Sabrblade wrote:fenrir72 wrote:We may have some differences now and then but I feel the hurt within. Sure it's so easy to "replace stuff" (easier said than done and that they are material objects but I know what's it like to pour all the effort for the hunt with your hard earned cash only to have someone else destroy/ruin/pawn etc.
I'd be a hypocrite to say just forgive him when he didn't have any respect for you at all.
That being said, if some other pharmacologic substance scrambled his logic etc, it be best to cut off ties and keep him as faraway as possible. Change your home locks etc. The PC route of saying this is a disease (addiction) or you gonna replace your brother with something made of petroleum products? Those are living in lala land.
Don't bail him out.It will show signs of weakness. Many an individual tried helping their neighbor only to pay the ultimate price. They no longer are thinking straight. Forewarned is forearmed.
Believe me, he's not getting bailed out. The bail amount is too high for anyone he knows to want to pay it. He needs to be where he is right now and fully deserves it.
It wasn't a drug addiction he had, we believe it was a gambling problem. We suspect that every time he went over to the next town to sell more of my figures he would then go straight to the Hard Rock that lies just off the interstate between the two cities and spend the money there that he got for my figures.
He had little respect for me, my hobby, my property, etc. Forgiveness is not going to be easy.
Gambling addiction is a vile scourge on the world.
There was a guy just near I work the other day, I watched him for a while. He was pretending to be homeless and going into all the local shops and restaurants asking people for change. I was suspicious of him after I noticed a huge pile of copper coins in the doorway (I was sitting in the KFC at the time). If he was homeless why wouldn't he be grateful of *any* money even if he had to just pick it up off the ground? He looked well kempt, not clean shaven but, he'd clearly had recent access to an electric razor, it was a neat even stubble. Plus I travel through that street twice a day, and frequently give money to the homeless in the area. I didn't recognise him as among their number.
He approached me and asked for change. I said no. He pressed a little. I gave another no. He walked off to bother a family sitting nearby, who did oblige him. And then I noticed when he left the restaurant he dropped all the copper coins, and then walked over the road to the bookmakers, and piled all the silverware straight into the slot machine.
He must've spent a good hour walking back and forth harassing people for cash. Which is illegal for homeless people to do, so by pretending to be one, he was making them look worse by association.
I have no sympathy for that kind of person.
I looked through your list to see if I could help in any way. But I only have 1 of the figures.
I can't offer it up for free, but I can sell it for whatever you can afford, even if it's just enough to cover shipping. I'll hold onto it for as long as you need. (PM'd you)
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