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AAA Nevada Spokesperson Cynthia Harris said factors such as refinery issues, crude oil hikes and the switch in gasoline composition by refineries resulted in the current price jump. Harris said switching from winter to summer blend gasoline is happening in California, and nationwide, which is supplying Sparks and Reno with higher priced gasoline.
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Harris noted that change in the national average "typically results from escalating geopolitical tensions or extreme weather disturbances." She said the reactionary nature of gas pricing often means speculation can result in ebb and flow of prices. As of now, the establishment of the summer blend is in progress and until it is completed, prices are likely to remain on the rise.
"Different regions have different times for when they will complete their summer blends," Harris said, "But by the spring, all of them will be transferred from the winter blend. In the Reno and Sparks area, the summer blend will be in full effect by May 1. According to analysts, some refineries have already begun producing their summer blend, which means many refineries will be getting rid of what's left of their winter blend."
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More than a million of the faithful were present at the Vatican for the beatification of Blessed John Paul II, to include the godparents of my eldest child and the future godparents of her soon-to-be-born sister. The joy at this momentous event spread to my home parish and, I'm sure, to Catholics and admirers of John Paul the world over.
I woke up the next morning to a celebration of a far different nature. CNN was streaming video of a jubilant crowd gathered outside the White House cheering the news of Osama bin Laden's demise. Watching the multitudes wave their flags and scream with joy, I remembered the pain and grief I felt on September 11th. I thought of the thousands who died that day and the thousands upon thousands who've died since.
As I continued to watch the streaming video, I too became elated, emotional and joyful at the news.
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I certainly didn't think so. One of my great struggles is following Jesus's instruction to love my enemies. As difficult as I find it, praying for them seems like a good start. Celebrating their deaths does not.
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This is a discussion on Why go: within the Hunting Africa forums, part of the HUNT AFRICA category; There is no other place you can get so much "bang for the buck". It is usually warm, dry, and ...
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Why go:
There is no other place you can get so much "bang for the buck".
It is usually warm, dry, and flat.
You can take a 7 day 7 animal plains game hunt for about the same price as a Western Guided Elk and Deer hunt, and there all you are likely to get is a wet ass and a horse back ride.
I first went to Africa in 1985, and took my last Elk hunt in '83. After one trip over the big pond, I never hunter NA again, and have been back to Africa 19 times now.
03-09-2008, 06:33 PM #2New Member
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I am headed to Namibia in May for the first time. I know it will be a great experience.
Seems that this is a very new website.
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Namibia is incredible... wish you a great hunt. When you get back, please submit a hunting report on AfricaHunting.com and post the pictures of your hunting safari. Feel free to call me if you have any questions regarding your trip to Namibia, you can find my contact information by clicking here.
Take care,
Jerome Philippe, Founder of AfricaHunting.com
Visited by over 240,000 hunters monthly, viewing 2.5 million pages, generating 14.5 million hits over 11,000 members (statistics Jan 2014).
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If you enjoy this site then tell fellow hunters about it!
Our community is a place for seasoned African hunters and those who dream of someday hunting in Africa. I hope that you will find AfricaHunting.com a great place to spend time preparing for or dreaming about your future African hunting safari or reliving your last.
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Hi Jerome
Looks like you have a nice site set up here.
If you can publish some good articles here it will be a great resource. Someone you might consider contacting is Cleve Cheney, he writes for a few publications and can give you some excellent stuff for all prospective hunters.
If you would like to get in contact with him, please mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Thanks for your post. I really appreciate the information as I am always looking for great resources and people who are willing to participate to make AfricaHunting.com the best that it can be... All the best, Jerome
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It is not just that it is a great value! I meet hunters all the time who have been "bitten" by the bug, and they just want to go back time after time. Africa is addictive...
Jerome Philippe, Founder of AfricaHunting.com
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If you enjoy this site then tell fellow hunters about it!
Our community is a place for seasoned African hunters and those who dream of someday hunting in Africa. I hope that you will find AfricaHunting.com a great place to spend time preparing for or dreaming about your future African hunting safari or reliving your last.
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Africa is truely the best experience that any hunter could have. There are two types of people in this world; One that is trying to get to Africa, and the other is finding a way to get back!Josh Schull
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Africa is a drug. Funny thing is wife and I had a bad exp. our 1st trip.
We decided to go back for hopefully a better exp. Well we now have 2 addl. trips planned out over next 5 years and #2 isnt in the books yet.
Seems like we are following a natural migration from plains game (1st 2 trips)
to the Dangerous stuff (trips 2,3,4) Leopard ,Buff and then who knows.
I really can't explain it but NA Game really has no hold on me other than the venision it provides. Africa on the other hand just calls in a way that says this is where you belong. goofy isnt it ?
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I guess I look at things a little differently than most............Africa is like an incurable disease......one that never goes into remission. Not a day goes by that I do not think of hunting on the dark continent and how I am going to scrape together the funds for the next trip.
But..............I never compare it to hunting in North America. I have guided in all of Canada's western provinces and the territories over the last 30+ years and for most species of game found on the continent. To me comparing Africa with North America is like apples and oranges.
