Bruce,
Thanks for the kind words. Your points became much more clear as the discussion went on. To keep up the trend of honesty, I'll say I did have quite a difficult time seeing where you were coming from in the beginning. I just knew it served no purpose to react to that so I did my best not to. Reread and you'll see where I started to slip up although in general I did a reasonable job of being unreactive...
The fact that both wulph and I had some work to do to understand you may be something for you to maximise going forward. It could also be an artifact of this particular conversation, but I'm sure you have a good handle on this already.
Finally, I'll plug tools one more time and say that had it not been for the course, I probably would have gotten a bit more antagonistic. If you look at my post history I started writing a reasonable amount and then stopped all of a sudden. The stop came because i realized I was just taking issue with a lot of people's thoughts and I couldn't honestly tell myself why that was productive or important. I think I probably would have soldiered on regardless if I wasn't directing more awareness towards the issue. ..And I probably directed more awareness towards it because of the daily work I was doing in Tools.
Anyhow, wulph started it too so perhaps he'll give his opinion on it at some point down the road. I should probably give it a rest for a while...
Have a great day and thanks for the discussion.
Though I am still curious why I never got a one liner from Steve on this thread re: potential contact with Devlyn Steele. Bueler?