OK. I have to step in here. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by trading insults. Nothing.
If you want to insult one another, get a radio talk show.
An intelligent person can respond to another courteously and without malice, regardless of what the other person has said or how ridiculous it may seem. Take the perspective that anyone who communicates on this forum deserves our respect, simply by being willing to take the time and energy to participate.
The intention here should be to support one another in gaining knowledge in a wide variety of areas, real estate being the primary one. Our commitment here should be to share our ideas and information – that’s what a forum is all about – and to always leave the person we communicate with in a better condition than we found them.
Insults shut down communication. It’s that simple. They run counter to what we, as a group, intend to accomplish here.
I suggest we start each new response with the mindset of “Thanks for sharing that and participating in this forum. I invite you to consider my point of view…”
My doing that we internally acknowledge the importance of each person’s invidivual contribution to our overall knowledge base and set up the condition within ourselves to communicate effectively and responsibly to everyone else who is participating in this forum.
Respect should permeate all that we say and do because if it doesn’t, your intention is not to communicate but to insult or hurt or feed your ego. “Vengence is a wheel that crushes the one who starts it in motion.”
So be like Thumper, the little hare brain, who said these immortal words in “Bambi”, that great Disney movie:
“If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say it at all.”
Or, to those of you who can relate better to Archie Bunker and may have self control issues: “Stifle yourself.”
