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

Wed Aug 31 20:57:10 UTC 2011

I agree Dave, some will not agree with us and disagree with us.

Yes we would love the Erik to be part of the NFB, we can't have everything.

I was just trying and am still trying to see if he can come, but I have sent 
all details to the home office and wait and see what happens. If it doesn't 
then so be it, but I don't stop helping people who are blind just because 
they are not NFB members.  If they become NFB members wonderful

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Fw: [Nfbf-l] Erik Weihenmeyer on 
ExpeditionImpossible

> 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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