With guided hunts there is no question that you get more bang for the buck in Africa. If an outfitter in a remote northern area of Canada were to try and offer the same level of service and staffing that is found on your average Safari........well........the market would not bear it.Skyline Adventures
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I was in Namibia for hunting in June 2008, 25 miles southwest of Windhoek and it was all but flat, steep downhills and steep uphills,some bush but a very longdistance sight. We saw the animals and they saw us asa You move the little finger.
My PH was Malan Lamprecht at ARUB Safaris, and he provide me a very exclusive hunt. I shot 7 diffrent spiecies at 5 days.
I was in Africa in the ealy -60s and get Malaria so I was not in Africa for medical reason untill now when I been so old so it does not matter anymore.
As soon as possible I will get back for more hunting in this fantastic land.
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Hellooooooo Terry,
Have not heard a word from you in some time, so how is it going for you? well I hope...
RayRAY ATKINSON
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My first trip was single minded: Cape Buffalo! I used a CZ550 rechambered from 458 Lott to 450 Dakota. A 500gr bullet at 2400+/-fps did the trick. My PH trusted me enough to let me take the Buffalo at 165yds. He went down and never moved ten feet.
The next trip will be Kudu, Gemsbok/Sable/Oryx, Leopard and perhaps an Eland. As you can see I'm a sucker for the big horned antelope and Mr Spots.
Buff Killer
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05-07-2009, 04:51 AM #14AH Member
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First posting, heard rumors at AR that this site was a good one.
Been around there since the early beginning.
Been twice to RSA, and as folk says; once there, one is changed forever.
Getting the trophy shipment from last year in a month or so, like Christmas doing the unpacking.
Have started saving for Namibia in 2011, and also hope to be able to hunt for buffalo before I pass on to the eternal hounting grounds...
Why go ? Africa (the little I have seen) is so different from my local woods and wilderness.
the aboundance of game, the variaity, temperature, landscape, the history, the people...
Guess all of us who have read the classics in younger years have this urge to for at least once in a lifetime hunt the dark continent.
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The downside is once you have been amongst them, you have to go back over and over again, and your kids inheritence goes down the drain!! but hey, it probably serves them right!RAY ATKINSON
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Why go?
It's warm (I live in Pa. I've frozen body parts on Pa Deer stands)
You get to dress in safari clothes
You ride around on a pickup truck with a gun
you sit around a campfire at night with your favorite beverage telling lies
They wash your clothes daily
the food is great
OK you are in a tent, but you are in a bed in a tent
you can see the southern cross
you have more than one animal on license
people look twice at your trophies
If your Wife comes along she will enjoy it, and you will enjoy her being there
everyone slaps you on the back and shakes your hand when you make the shot
South African wines are really good
so are impala, gemsbuck, etc
lions roar at night
elephants are really impressive up close
buffalo look at you like they don't like you - and they don't
Other than the above, because there is nothing else like it. I went to Botswana in 1998 with my Brother to get him off my back. I've been back 3 times and am planning to go back in 2011.
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TerryR, okay this is my new favorite post, it is just excellent in every way! Funny and true, it really gave me a giggle
And Ray, why not take your kids along with you on safari, like my father did and that way you can spend that inheritance making memories with them while you're still around?
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Why Go
I started reading J'OC 50 years ago and the flame smoldered. Reading all the PHC books along with Ruark made the itch unbearable. Only one way to deal with it was to scratch it big time.
The buff of Tanzania only made things worse. When I boarded the Plane in Dar for home I had only one thought, how can I return Upon returning from JNB after a great plains game hunt, I realized that I must hunt the Selous once again.
Thinking about why other than hunting, I recall reading an anthropologist who discussed genetic memory (the name escapes me). He talked about how we are usually very comfortable at home. As Africa is the cradle of civilization, we are returning home.
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Why go? Why not!?
As the above post point out... it is THE place for great value and experience. You will shoot more animals in a week than some shoot in a lifetime. Where else can you go and have that much experience for the money?
Ray, My kids look at their African experience as inheritance... She (Africa) Has left an indelible mark upon my life. People know me because of Africa... of course because i was doing missions work and they helped send me. But its weird, no one seems to get over that. OF course me wearing khakis and courtneys all the time doesn't help..
I am counting the days until i return to live there... cannot wait...


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[2] http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/215988_estatetax15.html
[3] http://www.acli.com/ACLI/About+ACLI+nonmember/Frank+Keating%27s+Biography.htm


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Déjà vu happens all over again at the appropriately named Pickett Park in front of Washoe Medical Center, renowned for screwing its workers, this Thursday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Aggrieved nurses and their supporters will picket the hospital stolen from the taxpayers in 1985.
The banditos who run the place have been employing every union-busting technique in the book against their long-suffering nursing staff.
Nurses picketed during a one-day strike at Washoe Med on June 23, 2001. The issues were the same as during a 1990 organizing drive and remain today: Understaffing which erodes patient care so that the conglomerate may profit and proliferate on the backs of health care consumers and taxpayers.
NevadaLabor.com remains the only source of the 1995 Washoe County grand jury report on the theft of the county hospital by its current owners and the ongoing pickpocketing of the public that resulted from the ensuing empire-building.
So peruse the history of the travesty at the Web site, then show up to pick up your picket sign. For more information, call 229-9127or 219-9549.
Gov. Jim the Dim does it again and again and again
Gov. Gibbons really need not try any further to prove to us, his beleaguered constituents, that he really doesn't get it.
