[at-l] Psychology 101

[bullard@northnet.org (James Bullard)]

At 02:27 AM 8/11/01 -0500, Jack wrote:
>Red
>
>Read your own post and then tell me that it isn't a condescending piece of
>shit!  "I'm surprised you're still around."  What a crock!  "You've never
>seemed to derive much joy from being here. much like RnR," another crock of
>shit.

This post is a totally uncalled for personal attack.
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>Have you ever really backpacked?   You ask questions of others on this list.
>Have you ever really did any long distance hiking?  I doubt it.

You are way off base with this.  If read her pots you'd know she was an 
aspiring thru-hiker (AT-L welcomes aspirants or I wouldn't be here either) 
and she has backpacked (like most of us probably not as much as she'd like).

>Nobody is going to leave this list because of anything that you write.  If
>you don't like something, then use the delete key...  I, for one, am still
>surprised that YOU are still around on this list because most of the folks
>here, (not all), have, at least thruhiked the Appalachian Trail.....

Not true!

>Some of us hike and climb in other parts of the world and then to read 
>your crap,
>"I have to wonder about people who deliberately put themselves where they
>aren't happy, no matter what noble cause they claim to be pursuing."
>
>Tell us Red what "noble cause you are pursuing" because apparently it isn't
>long distance hiking.......  Groupie comes to my mind when I think of you....
>
>You are mindless, and your last post just shows how stupid you really are...

Again, a rude and totally pointless personal attack.  As I read this post 
Red was not suggesting anyone leave the list but merely wondering out loud 
at the anger and arrogance that a few display periodically toward the rest 
of us and the fact that they stay despite their seeming be to antagonistic 
toward the culture that AT-L community embodies.

FWIW Jack, I have never done a long distance hike.  I do backpack but have 
never posted a trip report.  My hikes are for me, period.  Like Red I 
aspire to a thru.  I am a shelter maintainer (Adirondack High Peaks) and 
thankfully very few people who frequent my shelter exhibit your belligerent 
attitude toward others or I'd quit and tell you to do your own damn 
maintenance (probably concluding with 7 letter word that starts with "A").

Get this straight... The AT was not built for the exclusive use of 
thru-hikers.  Thru-hikers will never be anymore than a tiny fraction of the 
people who use the AT and all the others have as much right to be there and 
love the AT as thru-hikers do.  Being a thru-hiker does *not* make you 
anybody special but attacks like the above do make you a JERK!  Grow up.

sAunTerer