xerort wrote:OH good. Glad so well was the last post on my post.
Just want to point out that I never insulted you, so don't insult me.
Also, the title of the post is "In my defense", thus, it was a post about defending myself.
Futhermore, I am out here for purely personal gain. It makes me feel good to help people, to educate people, and to make peoples lives better.
So yes, I am here out of selfishness I guess you could say.
If you have an issue with me, please, feel free to never comment on one of my posts again.
xrt
Hi All
I remember a book I read many years ago by Mark Twain. It had a tale to tell that goes something like this -
There were two men taking a walk by a river on a Sunday afternoon. Suddenly they heard shouting, and saw a man in the river being carried downstream, waving his arms and shouting for help.
The younger of the two men immediately jumped into the river, swam over to the drowning man, grabbed him and brought him to the river bank. A crowd gathered round to help the half-drowned man, and to praise the rescuer.
As the two men resumed their walk, the younger man said "You know, I am not a hero at all. If I had not jumped in, I would have felt ashamed and cowardly, so I really had no choice but to rescue him".
And I think that some of us, including me, would be impelled at times to do and say things with a similar motive. What xerort forgets is that any advice has to be receivable, otherwise it is useless, and can easily cause resentment.
So let us at least applaud the honesty of xerort, even though we think he is wrong about some things, and invite him to learn from the experience of the Forum.
cheers
Mars
