And for anyone who thinks I need to get my feel firmly planted on the ground and my head out of the clouds, I point to 1300 square feet of running in the black in Amherst and the community developing there for why I most certainly should not. Wow, I can't tell you how "triggering" that post was for me. Sometimes you have to make mistakes. If someone with experience has advice for me, I'll listen. If not I put it down to Good Intentions or something equally trotting down that path. The German Festival put me under 3000.00 but I learned a lot from it-not the least of which was that my detractors were blowing smoke out of their ass (worst part, not unlike you, these people were theoretically my friends and supporters)
The end result is that you know you did the best you could, with what you knew. And that is better than what most people even dream about.
I thought your main point in that post was that you weren't satisfied with Worlds Apart, and that it wasn't the dream that you'd had? You got the place going BECAUSE you got your head out of the clouds, after being hit by a few passing planes, after running Phoenix. It's the very "facts and plans" that you sneered at in favor of dreams that got Worlds Apart to where it is.
And yes, all of those things you've done took the help of a lot of other people. So maybe you can see why I was angry when you ripped on those very people in your previous post, and in your response to me? You feeling undervalued gives you no right to put down the contributions of people who keep your projects going, and it seems to me that that is what you have been doing.
That is not my point. I live Worlds Apart, but, at least right now, it lacks something. It doesn't yet have the warmth and hominess that Phoenix did. I think that it will in time, but it has to grow into that, and in the mean time I miss it.
Facts and plans are great and entirely necessary, but without dreams they are dry and brittle. They will create something with function but not soul.
I can see why you are angry, but not everyone who was involved in such projects was full of positive contributions.
There were some who were very helpful to make things happen. There were others who, with the best of intentions, did everything they could to stop me.
Now, there are those who are doing good work in said organizations and those that are doing work which I consider unsatisfactory while contenting themselves in the knowledge that "at least I'm not Michael."
Dreams are great and entirely necessary, but without facts and plans they are tenuous and ephemeral. By themselves, they will create nothing at all
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Dreams and plans work together. That is where things like Worlds Apart come from. The challenge is to make the plans without losing the dreams.
As for the other thing, I should update my statements. She is willing to admit what she does not know, and she has actually asked me to help out, which I will be doing. She has also asked Jeff for help. With some experience supporting her, I think that things will go great.
What I don't understand is where all this venom is coming from. Yes, I did say some things that were not well thought out, but this seems to be much more than that. What's going on?
That's a hard line to dance around, I find it a lot easier not to contribute input, especially if that input is going to be taken as an affront to their "sphere of unreality".
Props indeed on Worlds Apart if that is now indeed your dream.
Whatever you do, you do it in a way that I do not find offensive or discouraging, so keep it up.
I think a lot of people have trouble giving criticism without being discouraging. It's a tough thing to do. Even I am not as good at it as I would like.
To be honest, I have refrained from giving opinion about any of your plans or ideas since you told me that you were trying to surround yourself with a sphere of unreality. Any opinion or criticism I have made are purely accidental slips.
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Wow, I can't tell you how "triggering" that post was for me. Sometimes you have to make mistakes. If someone with experience has advice for me, I'll listen. If not I put it down to Good Intentions or something equally trotting down that path. The German Festival put me under 3000.00 but I learned a lot from it-not the least of which was that my detractors were blowing smoke out of their ass (worst part, not unlike you, these people were theoretically my friends and supporters)
The end result is that you know you did the best you could, with what you knew. And that is better than what most people even dream about.
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And yes, all of those things you've done took the help of a lot of other people. So maybe you can see why I was angry when you ripped on those very people in your previous post, and in your response to me? You feeling undervalued gives you no right to put down the contributions of people who keep your projects going, and it seems to me that that is what you have been doing.
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Facts and plans are great and entirely necessary, but without dreams they are dry and brittle. They will create something with function but not soul.
I can see why you are angry, but not everyone who was involved in such projects was full of positive contributions.
There were some who were very helpful to make things happen. There were others who, with the best of intentions, did everything they could to stop me.
Now, there are those who are doing good work in said organizations and those that are doing work which I consider unsatisfactory while contenting themselves in the knowledge that "at least I'm not Michael."
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As for the other thing, I should update my statements. She is willing to admit what she does not know, and she has actually asked me to help out, which I will be doing. She has also asked Jeff for help. With some experience supporting her, I think that things will go great.
What I don't understand is where all this venom is coming from. Yes, I did say some things that were not well thought out, but this seems to be much more than that. What's going on?
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Props indeed on Worlds Apart if that is now indeed your dream.
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I think a lot of people have trouble giving criticism without being discouraging. It's a tough thing to do. Even I am not as good at it as I would like.
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