31-05-2012, 08:33 PM
Charles,
Thank you for expressing compassion for a once great man who did contribute greatly to our quest.
I have been oscillating between anger and sadness, but always with an underlying incredulity at the complete departure he has taken from reason, if not from reality itself.
Unfortunately, I have concluded that he is departed from "this world" in all but the literal sense. As one who has departed he becomes unreachable by anyone as far as I can tell.
I first noticed problems quite some time ago, but they were not nearly as pronounced as they are today. Back then I was able to rationalize them away as more of a personality
quirk than as a more serious issue. Recently, I noticed a big problem when he was arguing that TUM was Roy Hargraves and DCM was Felipe Vidal Santiago. We had many heated
telephone conversations & email exchanges where I attempted to persuade him to cease overextending what can be known from photographs, among other highly specious constructs.
The BIG "slip" came when he found out that Louis Witt (the self-proclaimed TUM) testified that he witnessed the limousine stop. Based on this corroboration of the limousine stop by
Witt, Jim concluded that Witt NECESSARILY must have therefore been TUM.
That is not reasoning. That is something else. That is not Jim Fetzer. I don't know where he went, but it is a sad day.
He is gone.
Thank you for expressing compassion for a once great man who did contribute greatly to our quest.
I have been oscillating between anger and sadness, but always with an underlying incredulity at the complete departure he has taken from reason, if not from reality itself.
Unfortunately, I have concluded that he is departed from "this world" in all but the literal sense. As one who has departed he becomes unreachable by anyone as far as I can tell.
I first noticed problems quite some time ago, but they were not nearly as pronounced as they are today. Back then I was able to rationalize them away as more of a personality
quirk than as a more serious issue. Recently, I noticed a big problem when he was arguing that TUM was Roy Hargraves and DCM was Felipe Vidal Santiago. We had many heated
telephone conversations & email exchanges where I attempted to persuade him to cease overextending what can be known from photographs, among other highly specious constructs.
The BIG "slip" came when he found out that Louis Witt (the self-proclaimed TUM) testified that he witnessed the limousine stop. Based on this corroboration of the limousine stop by
Witt, Jim concluded that Witt NECESSARILY must have therefore been TUM.
That is not reasoning. That is something else. That is not Jim Fetzer. I don't know where he went, but it is a sad day.
He is gone.
GO_SECURE
monk
"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
James Hepburn -- Farewell America (1968)
monk
"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
James Hepburn -- Farewell America (1968)