Anderson's Stalker.

On occasion, I visit Anderson's blog to see if he's written anything new that I might want to chew on and explore here. Recently, he's put up a rather cryptic blurb about some internet stalking that he's experienced. I don't know what's going on beyond what he's written, but I'm hoping that none of my readers are involved.

Obviously, I haven't got anything like control or even much influence over what my readers do. However, if by a slim chance, you are a reader of this blog, care at all about what I have to say, and are among those bothering Anderson (he talks about incessant emails, comments to his blog as well as an anonymous blog), I encourage you to stop doing what you're doing, at least if what he's described is an accurate portrayal of your actions. Don't be a stalker. You can't force someone to have a conversation with you. Trying to do so is creepy and a bit frightening. If he doesn't want to talk to you, then accept it and move on. Live your life, dude. You're likely just making him into a martyr.

I also worry that some might get the false impression that I am the one behind the stalking or in someway involved. I don't think I'm being paranoid--To my chagrin, I had a friend recently confuse my blog with the "debunking Gangadean" site which predates mine by several years and also approaches things in a very different way (I noted before that I'm not affiliated with it). Further, I do maintain some amount of anonymity in my blog and I don't know of any other blogs of this nature. Does anybody know of other Gangadean/Anderson related blogs that Anderson might be referencing? If so, would you please let me know? Additionally, I recently posted articles about Anderson's book as well as an old conversation we had about the bible. Admittedly, this is unfortunate timing, but I didn't know at the time that all of this was going on in Anderson's world otherwise, I would probably have prefaced those.

So let me be explicit. It's not me. I know nothing about the situation beyond what I read on Anderson's blog. I have no interest in such antics. In fact, I haven't been in contact with Anderson for sometime now since he requested radio silence about 3 years ago. We've interacted exactly once since that time and that was about a year ago when Anderson emailed me out of the blue in hopes of having a conversation. I responded to his emails and that was the end of it.

Anyway, I hope the situation resolves itself for Anderson. We disagree about a lot, but I certainly don't harbor any ill will towards him. Fortunately, I haven't encountered anything of the sort so far, but if Anderson is accurately describing the situation, it's a bit scary given the current climate.