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Friday, September 12, 2003

New Events at the Fighting Fundamentalist Forums
So I woke up this morning and logged on, and what should I find but lots of new visitors to my blog, all of them having arrived from the keyword "Dave Hyles" on a Google search. Now what has provoked this?

Over on the Fighting Fundamentalist Forums, there was quite a hulabaloo yesterday. A poster named "madisonmadness" announced himself by promising that he had evidence against Dave Hyles that would put him out of the ministry. Then another new name showed up and appeared to be givign an account of having hit Dave with a right hook and given him a fat lip. I asked the newcomer (Voice1765) to tell us the whole story, but he declined. Then a fellow named Green Beret showed up and at once addressed me very kindly, which is unusual on the FFF, the only other person with a military screen name having repeatedly accused me of arrogance, pride, and a desire to be a man. But Green Beret seems to have been following the posts for a while, as he was aware of my stance on these issues of gross corruption in Fundamentalist pulpits. And he was completely unintimidated by my directness in addressing these issues. If anything, he seemed to respect me for my unpopular messages.

Be patient, dear sister. The child molesting, fornicating, adulterous whoremongers that pretend to be part of the blood-washed, born again Body of Christ will be marked in a Biblical fashion. They, and their wicked supporters, will be exposed and, by God's grace, their mouths will be stopped.

So I returned to him a cautious but very sincere reply:

Green Beret, I pray that the Lord sees fit to execute His judgement. I've been praying for it for a few years now. I know that if not now, then when He sees fit, but I hope it's now. I always hope it's now.

Meanwhile, as this remarkable day progressed, the poster named WOW made a reappearance. You may remeber him from a previous and rather mystifying series of posts when browsing asked an open question. If not, Click here.

The Old WOW icon
I used to depict my impression of WOW like the firgure on the left because I didn't know who he was and he started right off by giving browsing a warning when no warning was necessary. At that point, he struck me as a masked, hooded figure who at least made a fierce demeanor.

The New WOW icon
Now that I've directly addressed him a couple times and seen him sweat profusely (in virtual terms) over nothing, I have decided to depict him this way. He may make a big noise at times, but he's jittery. And I cannot see why he is jittery.

So yesterday browsing was online and was responding to a post made by one of the regulars in the Hyles-Anderson forum. Browsing wrote this:

No, actually David Douglas...did not MARRY a teenager. Instead, he RAPED a teenager and impregnated her, crossed state lines with her, was caught and eventually it was determined that he was the father of the child and he was ordered to pay child support, something I understand he does not do. Now as to where this Douglas is or works or is located, I'm not sure. Some say he's on here with his sons. Someone told me he is likely to be found on the Berean forum.

So then WOW wrote,

ROFLMBO!!! I know where he is, and I know that he is definately NOT on here. (still laughing) He wouldn't waste any time on here.
(Still laughing...)

So then, what appeared to be taunting by WOW to browsing followed, but I couldn't comprehend this, and then, WOW challenged browsing to "keep guessing". I was still a bit mystified, but there was this indication from WOW that he was rejoicing in knowing what browsing didn't know.

So browsing wrote,

hmmmm. you got the "red flags" up
methinks thou protesteth too much
Well, since you're not a son but you do know Douglas, what's your opinion about the incident with the teenager?

And then WOW gave one of those mystery replies, in which he blithely sidesteps rape and focuses on moving ahead and being a friend:

Red flags???
Just like Dave Hyles, Dave Douglass is and always will be my friend. I will not make any comments on his past, because, it's been Forgiven.
That's something that you FFF's can't seem to grasp. If God has Forgiven DD, why should I hold it against him??? Why should I, one of God's children, continue to throw things back in DD's face. If I were a true friend (and I am) I would help him to grow in his Christianity. <--That's probably a term you FFF's don't know anything about either.) Instead of listening to his enemies, browsing, maybe you should pray for him. I know most of his enemies, I pray for them daily, but if you gave me an email address I could send you some things that would make you re-think who you trust. I will stop here. ?

I wasn't entirely sure what he was talking about, but I know sweat when I see sweat, and the guy is sweating.

So I wrote,

You sweat too easily and you laugh too loud. Why not just hang a sign on yourself that says "I'm guilty."?

But I didn;t mean he was guilty of a specific thing. I just meant he was behaving as a guilty person. I figured he knew that this corruption is not so lightly passed over, but he's refusing to admit it. He's wrong, and he knows he's wrong.

But then he wrote,

I'm sorry, ... I don't follow you. For some reason you must have me mixed up with someone else. Guilty of what???

Well, maybe I was unclear, I thought. But what in the world did he think I was saying? So I wrote,

I don't know. But man, you are guilty of something. When browsing posts, you jump like a frog in a skillet. You know that verse about the guilty running when there's no accuser? That's what came to mind when I saw you jittery as a kid with his hand behind his back at one of browsing's open discussions. Now maybe you just have a really tender conscience and worry about displeasing God. Or maybe you're a man who lines up his excuses like ducks in a row to get out of facing something unpleasant that you need to face. I don't know. All I know is you get too nervous too fast, and you laugh too loud.

And don't hand me any crap about not remembering any discussion with browsing, because I documented it in my weblog. So if it slips your mind, I'll just re-post it.

And then he disappeared from the forum for the rest of the night. You know, a good fighter strikes nerves with precision and accuracy, and I think I did that. But I sure wish I knew which nerves I struck! ¶ 1:22 AM