Rick,
I think you've expressed our "skeptics" view very well in several of your posts. Obviously, it's flown over their heads, as always, and made you the devil incarnate in their eyes. Yet, amidst all the vitriol, you've managed to maintain an extraordinary level of patience and civility.
I just want to say that I, for one, am really impressed!
Jim
Thanks much, Jim. I sincerely hope that management & others too see it as you do... instead of how some are trying to portray matters.
I also hope that the neutral parties can see the food for thought & do their own thinking when making their own determinations, as well that they should after seeing information from both viewpoints...
and that is ALL that I am trying to do, which is to get individuals to think for themselves & to NOT blindly follow the thinking of others.
A statement of "it works" or "they work" without any caveats attached can & might give an impression of more than what John Schmidt may have intended. Especially since he is merely trusting the opinion of his friend & we do not even know if he has tried it at all or has any idea of what it is actually asserted & claimed to be.
If one is looking for a method or a new method, then I suppose that it can be as good as others & perhaps better in some aspects & possibly a good fit for certain types of individuals.
If one knows or at least has given it some thought that it might not be a truly objective method & knows that it might still require their own subjective individual 'aiming talent' & still wants to pursue using it, then that is exactly what they should do & NO ONE that I know of is trying to stop them from doing so.
I understand why the main proponents here resort to the tactic of incivility & 'attacking' the messenger with vitriol instead of discussing the actual subject matter & specifics at hand.
I think the members, visitors, & general public understand that too, as they have seen such in the political arena for decades.
I also understand when another member occasionally makes a similar type post as they probably see the method for which they paid, are using, or trying to use, as being 'attacked'...
instead of the truth of the matter which is that those like You, I & Others are simply trying to put out the real reasons why one can & those that are having success with it can & are doing so.
I am a bit perplexed though why some want to give the credit to a supposed objective system & take the credit away from what their own human mind & body are capable of accomplishing.
Anyway...
Thanks Again & I hope Management & most neutral others see matters as you do & not as some are trying to portray matters. It is that activity that makes posts necessary as well as the length of some posts.
Best Wishes for You & Yours,
Rick
PS Please do not worry about my mental health. I have been Faithfully & Happily Married to the same Beautiful & Beautiful Heart of a Woman for coming on 35 years & that I have known for 42 years. We have 4 grown 'children'. Three(3) of which are well educated with multiple degrees & the last on his way. We also have a 2 1/2 year old Grandson & another Grandchild due next month. I am well Loved & I have much to live for & do not plan on leaving this life until someone takes me out of it & I sincerely hope that that will be no one but the ONLY One that has any right to take a Life & that Individual is God, because only God can Create a Life from nothing... but His Will alone.