Post by BigPuddin on Sept 24, 2006 21:50:10 GMT -4
My favorite answer thus far:
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Parick Byrne is one of the most secure individuals I’ve ever met. My theory is that he was born that way, and that years of excelling in highly competitive sports solidified that character trait. Then, battling life-threatening cancer for three rounds likely eliminated any concern over the opinions of others. Here’s my take. Unless someone is going to take your bullet to the head, what the F do you care what they think about you? He and I are somewhat kindred in that regard. I believe that things happen for a reason, and our intersection and involvement in this battle seems a bit too fortuitous to be random chance. If I hadn’t met him, I would have had to invent him as a creature of fiction, although nobody would buy a wealthy academic CEO putting it all on the line for what is right. They’d redline it in any script as being hackneyed and implausible.
I can’t speak for him. I don’t know if it bugs him, but I suspect not – he actually seems to revel in the pathetic swats his critics deliver. Like, is that all you got? You hit like a girl. What a wuss. And he means it. The miscreants likely can’t imagine someone not so beholden to their own image that they would endure mockery of the sort he’s taken. That’s one of their big mistakes. That, and not imagining equally/brighter and committed adversaries engaging them because it is the right thing rather than the lucrative thing.
Here’s my favorite pet thought: If they are so smart, then why do they have to cheat? At the end of the day we are dealing with cowards who believe that their accumulated wealth will shield them from everything. Never forget that. Cowards. Cheaters. Thieves. Well educated, but incapable of building things; more suited to destruction. These are cerebrally-driven predators, pencil-necked geeks accustomed to insulating themselves from the repercussions of their actions with phalanxes of attorneys – and kidding themselves that they aren’t making billions from their anemic superiority in being willing to cheat and abuse rather than from any ability to create.
Don’t get me wrong – I’d love to have their money. That isn’t the point. A rich scumbag is still a scumbag. Take away the money, and you have a scumbag. A class act is a class act with or without the money. Cheating retirees and widows is an activity for scumbags.
Put them in cuffs and they will mewl like kitties. They always do. Patrick has scraped better than their best off his shoe. I suspect he sleeps well.
Thanks Bobo!! ;D
-Puddin
bobo said:
jannikki said:
How does Patrick feel about his critics? Does it bother him when he reads negative articles about himself?-------------------------
Parick Byrne is one of the most secure individuals I’ve ever met. My theory is that he was born that way, and that years of excelling in highly competitive sports solidified that character trait. Then, battling life-threatening cancer for three rounds likely eliminated any concern over the opinions of others. Here’s my take. Unless someone is going to take your bullet to the head, what the F do you care what they think about you? He and I are somewhat kindred in that regard. I believe that things happen for a reason, and our intersection and involvement in this battle seems a bit too fortuitous to be random chance. If I hadn’t met him, I would have had to invent him as a creature of fiction, although nobody would buy a wealthy academic CEO putting it all on the line for what is right. They’d redline it in any script as being hackneyed and implausible.
I can’t speak for him. I don’t know if it bugs him, but I suspect not – he actually seems to revel in the pathetic swats his critics deliver. Like, is that all you got? You hit like a girl. What a wuss. And he means it. The miscreants likely can’t imagine someone not so beholden to their own image that they would endure mockery of the sort he’s taken. That’s one of their big mistakes. That, and not imagining equally/brighter and committed adversaries engaging them because it is the right thing rather than the lucrative thing.
Here’s my favorite pet thought: If they are so smart, then why do they have to cheat? At the end of the day we are dealing with cowards who believe that their accumulated wealth will shield them from everything. Never forget that. Cowards. Cheaters. Thieves. Well educated, but incapable of building things; more suited to destruction. These are cerebrally-driven predators, pencil-necked geeks accustomed to insulating themselves from the repercussions of their actions with phalanxes of attorneys – and kidding themselves that they aren’t making billions from their anemic superiority in being willing to cheat and abuse rather than from any ability to create.
Don’t get me wrong – I’d love to have their money. That isn’t the point. A rich scumbag is still a scumbag. Take away the money, and you have a scumbag. A class act is a class act with or without the money. Cheating retirees and widows is an activity for scumbags.
Put them in cuffs and they will mewl like kitties. They always do. Patrick has scraped better than their best off his shoe. I suspect he sleeps well.
Thanks Bobo!! ;D
-Puddin