After a few years on this board it is my observation that horrible personalities, like aaron, find the exit door one way or another. Somehow the board is saved from those who want to spread hate.
Sometimes such troublesome ranters and haters are banned or they tire of their own stupidity or they are completely ignored. In the case of aaron, I propose that we start off by ignoring him. Obviously, his main thrill in life is spreading discord, venom and misunderstanding. I must say that the way he uses board member's words and personal info against them indicates that he is afflicted by the lowest moral impulses.
Either he is just an imposter and vicious crank or a vain phd student(as he has so much begged us to believe, for the sake of his ego). I have a hard time believing that an educated person would write about others in such an illiterate style and moreover in such a sinister temper. Or it could be that he was not taught proper civic and social manners as a child.
There are so many lost souls who get behind a key board and then find a strong motive for their anti-humanistic instincts. In the matter involving Iswote, it is a fact that in a face-to-face setting, aaron would never have spoken the same vicious things that he wrote here. Would he have been able to say these things to Iswote's wife as she lay in a hospitable bed? NO!!!!
How about that for some TRUTH!!!!
So this is an example of how this hate-monger called aaron is an imposter. Bogota vet's post was an even more bizzare attack. I'm sure it was a great pleasure to use 'reverse psycology' on a fellow human who was in great anguish.
No matter what Iswote or Pete has done they don't seem to be bad guys to me. All the negativity and foolishness is pouring out of the dark souls of those who want to use anything on this board step on common human decency and understanding!!!!!
Good, decent adult people can talk or write to one another, in any setting, because there is no anger, hate, vengence, envy or cynicism involved.
Therefore, if we are all responsible adults here on this board it shouldn't matter very much when someone freely chooses to post personal info. The way Iswote and Pete have been treated, in this sense, has been disrespectful and disappointing!!!!
In my opinion when ANYONE here freely posts info that they feel may help others or they need to share (as fellow soldiers in the struggle), it is an automatic signal that such a confidence should be treated with respect and understanding.
Surely, such personal info does not mean the author is a careless person, lacks judgement, lazy, incompitent, weak and foolish. Yet in their seperate posts aaron, bogota vet and jim c have so rashly attacked Iswote and Pete, that they seek to stifle free conversation among good responsible adults.
What is most amusing is that in sharing their experiences Iswote and Pete are somewhat less than anonymous. But those who have harshly assaulted them remain quite anonymous behind a machine - right?
No doubt there are better ways to comment about someone's posting habits. Why all the anger, meaness and BS indifferece? The cynical and illiterate use of free speech ideals, or 'reverse psycology', or blousy generalisations about columbianas are not the right way.
Fact is many others have been kind enough to share their experiences without attacking the level of communication among adults. No problems.
I would strongly suggest that those who are too wicked, too vain and insessitive to display the kind of adult skills necessary for conversation in this particular forum should use the exit door.
Therefore, I ask all grown adults for your support in this request to have aaron and bogota vet banned. Patrick, I hope you will take this up.