Well, that was bizzare, to say the least. I did not wish to have another conversation with

     Well,  that  was  bizzare,  to say  the least. I did not wish to have
another conversation with this person, but  my ideas (sometimes misplaced)
of what the responsibilities of a system  operator should do dictated that
I at least acknowledge his  request  for  chatting. After all, it may have
been a reasonable request for some small SysOp-ly service I could perform.
     Sadly, it was more of  the same  as the past two sessions. I was very
tempted to hang  up  on  him,  but  felt  this   would  push  his  already
questionable  mental  state  over the edge. Looking back with hindsight, I
wish I had.

     Session three was a lot   more interesting  than the others, with his
violently  swinging state  of mind.  i.e. me  starting  as an "asshole" as
in session  one,  to a special  "relationship"  and "friend" in the middle
of session three, to hell bait at the end of session three.
     After typing in his last word "doom", he hung up.
     I feel this is a personality that is desperatly looking for a target.
Someone or something that  he can use to  vent his lack of  power over his
life's events. I have seen people  do anything, give  everything, and dare
anything to gain even a tiny victory- even if it destroyes them.
     Notice I said "lack of power" over his  life. He shows a  fixation on
gaining power at any cost, with  any means, even to  "consuming" demons to
get it.
     If I knew anything about mental  illness, I should have  known better
than to tell him that his choice  between "good" and "evil" were something
between himself and his God, and that it didn't  matter to me.  I say this
because I feel he very much wanted me to tell him to stop what he felt was
"evil" activities, and when I said it didn't  matter to me, he totaly lost
control.

     I will refrain from any more  contact with  this person,  and set his
usage to my BBS at a low level, which  will exclude  the C)hat  command. I
hope I have heard that last of him.


					David Rice
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