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CRUX Magazine Issue #2 14-Jan-2007 At 11:14:49 AM brough

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On 13/01/2007 PreferKnitting wrote, bomber pro wrote, rod wrote
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This sort of dialogue is to be expected. Jason and Bomber had purchased the magazine, they've got a right to provide a critique of an article. However, the personal attacks on Neil are a bit rich and off track, but probably harmless and I assume in jest? These communications seem to be the currency of Chockstone.

Neil, and others, know that just by putting their names out there in the public arena they will be susceptible to such attack. Invariably it will happen. Understanding this is a prerequisite of 'public' life. As soon as you and your name are circulating in the public domain - you're a target of sorts and there's potential for sh## to fly. Right or wrong, fact of life.

However, when people start sniping from the stands, if they are serious, they'll probably need to step out of the stands and step into the arena to be taken seriously. Otherwise their argument will ultimately be discounted, as PK and Rod allude to in reference to bomber. A quote comes to mind from an esteemed colleague, spoken in a time of stress: "Step up to the plate motherf####r"

If the snipes are just fun, a la part of the rich tapestry that is Chockstone, let the fun roll.

I'll refer to Roosevelt, a source of immense wisdom, I think. I love this sh## - but use it wisely, it's not an endorsement of failure, but a prescription for courage and perseverance.

On 23/04/1910 Teddy said

>It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat*.

*Theodore Roosevelt
"The Man In The Arena"
Speech at the Sorbonne
Paris, France
April 23, 1910

Cheers brough

Full speech at

http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html