On March 28, he issued a press release "announc(ing) the increase to Nevada's minimum wages that will take effect this summer."
He had nothing to do with it. The minimum wage hike happened as a result of a petition drive and two election campaigns funded by the Nevada State AFL-CIO and its affiliated unions. Gibbons' "announcement" of something he didn't work for is a public relations fraud perpetrated upon the public.
If that wasn't bad enough, the Reno News & Review reports in its current edition that Gibbons got quite a publicity splash about his "signing an order supposedly making state budget information transparent and searchable online."
Except that it's not going to happen until the legislature funds it, perhaps next year, perhaps not.
"All it will take, ironically, is for the governor to do what he hates to do most: Spend money," southern Nevada columnist Jon Ralston wrote.
Jim the Dim's chance for redemption
The Nevada System of Higher Education's Board of Regents voted last week to hike tuition at the state's freshwater colleges. Granted that under the state constitution the university system is semi-autonomous, but the nuances of the law have never stopped Gov. Jim the Dim, or his idol in the White House.
Gov. Gibbons said there would be no tax or fee hikes while he was in office. That's why we didn't have enough health inspectors to catch the unsafe and unhygienic practices going on at many of the state's medical clinics.
Gibbons is nothing if not consistent. He has insisted on gutting state programs by being inflexible during the current budget crunch. The regents have reacted by goosing the students.
Jim the Dim should now come to the students' defense by pushing back on the tuition hikes by threatening other university budget cuts if the regents don't cave on the tuition hikes. It's time for this fiscal conservative macho warrior to show some chops rather than just churn self-serving press releases.
Remembering the King
Today's the last day of the First United Methodist Church's three-day commemoration of the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Services at 8 and 10 this morning will proceed on the theme of "The life, the death and the unfinished business."
The Reno News & Review editorial on King is worth perusing. It reads, in part, "Since Rev. King was murdered, we have, as one of his biographers put it, engaged in remembering him by forgetting him. All the safe manifestations of his legacy — particularly the 'I have a dream' speech — have been endlessly substituted for his real meaning. His harsh criticisms of indifference toward class divisions and the working poor ('The poverty of the poor in America is more frustrating than the poverty of Africa and Asia. The misery of the poor in Africa and Asia is shared misery. …') and of the U.S. government ('the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today') have been cored out of the King who is taught in our schools."
Coming soon
Next Saturday, the Nevada Sagebrush Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Northwest Reno Library will present a genealogy workshop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. If you plan to research your family tree, roots, weeds, fruits and nuts, organizers ask that you bring birth, death and marriage records or the dates thereof; family bible notations; land, probate, will or pension records, census data, obituaries, cemetery documents and newspaper items. Anyone is welcome to attend throughout the day. The library is located at 2235 Robb Drive. For more information, call 747-7148 or 746-5925.
Once you've determined all the people and places from which you proceed, there's only one thing to do: proceed to party! And there is no more appropriate party than the Truckee Meadows Community College Multicultural Festival on April 19 at the Dandini Campus, 7000 Dandini Blvd. It's open to the public at no charge. For more info, go to www.tmcc.edu/diversity
Tale of two cities
"Per pupil spending up slightly in Nevada" – headline of the Reno Gazette-Journal's front page above-the-fold story last Wednesday, April 2.
"Nevada still near bottom in per pupil spending" – The same story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal the next day.
Go figger.
Be well. Raise hell.
Andrew Barbano is a 39-year Nevadan and editor of NevadaLabor.com. E-mail barbano@frontpage. reno.nv.us. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Tribune since 1988.


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Grist put his car on the high side last week and overhauled 4 competitors in the last 2 laps to take home his 1st win of 2011. It stands to reason that we won't see 20 different winners in this class, but I wouldn't be surprised if we have more than 10 different winners when it is all said and done.
The Modified, Pure Stock and Factory Stock classes all share something in common when it comes to winners. They all have 3 different winners out of 5 races so far. Again, just like in the B Mod division, this is shaping up to be a great year from the competition.
Racing fans have always been fickle, but it's really strange how a driver that wins all the time is viewed as the villain. Fans toss out all the excuses too; he/she has the best equipment, he/she has all the money or (my personal favorite) he/she must be cheating.
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The Roku 3 supports FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and HFS+ drive formats. My guess is that your other devices only support FAT32? That would make the maximum volume size 2 TB for FAT32, IIRC. Assuming full implementation of NTFS and HFS+, your drive should work. I'd check with Roku first, though. Also, I have no trust of USB standards implementation, so I always use external power on something like hard drives, and I swap out the wall warts every 5 years or so (lost the greatest phone ever made to a bad wall wart).
To the A.C. troll below, I would say that, yes, there are additional products to accomplish the same purpose, but the Roku is best device of all those devices. Given Roku's business model of not requiring to get between content providers and viewers, and their excellent record of updating firmware for old devices, I expect that the Roku is the best value for some time to come.
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The Constitution does not grant Congress the power to regulate state level taxation, to force one to pay taxes in another state, or to collect the taxes on behalf of another state..
