Justinb386,
it is in your best interests to answer this man’s questions concerning your “lack of money” situation in an open and forthcoming manner. I never joined in with the other posters when speculating about your personal and private life -- I don’t care who you or any other poster really is -- I always try and respond only to the poster’s texts. We’re all unreliable narrators here. Nobody is who they present themselves as. However, you have referred numerous times to your “lack of money and/or disposable income.”
I can take you to a local bus stop in my neighborhood and show you honest, law abiding, hardworking people who haven’t had $250 in freely disposable income in years. You need to explain to all of us what you are referring to when you present yourself as having little or no extra money, etc. when you can bid or offer this much money on a cue when you claim to have little or no money.
If you choose not to explain in an honest and open fashion, I think you should be prepared for a whole new generation of AZB posters with little or no tolerance for your shenanigans.
Please reread my posting above carefully. Nowhere am I questioning where Justinb386 gets his money from. I am questioning why Justinb386 has continually claimed to have little or no money and can only afford a cue of $200 at the most when facts have come to light which show otherwise. Hopefully, you are familiar with Justinb386’s posting history.
I am assuming both my and mchnhed’s base question is the same here: Why does Justinb386 continue to claim and use lack of money to elicit sympathy from AZB readers, when it appears he actually does have funds to support his cue purchases? Real facts from the real world have collided with Justinb386’s persona and appear to contradict his persona’s continual assertions of always having little or no money.
Where the money came from is not at issue for me. Continuing to claim something that has been shown to be otherwise is the issue here.
Justinb386 has a decision to make. Either alter his persona’s attribute of always being too broke to buy a decent cue or have this detail thrown at him ad infinitum for the next 20 threads and run the risk of many more AZBer’s reacting in the same way as mchnhed has.
This is far from the first time posters have confronted Justinb386 regarding the contradictions inherent in his persona’s personality.
I’ve been dying to do a simple analysis of Justinb386’s texts (threads and postings) for about 3 months now, so let me explain. Maybe 7 years of occasionally, but not always, following Justinb386’s texts at work and (almost) always being entertained by them has given me ample time to analyze the persona he has constructed for his AZB audience and what motivates him to present his persona in the way he does.
So I says to myself, I says, “Screw it, I’m gonna do it, even if I’m the only one who finds it interesting.”
This analysis is based only on Justinb386’s text, not any speculation about what Justin really is like. He could be a banker in his day job for all I know. I could care less because as I stated before: we’re all unreliable narrators here. So I’m doing nothing more than any of you do each time you respond to someone else’s posting: you analyze the text and respond to it in one fashion or another. The person who wrote the text is somewhere, but he’s not the text or even in the text. It’s impossible to discover who someone really is by just reading what they wrote.
Speculating on what the writer of a text is really like is an exercise in futility; however, speculating on the character representing the writer in the text is open game for me. You wrote it, I own it, once you release it. Same with what I write. That’s why there’s a button on the bottom each posting that says, “Post Reply”.
Let me start by saying I fall in the camp that believes Justinb386 (the writer of the texts) is no dummy. I have joked about Justinb386 being a genius at his manipulative techniques in the past. In my opinion, he has quite a sharp mind. He has an exceptional ability to control the effects his writing has on his readers. Whether this is consciously controlled by him or not, I don’t know. But he is aware of his own manipulative abilities as a writer. That’s a good thing. All communication is manipulation. Some communicators have a greater and more conscious control of it than others. His persona’s primary purpose is hold and maintain our interest and feed our attention to his ego. And there’s nothing wrong with that—it’s a good gig if you can get it.
Justinb386’s persona is intriguing to most of us because he purposefully cloaks himself in mystery and intrigue, and subtle contradictions. His persona’s characteristics just don’t make sense sometimes. And if his persona suddenly did make sense, we would probably lose interest in him real quick. We just can’t figure him out, just like an intriguing character in a book. His persona’s character flaws actually make his persona more real and human to us—like we’re really getting to know him somehow—he’s not hiding anything, even though he’s hiding everything. And if we guess and question his persona’s flaws long enough, we begin to believe that we may find out who he really is and the secrets behind him.
So inconsistencies in his persona’s character like the fact that he is constantly looking for a cue he can’t afford, despite our best efforts to avoid it, actually draw us into a sympathetic relationship with his persona. The Holy Grail.
His insistence that he has never bought a single cue with the intention of flipping it when all indications point to the opposite is a tough one for me. I am not sure if that is an endearing characteristic other than it helps support his claim of never having enough cash to buy the cue he really wants. This one I think he continues to insist upon because it too contributes to the mystery of his persona’s character.
You will notice that Justinb386 never ever explains or answers to us why these situations exist. When these predicaments are questioned by fellow posters, Justinb386 always has some answer, but never answers the question. Then he sidetracks the question by answering a non-existent question and re-routing the answer to respond to an issue more favorable to developing his persona. This is also why Justinb386 neither acknowledges nor refutes another poster when he is being confronted by a hostile poster who is demanding to know what he is really like—he has the ability to separate himself from his persona and let the persona do the manipulating. Even to deny the hostile poster’s accusations limits the possibilities which help to contribute to his persona’s mysteries. Pure Genius! That is why Justinb386 is a Teflon Don—all the negativity just bounces off him because he knows he’s not his persona. He just reaps the attention that his persona creates for him and tosses away the negativity.
I personally find the continuing sage of Justinb386 very entertaining.
I see you do to, eh?
Soooo . . . what draws a swell fellow like you into these threads?
(Sorry, couldn’t resist!)
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