by DavidG » Sun Sep 28, 2014 9:54 am
It's taken me years and countless hours of deep thought, and meditation, and interaction with numerous folks in the web community, and a few things I've learned are....
1: sometimes the ones who seem to want to help, are the ones who bask in the failure of others.
2: anyone can invent a personality for themselves, or hide behind a persona to achieve their sad goals of being someone they are not.
3: when one hits a certain age, and admits their shortcomings and failures, or mistakes, there will always be those who wish you well, but many who pounce or use those shortcomings for fuel for later condemnations.
4: many of the folks who others say to avoid, have some of the wisest or most accurate opinions and ideas in the long run.
5: there is no shortage of people who from their bully pulpit of a torn, stinky computer chair, can act as if they are some sort of guru for the ages, or mystical holder of hidden knowledge...it just takes time to see that they are doing this by some as trusting as myself.
6: if someone calls you out on past mistakes or shortcomings, they themselves are grasping at straws to compensate for their self hate and self pity...especially online.
7: there are folks who offer wonderful words of wisdom, waiting for an ear to share it with....I have met a half dozen or so of these folks,
Kevin, Mikado, you guys are among the people who I have a place in my heart for.....always...Kevin, who took my hand from a wild eyed newbie full of thoughts and ideas about everything, which were often way off base, and used his unending wisdom and love to guide me through the last several years of self introspective, and self improvement.
Mikado, you have shown a resilience that I rarely have seen in any person I've met, using wisdom, clear eyed observance, and in my case, as I was programmed at first to hate and attack you, a willingness to forgive and reach out with that olive branch, thus forth cementing my knowledge that you are a very cool dude.
There are others, a few at PRC, a shell of a forum....and David Barclay, who is one of the most amazing thinkers I have ever encountered...which have kept my interest peaked on certain subjects, and made my time on the web fulfilling and rewarding amid the idiotic and buffoonish antics of the rest of the folks who wish to breed discord, and gain ill timed respect for their hate and paranoia filled time on the internet.
In retrospect....I have been an asshole, a nice guy, and a friend, a speculator majeur, and perhaps from time to time a good theorizer....but through it all the few who really have cared and shared have shown me what a true friend is through the web, and in reality, even if only over fiber optic lines.
I am humbled by your patience.
Thanks to the good ones, you know who you are.....
Dave