The issues that most complain about regarding income taxes are the methods of collection and enforcement. For example, the 5th amendment is supposed to protect us from self-incrimination, but a tax filing is self-incrimination. The IRS has its own tax courts, which do not follow due process. The right to assistance of counsel in defense has been turned into a joke because they seize the means to provide that counsel, then give a public defender who knows next to nothing.


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Really, because this was said a couple pages back by someone I won't name...
I won't beat her physically because it's illegal and I don't hit woman, so I beat her verbally when I get like this. And then I resent her for making me like this.
I won't beat her physically because it's illegal and I don't hit woman, so I beat her verbally when I get like this. And then I resent her for making me like this.
The name is Sal1995, and I stand by it. And any man on this site who denies having ever felt like that post D Day, even once, is full of shit IMO.
Look, if some of you guys are in a much better place than the rest of us, good for you. You are my heroes, really. I'd love to get out of the abyss and get to where you are, but the sad fact is I'm not there yet. If it's ok I wouldn't mind expressing that every once in awhile.
And I realize that written words lack much of what we get from spoken words, like tone, but I would think most of you can recognize things like hyperbole. Truth is, what my wife has done to me constitutes abuse - we're talking about acts, not words. I've said very little to her that rises to the level of "abuse", unless accurately describing her acts, aka the truth, is abuse. If it is, so be it.
She says she understands.
I control it most of the time, but I don't worry about it when I don't.
I do the best I can, appreciating that I don't really like doing that and that anyone is going to become defensive when the hear too much. Oh well.
Resentment is such a terrible thing. Now THAT is what really eats away at you. Just sits there doing nothing productive. Anger, you can at least focus for good use if you know how (I never learned how, so I found alternative ways). I think my father may have beat my ability to resent people out of me, or perhaps it was my mother. I can't remember. I quit letting what other people do affect me a long time ago. Not saying what people do doesn't affect me, it does obviously, but it doesn't affect who I am.
Binding my own choices to those of my wife isn't my thing. I'd rather not be a victim blaming my wife for how I choose to act, regardless of what addled brained fucked up thing she may say or do. She doesn't own me, control me, dictate shit for me and never has. I'm my own man, and I don't resent her for anything nor did I ever want to verbally abuse her.
Have I in the past? You bet, and I was a piece of shit for doing so because not only did it hurt her, I hurt myself doing so. And I used to always have the great excuse of "well, it's your fault I'm so pissed", and she will agree to this day because she caused a lot of shit in our life or at least let it happen. The problem is, even if righteous in my anger I chose to use it in a way that wasn't okay. At least to me. Because deep down (and it took too long for me to realize -as far as I'm concerned) it really was hurting me in terrible ways. So I stopped hurting myself. That was the most important thing I could do. As WAL very accurately described, I didn't want to be "that guy" anymore.
I resent like hell that her outrageous acts of betrayal have put me in that frame of mind because that's not me.
That's the thing, it is you. At least now it is. Her infidelity has changed you. Own it, accept it, and change it if you want. That's on you. You choose how you react. It fucking sucks I'm sure. I can't really say my wife's infidelity changed me too much, I already was changing for the better for a couple years before this shit happened. I've just continued that process while adding on needing to recover from her bullshit.
It honestly just comes down to you have to work on yourself Sal. Yes, your wife did this to you. Mine stabbed me right in the back trying to cripple me too. But there comes a point when you have to accept the reality of your situation, choose what you want to do, and work toward getting there for yourself. If you were left with nerve damage giving you a limp from that knife to the back, being bitter about your circumstance won't change a thing about needing to do physio to recover. My uncle was wheel chair bound for most of my life, he was such a vibrant amazing man when I was younger and one of my few decent family members. I'm the last person who saw him alive, and it was such a sad pathetic waste of life. I love him, but fuck did he just give up and suck down on that bitterness hard. I refuse to be an emotional cripple because of someone else's actions.
I don't expect you to think or react like me. Hell you're only a few months out. What some people don't realize about me around here (though those who do know me totally get it) I hit this shit running. April 19, 2012 may be my D-Day but my conception started me into terrible life altering shit. My life has been one trauma after another, and this is just like the others. I'm hardened, I'm resilient and I persevere. Not because of "fuck them" but because "I'm fucking awesome". You need to get into that state of mind, and I know it's easier said than done. It took almost my whole life, and I know 27 years doesn't look like much but I've lived enough lifetimes during it to be considered a geriatric.
Also I personally don't believe in the timelines a lot of folks talk about around here. I accept that there may be commonality to how people process things and what phases they typically may go through. But I've never been one to follow the pack. We all choose our own path one way or another.
Being in a better place is a matter of perspective and situational. I'm in no better place than anyone else really as I'm not you or them. I'm in my own place; whatever I choose that to be. You may think that comes from being farther out from my D-Day but I've been like this since 2 months out mostly by choice. I'm in a better place than where I was, but I'm not where I want to be. I'm working on that, and am now incorporating my wife into that as well. Hell I'm just now coming to realize I've been half checked out of my marriage for a whole year without noticing, despite thinking I was "all in" the whole time. That's how focused I was on myself during this.
And honestly, yeah I agree with what your wife did as abuse. My wife abused me worse than anyone has in my life by doing what she did. Physically, mentally and emotionally. And let me yell ya, I've been fucking abused. What she did eclipses everything else, not even hyperbole. Everyone who's been betrayed has been abused there's no question there. However, at least in my eyes, there's no need to head down that path yourself in any way. Not worth it.
