07-01-2011, 11:59 PM
Jim, I don't usually enter the JFK folder because it is a subject I freely admit having no real knowledge of, or interest in.
But I came and watched. And saw.
And you must certainly know that much goes on behind the scenes that does not, and should not appear on the surface.
In the light of this I think it is wrong of you to make these judgements. Especially after these last past few very trying weeks, where an 18-hour day was not unusual for all of us founders and owners. And when other people were enjoying their deserved Christmas rest with their families, we were saving this forum from complete and utter destruction, so that you and other members could continue to post and yes, disagree with us -- over 5000 threads, tens of thousands of hours of effort, over 300 members posts (yours included) and God knows how many hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of words etched here. Some highly original and irreplaceable.
And the bottom line is that we are only humans too. We make mistakes and errors of judgement, and later live to regret them.
It's just that I disagree with your judgement in this case. But then we are both big enough, old enough and ugly enough to agree to disagree. We've earned that right.
But I do understand why you make your judgement and the fact that you were hurt. It is often the case in discussion forums that people's feelings are not properly catered for - simply because the thrust is usually on rational, factual arguments. Plus the obvious fact that we men usually are so shit poor at our feelings, that it's embarrassing. Or rather "they" embarrass us.
We all tend to want to replicate "Macho man", as per the Steve Miller Band track.
You'll never get everyone to agree with your perspective, and I'll never get anyone to agree with mine either.
Let's just accept that fact and move on, okay?
In friendship Jim.
David
But I came and watched. And saw.
And you must certainly know that much goes on behind the scenes that does not, and should not appear on the surface.
In the light of this I think it is wrong of you to make these judgements. Especially after these last past few very trying weeks, where an 18-hour day was not unusual for all of us founders and owners. And when other people were enjoying their deserved Christmas rest with their families, we were saving this forum from complete and utter destruction, so that you and other members could continue to post and yes, disagree with us -- over 5000 threads, tens of thousands of hours of effort, over 300 members posts (yours included) and God knows how many hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of words etched here. Some highly original and irreplaceable.
And the bottom line is that we are only humans too. We make mistakes and errors of judgement, and later live to regret them.
It's just that I disagree with your judgement in this case. But then we are both big enough, old enough and ugly enough to agree to disagree. We've earned that right.
But I do understand why you make your judgement and the fact that you were hurt. It is often the case in discussion forums that people's feelings are not properly catered for - simply because the thrust is usually on rational, factual arguments. Plus the obvious fact that we men usually are so shit poor at our feelings, that it's embarrassing. Or rather "they" embarrass us.
We all tend to want to replicate "Macho man", as per the Steve Miller Band track.
You'll never get everyone to agree with your perspective, and I'll never get anyone to agree with mine either.
Let's just accept that fact and move on, okay?
In friendship Jim.
David
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14