posted 10-29-2001 08:19 PM            

I hope none of this will keep you from posting. We need everyones feedback. We are all bound to disagree on some things. I hate to get into choosing sides as I've done before, but I understand how you might feel.

If there are 'plants' in chatrooms, in this chatroom, it's beyond my control, but I guess it's your right to fight it if that's how you feel. I'm just saying I've tried it and got burned out. I've accepted the fact that many people think differently about things and I can't change it.

If, as Amber has stated....

"The bad feeling has come from a) David was suddenly singled out - the new copy and paste with research rule came as a shock to the rest of us who had been happily copying and pasting sans research for eons!"...

posted 10-29-2001 08:38 PM            

I stuck up for NSASucks too, but I didn't agree with everything he said.

BTW, I even remember thinking you were a plant at one time because you posted something written by "The Halfwit From Indiana....demonic chickendeb entity" !
It didn't take long to realize I made a mistake and jumped to conclusions.

That's how wrapped up I was getting into the CTC chatroom!

posted 10-29-2001 11:56 PM            

It seems to me that some of the most interesting people here that post some of the most controversial and informative stories usually catch the most flack from the debunkers. Must be cause they're hitting a nerve.
Maybe it should be considered a compliment of sorts.

I for one don't think that it's going to be very easy to find out the absolute truth to very many of the stories that we cut and paste here. But I must admit that those stories that I find most interesting I'll usually do some follow up research of my own. It's the only way I can be satisfactorily convinced that a story in not just another rumor or hoax.

Now... I know this place isn't a replacement for the news media... even alternative news media--but there have been enough stories posted on this forum to keep me digging and learning about subjects that I never knew existed. Talk about getting an education.

posted 10-30-2001 12:43 PM            

David, you're not serious about jumping ship are you??? You can't abandon us David, we need your blue-gray haze imput!!!

posted 10-30-2001 02:49 PM            

You have a good heart David .....
take care of it.

This is for you:

A Native American grandfather
was talking to his grandson
about how he felt in the wake
of the recent tragedies. He said,
"I feel as if I have two wolves
fighting in my heart. One wolf is
the vengeful, angry, violent one.
The other wolf is the loving,
compassionate one." The grandson
asked him, "Which wolf will win
the fight in your heart grandfather?"
The grandfather answered,
"The one I feed."

posted 10-30-2001 03:01 PM            

I'm going to forward that one to friends. Maybe you or someone could start a topic about positive thoughts, stories like this.

We could use some more encouragement like that! There is so much negativity out there in the media and our everyday world, it can be really oppressive if we give in to it.

To me the media/govt. has always been about fear...telling us who to be afraid of and who to hate. TPTB need to keep us in fear and at odds with each other so we'll keep looking to them for answers to our problems, IMO. They need to keep us under control to keep the whole rotten mess going their way.

posted 10-30-2001 08:28 PM            

The story kind of reminds me of
RTW and a post by Delphi.

posted 11-03-2001 08:26 AM            

The doxycycline was making my husband sick. He found out that the blood test for anthrax isn't reliable, and the nasal swabs require that the bug actually be grown out in culture. So he didn't know if he should take a chance and discontinue the doxycycline.

By then he had the heavily-irradiated and sterile letter back from the security people. He called the pharmacy-related company in Maryland which had sent the letter. He found out that the hand lettering was actually done by computer. The company does that, omits the return address and uses regular stamps to increase the chances that busy doctors will open their advertising rather than fling it directly into the trash. They've done it that way for 10 years.

Then came the anthrax problem. The company has received thousands of telephone calls and has seen the light. So hubby doesn't have anthrax, and it was all a false alarm. Whew!