Matt Kurtz

• Conversation started April 17, 2014
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  4/17, 3:59am

  Matthew Kurtz

  Heidi and I would probably be willing to send you money, if you were willing to use that money to catch a plane back to The States.
• April 27, 2014
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  4/27, 5:31pm

  Matthew Kurtz

  I know you can't reply, but here's my problem with you trying to "teach" on Facebook: You're in VIETNAM! You could talk to these people HERE this way. If you're going to justify being in a foreign country to teach English, teach English to them. In person. Like a real teacher. If you can't, which is entirely understandable and not your fault, then get a side-job in the mean-time so you can live. Everyone has to do this, or leech off of other people that are doing this. If you can't, you have to find a way back to your own country. You have no business being in Vietnam spending all your time on the internet. It doesn't make sense. You might starve to death, and for nothing. You're doing nothing on the internet you can't do here. If you're going to tell yourself you have a purpose, act like it. Don't waste time on a social networking site which doesn't fit your needs.
  I love you, man. It just kills me to see you suffer for absolutely no reason. You're better than that. You don't deserve that.
• March 12
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  3/12, 9:33am

  Matthew Kurtz

  Do you just add everyone on your friends list to your English groups? Or do you keep adding me on purpose?
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  3/12, 10:19am

  Joey Arnold

  No, sorry for adding you: I added everybody: sorry for being a jerk: sorry for being like spam/scam/inconsiderate/etc....

  you can leave it
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  3/12, 10:21am

  Matthew Kurtz

  I did. I was just curious as to whether or not there's a reason. I still get friend requests from people asking me to teach them English.
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  3/12, 10:22am

  Joey Arnold

  Asians have this habit of asking for help from everybody

  I hide my friends on Facebook: you can see mutual friends on my facebook

  I have 5,000 friends, and over 5,000 followers
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  3/12, 10:23am

  Matthew Kurtz

  I've heard. Is that good?
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  3/12, 10:23am

  Joey Arnold

  it is good that people ask for help......

  but....
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  3/12, 10:23am

  Matthew Kurtz

  I mean 5000 "friends"
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  3/12, 10:24am

  Joey Arnold

  that is ok

  I am not sure

  does it matter? does it help? I don't know
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  3/12, 10:25am

  Matthew Kurtz

  Me neither.
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  3/12, 10:25am

  Joey Arnold

  does it matter when youtube videos get millions of views? I do not know eactly

  some of this is good

  I want to share myself with the world
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  3/12, 10:26am

  Matthew Kurtz

  Who doesn't?
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  3/12, 10:27am

  Joey Arnold

  I can get tired of the boring conversations I have
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  3/12, 10:27am

  Matthew Kurtz

  But what's the point?

  What's the goal?
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  3/12, 10:27am

  Joey Arnold

  I get dozens of FB messages from strangers asking me if I am a teacher and where I am from and simple questions that they can find the answers to on my FB
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  3/12, 10:28am

  Matthew Kurtz

  And why must you reply?
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  3/12, 10:29am

  Joey Arnold

  the goal includes giving people some education, encouragement, inspiration, insight.... Christ....entertainment

  I don't have to reply... but sometimes I do a little
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  3/12, 10:30am

  Matthew Kurtz

  If you love this and you're makin it by, who cares what I think? Are you making any money now?

  At least enough to take care of yourself?
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  3/12, 10:30am

  Joey Arnold

  In English K = OK, but in Vietnamese, K = KHONG = no.... I said K sometimes, meaning ok, but they thought I said no

  I take care of myself

  I sometimes get stomach viruses or stomach aches or food poisoning or something
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  3/12, 10:31am

  Matthew Kurtz

  Yeah? Not living off of anybody still? Buying all your own food then?

  Do you have health care?
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  3/12, 10:32am

  Joey Arnold

  I feel bloated right now and I am drinking tea right now: it is 10:30 AM Thursday right now: no health care.... but doctors/hospital care is cheaper here
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  3/12, 10:33am

  Matthew Kurtz

  ... but someone's helpin you.
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  3/12, 10:33am

  Joey Arnold

  I am a teacher. I work. I make money. I spend money on food and on shelter

  Right now, I rent an apartment, $100/month

  I have a rice cooker and water boiler
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  3/12, 10:34am

  Matthew Kurtz

  Cool. All right, then.
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  3/12, 10:34am

  Joey Arnold

  I cook my own rice, noodles, oatmeal, coffee, and tea
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  3/12, 10:34am

  Matthew Kurtz

  100 a month? Like USD?
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  3/12, 10:34am

  Joey Arnold

  $100 USD, right
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  3/12, 10:34am

  Matthew Kurtz

  That's chump change- is housing just that cheap there?
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  3/12, 10:35am

