He's posted a suicide thread there. On the offchance it's not just attention-seeking and anyone here has had contact with him, might be worth checking in with some words of support - NOT LIKE THAT TERERUN!!!!.
It's been a very long time since I logged into trekbbs. But, I do remember a Jayson who commented on a pic a female poster posted of her wearing a night gown. That created a lot of drama and ... I think the woman ended up leaving the board.
First time I've seen it if so. If he's just attention-seeking, fine. I'd rather jump at shadows than lose anyone to them.
The monkey dude? Apparently it is the same guy, claims he forgot the login of his original account... He likes to spam up TNZ with weird wild posts, just for attention... He is either a troll or needs professional mental help...
Borgminister is still a TNZ mod. Used to be he and I were one "shift" and Worf412 and Misfit Toy were the other. Not that it was officially set up that way, but time zones and work schedules were such that if there was a thread to discuss in realtime, he was usually who I'd be talking about it with. On AOL Instant Messenger, if you can stand THAT blast from the past.
Misfit Toy was one of my favorites. In fact … he was my facebook friend. I don’t get on facebook much anymore so I don’t know if I missed something important or Facebook algorithms are keeping his posts from me. Anyone else facebook friend him? If so, can you at least put my mind at ease now that I’m thinking about it?
Here is the problem I have with this sort of thing. Let us say this dude is really suicidal. What are you going to be able to do for him over the internet? What meaningful help can you give a person who is truly facing some sort of massive depression or hard life crisis that is making them want to quit when you do not even know their name and are possibly thousands of miles away? Then think about the other option. More likely this would be an emotionally manipulative person seeking to guilt you into response. Once they have done that they know they can hurt you with guilt to force you to spend your time trying like crazy to help them while they keep holding themselves hostage and emotionally torturing you. You cannot be there for either of these people. In the first case you simply do not have the resources or knowledge to do it because to really intervene in a suicide you would have to offer up a continued presence in their life. I know because despite my reputation I have pulled more people out of a real suicidal funk than I have been mentioned in suicide letters. In the second case you are not only putting yourself through guilt and stress over a fake manipulative cry for help, but now you are spreading the guilt to others who are going to get no closure on the situation. Which if anyone knew the guy who named me they would know he was a little worm who wrecked people's happiness with suicidal threats and guilt trips because they would not reach out to save him the way he demanded. If this jayson dude is out there guilt tripping people for attention and probably money and caregiver to support him, he is a huge fucking con artist with destroyed people in his past. But if you are really ready to reach out and help someone there are plenty of local shelters to any of us where there are people at the end of their rope who could really use a hand. You cannot save a truly down person over the internet thousands of miles away, but you can make a huge difference in lives right around the corner from you. Oh, and beware anyone threatening suicide over the internet. 99 percent of them are looking for a victim to move in with and steal from because their present victims are tired of their shit.
