[Blindtlk] Fw: [Nfbf-l] Erik Weihenmeyer on ExpeditionImpossible

[Bryan Schulz]

dave,

i have to ask what are you smoking?
how much change would have been left after buying a nfb flag?
that is like giving the pizza delivery man a 1,000 bill and saying keep the 
change.
A lot of people could have turned out more successful if they were *GIVEN* 
$300,000 dollars.
just think how many people could have received the specialized training they 
need with that amount.

Bryan Schulz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Evans" <drevans at bellsouth.net>
To: <gwunder at earthlink.net>; "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Fw: [Nfbf-l] Erik Weihenmeyer on 
ExpeditionImpossible


>
> Dear fellow NFB members,
>
> Let us not judge Eric so harshly on this.
> We are all at different points in our own lives and with dealing with 
> Blindness.
> Eric is just doing what interest him right now and His focus is not on the 
> same things as maybe we are focused on.
> When we help someone, do we ask "are you a very dedicated NFB member and 
> supporter before we throw them a safety line and help them?"  Do we do 
> this with everyone we help to see if they think the way we do, act the way 
> we do, believe the way we do before we offer our help?
> Is it not just enough that they need help and they will accept our help 
> without running a background check on us, our beliefs, politics, religion, 
> bank account and race?
> If Eric is busy doing the things that are important and interest him in 
> his life right now, why should we judge him?
> Have we all not been in a position in our lives where we did not wish to 
> get too involved in some matter or cause that someone has approached 
> about?  A good example would be the last time the Jehovah's Witnesses 
> knocked on my door with the Mezuzah on the door post.
> Please believe me when I say that I respect other people's religions, but 
> I am not exactly going out to attend their meetings, causes or points of 
> view.
> It is just the way life is and the way things are.
>
> I say that if Eric wants to come and speak, again,  we welcome him and 
> give him our undivided attention.  If he wants to come and be amongst us, 
> talk to and with us and take part in our convention and activities, he is 
> welcome. If he is too busy with the other activities he loves and has to 
> do, we should support him and wish him well.
> We have gotten from him about as much as he has gotten from us.  An NFB 
> flag rests on the top of the highest mountain in the World that he placed 
> there as the first Blind man to climb it, with our sponsorship and 
> support.
> We risked our money and he risked his life.  We got some positive, and 
> negative publicity just as he did and Eric came and spoke to our 
> Convention in Atlanta that year.
> The deal for him to speak to us again, maybe  in the works and maybe not. 
> If it is, it maybe more in the form of a business deal as he makes his 
> living now as a motivational speaker surrounding his adventures in extreme 
> sports.
> This attitude of, "you are either with us or against us" needs to stop. 
> It just drives otherwise good people away.
>
> David Evans, NFBF and GD Jack.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gary Wunder" <GWunder at earthlink.net>
> To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 4:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Fw: [Nfbf-l] Erik Weihenmeyer on 
> ExpeditionImpossible
>
>
>> No con, just a wish that he had come to see himself as one of us, taken 
>> not
>> only to climbing mountains but to talking with people like you and me 
>> about
>> how to build a chapter, run our adventure camps, speak to students at our
>> centers, etc. He climbed the mountain we agreed to help him climb. My
>> sadness is that he did not sign-on to do the smaller things that made our
>> support possible.
>>
>>
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