Snickersee - I am surprised that you would judge my entire character on one metaphor. I had trouble coming up with a description for the feeling and I knew that some people that experienced it would probably not like my description. Something like the feeling of being stabbed or stabbing someone...something that I have experienced both of...is very subjective. It entirely depends on the situation and where the knife crosses among a hundred other variables.
One person says getting stabbed "hurts like Hell", the other says it "feels like getting punched". For me it felt like getting punched and I didn't even realize there was a knife until I saw the blood gushing. Who knows how many descriptions we can come up with for what it feels like to cross steel across a person's bones, but don't assasinate my character for my poor writing ability and lack of imaginative description. It is hard to describe such an event and the feelings one experiences are entirely their own.
For others:
Spark, Mike and I go a ways back and so do the others here on this forum. Joe Talmadge, James Mattis, Steve Harvey among others and I were chatting knives on the Benchmade forum long before most here knew that knives and the internet had merged.
Spark and I discussed putting my forum here a long time ago, but I told Spark that I had already agreed to put my forum on Earl's Knifeforums. I felt that just turning around and taking the idea here would be unethical when Earl had invited me first over the phone, so I chose to stay on Knifeforums. To me, character counts, and it seemed only right to stick to my word.
I would like to admonish people not to group us together in an "us vs. them" mentality. There are moderators over on Knifeforums who are very fine people and have nothing to do with the problems coming from one or two people. Knifeforums split into Bladeforums because of differences with a very few people who ran them, so let's not make it into something it isn't. There is no "us vs. them", just two different forums housing originally the same forumites, run by two different administrations. It is unfair to lump together the moderators who are caught in the middle as if we are all a team. I don't even check the other forums on Knifeforums but mine own, and only when I have time. So I have absolutely no idea what is going on here, but I do know that myself and most other moderators have nothing to do with it.
As far as my credentials, I have never been hard to find. I post where I work, where I workout, who I workout with, where I go to school, and my referrences. I have more than one personal student who participates on these forums and more than one person who, through my forum and guidance, met up with world class teachers of mine for training and have asked them about me. There are plenty of people on these forums that have met me and/or trained with my teachers and verified who I am. My credentials are easy to follow up on, I have always given an open book of myself on the 'net and no one has yet to be disappointed when following up on those credentials and guidance. There are people on these forums that have known me quite closely for over two years now. I think that if I had something to hide, it would have come up by now.
Unfortunatly, because my schedule is growing tighter with every month, I don't get over here much, and I rarely even get to my own forum. I came to this thread because a friend told me that someone who I have never even heard of has chosen to slander me behind my back.
As for slandering me far behind my back, deep in a forum that I am known not to frequent anymore, under an assumed name...well, that is just cowardice. I am not hard to find, either by my forum or by person. I suspect that people would not be so quick to talk so beligerently if we were face to face.
[This message has been edited by thaddeus (edited 13 August 1999).]
