Why Did Linda Buy The Pregnancy Test Kit?, Spin off from the “Thompson Respond to Abrahamsen” thread. Options

[calvin]

Hey, it’s a slow day at work on a Friday afternoon.

[Clay]

Hey, it’s a slow day at work on a Friday afternoon.

we can tell.....

[princessdi]

ya' think?!!!

Hey, it’s a slow day at work on a Friday afternoon.

This post has been edited by princessdi: Jul 28 2006, 12:14 PM

[watchbird]

Hey, it’s a slow day at work on a Friday afternoon.

Sorry. Slow or fast day, I'm not playing this kind of game. I am not "spinning theories", I am reporting as accurately as my memory allows what was told to me by the primary participant in this scene, Linda herself.

The rest of you can spin theories all you want. I'm reporting. You can say that Linda lied. You can say she was self deceived. You can examine motives all you want. But I do not think that something that has been made this serious of an accusation should be made into a voting game on whose got the best "theory".

[Hersheys99]

Me thinks he has way too much time on his hands today!! It will only let me pick one answer though & there are 2 that I want to choose.

Watchbird no one is saying anyone is not telling the truth. Sometimes it does a person good to lighten up no matter what the topic is it releases a lot of stress & EVERY situation needs something to make you chuckle over to lighten things up.

[calvin]

Sorry. Slow or fast day, I'm not playing this kind of game. I am not "spinning theories", I am reporting as accurately as my memory allows what was told to me by the primary participant in this scene, Linda herself.

The rest of you can spin theories all you want. I'm reporting. You can say that Linda lied. You can say she was self deceived. You can examine motives all you want. But I do not think that something that has been made this serious of an accusation should be made into a voting game on whose got the best "theory".

Hmmm, guess I must have struck a nerve. Watchbird, most believe you, you’re ahead in the count.

[Seraphim7]

Hmmm, guess I must have struck a nerve. Watchbird, most believe you, you’re ahead in the count.

My impression of the poll is that it was to lighten up the whole mood of the 3ABN stuff. BTJM

[watchbird]

Me thinks he has way too much time on his hands today!! It will only let me pick one answer though & there are 2 that I want to choose.

Watchbird no one is saying anyone is not telling the truth. Sometimes it does a person good to lighten up no matter what the topic is it releases a lot of stress & EVERY situation needs something to make you chuckle over to lighten things up.

Call me a dullhead if you wish. But I have never, even as a small child, seen any humor in anything that harms another human being. And there is a great deal of difference between a reporter--even an analyses the news--and one who spins theories out of circumstantial evidence and the imaginings of their own mind.

What we are dealing with here is an event, which according to the person who did it, and according to her "accomplice", her grown daughter, was for the purpose of "giving Danny something to find". That has been used by her enemies to harrass her and make her life miserable for over two years now. I can see her point of view, and I can laugh with her--at the same time I am crying inside for her because of the way her prank "backfired" on her. But don't expect me to play silly little games nor sit still while being called a "theorist" over something that has been used with as deadly an intent as this has been.

I've laughed along with the rest of your over other truly humorous things--and I appreciate the role of humor in lightening the serious load. But sorry. I still can't play this kind of "voting games" with this topic.

Those of you who can ... go ahead and have your fun. But before you have too much of it, think how it will affect those who come here and read for information and find this lack of distinction between reporters and theorists, and think how it will feel to the primary actress in this little drama.

[calvin]

My impression of the poll is that it was to lighten up the whole mood of the 3ABN stuff. BTJM

You are correct Sera. With such time on my hands, I think I can hear the golf course calling my name. Talk later.

[watchbird]

Hmmm, guess I must have struck a nerve. Watchbird, most believe you, you’re ahead in the count.

Yes, you've "struck a nerve". I've been down. I've been in the dust and know what it is to have the passersby kick dust on me rather than to have bound up my wounds. And there are some things in life that I will never ever ever make games about nor laugh about.

And frankly, I don't care about the "count". I'm not here to play games. I'm not here to "make points". I'm here because of a driving burning in my bones that says great injustices are being done in the name of my church and of my God. And everything else has been laid aside to do whatever I can to forward the cause of right and justice.

It's a slow day? Then why not write a few emails that will spread the word a little further?

Let's hasten the day when Linda and Bear and Sister and untold others can all sit down together and laugh together in peace and freedom.

Too heavy?

Heavier than Linda's burden?

Heavier than others who don't even dare speak out about their heavy burden?

Sorry about that.

Back to your regular programing as the saying goes ...

[simplysaved]

Whoo-hoo!!!! (almost in tears)....but it is the million dollar question.... Okay, "I'm Done"!!

Hey, it’s a slow day at work on a Friday afternoon.

we can tell.....

[Nuggie]

This is my favorite 3ABN thread...

Hey, it’s a slow day at work on a Friday afternoon.

Glad I'm not the only one that's feeling slow today... ...and this rain isn't helping me feel perky at all...

[inga]

When I saw this "poll" among the subject lines -- before I read what 'watchbird' had to say, I was quite startled. I consider this in extremely poor taste at best. And, no matter how we view the poll, it serves to trivialize a serious and tragic situation.

IMO, it was an error in judgment to put up this poll -- the kind of thing that can happen on a slow Friday afternoon.

[Nuggie]

I've kept up with most of the 3ABN threads and there's been a whole lot of jokes and sarcastic comments made about most of the characters in this saga...I'm just wondering why this particular thread (which is obviously lighthearted) is so much worse than all the other humor that's all throughout the other threads... Sometimes laughter helps cut the tension, no?

[watchbird]

I've kept up with most of the 3ABN threads and there's been a whole lot of jokes and sarcastic comments made about most of the characters in this saga...I'm just wondering why this particular thread (which is obviously lighthearted) is so much worse than all the other humor that's all throughout the other threads... Sometimes laughter helps cut the tension, no?

You are correct, and I too have appreciated the "humor breaks" that came now and then. What set me off on this particular thing was not the humor--we had had that in what we had already been discussing--but the idea of a "poll", with it's implications (though I'm sure that wasn't really what Calvin intended), that things of right and wrong could be decided by "vote".

And while I'm in "true confession mode" I might as well go on to confess I was pretty teed off (especially in view of the fact that speculation had been set "out of bounds" for posting) to see that in this "poll" the "speculation" that was errant, and was admitted to be so by the original poster, was treated on the same level as the reporting and analysing that others were doing.

And then there was the basic facts of how this act had been twisted into an assasination weapon and used repeatedly on Linda by one entity or another for the last two years. That's a heck of a lot of punishment for an unwise choice of "practical joke" playing. It just suddenly all got to me--that's all. It has been anything but a "slow day" here.

But it's OK. I've had my little blowup.

I'm all back together now.

Carry on.