Letter to Kur Wel Kur

Dear Kur Wel Kur,

May 18, 2015 (SSB)  —- You seem to know me very well. But I don’t know you myself as a matter of fact. And when I started seeing your writings and those of Mamer Deng Jur alongside each other, I began to have some assumptions you might be someone about Mamer’s age, and I still believe so.

My assumption was that we, both, don’t know each other. That there’s so much about me you don’t know, and a lot I don’t know about you, either. This is because I have never, really, seen or heard of you or even talked to you, apart from living somewhere I don’t know.

I don’t know where you live, and I had assumed where you are and where I am, are two worlds apart that have been brought together, only, by the internet. And it is because I didn’t know much about you that I suggested in my previous writing that we are all connected and that I could only make a few phone calls to write something bad, too.  The whole meaning was I am able to make a research till I know you and then start writing something similar to yours after I felt you had attacked me in your writings.

I remember I became agitated straight away when I read your piece. Why? Because in the introductory paragraphs, I remember, it talked about some dudes uploading 1000 year old information from the net and then use it in their writings to look like they know a lot, and then use it to challenge the elders. It is that sentence that made me arrive at seeing you as someone who was there to compete.

Put that together with being described as someone who frequent nightclubs that should worry about “the mind-numbing thoughts of dying of AIDS or hepatitis B” and you know what? Anybody in this situation would naturally try to react in the same way as me. You might have meant a completely different situation in your post, but when I assumed the whole thing to be about me and my article, I was filled with spontaneity.  And you know spontaneous reactions are not thought through, thoroughly. Anything can be said to hurt the pride of the opponents when in real life, it does not reflects what it stands for.

But as I see, the whole thing looks like it was an accidental bump into each other. Despite a lot of things being directly challenging to my original post, which is also the post that instigated this situation, I will rest the case by believing that it was all unintentionally in both ends, and we should both tell each other “sorry, it was an accident.” And I believe this will mark the end of this misunderstanding.

Thank you for making the whole situation clear. I would also like to say sorry if anything I said hurt you. I was beMng spontaneous, to repeat myself.

Thanks.

From Biar John

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