RE: [MLUG] Tooting my own horn a bit

["F Vernon Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

OK,

We were at a camp in Northern California as I said before.

The topic of the night was about relationships with our parents. It was a
topic that was very near to my heart at that moment because my mother had
passed away the month before and I felt the need to say a few words about
it.

It was a very moving night, you have to have the full visual to understand.
I am 6'1" tall and at the time weighed about 235. Many of the kids looked up
to me because I would listen to them. I would talk to them and not hold
judgments against them. In many cases I would just listen and not offer up
advice, I think in many cases all they really wanted to do was get something
off their chest.

Anyway, I got up and just talked about what I went through in the last
month. My mother had passed away suddenly and I had not had a chance to talk
to her. The point I was making to the kids at the camp was to try to never
leave their home angry at their parents as you may never know if you will
get a chance to talk to them again. 

After the night was over, there were a lot of kids that wanted to talk; I
was trying to talk to as many of them as I could, when some shouts caught my
attention on the other end of the amphitheater. When I went to the location,
there was a girl about 15 or 16 years old flailing about and screaming. 

This was the kind of screaming you hear girls do when they are really
frustrated and angry. Suddenly she stopped in the middle of it all with
tears flowing down her eyes and simply said "Pray for me". All of the people
around started to pray and almost just as soon, the fighting started again.
There was no one that was safe, girls that she was hanging around with were
thrown aside, my guitar player, myself and my drummer grabbed her and forced
her down to the ground before she could hurt someone. 

She punched me in the jaw and to this day I can still feel a small dent in
my jaw where she hit me. It took everything the three of us had to hold this
girl on the ground, she was kicking and screaming, trying to bite us, trying
to head butt us. She was only making this deep throated scream. 

The guy that was actually the pastor at the camp was praying, all of the
girl's friends that were not crying were praying, I was praying that I could
keep a hold of her she was stronger than any man I had ever tried to wrestle
with.

And then all of a sudden it all ended. She stopped struggling, the tears
dried up, she looked up at us without a totally bewildered look and started
asking what all of these people were doing around her, and why she was
sweating so badly.

What was most remarkable about this was her friends said they had never
heard of her doing anything like this before, her brother said he had never
seen anything like that out of her before. The last three days of camp were
uneventful and every attempt to talk to her about what happened ended with a
confused look. I have to believe she had no idea what had happened.

There were a lot of questions, both from the adults and the kids at the
camp. The real power I saw was that the girls that were her friends and were
frightened to nearly death, stood with her afterwards. 

Now I cannot say for sure what happened. Some were mentioning a possession,
but Christians do not really have a lot of belief in possession, that is
more of a Catholic thing. The pastor, who really tried to console everyone
and provide guidance was as struck as the rest of us. He made a valiant
attempt at trying to explain it as a spiritual battle and with no other
experience to draw upon I went along with it. Could it have been mental
illness? Yes I suppose, I have even heard about super human strength from
the mentally ill, but this is the first and last time I have ever had a 100
pound 16 year old girl nearly break my jaw.

You will have to make your own decision on it.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent Deterding
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 6:20 PM
To: 'MLUG Members'
Subject: [MLUG] Tooting my own horn a bit

Hey all,

I'm fairly proud of this. Attendance may be upwards of 3,000 and the invite
went
out to over 300,000 people. Stephen Northcutt, Joshua Wright, and I worked
on it
for a while and it's gotten pretty solid reviews thus far. We'll be
expanding it
throughout the year and I'll present it at a Cyber Defense Initiative
conference
(CDI) at the end of the year (it's one of the CDI projects). Other projects
in
the past have included the SANS Top 20 list and Bastille Linux. 

:)

-- Brent Deterding

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