Posted: Apr 03, 2021 11:59 pm
Damn. That's sad.
I had a lot to say to John and, contrary to what some might think, not all of it was bad. Some of it was, in fact, to concede some stuff to him. I'm going to say it anyway. If I'm going to find myself again, I feel it important to focus on what I did well, and I hope that holding my hands up when I got shit wrong was among the things I did well. We argued about a lot of stuff, and he was most often as wrong as a wrong thing on wrong juice. I've learned a lot about guitars in the time since we last interacted, having done some deep study of luthiery (I currently have three guitars mid build) and there are a good few points I need to concede. I allowed my experience of trouncing him easily with superior knowledge in every area of discourse to elevate my not insubstantial knowledge in his field of expertise to dismiss him more easily than I should. An act of intellectual cowardice, had I done it with intent, and one I must always be willing to apologise for if I'm ever to hold onto the things that make me worth anything.
I'm going to re-read the thread in question, not least because I want to mine it for information. I'll post my thoughts about it there.
Really sorry I missed you, John. You were a huge amount of fun. You were incredibly bouncy, and wonderfully good-natured about it all. You're alongside James, and wossisname the ghosthunter. Wonderful people with what I can't assess as anything other than whacky standards of evidence. It's not even the beliefs I find ridiculous, it's that your standards of evidence were so low in such a critical area. I'd have loved to deliver my apology in person.
I had a lot to say to John and, contrary to what some might think, not all of it was bad. Some of it was, in fact, to concede some stuff to him. I'm going to say it anyway. If I'm going to find myself again, I feel it important to focus on what I did well, and I hope that holding my hands up when I got shit wrong was among the things I did well. We argued about a lot of stuff, and he was most often as wrong as a wrong thing on wrong juice. I've learned a lot about guitars in the time since we last interacted, having done some deep study of luthiery (I currently have three guitars mid build) and there are a good few points I need to concede. I allowed my experience of trouncing him easily with superior knowledge in every area of discourse to elevate my not insubstantial knowledge in his field of expertise to dismiss him more easily than I should. An act of intellectual cowardice, had I done it with intent, and one I must always be willing to apologise for if I'm ever to hold onto the things that make me worth anything.
I'm going to re-read the thread in question, not least because I want to mine it for information. I'll post my thoughts about it there.
Really sorry I missed you, John. You were a huge amount of fun. You were incredibly bouncy, and wonderfully good-natured about it all. You're alongside James, and wossisname the ghosthunter. Wonderful people with what I can't assess as anything other than whacky standards of evidence. It's not even the beliefs I find ridiculous, it's that your standards of evidence were so low in such a critical area. I'd have loved to deliver my apology in person.