Simon, why did you put up a fake Facebook account?

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Re: Simon, why did you put up a fake Facebook account?

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Here's what I said on another thread - it seems to belong here better:

Kishkumen wrote:Simon works for Church Security as a private contractor.


Kishkumen wrote:
Mayan Elephant wrote:
who? are you being serious?


I'm only half serious. There is some intel of unestablished truth that Simon has done contract work for the Church. I suppose it could be true. He is very secretive about the identity of his clients.


Odd. A moment or two ago there was a reply on this thread from Belmont to Kishkumen's statement "Simon works for Church Security as a private contractor", consisting of the two word post

Do I?


Now it's gone.

Anyway, like any attempt to link any aspect of Belmont with reality, you will find this one very slippery. As you will see from the thread linked from my signature, at one stage he told liz that he was the IT Director at Stamford Hospital. Then he told us that he was just

The IT Director for [his] particular department.


Later this morphed into a claim that he was some kind of self-employed consultant working for the hospital.

Parallel nonsense went on about whether anybody could find out who did have titles like 'IT Director' at that hospital, information that Belmont claimed was really, really un-find-outable. That balloon popped after a reference to jigsaw.com.

Frankly, for all I know he cleans the toilets in the COB. But if he wants to say he is really Thomas S. Monson posting here for a lark, I think the best thing to do is to nod, smile, and say "Sure you are".
Zadok:
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Re: Simon, why did you put up a fake Facebook account?

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Chap wrote:Frankly, for all I know he cleans the toilets in the COB. But if he wants to say he is really Thomas S. Monson posting here for a lark, I think the best thing to do is to nod, smile, and say "Sure you are".


That's all behind me now. What I've said in this thread is truthful. My new Facebook account is real. You can choose to believe me or choose not to.
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Re: Simon, why did you put up a fake Facebook account?

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Simon Belmont wrote:
Chap wrote:Frankly, for all I know he cleans the toilets in the COB. But if he wants to say he is really Thomas S. Monson posting here for a lark, I think the best thing to do is to nod, smile, and say "Sure you are".


That's all behind me now. What I've said in this thread is truthful. My new Facebook account is real. You can choose to believe me or choose not to.


It's not you, Simon.
"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
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Simon Belmont wrote:
Chap wrote:Frankly, for all I know he cleans the toilets in the COB. But if he wants to say he is really Thomas S. Monson posting here for a lark, I think the best thing to do is to nod, smile, and say "Sure you are".


That's all behind me now. What I've said in this thread is truthful. My new Facebook account is real. You can choose to believe me or choose not to.


What does this remind me of?

MW: Church policy had it that blacks had the mark of Cain. Brigham Young said, "Cain slew his brother, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin."

GBH: It's behind us. Look, that's behind us. Don't worry about those little flicks of history.


Follow the prophet ....
Zadok:
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
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Re: Simon, why did you put up a fake Facebook account?

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Simon Belmont wrote:That's all behind me now. What I've said in this thread is truthful. My new Facebook account is real. You can choose to believe me or choose not to.


You know, Simon, I did friend you on Facebook, but I have to say I am more than a little concerned about it. This has all the appearance of a bogus account. How can it possibly be the case that with all of your other family and friends you still only have two Facebook friends? Are you saying that we are to trust you with access to all of our friends and family, and yet you will not trust us with yours?
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Kishkumen wrote:You know, Simon, I did friend you on Facebook, but I have to say I am more than a little concerned about it. This has all the appearance of a bogus account. How can it possibly be the case that with all of your other family and friends you still only have two Facebook friends? Are you saying that we are to trust you with access to all of our friends and family, and yet you will not trust us with yours?


Working on it... I just started the account! I don't think most of the people I know realize I have an Facebook account yet.
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Kishkumen wrote:
You know, Simon, I did friend you on Facebook ....


You did what?

I need a treble, nay quadruple facepalm image here ....
Zadok:
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Simon Belmont wrote:
Kishkumen wrote:You know, Simon, I did friend you on Facebook, but I have to say I am more than a little concerned about it. This has all the appearance of a bogus account. How can it possibly be the case that with all of your other family and friends you still only have two Facebook friends? Are you saying that we are to trust you with access to all of our friends and family, and yet you will not trust us with yours?


Working on it... I just started the account! I don't think most of the people I know realize I have an Facebook account yet.


Yeah, you know, Simon, what you're doing is pretty sick. You've got people who've gone out of their way to take you at your word, and here you are screwing around, probably looking at pics of their families (or even more likely, scouring through their list of friends), while you're very carefully "protecting" all your own stuff.
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Doctor Scratch wrote:Yeah, you know, Simon, what you're doing is pretty sick. You've got people who've gone out of their way to take you at your word, and here you are screwing around, probably looking at pics of their families (or even more likely, scouring through their list of friends), while you're very carefully "protecting" all your own stuff.



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Re: Simon, why did you put up a fake Facebook account?

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OK, Simon. Here's the deal. I am unfriending you. It is a little late, I know. I don't want you to take it personally, because it is not meant in an unkind way, but this business about your not having time to "friend" your own loved ones and in real life friends before you friend two people on MDB is incredibly suspicious. Feel free to friend me again when you have something approaching a legitimate Facebook page. I will be happy to friend you when the trust you extend to me is equal to the trust I have extended to you. At present, this is horribly lopsided, and I am clearly the one taking all of the risks.

My apologies.
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