Just eats away at who you want to be.
Anyways, I've gone on enough. I genuinely mean it when I say I wish you well with your own journey through this shit, however you get through it. Just make sure you do it healthily.
Tremendous post and a great place to leave this shit show behind. Though, must say, not much to admire about me. I'm just a guy doing my own thing. Thanks though.
I never had in mind some iron clad goal of saving my marriage.
Everyone should have that in mind as far as I'm concerned. It should be about saving yourself. If your spouse wishes to save themselves in the meantime, all the better, but not necessary.
Everything else falls into place once you've got a handle on your core identity. Whatever hijinks your wife gets up to are less immediate -- less personal -- when you start to know your own core self, and know that no matter what happens, you've got your back.
Spot on and perfectly said.
Surrender to the truth of life.
VD, HL, WAL, SG .... Great stuff , carry on.
WAL, as usual, you've given me a lot more to think about and act on, thank you.
Yes, I saw but you used what he called it and reinforced your beliefs in agreement while tossing out a bunch of vulgarities. So my question still stands, regardless of what hardlessons said.
What, your question that it's that way because I say so? No. That answer was already provided and further, putting words in my mouth and trying to make them stick is not going to accomplish a damn thing.
OTOH you calling this thread a one-upsman circlejerk is reinforcing that. Which was another comment I took issue with. If you want to take everything I said, everything everyone else said on the last half dozen pages and distill it down to a fucking fart joke also, then go for it, but I took time to carefully choose my words to explain my thought process and why I felt the way I felt.
So you know what? If you're going to trash my opinion and the opinion of everyone elses and dump a load of obscenities on me for it, don't fucking expect any more than that, either of you.
I don't really care. I've heard that excuse from my daughter way too often lately. "No, but he did". Hell, that excuse doesn't fly over in the wayward forum, or anywhere else actually. You're a grown man, you can act like it. Don't mean that to sound harsh, but really look at how you're coming off.
If you don't really care then don't bring it up.
This is nothing to do with buthediditfirst so turning that around won't accomplish anything either. This is me calling bullshit on what you said. Simply put, I did not ramp up a bunch of hostile posts, I got sick of HL doing that and snapped off an asshole post of my own for which I apologized.
If you want to look at that as an excuse then how about you tell me why the last eight pages you've done nothing but be a condescending asshole and throw poop at the walls? Don't bother trying to explain that you haven't been doing any such thing, or I'll call it out as an excuse.
You're welcome to show me where I've been throwing out ad-homs to a ridiculous depth aside from that post for which I apologized, but I can't force you to interpret my words past how you want to. if you want to read messages into them that aren't there, it's not my responsibility to agree with you. Go ahead and grab a few and ask how they're not insulting if you like and I can address them specifically but I'm not interested in "but what you REALLY mean is" shit.
Why? Has your name been disparaged? Your honour wounded? Your ego smushed? Pride torn asunder? No, some guy on the Internet said shit you didn't like. You chose to respond the way you did. I even said good on ya for apologizing. Though the initial rant didn't need to happen.
And the thing is hardlessons wasn't initially saying a thing to you, he was addressing someone else. You chimed in. You'd have nothing to respond to had you left it be.
I just found it odd to see someone like you, a veteran of this site with quite a bit of insight and knowledge behind you, and a hefty vocabulary to boot, resorting to such vitriol. I also can't stand the mob gang up mentality.
And the thing is hardlessons wasn't initially saying a thing to you, he was addressing someone else. You chimed in. You'd have nothing to respond to had you left it be.
I just found it odd to see someone like you, a veteran of this site with quite a bit of insight and knowledge behind you, and a hefty vocabulary to boot, resorting to such vitriol. I also can't stand the mob gang up mentality.
Why are you doing the same? How do you see yourself as any better or different? What is the point of that question for you?
HL specifically referenced me when I responded a few pages back to him. Otherwise I would not have got involved in that mess.
There is no mob mentality. This persecution complex stuff needs to stop. If you want a rational conversation you can only rant irrationally so long before people stop trying to be rational with you, and you give up the right to bitch about that. That is what happened with HL as far as I am concerned.
Fine and dandy. But there's incredible merit in what hardlessons is saying and those his message is being drowned out by are doing a disservice to those who may need to hear it. Everyone needs to be challenged on their beliefs once in awhile, it's where growth and long term healing come from.
See, this is the issue: nobody is arguing with that. That is a fabricated problem. The real problem is that he - and possibly now you - appear to be unwilling to accept that opinion is not shared universally, and that people have other opinions.
What's that sound like to you?
I've never dismissed what anyone has said as bullshit. Please point out where I did. Addressing your post isn't dismissing anything.
What it sounds like is a poor choice of words cherry picked out of context and blown up to be something it isn't. If you have an issue with that then you should first respond to that specific individual regarding that specific comment before unloading on others and what you claim they support.
You and HL referring to this thread as a one-upsmanship circlejerk and demanding that a certain opinion be given precedence over others is dismissive. Your opinions have already been heard and acknowledged. HL's confrontational attitude and refusal to accept that other people may not see it his way is what got it to this point.
