I am always amazed how seemingly intelligent and mature people can often resort back to their childhood by trying to choose up teams and intimidate others who they feel have wronged them. Let it go!
Is this shit ever going to stop?
Larc, I don't know what is going on with you but you seem to have been pulled down to a level of discourse that is way below your intelligence level. Why you continue to try and resurrect dead issues is only making you look like a much lesser person than many feel you are.
This little game is sophomoric and unnecessary. Kent can be a huge jerk, that isn't anything everybody doesn't realize and that includes Kent himself. I have had a few combative words with him in the past and because of the respect we share for mutual friends we were able to work it out. What he has done in the past is in the past.
So he won't let you play in his sandbox, so what. It's his sandbox and he can make the rules. If his rules look to be a bit hypocritical then maybe it's because he is still learning and growing and has not yet reached the state of balance that one would expect of someone who has done more positive things then negative. It's all about balance and in my estimation his scales are leaning a lot more to the positive. His style may be a bit barbaric at times but what the hell do you expect from a damn Viking anyway? It's in his blood.
I have a lot of respect for you, what you have been doing ever sense the Tina issue is making you look bad and is slowly diminishing your credibility. As someone who respects you and your work could I ask you to please sit back and look at the direction you seem to be going. If you can look at this issue and your participation in it again, you might be able to put it in its proper perspective and let those who fell they need to choose up sides do so without you. I say this as a friend.
This board has lost some valuable posters because of these little kiddy spates and I hate to see any more leave. Good, bad, opinionated, kind, abusive or what ever the style a poster has it is the positive aspects of their comments instead of the style in which it is delivered that is important. Take a moment and try to look at the big picture instead of the intrusive reflections of imperfect people with basic human insecurities. If people continue to act abrasively toward you the easiest and most effective way to stop it is to stop communication with them. Many have done this and it works.
Out,
I don't know you very well but it is obvious that you are defending your wife. No one can fault you for that, in fact I admire it. From what I have read from Julie's posts she is completely capable of speaking her mind and getting her points across. I ask you to do the same as Lark, please take another look at all of this and try to see if this type of discussion is really necessary. What do you gain from all of this? Is it so important to feel you are right and Larc is wrong? What does it all matter in the whole scheme of things? Julie defended Tina, they are friends, friends do that. Sometimes friends do it without very much objectivity. That is the way I saw it all and it's too bad. Why bring this issue that has brought a division to this board back and regurgitate it's tasteless matter? Tina makes mistakes, she has gone through some very sad situations in her life. She also has given this board some positive input. It was sad to see it all blow up the way it did.
Julie and Tina as well as several others seem to have found a good place to post on Kent's board. Kent starting his own board seems to have solved a problem on this board but it has also cause this board to loose posters like Jan and Skipper. It's these petty little personality wars that brings this board down. Kent's board seems to be a good solution that has facilitated those who felt they needed to choose a side in what seems to have been a long running resentment between some old H2O posters. When the sides where chosen the only ones who truly lost were those who refused to choose sides and those who never posted on H2O. This choosing sides stuff is pure bullshit and very childish. Everyone involved knows better and are better people than this little war made them out to be.
Sadly the division has occurred, what's done is done. Please let it be.
Take care,
Dave
