Jeremy Runnells recalls the circumstances and timing surrounding the creation of the CES Letter and the FAIR debunking content in a comment on Reddit.

Date
Feb 5, 2015
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Website
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Jeremy Runnells
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u/kolobot, "So now that you have had time to process it, do you think that the CES letter is genuine?", Reddit, February 2, 2015.

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Jeremy Runnells, ExMormon Subreddit
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Jeremy Runnells
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Reading Public
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? My dad was TBM at the time. It was my grandfather and him who were coming to the rescue through my grandfather's CES Director friend. You apparently do not understand the background story.

As for 75 pages? You may not write one but I'm not you and you're not me. Never underestimate the desire of someone seeking to restore the respect and trust of some of the most important and respected people in his life. I was given the opportunity to share my model of the world with the director and my family and I took it. I made the decision to lay it all out because that's part of the story. It's not just some of the problems. It's all of the problems as a whole; it's not just the trees...it's the huge forest as well. That in itself is also a story of my disaffection.

I'm trying not to take this personally as this is an assault on my integrity. The story really happened as I said it did. The idea that I would go public with a story that involved two other people beside myself and the CES Director (my TBM grandfather and dad) that wasn't true is just ridiculous. They knew about the CES Letter and they saw the MS Interview. I still like Thanksgivings with them, you know.

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Again, you're not me and I'm not you. If you actually watched the interview, you would've caught the part where I grew up hard-of-hearing and thus writing is my language. It's what I'm comfortable with. I type close to 90 WPM. Ever hear of TTY's? I was on those things in elementary school typing away before the internet became mainstream.

The problem you keep running into is you're projecting your model of the world while assuming that your model must also hold true for others as well. It doesn't and it certainly does not in my case.

My grandfather approached me about the CES Director in late February 2013. The CES Director approached me in early March 2013. I emailed the CES Director the PDF in late April 2013. So, it took me a little over a month to write the CES Letter.

The CES Letter was a cake walk compared to my Debunking FAIR's Debunking (close to 900 pages of content). I organized my information in Evernote over the past year and a half and I'm a good researcher/writer/typist. This is what helped me to be able to write the CES Letter in a relatively short time frame.

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