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B,Mark

Social climber

NorthernNY

Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 18, 2018 - 05:14am PT

of all the narcissistic garbage I've seen on the web, well, your performance the past few days takes the blue-ribbon

so here's a place for you to share your sacrifices and myriad accomplishments

so smart and prescient, and a surgeon too!

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber

Pomfert VT

Mar 18, 2018 - 06:25am PT

Tut is one of the better posters on this site. he certainly chose the wrong place to express those thoughts and the wrong place to argue over it.

clinker

Trad climber

Santa Cruz, California

Mar 18, 2018 - 07:22am PT

Tut has been forthright in using a gold plated corpse as a handle. ;)

He adds color to the forum.

jeff constine

Trad climber

Ao Namao

Mar 18, 2018 - 07:27am PT

Grab a chair and some popcorn, this is gonna be good!

Dropline

Mountain climber

Somewhere Up There

Mar 18, 2018 - 08:06am PT

Kingtut +1

WBraun

climber

Mar 18, 2018 - 08:11am PT

Who is he?

Need photo ......

WBraun

climber

Mar 18, 2018 - 08:17am PT

LOL .....

clinker

Trad climber

Santa Cruz, California

Mar 18, 2018 - 08:21am PT

Who is he?

Need photo ......

JLyons

Sport climber

Cali

Mar 18, 2018 - 09:33am PT

Haha, Comstines excited since he’s not the only mummy getting roasted now!

phylp

Trad climber

Upland, CA

Mar 18, 2018 - 10:19am PT

I actually do appreciate his presence here.
His posts are usually intelligent, well- expressed and well-thought out. He speaks from his own experience.
Yes, he has strong opinions, as do many people here.
Yes, he does not like to give up when people do not agree with him, but other people here are like that too. That back and forth argument seems to have entertainment value for a lot of people in some threads, and is upsetting to people in others.

This Forum is both reality-TV/entertainment/train wreck bystander-gawking fascination and actual climbing information. Probably mostly the former. If the Forum was made up only of people like me who don't post much and then usually give one post per thread, you would all be bored out of your minds.

Best wishes to Tut.

zBrown

Ice climber

Mar 18, 2018 - 10:35am PT

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SC seagoat

Trad climber

Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone

Mar 18, 2018 - 12:55pm PT

^^^^. Well said. I believe in the sincerity of what you said.

Susan

madbolter1

Big Wall climber

Denver, CO

Mar 18, 2018 - 01:33pm PT

That was a classy apology, John.

Peace.

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber

Pomfert VT

Mar 18, 2018 - 05:38pm PT

I really wish that these folks with kids would make the choice to work on upping their difficulty on well protected routes with low objective hazards. Not foolproof but gives them a real chance to both get stronger and live long enough to go climbing with their kids. I have a friend who just posted a bunch of super cool stuff on facebook climbing red rocks and st George Utah area for two weeks with his wife and two teenagers (boy and girl) cranking 10s,11s and 12s. How freaking cool is that! A. Its a sh#t ton more cool than getting chopped on a winter FA in Alaska when your kid is 2 yrs old.

zBrown

Ice climber

Mar 18, 2018 - 05:48pm PT

Well, ya know God said to Abraham

kill me a son

Abe said man

you must be puttin' me on

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber

Pomfert VT

Mar 18, 2018 - 05:52pm PT

I have actually never gotten over that passage in the bible. I remember hearing that sh#t in bible class and being terrified. Now I simply look at it and feel that if god really did that sh#t he is a supreme as#@&%e.

seano

Mountain climber

none

Mar 18, 2018 - 06:16pm PT

I hadn't read that until I went to look it up just now (Genesis 22:10-12):

And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

Old Testament God was a nasty creation. In comparison, Machiavelli was a softie:

This gives rise to an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the opposite. The answer is that one would like to be both, but since it is difficult to combine the two it is much safer to be feared than loved,