You also don't know the way I work StillGoing, so don't presume please. I get anger, I get rage. The way I used to be wasn't pretty. Closest I came to being the old me was looking my wife dead in the eye last June and in the most callous, venomous, hate filled way I could I asked "Did you like the taste of his cock in your mouth?"
If my wife fucked up before I started fixing my own shit years ago I'd make the lot of what is being said in here look like a boyscout meeting. I speak from experience as a person who used to make excuses for "venting" and "releasing it safely". It doesn't leave you, it stays and simply becomes easier and easier to do. Especially if you can hold onto the ideals of justice and have righteousness on your side long enough for it to corrupt before you without noticing. hardlessons gets that and was simply trying to point it out. Yeah he certainly could have taken the "gently here fellow brother, you're feeding into your anger and should focus on your own healing dude" approach but he didn't. Doesn't negate the message.
If my wife fucked up before I started fixing my own shit years ago I'd make the lot of what is being said in here look like a boyscout meeting. I speak from experience as a person who used to make excuses for "venting" and "releasing it safely". It doesn't leave you, it stays and simply becomes easier and easier to do. Especially if you can hold onto the ideals of justice and have righteousness on your side long enough for it to corrupt before you without noticing. hardlessons gets that and was simply trying to point it out. Yeah he certainly could have taken the "gently here fellow brother, you're feeding into your anger and should focus on your own healing dude" approach but he didn't. Doesn't negate the message.
You're right, I don't know that and in fact said so in as many words several pages back to HL. If he knows that, great, but assuming that I do not simply because I have a different opinion on something is self important and condescending.
As someone who's been here so long and helped so many you should know the price and consequences of enabling and allowing poor coping mechanisms. And giving into anger in any way that isn't productive to self healing is just that.
I have already spoken on this subject in several posts on page 14 of this thread. I don't feel the need to revisit it.
Anyways my bladder just ran dry, so if you'd like to carry on be my guest. Just some honestly friendly advice, if you get this heated at words said to you via a message board just step away. Go cool off and come back with a clear head. Works for loads of situations in life, especially when it comes to the nature of a message board. We choose how to react and respond to things and no one has to click the submit button if they don't want to. There really is no need to blow up here.
Remember why we're all here.
Remember why we're all here.
Look, I get it.
What I am not okay with is people putting words in my mouth, or changing the meaning of words I have used. You're right, I should not have lost my temper. That has been addressed also.
What I don't get is the need to expand on this. It has gone far beyond what it needed to. If you have issues with something I said specifically, please put them down. Otherwise I think I have hashed this out enough and made myself as clear as I need to. Yes, I feel compelled to respond to posts calling me out, if it makes me look insecure then I look insecure. My tone has not been in anger except for the one obvious place, so again, don't assume how other people work either.
[This message edited by StillGoing at 6:19 AM, May 30th (Thursday)]
Resentment that takes over your life === bad. Resentment that reminds you to stand up for yourself because someone has proven they don't have your back === useful.
And yes, I pulled out the bitwise comparison for that.
The people you do your life with shape the life you live
bitwise comparison
Anger stage-like all else, it passes.
And I didn't extol the virtues of verbal abuse, quite the opposite. I resent like hell that her outrageous acts of betrayal have put me in that frame of mind because that's not me. I haven't been me since February 17, 2013, when I discovered things about my wife no man wants to discover. And this seemed like a safe place to vent these feelings, but maybe I read the landscape wrong.
Nicely said. I do in fact agree with HL, but think he was a little heavy handed, high and mighty or however you want to say it. At times, we are not perfect in what we say, write or do.
Sal1995 - What are you doing about that? It took me a while to figure out that my reaction was the problem not my W's stupid antics. As WAL said resentment is not bad all the time, particularly in small temp doses. Temp is the key word I think. Which is why HL was calling you out making fun of your W.
I do think this is about distance and perspective. For a long time I called my W names, to myself, to others and to her. It took me a long time to realize that was counter productive to my healing, it wasn't who I wanted to be and wasn't healthy for R in the long run. Short run - it was what I needed. I got kicked in the proverbial crotch and by god I was going to kick back. It helped me separate, helped me detach, helped me hate her for what she did. I think that was healthy. Hate is underrated as a temp coping mechanism. Its real, deserved and can protect us for a while.
Long term I would argue not so good. Sal1995, from what you wrote you seem to understand that but aren't there yet, which is just fine. I remember at one point thinking to myself that I was saying those things to push her away because she was unsafe. That's not R (IMO), that's survival. Again, just dandy.
I do think with all this crap we need to be aware of where we and others are in the process. From reading this thread I think the conversation moved a long just fine. As my W said to me recently, it's OK to be pissed, disagree and be angry about stuff. Then what do we do? She is getting to be cool by the way.
That is the other thing to remember. Some of us are still with a WW who is not cool. Who is on the fence, still stupid or is struggling to figure out who the hell they are. Maybe those names are still justified.
Context matters a lot with this shit.
Just my two cent...
take care...
Disclaimer: this is not directed at ANYONE, it is only meant to get a few laughs, we need them
I reserve my right to feel uncomfortable reserve my right to be afraid.
I make mistakes and I am humbled every step of the way.
Also, I guess I'm full of shit.
No, but I think you and I are putting different labels on the same type of behavior.
