He never really blasted me the way he did some others. He asked to communicate with me off of this message board. He wanted to have phone conversations and a regular email back and forth. It was during these discussions that I really came to understand him and what he was feeling. He was a kind and compassionate person that really did want to help all of us. So, the arguments he got into here did come from a good place in his heart.
He would put together these information packages he wanted to send to people and Andrea, always such a kind person, accepted his offer. Then she began reading the stuff he sent and she asked if I was getting his packages too. I told her I had avoided giving him my mailing address because I did not want him sending me packages and she asked if she could send me some of the stuff he had sent her. I let Andrea send me things because I knew she would not mail me stuff every day, which I feared Kent would. Kent was intense and insisted on making his points. The emails he sent me were lengthy and filled with Jones and Icke items. He was always pointing me to things on the internet I should read.
In these conversations, I changed his mind about a few things. Not a lot, but he listened. I think he was so used to people dismissing him that having the back and forth with me sort of settled him down. I did like him, I understood how he really wanted to help people. I thought that aspect of him was really admirable. However, it also led him to brawl with people.
I gave him my honest opinions of Jones and Icke, he had spoken to the two of them personally and I believe was having regular correspondence with them. He was not too pleased with my thoughts on them, that Jones was a con man and Icke seemed like a man that had experienced some severe psychological trauma. I told him that I did not believe Jones had ANY good intentions with his nonsense but that Icke may. The problem with that being, it did not change that what Icke was saying was...well...crazy.
I think Kent would have dumped Alex Jones once he saw what he became. I said to him that Jones was going to let him down, it was only a matter of time.
We had things we agreed on. Both Kent and I loved David's Triage album. Not really for the same reasons. I think Kent felt Triage exposed things that Kent really wanted exposed, I felt like Triage was a brilliant piece of humanist writing. I happen to really value that kind of writing and writers. I think Kent was more into the idea that David was a truth teller exposing the hideous underbelly of our evil overlords. I mean, I think the liner notes for the record gave him that impression, but I thought the songs themselves expressed what we go through living in the modern world. Temptation, confusion, rage, fear, sadness, and ending with what is essentially, a humanist's version of a prayer, in Born for Love. I mean, that was how I bonded with the record. If it really exposed something, I thought it exposed that we are not alone in these feelings. It is on the record, "Am I alone in this? Am I alone?" and the answer is no.
Kent wrote a study module on Triage and I don't recall much of it, but when I explained what I loved about the record, it inspired Kent to talk to me about how much he loved his wife. Born for Love is not about hating the Bush administration or reptilian shape shifters...it is just about if you are going to find meaning in this world, if we are going to find something to hang on to, it is the ability to love someone, and that was the perfect note to end that song cycle on.
I do think Kent brought some important things to this board. Some of his ideas and predictions were off but I am glad I encountered Kent and he taught me about Alex Jones before Jones became an epic right wing bullshit artist. Also, time lends an additional layer to Kent's back and forth here because of what Alex Jones became. I don't know what's become of David Icke but Jones made his ugly mark on things.
Yes, he called himself, or his website, Kentroversy. I believe he mainly expected to do battle with people and so, that is part of why he would get into some shit here. In the end though, there was more to him as there is with most people. He suffered a lot in life, had some serious trauma and health issues and maybe his urgency to express his beliefs was tied to the idea that he had an idea his time was short.
