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Kraven posted:
I've told you before GBK, do you use your middle initial, when
you attempt to converse with an Alinskian it's the same as trying
to throw a boomerang at them, always comes back to you with 
lying crap all over it.... Defleck w/crapola....

Well advised, I might admit.  It's always amazing to me just how much more I get blamed with just by association and then there are some things that are so absurd that I won't even say comes out of the blue.  You'd be surprised just how many people have asked about the GBRK and where that came from.  As you surmised one of the letters is completely out of place but since I've used it as long as I have there's not since in changing it now.  

Then again is there any penalty for optimism, or just expectation of predictable results?  I do realize that chances are that the same stereotyping will continue to occur but I am always hopeful that at some point there may be a moment of compromise and understanding and avoid the continual impasse that we always seem to find ourselves reaching.  

I actually am very good friends with some very rigidly minded Democrats who are 180 degrees politically from where I usually am and we get along famously in person with mutual respect although politically our opinions put us on extreme opposite ends of the political spectrum.  One, in particular, is a gentleman whom I worked with who is a very good person and a great friend but I have no idea where he gets his political leanings from or why he feels the way he does politically.   Thankfully though we know enough about each other that our political feelings do not get in the way of our, very respectful, personal relationship.   Too many times though I fear that it seems far too many people allow their opinions to shape their relationships and taint opinions when it comes to pre-judging other forum members, often, that they do not know.  

I wonder if there was a large, offline, meeting if people could choose who was who, without introductions, before knowing who the actual person was?  Sometimes I think people would surprise themselves as to whom they would gel with in person as opposed to the impersonal way people communicate when they are impersonal and online.  I'm afraid I'd be a dead give-a-way.  I'd be the bag of wind that never would shut up and was opinionated about everything.  Then again some people are the exact opposite in person than their online personas.   


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