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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:57:21 -0400
To: "Scott" <scottk@hc*.co*>, "Tech list" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
From: Bill Bott <aquadart@ix*.ne*.co*>
Subject: Re: DIR vs blinding ignorance
Scott,

Holding your feelings back like that is not good for you :-)  Why don't you 
tell us what you REALLY think of the POS Black?

At 10:53 AM 21-07-00 , Scott wrote:


>Mr. Black,
>
>Let me explain to you why no one but you cares about my Nov. 4 1997 post.
>
>1st off, I got *certified* in 1997. I drew my first breath of compressed air
>in a pool in 1976. I did my first open ocean dive in 1980. And, I had been
>doing it wrong since then. I had never heard of DIR till I started reading
>the lists. Normally, I had seen from lurking for a couple months, new
>posters to the list come aboard and tell about how many dives they have, and
>that they know everything, and this DIR is a bunch of shit. See, unlike you,
>after lurking for a couple months, I started to learn that the amount of
>knowledge I thought I had was the tip of an iceberg of ignorance. Unlike
>you, I realized I had a *lot* of reading and learning to do.
>
>In addition, when I said I talked to you, it was because a good number of us
>were *convinced* that no *real* doctor would post the shit you do. We *knew*
>the guy posting as MJBMD was a phony, and that whoever the poster was, must
>have a beef with the real MJBMD, and was trying to slander his name, and
>perhaps hijacked his ISP. I was simply trying to smoke out a troll.
>
>To learn that it really is *you* posting was simply hilarious. See, we
>couldn't believe *anyone* posting the stupidity, and death wishes, that you
>have posted could be a member of the medical profession. So, yes, Black, I
>lied. Sue me.
>
>DIR, George Irvine, Jarrod Jablonski, Jim Cobb, Jammer, have all changed the
>way I dive (and learn) for the better, forever. They pissed me off, insulted
>me, and made me *want* to learn WTF they were talking about, and I did.
>You on the other hand, continue to wallow in your cesspool of hyperbole and
>pride based ignorance. And, WTF are you so proud about???
>
>I don't know or care what your problem is. As far as I am concerned, you are
>a ZERO. ZERO to share, ZERO to contribute, ZERO to teach. You are nothing
>but a punching bag. Shit, you are a diving ophthalmologist, and you had no
>clue as to what hyperoxic myopia was. But, you were going to tell us all
>about diving medicine, even flaming Milak, who *works* in hyperbarics!!
>Milak has done lots of chamber runs, inside and out. Have you? No, but that
>doesn't stop you from running your suck.
>
>You are a scrawny, bald, spiteful little jerk, with a major little mans
>complex, and the only purpose you serve on this and any other list is to
>provide a stark contrast to DIR and common sense. All your professed
>"knowledge" comes from books, and the crack of your ass.
>
>Now, use Bobby McGuire's name one more fucking time for your personal
>agenda. Desecrate his memory and his honor again. Us old Jarheads have been
>keeping count. And you *will* have opportunity to stand tall and answer for
>your crimes. And you are going to answer to Bobby's brethren. See, the US
>Marine Corps is called a Band of Brothers. We back Ours to the end, and
>forever after. You aint fit to lick his boots, let alone use his name for
>your personal agenda. You attack with ignorance, from behind a fortified
>position of cowardice. Since your mother was obviously too stupid and lazy
>to teach you the rules of common decency, let me. You don't use a dead mans
>name, especially a dead Marine, the way you have. You have neither privilege
>nor right. Its called "morals" Black, something I am sure they tried to
>teach you in that 3rd world med school you went to.
>
>And Black, regardless of log books, I do more dives in a month than you do
>in a year. So what? I know people with less than 500 dives, who would make
>you look like the idiot you are, *especially* in the water.
>
>BTW, here are the definitions of those words you helped me learn:
>
>Pons asinorum. [L., literally, bridge of asses.]
>To make an ass of one's self, to do or say something very foolish or absurd.
>
>hebetude \Heb"e*tude\, n. [L. hebetudo.] Dullness; stupidity. --Harvey.
>
>hubris n : overbearing pride or presumption
>
>And another one I found to be very descriptive of you:
>
>mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, n. [It. montimbanco, montambanco; montare to
>mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See Mount, and 4th Bank.] 1. One who
>mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his
>skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are
>infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
>
>"Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank . . . is
>preferred before an able physician."  --Whitlock.
>
>2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
>
>"Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake."
>--Arbuthnot.
>
>
>Put your dunce cap back on (the glare is blinding), and go to your corner,
>little man.
>
>Scott
>
>"Great Spirits have always met violent opposition from the mediocrities."
>Albert Einstein
>
>
>
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