Are you real

yes, my real name is dj jd62, i'm related to the Cape Cod jd62's

My real name is Frank Apisa...I live in Piscataway NJ.

Many of the things I discuss here on the Internet, I discuss in letters-to-editors or Op Ed essays over the last 30 years. I do not pull punches in any of those pieces. The newspapers and magazines all require that I furnish my name and hometown--and they publish that with my letters or essays.

So I do not understand the "username" stuff that goes on here in the forums.

But if you feel safer...or if you feel you can express yourself more forthrightly by not using your real name, Dale...go with that.

Ah yes Dj I had lost track of the Clan Jd. Please convey my regards to Jddj62 jr as well as his two new sons D Jddj63 and 64

Thank you Frank, I had hoped you're real

In a remarkable parallel my realname is indeed Dale Hileman (God help me) and I have also contributed Letters to the Editor--for some 60 years-- decades ago to the LA Times; and more recently accepted about 130 instances--over the past 16 years--in our excellent and award-winning Fourth Estate, the Victorville, Ca Daily Press or Press Dispatch depending for tax reasons on the day of the week

I don't either and perhaps that's why 130 frenzied epistles represent only about ten percent of all those I've submitted locally. We live in a somewhat conservative community while, in social matters at least, I'm a raging lib. So I guess I might have stepped over the line in one or two such cases if not 1200

Yes but of course the Internet Forum is a different sort of animal, perhaps reaching potentially far more fanatics (left and right both). My sons plead with me to get a new username

…..causing me to wonder whether some dark hour dozens of garishly-detailed 4x4's and pickups won't converge on our surburban home, horns blaring, shouting right-wing slogans, and carrying shotguns

Oh, I do. Various reasons include a feeling of exasperation, enmity, and powerlessness pervading their everyday lives, having found a means to vent it anonymously at the keyboard

Thank you Frank for the permission but amongst my contribs it would be hard to find an example less forthright than this

…….with my thanks to its Opinion Ed. Steve Williams (sometimes wondering which of us will go first). My lifelong ambition is to one day within the next five years to make his essay or COMMENTARY OpEd

……my nephrologist assuring me--oh by the way, that's how long you've left

I sympathize with you on this, Dale.

I have several tapes (from when voice messages were kept on tapes) of people threatening me for some of the stuff I've written.

Whatta ya gonna do...there are nuts everywhere, and if one wants to kick the **** out of me (or worse) there is not much I can do except hold my tongue.

That I ain't going to do.

But another side of this whole thing is that I have people who disagreed with me (in writing or by phone) who have become close friends. We recognize that we see things very differently, but are able to put that stuff aside and interact civilly.

World is a mess right now. Best thing to do (it appears to me) is to have your say...and be forthright about it. If you (universal "you") allow fear to quiet your voice, not only will you be the worse for it...so will society.

It's heartwarming to know there are at least two of us

I haven't been threatened directly but a few of my Letters have fomented some pretty huffy replies

Yes and it seems many are concentrated here. Reason: Our Admin is very liberal indeed. From a number of other forums I myself have been banned for life after submissions I considered quite tame whereas here it seems anything goes (except advertising)

I'm sure my two excellent sons anticipate for me an end much worse than that entailing the backwoodsmen above

Good for you

And thanks to your engagement Frank, this has been one of the most fun threads in which I've participated anywhere

I should be so lucky, unless I might also share that distinction

I try but at intervals I've given in when the temptation becomes irresistible

…..they so oft leave themselves so wide open

Yes and the rest of the world doesn't seem to realize why. But that's a subject for still another thread

Yet listening for the 4x4's

A flattering idea but one's family might not agree

I'm real.

My real name is Swamp Donkey!

Figured 2Packs was more relatable....but none the less, I am only a figment of your imigination....I reside in the ether that is the net....welcome to the desert of the real.

I've actually been called swamp donkey, my first name starts with an S, and my last name rhymes with donkey.

You will no doubt be called worse, though I assure you, I hold no inclination to suggest a donkey in a swamp would be any variable worth creating, if alternatives were possible.

Where I live, swamp donkey is just another name for a deer.

I agree with Tod above but don't envy any attempt to swim against such resistance

Cool.

In response to the OP.

Some people choose not to reveal ID for the reasons of future uncertainty.
For example, if a computer gamer does well, he/she gets followed around and then it seriously does get silly, people start following you around in RL.

Perhaps not every time, I am making a case of point, when the truth spans multiple areas, a person might get good or terrible at anything and the same can apply, in the IM and twitter ages, people flock with belief systems the like of Golden Dawn in foolish appearance, solely sometimes to ridicule others, then it just takes one nut to pop out of the fruit bowl...

Knock knock knock.

Who the hell are you?
Christian
Christian who?
Christian with no faith today.

Oh but I blame no one


Tod you have to forgive an old fella not throughly familiar with all the latest colloquial shoptalk

http://onelook.com/?w=RL&ls=a


Well put indeed Tod. However aren't such attacks very rare: After some 17 years at this I haven't once been seriously attacked (tho as I said, given today maybe I'm now wide open) Also however see Frank's comments above; how can you refute him

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But it is a kind of faith; we concede there's still something mysterious about the Great Megillah and our place in it