Lack of empathy

[Astro Forever]

Considering the kind of topic, it would be better to leave the totally off topic and joking posts out of it.

[cybotron]

Considering the kind of topic, it would be better to leave the totally off topic and joking posts out of it.

So who's joking? And who's off topic? They wanted to talk about "lack of Empathy" and I have experience! I meant it....
I was full grown and they bullied me. Beat me up took my album (4 stars AA news) threw me down like garbage.
I turned the cheek only to be smote a second time. So what's off topic?

[Astro Forever]

Between Astro's photonic weapons, the Flintstone episode that I watched partly, the present tense and the lack of context, plus considering the thread had been inactive for more than two weeks, I really couldn't understand what you were talking about and I still don't get a thing from your previous post by itself.

[cybotron]

Between Astro's photonic weapons, the Flintstone episode that I watched partly, the present tense and the lack of context, plus considering the thread had been inactive for more than two weeks, I really couldn't understand what you were talking about and I still don't get a thing from your previous post by itself.

It's ok you really had to be there to understand the issue and It's concerning something esoteric.You would never buy or listen to that CD and have no knowledge of the times of Empathy.In otherwords you don't know what the conversation is about.
I'll explain. I was under Psychiatric treatment at the VA hospital, which is a place for treating war veterans. Saul Zaentz the big Bully Hollywood producer (ie Amaedaus,One flew over the cuckoos nest,etc.)signed me up to a record contract for his record label Fantasy. They then proceeded to hit and run me into oblivion. I went to berkeley And confronted him and he called the police on me. He refused to pay me for a Gold record I made called "Clear" and there was nothing I could do. Everyone is afraid of Saul. No one would help me. No lawyer nobody. Finally I told Saul to Give me a single and a thousand bucks which he did and I went into his studio and recorded this...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_XkFYkYzFw
Because I knew I had been delivered into the hands of the Scientologist cult. And the Reagan 666 cult in Hollywood. They threw me into the deepest darkest nastiest hole that the Military industrial complex in america could find. But Saul was not satisfied. He came back! And said make another album. So I did Empathy. And he backdated the album so that it could not be found and they threw me down and stomped on me as I knew they would. And I was suppressed and Gangsta Rap was promoted instead. It was bullying. But my alternative was rotting in silence in a VA hospital psych ward. Lack of Empathy? Salt in wounds? Bully? Saul sued John Fogerty for sounding like himself when he was fronting CCR and won! Forgerty has been ruined since then. Viscious merciless bully.LOL But the king of the hollywood producers can do no wrong. And I made Empathy as "One last act of defiance" before my end at their hands. I've already told tooooo much.

[jeffbert]

hmy: Cut to the chase: As I understand it, somebody contracted you to produce something, which you did. Yet, though you fulfilled your end of the deal, he refused to do his part?

[cybotron]

hmy: Cut to the chase: As I understand it, somebody contracted you to produce something, which you did. Yet, though you fulfilled your end of the deal, he refused to do his part?

That's hollywood....
The biggest producer in the place! Fell on "Empathy" like a ton of bricks....
4stars and all.
Oh well. Ya gotta pa some dues.

[AprilSeven]

I've read this three times since this thread reappeared recently, and I've cried every time. I hurt because I too, was bullied, and I feel pain for him. I wanted to shout "YAAAY" for his gumption, bravery and selfless service to us all. And I thanked God for the decent people who were kind-hearted and HUMAN enough to know where they screwed up, and did the RIGHT THING by apologizing to him for what they did in the past.

The Rocky quote is right-on too. Dan writes extraordinary fanfiction, and I was really flabbergasted to find out he endured this kind of junk in his life, but WOW look at how he took it and turned it around (YAY to his Dad, too for bragging about his son's accomplishments to his former classmate).

We've got some really exceptional people hanging out here. As I get to know each of you more and more, I thank you for sharing your lives and stories. You've no idea how much positive impact something like this has on others lives!

My Junior/high school years were a disaster. I called it "Bully-lympics" and I should have gotten the gold for the beat down relay. I didn't experience all those one-life events. No license at 16, no first car, no Proms, no class events and no graduation. After 12 years of school and because of two missed grade points, I also didn't get a diploma.

So...I joined the Navy.

I served 20 years, best time of my life. I found my nitch, had success, married my wife and settled in Washington State. Some time before 2005 our old Senior class president from 1985, one of the jerks who beat the snot out of me had a deep moment of religion, a metanoya.

He sought out my Dad and came over to the house to appolgize for his part in a percieved ruining of my life. Then my Dad showed off everything he had on my career, my service during the first Gulf War, in Somalia, all the awards I had won.

Peter Rodgers then went to the superintendant of schools and explained what he knew, he demanded the school system award me my diploma. They refused. So he asked my Dad to get copies of my service record, not telling me the reason why, and he returned to the school board with my Dad and laid the record out before them...

My wife and I came home to Boston for my retirement ceremony in 2005 which Dad arranged to be held in the high school gym. I didn't expect the class of Northeast Regional 1985 to be there when I walked in. When Peter took the podium it took him a bit to get the words together...

"Dan...Twenty years ago you were denied not only your diploma but some of the cherished memories most of us selfishly took for granted. In those 20 years you chose to give up every day defending our freedoms and you did it with deeds that have no dispute, with honor not in doubt. It is we, your classmates, who owe you something long and wrongfully denied. Your day of graduation and our long overdue apology"

Did it hurt? Damn right. But I think silvester stalone said it best in Rocky VI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uASVzkrEKgs

Bullies and life can be bitterly cruel. Some of us are handed a diamond, some of us are handed rocks. We get beat up, teased, tossed and treated like garbage but you know who wins in the end? I read these stories, I know a lot of you by reading what you post and man there are some tough characters in this place!

Many of you fit what this you tube clip says...you get hit and you get back up, you get hit some more and you keep getting back up! Let the punks and bullies gnash their teeth and shake their dumb fists till they're blue in the face, if you can get back up and keep going after all that? You are 100 times the human being they are and eventually all that trouble and all those struggles do come back with benefits in their own good time.

Never let others tell you you're fat, you're stupid, you're worthless...keep living for yourself, find your nitch, don't give up, never give in and eventually you will have your day!

[avatargirl]

hi- agree APRIL AND DAN is my hero too- hugs- pray everyone the very best