You posted on your bio that your wife became a terrible wife, mother and person in general. Pretty harsh. Did you ever express that to her verbally? Ever direct her to your bio on this site? If so, you "beat her verbally" using my standards.
I'm sorry you were abused VD2012, and in that light my use of the term was insensitive. What I was trying to express was giving my wife grief, berating her, busting her chops so to speak.
Abuse is a word that should not be tossed around lightly, and for that I apologize.
I appreciate the rest of your response VD2012 and look forward to many more friendly discussions with you.
...no going out for ice cream by yourself, no mixed gender softball leagues...
At the risk of coming off polly-anna-ish:
In all seriousness though, with regards to the current topic(s) of discussion: I think a lot of the advice here is completely relevant to a lot of people but it is 100% dependent on your personal circumstances and whatnot.
I *do* poke around in other forums, as I'm sure many of us do, and I'm sure many of us have seen guys one or two weeks after DDAY saying that they're in R, and doing well, and at the same time kinda/sorta taking some sort of blame upon himself for his wife's A.
A lot of the posts on here are 99% context. If a guy comes on here and asks for advice because he really wants to continue in R with his WW, but he's getting hung up on the sexual aspect, I don't know that telling him to view his wife as a "cum rag" (to use the current term of choice) is wrong. I always thought it was kind of assumed that the advice was being given with the concept firmly in mind that it would not be forever. I would imagine that *most* of the guys on here would agree that it's not a healthy or helpful way to view a significant other in any kind of healthy relationship, from a long-term perspective....but sometimes I think that we (those of us with less time under our beltss) just need a solution to get us over the *current* hump, and not every solution needs to be extrapolated as a long-term framework for relationships.
That being said, I get what HL is saying about that thought process being poisonous (paraphrasing here). I'm positive there is a danger for some guys who start thinking aabout their wives in those terms...because for some guys, once their thinking starts down that path they are unable to walk themselves back to the fork in the road, and follow the roaad marked "healthy relationship mindset."
You see that with guys who had fathers who conveyed the idea (or modeled it, whatever) that all women are whores who will eventually betray you when it's convenient...instead of it being set within a narrow context confined to one person/relationship/instance, it becomes their entire framework for viewing the female gender. There is a real danger in patterns of thinking becoming permananent (or semi-permanent)...but that's where individual discretion HAS to come in. You gotta know yourself.
Like WAL said, some of the advice here applies to us, and some doesn't. Some works for a while, until it doesn't. It really is a "one day at a time" process, and sometimes we just need to hear what we need to hear *today* to get us through until tomorrow....and so on and so forth until we look back and realize that it's become so long aand we're healed enough that it's just not a huge part of us anymore.
Not everything applies to everyone, you know? One of the things that gets tossed around on here quite a bit about the healing process for us BMs is to focuse on yourself for a while. Well, I never really felt like that applied to me, because I've always done that in my marriage. If I want to go work out, go play soccer, go to a movie, or go to lunch, I always have, throughout my marriage. I just knew that a marriage where I was miserable about missing doing stuff I wanted to do was not a relationship I'd want to be in...because I'd resent my wife for it. And honestly, I took it too far in that direction ocassionally where my *living life* probably went past "healthy guy" into "selfish guy" so part of the process of MC has been trying to be more equitable with that kind of stuff. My situation may be different than others. It's cool.
Viable options include:
1. Menz Thread
2. BD Thread (betrayed dudes)
3. Dudes Thread (though incorrect given the implied possessive -- but we don't give a shit about grammar and punctuation)
3. BGTABS Thread (Badass Guys Talking about Badass Stuff)
Betrayed spouses already get stuck with the "BS" label. Adding potential poop jokes into the mix is just insult to injury.
(Note: Not in any way suggesting we change the actual thread titles, just the way we internally and externally refer to it when we're talking about the thread as an object or destination.)
For you, this revolves around anger. It's something you dealt with and made a huge effort to win out over.
I was not pissed off until the comment I made in response to hl's final response. Like I said in my apology, it was uncalled for and you're absolutely right when you say we don't have to hit submit. In that regard everything you said is correct.
What drags at my heels is not anger, it's gaslighting.
I have never yelled at my wife. I've called her a bitch once and a fishwife once an even longer time back. I have never placed hands on her except one time I feel absolutely justified in, and I refuse to give details on that as it is no longer an issue; suffice to say she was never in danger of being hurt and I was in protective mode.
The gaslighting for me was many, many years of people telling me what I really think, of what my words really mean. It was many, many years of me not being heard, and to such a degree I question the validity of everything I say and think and look at my motives in minute detail. It was not until some time around dday that I told my wife "You do not get to tell me what I am really thinking. You do not get to tell me what I am really feeling, or what I really mean. You get to ask me about it and discuss it with me."
In response, I push back when I feel that what I have said has been overlooked in favor of what someone wants to see.
I have never advocated anger or abuse in any form. I have advocated a more reasonable understanding of the anger of others and their choice of outlets. I have been the one to come down on people, *in this thread* when they choose to speak of *all* former wayward wives in a derogatory and nasty way. Ask Mypoorboys if he's around, you can go back looking for it if you want, but I don't remember which iteration of this thread that went down in. I believe we parted ways there amicably.
