[Uplift]

Here's as good a place as any Shamou. I have the utmost respect for your achievments. I may not agree with some things you say or think, or may have some differing ideas, but I do respect your achievements, your desire to give, your past and ongoing success in that area. I am genuinely really sad that a situation has occurred. But Shamou where does the line between insult and abuse and help and inspiration lay? In my case I sometimes wish I was like my wife. She wouldn't even react like me. But I am me. And I embrace not standing for it, because in my story, my life, it feels like I should. I have this ridiculous need or want or impulse to help anyone I feel is being abused, or overpowered against their will. I have deliberately insulted you in posts, to give you a taste of your own medicine. And thats not real bright, or anything to be proud of. Its a waste of being. I have spent days and nights feeling bad about what I've said to you.

We all deserve the chance to choose to learn in our own way. Thats one of the beauties of this site to me, a place where I figured it is possible. A sign that the world is on the right track. Your story inspires me, your enforcement of it and dismissal of anyone's different story has the opposite effect.

We all like to be afforded the basic respect of having some intelligence. Intelligent people should be able to see that in a medium like this it can be difficult to back up our stories, and we all have different comfort levels in that area. I wouldn't display my wife. I put a picture of my kids here, and spent weeks freaking about paedophiles. My wife is angry that I showed pictures of one of my houses. I have an extemely impressive build, but won't stand shirtless in underpants to show it. Someone else couldn't care less. You demand this and that from others... where do you draw the line. All of us supplying our financial records, medical histories and photographic evidence. I like to give people credit to make their own judgement and choices.

You like your way and present it, tell your story, give advice, and it is personal choice whether to embrace it and trial it, or whether to do the same in another direction, no matter how way out it seems to you, me, or whoever. I had a workmate who went out of the drawing office to the chiro, had a neck adjustment and who is now paralysed down one side of her face. It was a freak occurrance involving a blood clot. One slight action, by no means massive, impacted massively. I have friends who swear by chiro, who owe their quality of life to it. Should I trample their lives with my belief, my story, and dimiss them as delusional dimwits, just waiting to be paralysed, that I must save?

Tell us about your achievments, your story, they are inspirational. Plenty will want more, and want to embrace them. Some might take what they need, and adapt it to their way. Some might just be inspired. Some might dismiss them. Your example is the important part. And whether others choose to believe you or not is up to them. You know your truth, and like wise for others. I get frustrated if I am not believed. Thats why I risked putting photos on here. I learned and choose to not be shy in talking about my achievments, so say some bold, hard to believe things, that in person would be easy to demonstrate. But we are on the net, and thats got it's limitations.

Bottom line, SORRY. From my heart SORRY. My insults were pitiful, sad, pathetic. TRULY SORRY FOR MY PART IN THIS MESS. I hope it works out for the best.