Dear Bass Thumper,
You really have taken a leap based on your bias as well as your misreading, haven't you?
Now, IF I wrote that I hated Jews, Africans, overly opinionated forum posters or chocolate cake I declare, here & now, that it was an error in my writing & editing.
I suspect I didn't write declaring hatred and that you, instead, have somehow managed to mangle my tortured prose into something you wanted to read.
I have no hatred for the people I named. I merely pointed out their failings in the context of my 1st mention of scammers etc.
- I do hate what the Trump administration is DOING to Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, America and the world.
- I do hate what the Israeli GOVT is DOING to Palestine, Iran, the Middle East, America & the world.
- I do hate what Putin's kleptocracy is doing to Ukraine, America & the world.
I don't hate a person or a people though.
I pointed out that education systems that work as closed loop are damaging to those within the loop.

How on earth do you infer antisemitism in me from anything I wrote?

You ask for comments about a music education program/business.
I stated I thought it was a scam and related that to other scams & scammers.
You claimed all sorts of silly stuff about my personality traits and beliefs as a result and named some "heroes" of progress.
I explained that they were often heroes due to geography, nefarious means, power or a combo of these as well as pointing the egregious behaviour of some - taking Ford as a particular example.
I quoted a German Nazi, Baldur von Schirach, who claimed it was Ford's anti-Semitic book, The International Jew, that set him & his colleagues along the path that eventually came to him sending tens of thousands of Jews to concentration camps.
I did this to illustrate how deeply flawed & darkly influential Ford was.
I did that to illustrate that becoming a "follower" of a "leader" can be a dangerous thing and, in the instance of millions of Germans in the 1930s, "getting out of the way" was almost as bad.

I suggest your comprehension skills need sharpening mate, OR you need to read without a bias toward the writer OR you need to take a deep breath and reread things before commenting.

Criticism and analysis aren't flaws or bugs: they're a feature of the design.

In instances like this discussion cod psychology is as amateur as it gets.

"Some of my best friends are...": without irony...classic.

I'm self aware enough to know that I'm an opinionated, pompous git.
I'm self aware enough to know that I need to read & reread before posting lest I offend or misrepresent my ideas.
I'm aware enough to perceive that you've flown off the handle due to your misreading or misinterpretation of what I wrote.

You, on the other hand, seem to be a danger to yourself, I fear, when it comes to internet discussions because, I suspect, you're not aware that the contest of ideas doesn't necessarily require a winner and that different ideas are, well, different.

Thankfully you have your bass, a love of music from your past and forums to share your interpretations of that love.

What would Euclid say?

I offer my signature quote without irony, sarcasm, cynicism or hatred.

Last edited by rayc; Yesterday at 03:47 PM.
Cheers
rayc
"What's so funny about peace, love & understanding?" - N.Lowe