Hi BP!

I used to become furious whenever someone attacked my point of view or insulted me personaly. I lost sleep over it sometimes. I felt I had to defend myself and post and repost to correct every slander. After a while I took a break from the forums just to let things settle down. The truth is that you can behave as a decent human being, respect others, and share your own opinions fairly, but you have no control over what others may do. Trying to fight back or get into arguments only creates even more of the same. In the end, I realized that by letting this get to me I was letting them win. So I just gave up and try not to respond to every idiot that has a keyboard. And if people see things differently from me, who cares?

I know that if I post here something bullish on ECU I will be attacked by the bashers. And if I am conservative in my estimates, or critical of some point regarding the performance of the company, I will hear from someone that is pissed off because I am not bullish enough for them. So how can you win? Just post your honest opinions, and accept that some people are going to feel angry, or threatened, or behave in a way that is not reasonable, some of the time. Let it go. Do not be intimidated from voicing your opinion, I value it, and I know many others do as well.

For my point of view, I do not share your faith in planetary alignments, but I do not have to agree with everything you post. I am sure others do not particularly agree with my opinion on market manipulation, for example. I am sure some people get pissed off with my rants on the global warming scam. You cannot please everyone all the time.

I sleep well these days. The jerks will always be there, and some appear on this board from time to time. I do not even read the nonsense on SH so if I am attacked there, I could care less. In fact, if the bashers hate me enough to insult me on some pissy little forum, that is probably a compliment.

cheers!

mike