Jim,

An observation if you will....

I have spent a considerable portion of my life working with people whom most of society has discarded. For some 5.5 years I ran and helped run a series of Christian homes. At these homes we'd take folks in right off the street, see if we could get the stink off of them after many had not taken a shower for months, nor brushed their teeth in the same period of time. We'd feed them, clothe them and do what we could to help them, all while also attempting to meet their emotional and spiritual needs. We were "on call" 7x24.

I learned a few things during this period of time and I think one of those lessons has some bearing here.

It has been my observation Jim that many people suffer tremendously from guilt. The various kinds of responses people have to this "sense" of falling short, failing, whatever, is that they will subconsciously create situations where they need to be punished. When we were kids being spanked or sent to our rooms reinforced the notion that our parents loved us enough to not let us get away with the nonsense most kids engage in. It's how we become civilized, mature and grown-up. The need to be punished or corrected runs deep in us all as we all are looking for it. It's called a conscience and God help the individual who has no conscience. People need to be forgiven and often they just do not know how to go about receiving it. They construct artificial problems and at some point negotiate for forgiveness - or punishment - as a way to ease this violated conscience.

I'm beginning to wonder if you don't come by here and pick fights with folks because you need to somehow be punished and reorient your internal "sense" of who you are...

If so, let me just say plainly that you are forgiven. I sincerely mean this. I accept you as you are, yet I would encourage you to rexamine who you wish to become, given your current behavior.

There is no need for you to continue to be so artificially abrasive towards JVP, Ed or anyone else, ok? We all understand you can be cranky - and we accept thet this is the way you have chosen to live your online life. Please understand that you will continue to be on the receiving end of hostile messages as long as you continue to precipitate that hostility. I am flatly and plainly asserting that there is absolutely no need for this to continue. You must decide if you are going to take personal responsibility for your public online behavior. My suggestions to "The Management" if you persist in gratuitously denigrating others is that you be publicly dealt with. This is absolutely nothing more than a reminder that you and I must be "good citizens."

Speaking for myself I can only say that while I think you need some counseling I accept you just the way you are. But, I do think that these outbursts where you gratuitously insult people are an indication of the beginnings of a pretty serious neurosis Jim.

Get some help, for your own sakes, ok?

DD



>Hi Eddie,
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>I had only seen less than a handful of insults from you over the last 2 or so months and *none* of them directed at me until now. I really thought that you had found a better way to express yourself, but yet again I was wrong.
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>I saw not a shred of "vehemence" in my reply to ***Rod P.*** (not to JVP and not to you). I never claimed *anything* about copyright laws or anything related to it because I *know* that I am less than knowledgeable on the subject.
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>I feel adequately INFORMED on the issue that I see here. Pinnacle *may* have been at fault but certainly not Grigore.
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>Anyway, I see that people really don't change, despite appearances to the contrary. Even to the point that you continue to be unable to insult me DIRECTLY.
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>Jim N
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>SNIP
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>>Regarding statements made by less than knowledgable individuals, they probably aren't worth the cost of transmitting their ASCII presenting their uninformed and pointless positions.
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>>Good luck reaching an equitable and acceptable resolution regarding your valued published works. Your decision to study the law will offer you insights that most of us have little detailed understanding, although the uniformed may shoot off their mouths, their uninformed vehemence should be ignore and certainily discarded as basic drivel.
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>>Ed