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From: <Rubrifolia@ao*.co*>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:11:44 EDT
To: armantrout@wo*.at*.ne*, ingemar.lundgren@mb*.sw*.se*,
     wwm@sa*.ne*, Kevin@So*.co*, techdiver@aquanaut.com
Cc: cavers@ca*.co*, kirvine@sa*.ne*
Subject: Re: A Call to Arms
Ya know, its amazing.....frigging Hurricane blows me out, I have to go have
'fun' at Brunch and Chamber music thing, come home, rattle off a post about
what I perceive as perception problems in diving today.....no where, no where
in this post do I state that DIR is wrong or that so and so is a better way to
go.....I simply disagree that instuctors and gear are what create good
divers....I think other equally important things go into the mix......

But all these DIRers are jumpin up n down n yellin n hollerin n carryin on
n...(anybody remember Arlo Guthries thing in Alices Rest? at the draft
office).......what does DIR also stand for Don't Indulge in Reading all the
way through????

Anyway, I'm real glad for you guys up in Sweden, that you are so happy in that
insanely cold water, I just don't understand why you don't move to a better
place.....

'sides,  Trout says you all are tougher than wolf pussy.....I guess thats
pretty tough, is it tough? I don't know, how do you know, Trout?

I remember Berman stories and I don't recall the punch line being about "our
asses being kicked". I did not mean for anyone to assume that DIR was in any
way geographically challenged....thats pretty funny though, rather that Irvine
and Co. persistantly knock the boats and what they do up here without ever
having been here and seen what happens, what the boats have to cope with,
llike a lot of half baked DIR conceptualizations ....right, we all know if its
half baked it can't be DIR, but
the fact remains that these people are here and diving and need to be worked
with and encouraged to be safe and grow into capable divers.......

Anyway, nor do I recall anywhere in any of the posts, trying to kick anyones
ass...I don't think that that my-brass-balls-are-bigger-than-yours-mentality
leads to safe diving.....

Why is it that instead of responding to points made, you DIRers have to go
into physical insults?  is this one of the side effects of all that gas? or
just overcompensation?

I'm real happy for all you people who have seen the DIR llight, bless you one
and all,
but there are still way too many people out there who are mistakenly making
the assumption that this gear will make me superaquadude,that with this gear
and these cards I can do anything....and it aint so......

You guys are really good at publishing what you do and the gear configs that
got you there, but maybe you ought to work on publlishing the other things
that got you there.....like lots o time, lots o effort, both physical and
mental......well, maybe for some of you, not so much mental.....

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