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i'd guess that some are complaining about me as much as, or more than, anyone else -- including the moderator(s) that ".308" found offensive. i guess that it's human nature, but i think some can't stand 'competition' and have to get all the press. that's how it seemed to me on the old NEF site. i stirred the pot regularly over there simply by daring to post on a site that some seemingly thought was their own e-mail, their own private property. i found them to be arrogant, and still do. i made a point of their folly to them not because they'd made a simple mistake -- but because of their arrogance. at the age of 53 i believe i have accurate assessment of that much. i also understand that this more family-oriented site is no place for such vociferous harangue.
i think that i have safely stayed away from illegal drugs, for example, simply because i understood the harm in them -- even though i never consumed any. i think i understand how the neighbors stove could have burned me when i was young, even though i never tried it after burning my hand on the ONE at home. and so on, ad nauseaum! but there's no room for such cognition on this forum with some of the guys/gals, it seems.
it seems that if someone on this site, myself a couple of times included, makes a simple mistake that it becomes "feeding time" for some of the others. that's ridiculous. no one on this site, no one, is correct 100% of the time (ONLY GOD IS, I BELIEVE). by the same token, some are capable of greater Intuitive and 'vicarious' (?) understanding than others. i think that, too, runs into resistance. i know, for myself, that i do not have to load every straight-walled cartridge ever produced to understand why they work differently than bottle-necks. (i load both kinds, FWIW). when someone challenges, "how many rounds have you loaded?" i feel like they can put their arrogance where the sun don't go, and take a jump if their egoes can't abide it. no one, in my mind, has to explain something like that to anyone here. i don't remember a "test" for such membership....
that's part of the reason why i post other informative sites on this forum: so that the members herein can see that nobody here has all the answers and that things are not always as alleged. it may take the wind out of the sails of some of the members at GBO, but at least it is potentially a further source of truth. i know that the few people i've met/spoken with at the Camp Perry matches are an entirely different sort of fraternity than what we have here. so, naturally, their websites are different as well. i like this site, and the others as well.
i thank you for what you have given us here, in spite of the contention sometimes engendered. i thank you also for your tolerance of some of OUR shenanigans. i don't know what else to say except that there should be room for opposing views on this site, even if it detracts from the 'stature' that some seem to need so badly. no matter what else happens on planet earth, opposing views -- properly handled -- represent a chance for learning.
at least, that's how this seems to be going to me.
take care,
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