But in the meantime, you would spend days/weeks/months/years, shunning LT's products and badmouthing them to anyone who would listen, and you'd have done all this based on mistaken assumptions you'd made based on too little information.
I continue to this day to suggest CS products to newbies to give them a fair chance at getting the product that might fit their needs best, only with a little side note saying that the owner is controversial, if that matters at all to them. I also suggest that people come to their own conclusions.
Examples:
ignoramus said:
FROM THIS THREAD:
“Well, any thread regarding CS is bound to at least head in this direction. Here's the thread that I'm specifically talking about. Judge for yourself, don't let me influence you:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=450456"
ignoramus said:
FROM CANDLE POWER FORUMS: Person asked for fixed blade suggestions.“Under $80:
Cold Steel SRK, Recon Tanto, ODA, UWK, OSS
Becker
Ka-Bar Extreme D2
Under $110 (I highly suggest you wait until you have enough money):
Fallkniven A1 ($105-$135)
Ranger 9 ($90-$100)
Scrapper 6 ($85-$90) ***Best Value IMHO***”
This isn’t uncommon for me. I suggest CS and any other company to those who ask about it or if I feel there’s a product that may fit their needs. All I’ve said so far is that I disagree with what I’ve seen so far.
Wild Weasel said:
What you're really saying is this...
Because you do not care enough to look beyond the superficial, based on what you admit may be mistaken assumptions based on too little information,
Unlike many, I’m actually willing to be wrong for this simple fact: I am not God. I cannot know everything. I’m actually willing to consider new information as it is presented to me and adjust my understanding of any given scenario/situation. Until then I work with what I got, and I never assume that I have everything there is to know about a subject. On the flip side, I must live a normal life and create/refine generalizations of what is perceived in order to keep sanity, as everyone does, regardless of if they want to admit or not or if they’re aware or not.
As Anthony Lombardo (someone who’s argued in favor of CS in this thread) pointed out, there’s no way to know everything about anyone (which BTW explains a little more about what you quoted me on.). In response to his comment, I went on to agree with him about that and explained that I base my understanding upon what is both presented to me and makes sense to me at any given moment. These understandings however are not set in stone and I am willing to change my views if I am convinced that I am wrong. IMO, only a pompous ass would think that he’s absolutely right and there’s no possibility that he can be wrong. I openly acknowledge that possibility, not only for me but for everyone as far as I’m concerned (unless I can be proved wrong).
If this is difficult for you to understand as reasonable, then I see why you feel the need to throw insults.
you are perfectly ready and willing to actively work to cause damage to another man's livelihood.
I’m perfectly ready to give my opinion in a forum thread that discusses an issue that I participate in. You can see with the above example where I suggested for someone to look at CS products, that your statement can’t be right.
However, if Lynn Thompson himself comes to you, courts your friendship and goes to the (obviously) massive effort required to finally convince you your assumptions about him are mistaken, you will change your mind and stop trying to damage his livelihood.
My, that's awfully big of you!
ignoramus said:
If I ever met the guy or got new information, my judgment of him would adjust accordingly based on what I found out.
Did you miss this part or did you purposely avoid it because it contradicts your assertion? I specifically added “or got new information” to show that if I see something that convinces me that I’m wrong, I’m willing to be wrong and adjust my views. No one needs to bend over backwards to convince me of anything. I'll go with what I got. I don’t need to feel “right”, my ego can survive being wrong.
You know, I really don't care if you like/buy Cold Steel products or not but if you really think you hold the moral high ground in this thread, all I can say is that I compliment you on your exceptionally apt username. I don't think I've ever seen one that fit better.
Where do I say that I hold “moral high ground”? I said that I disagree and some of you guys don’t and it’s okay either way. I guess that means you agree with everyone lest you yourself hold moral high ground.
When a man openly states he is willing to act from a position of ignorance, there is no better name for him than "Ignoramus." To simply state the facts is neither insulting nor snide, it is simply a statement of fact. It is not an insult to refer to a man by the name he has chosen as his own, nor is it an insult to observe the aptness of that choice.
If you or anyone else cares to take issue with this, then rail against reality and rage because the world stubbornly refuses to re-make itself as you think it should.
After all, it is not I who declares the nature of the man but rather it is the man himself.
I’m getting a feeling that you responded to my post almost entirely because you wanted to insult me about my username. Let me ask you something: are you an ignoramus in some sense? Are you ignorant of anything at all? Or do you know everything? My username acknowledges the ignorance in myself as well as in everyone, especially those who are so sure that they can’t be wrong. For someone to deny this would probably be the most foolish of all.
