NOTE --- I just deleted a post on my FB page, if you were looking for it, because the convo got rather heated rather fast --- that goes against what I use this place for. And Im quite strict about this. Unlike other fitness gurus I dont have very many followers on FB --- on purpose. I dont use it for getting in fights or selling, or any of that crap. It is ONLY for people who are friends of mine or looking to be. If we are going to debate a topic, it will be done the way it is among friends, not the way it happens all over internet forums --- where we throw around words like stupid, etc without regard for civility. I dont have deep emotions about topics in fitness or strength or weightlifting (certainly not technique, lol) or any of the shit that fills the coffers of the internet forums and facebook threads. I dont care. Really. I am ONLY in this industry because I find it fun and interesting on an Intellectual level, the same reasons I was in mathematics --- certainly not because I have some religious convictions that I NEED to push on you. Do whatever you want. It means literally nothing to me. I have my own life to live. Im a mathematician, which is to say, I like to debate topics for FUN --- never argue about things I care about. Just like two people debating what the right answer to a calculus problem is. The instant it gets personal --- Im out. Deep emotions about these topics baffle me. And yet they are the standard and lead to nothing but fighting over snippets of texts, words, or titles of articles, or intentionally hyperbolic statements... never about inherent meaning or the POINT.... or worse, just to have fun talking through something interesting. Of course, I will post opinionated shit here, but it is never out of anger --- If you know me --- and if you are my FB friend, you should --- you know I am nearly ALWAYS laughing and goofing around --- Im not the getting angry type. I post things under the assumption that you wouldnt even BE my friend on FB unless there was some strong common ground in our beliefs -- as we if we were hanging out together at a coffee shop, or in the gym. If you hate me and what I stand for, thats fine, but you probably want to unfriend me. REAL debate among those who I disagree with NEVER end up on my FB page... they are on my blog, in public, no walls or hiding. If you want to get into a heated debate with me, put it up on your blog, and if I feel like it interests me, I might respond. That will allow us BOTH to go into far more depth, rather than trying to bloody one another via our thumbs.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:24:27 +0000
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