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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony, -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: peter michaelson who wrote (65389)	12/31/2000 4:44:37 PM
From: who cares?	Respond to of 122087

Ok, i'll take the last word on this one. I don't buy the urban outlook. If you find yourself on the wrong side of the tracks would you go out of your way to be kind and friendly to everyone? No. Neither would I go out of my way to be an ass to anyone, I give everyone a chance, and there are many a good, hard working person on the wrong side of the tracks, in fact probably more there than on the good side, but i'd say both of us would just keep to ourselves and get the hell out ASAP. BUT, let's say on our way to getting out we see some crim running the 3 card monte and lil ol Widow Woman is being conned out of her life savings. Would you go up to the crim and say, "salutations kind sir, I have seen these games before and they were always rigged scams, but i'm a fair man, so I will ask you are you running a con game here, or is this the first honest 3 card monte in the history of the world?" Or are you going to say, "look you crim POS, cough up her money and then some, and then beat it, either get a real job or be a real crim and rob with a gun, and never let me see your scum ass around here again or broth will be your main food group." Or worse yet, be like so many and just keep on walking past, not my problem. My beliefs are a family thing. I was taught, as was my dad, to fend for ourselves, question everything, don't fit in for the sake of fitting in. We've never been real big on meeting in the middle, you either meet over here on our side, or go to hell FU. That works out amazingly well. You piss some people, and that's great. Better for them to be pissed, than to be patting you on the back, looking for the soft spot to stick the knife. Practically all of my friends, from high school, college, or real life, are friends I made as a result of standing up and saying, "This is bullshit and you're a bullshitter" to whatever BS was being foisted upon me. The friends I make from those times are much stronger than the ones I meet at the Kindness and Happiness conventions I used to attend, and the people that stop being my friend because of this, we're never really my friends to begin with, and they would have left me hanging at some point when I needed them. There is nothing wrong with not liking someone and telling em you don't like em. I will say that rare as it may be, sometimes people change, and one does need to allow people second chances. CMB