  Joey Arnold

  my room is 10 x 7 feet and has no bathroom

  rooms are normally $200/mo to $1,000 or more
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  3/12, 10:36am

  Matthew Kurtz

  Well... that's big enough to roll over, at least. What's the plan then? Make it big as a teacher in Vietnam? You still like it there?
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  3/12, 10:37am

  Joey Arnold

  I will continue to stay and do what I do

  I want to get better at what I do

  I try to get better at what I do each day in teaching and in speaking in Vietnamese
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  3/12, 10:38am

  Matthew Kurtz

  K. That's all any of us do. Till we're dead.
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  3/12, 10:38am

  Joey Arnold

  I try my best to help people improve their English skills and I try my best to save money as well

  I try not to get too distracted with the future too much

  as I get older, I try more and more to dream less... I try to day dream less.... I try to make too many speculations about the future

  I need to take care of my life in the moment more

  one of the most popular questions I get is about if I am single and if I want to marry a Vietnamese
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  3/12, 10:44am

  Matthew Kurtz

  Whatever man, I don't care what you do. Its not like my opinion matters anyway- we all have them. Each as useless as the next. I just never saw your reason for going over there and suffering for no reason but to teach English as if it's some God given destiny of yours. Who cares if people know English? Does God give a shit about English? As if it's better than Vietnamese? God doesn't give a fuck what language people speak- He made them speak differently in the first place! I just felt like you were lost and you wanted to get lost, so you left the USA and your hometown as if it was the cause of your problems. Heidi did the same thing in Cali with drugs. I don't feel like you're any different.
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  3/12, 10:45am

  Joey Arnold

  English is a stepping stone towards other things

  People who know English make more money, normally
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  3/12, 10:46am

  Matthew Kurtz

  A more mainstream way to go from vagina to gave English is a stepping stone to nothing.

  Grave*
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  3/12, 10:47am

  Joey Arnold

  communication helps

  education improves

  diversity improves
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  3/12, 10:48am

  Matthew Kurtz

  What use is money? Aren't you a testament to living with little to know money? Teaching people the worst language on the planet so they can make more money?

  no*
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  3/12, 10:48am

  Joey Arnold

  money is a tool
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  3/12, 10:48am

  Matthew Kurtz

  You're a tool of it.
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  3/12, 10:49am

  Joey Arnold

  survival is part of who we are

  I still like English

  I don't think it's the worst
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  3/12, 10:49am

  Matthew Kurtz

  Of course you don't. Its what yo know.
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  3/12, 10:50am

  Joey Arnold

  k

  there are so many Catholics and Buddhists: and I want people to be exposed to me
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  3/12, 11:08am

  Joey Arnold

  i am helping others; God wants me here: this is my destiny
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  3/12, 11:20am

  Matthew Kurtz

  Then have at it. I don't buy it, but if that's true, fuck anybody who tries to stop you. Don't half-ass this shit. Prove yourself.
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  3/12, 11:31am

  Joey Arnold

  what do you buy?

  is America dying?
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  3/12, 11:32am

  Matthew Kurtz

  The whole world is, man. You know this.
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  3/12, 11:33am

  Joey Arnold

  sure
• Today
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  5:40am

  Matthew Kurtz

  Alright, I'm sick of you adding me to groups. My phone goes off every couple hours just for you. I've asked you several times to stop and you won't. Guess your new found "popularity" made you forget real friends. I don't use Facebook to learn English or meet new people from foreign countries. My plate is full. I have a wife and a family, and a circle of actual friends. You were part of it. Now, you're the only person on Facebook who is a continual nuisance. I've unfollowed you, but you find new ways everyday to force people to pay attention to you. Now it's groups again. Now I have to disable letting friends add me to groups because of you? No. One more group that I'm added to, I am deleting you. I STILL get friend requests from that shit you pulled a while ago. So does Danny. And not one apology. I'm done with this shit. Stop. Stop now. I told you, I'm done caring about what you are doing, just- and let me make this VERY clear to you - STOP INVOLVING ME. This is not what a friend does. Friends listen and think about each others feelings. I only ever feel like you think about yourself, because obviously my words go in one ear and out the other. A friend would hear them. Especially an English teacher. Danny deleted you. I told him I didn't want to do that, I just unfollowed you and told you to stop. Did you think something changed? Did you think that suddenly I would love to talk to people I don't know or care about so they can learn a stupid language that makes no Heavenly difference? No... Not. One. Bit. Or maybe you just add everyone because you selfishly assume everyone you know wants what you want. Regardless, if I'm added to one more, that's it. I'll just see you if you ever come back.
• Today
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  10:04am

  Joey Arnold

  I didn't personally add you. Not everything is about you. Turn off phone notifications. I do not want to see you again. I don't want to talk to you or people like you. i am very sad and angry