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LaTigresse -> Experts! (2/3/2007 7:45:57 AM)
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As I sit here blissfully drinking my Saturday morning coffee and perusing the various forum boards, going back over a few I contributed to the last few days, reading thru some new ones.......I contemplate something and begin to wonder if I am alone in something.
I have been reading and adding my thoughts to these forums for quite a few months now. Long enough to get to know many of the regular's personal styles and favourite areas of posting. Now, with hormones and my natural spaciness I do tend to forget ALOT, but by some miracle I am able to retain a surprising amount also. Enough to recognze some patterns of different regular posters. Now bear with me and my ramblings (or not, and leave I really don't care[:D]) but I begin to see that there are some that just seem to really LOVE to constantly toss sticks in others spokes, always a real downer and negative, loving the past time of argument. Then I begin to ponder the styles of such and something new kind of jumped out at me after reading one particular thread. Experts. There are a few people that just seem to know everything about everything and have a personal tale of their life history to validate it.
Now I know, given my 44almost45 years, that if a person lives long enough we can and do experience alot. Job changes, partners, friends, family members, etc.,who's life experiences also contribute to our personal knowledge. But, (you knew there had to be a but) doesn't it seem interesting that there are some people that when passionately involved in a debate ALWAYS are able to come up with their own personal life experience story that validates why they are right and anyone that disagrees with them is an idiot? After reading enough of it, and seeing a pattern any thinking person, even one with limited memory like me, must begin to doubt the validity of all this expert....ness (if such a word exists, if not I just made it up)
Myself, I just tend to find the humour in it and move on. After so long I lose respect for that poster and don't really give any creedence to their "facts". In addition to the fact that I just get sick of negative argumentative people that seem to love to spread their negativety around.
I am not going to ask the usually "has anyone else ever?" question. Of course someone has. I guess I am just pondering what might be driving these people.
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