RubyJuno
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Well well well...
Sorry to be late. I'd missed the part where I was specifically asked by two of you about why I thought that WH didn't commit the crime all by himself, and now I'm having some trouble with the "reply" function.
So anyway...I really appreciate MountainKat's distinction between "theory" and "opinion," and I'd like to preserve a distinction when I talk about them because I think that defining them narrowly is pretty useful here.
If I haven't said much about my theories, it's because I don't really have theories. My opinion that WH didn't act alone *might* be based on an ignorance of some facts, so I want to be careful.
My sense is that WH is not terribly bright (though IMHO he's smarter than he makes himself sound) and that he's not good at playing it cool. He leaps to intervene, to control the narrative.
And he's been surrounded by people who talk about how close they all are to each other. So I figured that someone had to know something.
You know, it's funny: even as I type this, my opinions are shifting around. Do we hear so much about people's "brothers" and "sisters" as a way of "keeping your enemies closer"? Are some people protesting too much?
I want to say something about someone who called AJ a "sister"--this is not about the crime and I'm not casting aspersions on anyone, but I wonder whether "sister" in this case means "I always wanted her to be my girlfriend but she said she didn't think of me that way..." I can't say more because I don't want to accuse this person of anything.
This is so muddled. As I type this out, I wonder whether WH could have done this on his own. I can't come up with fact-based reasons why he couldn't. I don't think that he's innocent of any involvement; I believe that mainly because of his meddling, the nature of his criminal record, and the opinions of some people who know him far better than I, a stranger, do.
In short: I got nothin'. Thanks for calling me out on it and making me think about it! I hate that I'm contributing so little, and I really appreciate what y'all are doing here.
Sorry to be late. I'd missed the part where I was specifically asked by two of you about why I thought that WH didn't commit the crime all by himself, and now I'm having some trouble with the "reply" function.
So anyway...I really appreciate MountainKat's distinction between "theory" and "opinion," and I'd like to preserve a distinction when I talk about them because I think that defining them narrowly is pretty useful here.
If I haven't said much about my theories, it's because I don't really have theories. My opinion that WH didn't act alone *might* be based on an ignorance of some facts, so I want to be careful.
My sense is that WH is not terribly bright (though IMHO he's smarter than he makes himself sound) and that he's not good at playing it cool. He leaps to intervene, to control the narrative.
And he's been surrounded by people who talk about how close they all are to each other. So I figured that someone had to know something.
You know, it's funny: even as I type this, my opinions are shifting around. Do we hear so much about people's "brothers" and "sisters" as a way of "keeping your enemies closer"? Are some people protesting too much?
I want to say something about someone who called AJ a "sister"--this is not about the crime and I'm not casting aspersions on anyone, but I wonder whether "sister" in this case means "I always wanted her to be my girlfriend but she said she didn't think of me that way..." I can't say more because I don't want to accuse this person of anything.
This is so muddled. As I type this out, I wonder whether WH could have done this on his own. I can't come up with fact-based reasons why he couldn't. I don't think that he's innocent of any involvement; I believe that mainly because of his meddling, the nature of his criminal record, and the opinions of some people who know him far better than I, a stranger, do.
In short: I got nothin'. Thanks for calling me out on it and making me think about it! I hate that I'm contributing so little, and I really appreciate what y'all are doing here.