caring and trusting. But you won&#8217;t find him in the middle of *another* group of hatemongers.  Their agenda is to have their names plastered on every newspaper and television set. The same people that told you &#8220;don&#8217;t believe anything until you check it out&#8221; will slap you down, put words in your mouth, and discredit you if you dare question them, or get in their way.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is out&#8230;<br \/>\nNow he wants to just get on with his life.<br \/>\nJust like so many other people that were sucked into the lies<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a lesson to be learned there.<\/p>\n<p>Count me in BWG&#8217;s corner.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"disclaimer2\">(Yeah, I still think Debbie&#8217;s a hell of a writer, but that&#8217;s beside the point.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jon saw I was about to be massacred by said hate group above.  He gave me a back door to get the hell out of there&#8230; and I took it.<\/p>\n<p>But Jon also has me pegged. He knows I can play a crowd like a stradivarius.  Know when to be a loud mouth, know when to scream for attention, be a hero, be an asshole, and play martyr to stop people dead in their tracks. I know what I&#8217;m doing. You only make me more powerful when you attack me publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Jon would also like me to lay off the caffeine pills, and mellow out.  :0)<\/p>\n<p>When I redid the archives here, I relived times that were the most painful periods in my life&#8230; marked in between harsh remarks, &#8220;blog wars&#8221;, answering people back, heated debates&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Was it Karma? Totally unrelated? Or should I have had a better grasp controlling real-life events rather than escaping into the internet?<\/p>\n<p>Who knows&#8230; but I&#8217;m really tired of it right now. There&#8217;s enough hate. I want to be a more &#8220;positive&#8221; force on the web now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m blessed by a great core of friends.  Friends that will back me whether I&#8217;m right or wrong. They&#8217;d prefer &#8220;right&#8221; a little more, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t make any promises.  Like Tiffany said (before *she* was temporarily run off the web by the &#8220;web nasties&#8221;): &#8220;It just wouldn&#8217;t be me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You are judged by the friends you keep.<\/li>\n<li>You are fooling no one.  Your hatred and inner-ugliness will one day consume you.<\/li>\n<li>You have *NO LIFE* whatsoever, if you actually sat down and read this all in one sitting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, let me be the first to shout out how much I love Amber. A lot of people have a hard time with hearing the truth.  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