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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Everyone's the bigger, smarter, cooler, maturererer person as far as they are concerned. Until they call others small minded nasty children....
These types of threads are a combination of popularity contest mixed with cry baby antics. I came to GC as an alumnus. I think I was maybe 3 years out of college.
I view GC as just a message board with usernames who can be entertaining. Those who see it as some great connector or unifier will take it more seriously. However, the real connections are with people who don't need GC (facebook, etc.) to stay connected with you. It's great that some of us have formed bonds with the people behind the usernames. That's the only stuff that matters. The other message board antics are just laughter material. Zippitydooodahhhh.
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Speaking of Holier than thou ... you seem to consider yourself qualified to pass judgment.
Actually, regarding my post, I don't recall proclaiming myself to be a "bigger, smarter, cooler, maturerer (is that really a word?) person. I was under the impression that I was simply stating my opinion and not handing down holy writ on tablets of stone.
I also came to GC as an alumnus after active service as an Army officer, an MA(Oxon), and a year and a half of Law School. Shortly after joining GC I was recalled to the Army for service in Iraq, commanded an Armored Cavalry Troop, and then returned to Law School, graduated, passed the bar, completed the BVC, was called to the English bar, etc. Whether or not this qualifies me as bigger, smarter, etc, whatever, is irrelevant to that which is offered as my opinion. To lapse into legal usage I would like to think my opinion could be viewed as persuasive but I certainly do not view it as binding.
I do believe that anyone who has been on GC for any amount of time has seen it change from friendly and welcoming to somewhat forbidding. It seems to me to be given to comments which might well be viewed as a form of hazing to a new member or even an established GCer who does not have the hide of a rhino.
Personal attacks and hurtful comments are, in my opinion, the domain of small minded nasty children and I stand by that opinion.
A few years ago MacAllan25 and I got into a dispute that led to a confrontation. We realized that the only way to settle the matter was to meet at dawn, pistols for two, coffee for one. Then we both had a stroke of enlightenment - instead of that solution we should meet for lunch and alternate buying each other rounds of single malt until we came to a mutually agreeable resolution. (Besides, dawn was far too early for either of us).
I suggest we apply the same strategy in this dispute.