1]On a personal note. In the last few hrs. I spent quite a bit of time in a back and forth with an individual. I ALWAYS try to make these kinds of exchanges NOT PERSONAL. I have made it a personal goal to ALWAYS try to make it about the information.
2]And I always try to persuade via logic, rationality, objective research, etc. In the case with this individual it devolved into --on his part--- a number of ad hominem posts. I responded with very calm responses [don't get into the mud --stay above it].
3]And for me this is, at this stage of my life [I've been around--I've seen and heard alot], I did not get much offended. I simply countered his retorts with reason and logic.
4]BUT. When I saw that he had DELETED about 10 of his posts, it was only then that I really became offended. Rather than you guys being able to see the exchanges, all you could see what was I wrote.
5]That's wrong. If you type something you should leave it as is --for better or for worse. I have NEVER nor will I EVER delete something. Why? Because I spend some time THINKING about what I write. And I do so BEFORE I send it.
5]It annoyed the hell out of me that this guy did not have the guts to leave up what he had written. And that I you guys now see is simply my posts----without context.
6]My thought--as I began to realize what he had done --was---goddammit if you wrote it you should have the courage to stand by it. He SELECTIVELY edited after the fact. After my response.
7]I blocked him at that point. I didn't realize [yea I'm an old school idiot as regards the inner workings of twitter] that it would remove ALL that had been said up to that point.
8]I did not not want that. Even though his deletions obfuscated much of the context of my exchanges with him, I still thought my comments would be of some value to those on this site.
9] So I'm disappointed that I wrote alot of stuff that amounted to a large waste of time---when I was hoping that this debate of sorts would yield some insight into how I think about this stuff.
10] I thought the engagement was good and as it progressed I saw it as a kind of "teachable moment" in that he regressed into personal attacks while I simply responded by remaining objective/impersonal.
11]Not trying to brag here: but I ALWAYS try to remain objective and try to argue with logic and rational persuasion. A model I dare say, SHOULD be the normative standard in forums such as this [my great mentor WAS Mel Siff and how he ran his SuperTraining website in this regard]
12] But, as I said above, when I saw his substantial self-editing, that irritated me such that I said ....you're banned dammit. Just thought that some of you--especially those who may have seen this unfolding last night--might want to know the context.
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