[TenTec] Re: New Olympic Sport

[W5VPU@aol.com]

Hi, Y'all.
I wrote W1GOR a note directly about this when I first read his reactions to 
some of his "reflections" this morning 

And then I have some "reflections" of my own. And I am deeply aware that some 
of you may choose to take offense at what I have to say. I hope not, but if 
so, let's work it out. I have no malice toward anyone and would seek to show 
respect to and for each of you. Of course each of us has our own thoughts, 
opinions, wishes, dreams. That's why we can be so valuable to one another, 
and essentially why I wanted to be on this reflector. However. . . we don't 
have to be adversarial either to one another or toward Ten Tec or any other 
manufacturer . . . 

A tiny portion of the postings seems to be a bit misdirected. To fuss with 
one another about something a third party is doing does not get us to the 
goal we seek. In fact, in the mental health field where I have worked for 
decades, that's called "triangulation." You see it in kids playing one parent 
off another to try to get one or the other "on my side." We have all done it, 
but as we grow we learn it gets us nowhere.
 
I have read the same gripes over and over again, as if the writers think by 
magnitude of saying the same thing over and over they will change Ten Tec 
over into their own image. In the mental health field (where I worked for 24 
years after 23 years working with people in church congregations) I learned 
that there is great truth in the old cliche: "Doing the same thing over and 
over and expecting to get a different result next time is a good definition 
of insanity."  With relatively healthy folk, it is a pretty clear definition 
of immaturity. You hear it with kids who whine to a harried mother in the 
grocery store, "Please mommy. Please mommy. Please mommy."

Maybe we can change this use of this reflector from "triangulation" and 
"please mommy, please mommy, please mommy," to sharing and Problem-Solving 
together. Like the Canadian comedian Red Green says, "We are all in this 
together." Let's not foul our own nest.

73 to all --- everyone one of us.
Raymond    W5VPU 



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