Monday, February 7, 2011

Defending ideas (Zoey)

Background:
Last summer I promised several people to "stop harrassing" Zoey. I have kept that promise, and I will keep this promise, but I still feel the need to talk about it. For those who follow me on twitter, they might have noticed some tweets from me that seem incoherent. Examples are: "Well done" and "It is too soon to cheer.". To clarify, they are all about Zoey. I tweeted things in the hope that someone who knows about the Zoey story would understand them. Though I can't really assume people will.

I will post anything I have to say about Zoey on this very (so far unused) blog. I hope to "satisfy" the Zoey believers since I don't actively "attack" him this way. I just post it on my own blog/twitter. If Zoey doesn't want to read it, then he can just stay away from this blog. So he doesn't have to whine about crying and me making him upset and whatnot.

Also, I will refer to zoey as "he" and "him". If you read this and think he's a girl, just continue reading. I have my reasons to believe it's a guy.

The problem many people face
One of the problems with Zoey is his friends. Zoey manipulates them. That's a harsh statement, I know, but take a look at this:
Zoey renders himself vulnerable. Whenever someone says Zoey is a guy, he tells his friends that he is upset about it or even crying about it. Being a friend of Zoey, you think or have thought about "why do people do this?" You ask(ed) Zoey where it all came from. Then Zoey replies with "FPtje, FPtje has made up a story and says that I'm a guy. He's gone mental after my brother told him some lies." (not a literal quote, but it gets down to this.)
Depending on how good you befriended Zoey, you will feel at least a tiny bit of hate towards me. You send me a PM on Facepunch in Gaelic about me being a faggot, you message me on steam or you post on the forums and express your hate towards me or one of the other people that know Zoey is a guy.
But you are blind to whatever arguments I give you. You are blind to proof such as the steam page of one of Zoey's alts:
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197999453511

How can I just say this?
Believe it or not, I have once done this myself. And I can prove it, I just looked in my e-mail archive from Hotmail in which I found an e-mail that describes this exact situation.
It was back in April 2009. That was back when I believed Zoey's mechanical muscles and shit was all true. Someone (I guess one of Zoey's friends back then) told Zoey in a steam chat that he doesn't believe all the bullshit stories about the muscles etc.

Zoey had saved this conversation and sent it to me through an e-mail.
Here's the conversation he sent me:
http://pastebin.com/CvPyv0T0

Here's a screenshot of the e-mail (zoomed out a bit in Firefox so more of it is visible)


As a reaction to this, I didn't talk to snow miser (At least I don't remember doing so). Instead I comforted Zoey and said this guy is a prick indeed and that I would always be there for support etc. I did feel angry about it though. I felt hate towards him. How could he be so rude to a girl who is already in a lot of trouble?

This conversation rubbed the stupidity of Zoey's statements in my face. It says all the mechanical muscles and half mechanical brains are simply impossible.

But this e-mail did not convince me that Zoey was telling lies. Moreover, it didn't even make me consider it! I was blinded, and I refused to look at the logical evidence that this bullshit simply can not be true.

In short
I understand it if you hate me. I understand that you see me as someone who tries to destroy Zoey's life because the relationship crashed. For after all I have made this mistake myself, believe it or not. You protect your friends from misery.

But I'm not just a bad guy here. I have genuine reasons to say what I say. This wasn't made up. Don't be blinded by evidence. If you think about telling me or someone else off about this, think about it first. Why are there so many people saying Zoey is a guy? Is it really a hate bandwaggon or is there a reason behind this?
Is Zoey really who I think he is?
Has Zoey ever told me something of which I thought: "this is impossible", "this doesn't happen to normal people" or maybe just "this is pretty weird to be honest...".

Think about that for yourself. This is how I found out the truth. I found out about one lie, and then I started thinking about all the other things Zoey had said to me.

I can give you evidence. I can give you a chat log in which one of Zoey's friends came to me and said the lies were going too far. I can give you screenshots of the e-mails Zoey sent to me back when we had a relation. I can give you the link to one of Zoey's alt accounts (see top of post). I can give you the entire story about what happened (modern adventures.doc, you've probably seen it).

But you won't just believe it. To find out about Zoey, you need to make up your own mind.