| Subject: No Pride and Others re: the FHU Board Demise |
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Al Fulchino
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Date Posted: 23:49:30 01/06/04 Tue
Hi, I just got through typing an email to someone who asked me about the mess with the FHU board..and now that I see your message, I think I will post some of these same thoughts here and then copy it into the discussion area via the link above. So hang on..I have some views :)
First, I must say that I have NOT heard Roy's own comments. But having said that, let me share what I see, because I consider myself smart enough, fair enough and aware enough to make some valid comments on this particular matter.
Given the resources allocated to the FHU Discussion Board BY THE FHU, and that is money and manpower and *rules*, I have ONE question.
"What did the FHU expect longterm?"
It is a public board. It DID have NON-PAYING particpants who knew of a 'back door in" tweaking people who were sincere. Problems were bound to happen. BUT was it all really that bad? The answer is no...the board was public....Roy above all people should have known what would happen...EVEN HE uses a call screener on his program to give the program some form of direction. Yes it is true he can handle troublemakers....well we did as well..but the call screener was needed....some direction was needed, because in the end no one on the board, even the very wisest could properly challenge the childishness. The FHU was asking people, wise people, common sense people to *handle* the irrational with hands tied. And in the end that was not a smart decision...the Webmaster had only so much at his disposal after the board was set up. Sound like an apology for him? It is...his hands were tied after the set up.
Listen, let me be clear. I love and respect beyond words what the message of the FHU is and more importantly I love its ties to the messages of truth and love carried in the Bible. Let me also say that I believe my life is of value SIMPLY because of the direction provided by the FHU and Mr Masters. Let me also say that I have become a HUGELY confident person over time and I am exteremly confident that in this case I owe it to the FHU, you all and myself to say that the FHU fell short on this matter. Are they terrible people? No, not at all. Collectively they are irreplaceable in my mind. Have I conveyed my respect properly about them? I believ the answer is a resounding YES. But on ths FHU board matter, they shortchanged the whole affair.
We are not a stupid group. That is why we so valued talking with each other on that FHU board. We longed to share things...so many of us had no one they knew who thought the things we think...there was a LOT of wonderful soulful discussion on that board....so what of the party poopers!!!...even the people that I had no respect for or the people who gave the baord a bad name were not a big deal in any way whatsoever..in fact the whole thing behind the FHU message was to show us how to properly deal with nonsense..how many of you really worried too much about the strange things they saw on the board when they went to sleep? Not I and I doubt mnany of you did either...again I ask..."What did the FHU expect?" It was an OPEN board mostly undirected ...silly, just plain silly and I owe it as I have said to speak my view. Even the people who got worked up about the baord and left, were only half right...yes they saw the nonsense accurately..but where they were wrong is that it literally and emnotionally bothered them..I mean get serious...it was just a discussion board...for some of them you would think that the world of Roy was ending...heck Roy himself has issues with his family..he doesnt leave..he makes the world a better place....those that left the board lacked stamina..(my view, tough cookies), The real Roy would have booted teh bad and kept the good.
I sincerely have reason to believe, and I want this said PUBLICLY, that the overseers in the office missed the boat on this. They can dispute it with me of course, but what did THEY expect!!!..they had people from all over including NON PAYING members..woudld they allow that on the radio program? Surely you know that that is a BIG NO...so why the judgement on the board? It is JUDGEMENT when you break it right down...and in fact, if any of you understand what the setting up for someone to fail means, then THIS is an example. I mean how disrespectful of paying members is it when you say that you expect everyone to be graceful and then you allow riff raff in to steal the board space? What did the FHU expect? I mean this is all pretty simple...and it is a very accurate assessment of what has transpired.
The FHU made a mistake. The FHU is wrong on this matter. I call for their personal introspection..not to bring the board back...I will live without it..but because they wronged decent people. They asked good people to put up with riff raff and then called it the fault of ALL the particpants.
Do I still love Roy and the FHU?...of course, but do I need to kow tow...nope..the FHU in a better moment has taught me better than to kowtow.
Yes, they asked good people to put up with riff raff and then called it the fault of ALL the particpants.
That is wrong.And for their sake they need to own up to it. If that makes me an unwelcome FHU donater, listener etc etc etc, then that tells me something else...but I will not regret what I have said.
Regards,
Al
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