I'm also an advocate for R on the BS terms and will go to the mat for that. I am also a firm believer that a WS has as much a choice to make amends as they do to cheat and will be just as vocal in that as I will in other things.
What I am not an advocate of is the bulldozing of the perspective of others, especially when they are at the point of this process that is one of the most confusing of all and easily leads towards anger. You have had anger issues and see that danger clearly, yes, but these dangers are always magnified most by those who have defeated them. It's hard for people who have defeated toxic shame to see shame as a potentially healthy emotion as well - but shame and anger can both be normal and healthy.
What is normal and healthy for one person may not be the same for another. What is normal and healthy for me is the purity of semantics involved. I need to ensure my statements are clearly communicated, whether I am rambling or succinct, and I have a strong pushback reaction when I feel my words are being manipulated - even when that is done so inadvertently. It's not anger, but it does nag, and probably for the very same reasons the anger issue sticks so hard with you.
I can see how the Q&A quoteback stuff can be seen as angry, and would like to edit it enough to change the tone but I don't think that is entirely necessary or even useful at this point. I would like this to resolve amiably but there is no beer available, so I am open to suggestions.
My next agenda item is to get us to stop referring to this thread as the "BM Thread".
The Angry Marines thread?
[This message edited by StillGoing at 10:50 AM, May 30th (Thursday)]
I'd stay away from BD, it's an ampersand away from a totally different meaning...I like Menz thread...MT? Menz?
The Angry Marines thread?
Edited to capitalize the A in Army...(man they whine about everything... )
Note - my dad was a SSG, did 4 tours in Nam. His flag is proudly displayed on my wall. My comments are what is known between inter-service agencies as "ribbing".
[This message edited by Tred at 11:20 AM, May 30th (Thursday)]
I resent like hell that her outrageous acts of betrayal have put me in that frame of mind because that's not me.
Sal1995 - What are you doing about that? It took me a while to figure out that my reaction was the problem not my W's stupid antics.
wert, right now I'm venting to her, but only about once or twice every 7-10 days. I vent here daily, and we're going to MC/IC. I'm also finding distractions, like teaching our 6-year old twin boys how to play baseball. I'm also spending time with a local BH who is an SI lurker, and a really good mentor.
It feels like I should be doing something more, but right now that's it.
wert: "For a long time I called my W names, to myself, to others and to her."
Unfortunately I've slipped into that mode a few times since D Day, but generally that's not how it goes (except for the part about saying these things to myself). Calling my wife a faithless pig, for example. I believe that does rise to the level of abusive language, although it feels like self-defense at the time considering the level of "abuse" from my wife that prompted the reaction. But no excuse, bad behavior is bad behavior, whether hers or mine.
Thankfully these episodes have been the exception, not the rule. But I'm not at all proud of them, and nothing I've said on here is meant to extol the virtues of that kind of hurtful and damaging language.
I think our perspective is different based on where we are in the healing process. For instance, when I read that B444 took his wife skydiving, and dammit, the parachute opened, I hear: "I love my wife and took her skydiving because I still want to do things with her. But this hurts like hell, so I joke about it to keep from going crazy."
Similarly, "cum rag" quotes strikes me this way: "She's my wife and I still want to make love to her, but sometimes the act itself is painful because of what she did with other men, so I have to detach emotionally to get through it."
Just a different way of looking at things. If a guy was making these comments 5 or 10 years down the line, then I think we have a problem. But inside of 1 year? I can relate.
[This message edited by Sal1995 at 11:10 AM, May 30th (Thursday)]
Case in point for instance, I disagree with WAL's stance on resentment. Why? Not that we likely disagree, but our views on the word and concept are different. We may well, and I do believe, tred down the same path in regard to the sentiment but I'm looking left at the ocean and he's looking right at the trees. Still probably the same path. Just different viewpoints.
With regards to my wife and what was said to her, then no I suppose I'm not full of shit by your standards. Yes, everything in my profile has been said to her. She even posts here herself on occasion. In fact, every post I make on here has already been run by her or read to her at some point (she's often my sounding board). I'm an open book. If she didn't like it, well tough shit. I don't rub things in her face and I don't vent anything toward her or even in regard to her because it isn't conducive to my state of being or healing.
Yet, I still will talk matter of factly about what she did. I don't shy away from it, I don't even care if it offends her. She was the best person I ever met, was a great human being, a wonderful partner for myself and the best damn mother possible. I'm not even putting her on a pedastal, she truly was amazing. She then pissed that all away because life caught up with her and she didn't deal with her shit. She's become all those things in my eyes again, and more, because she's owned her shit and finally started dealing with it.
Everything in my profile is true to the word about her. She'll agree. She was a terrible mother during those months, a terrible wife and a terrible person. It's not in there as a source of venting, simply for accuracy of the facts. My experiences I often speak about don't come from dealing with this shit, it's life experience. My wife spent months telling me I'd let myself go, she lost her spark for me, that sex with me was an obligation (she didn't seem to complain every night), that she'd thought about being with someone else and even said I wasn't her best friend anymore (that one hurt). And there was more. Our fucking cats hated her during the time. Seriously. (It may sound stupid but my one cat going near her again was actually a positive sign for me). And that was all before she let some fucking loser stick his half limp pencil dick in her because she didn't want her new "friend" to be disappointed or upset with her and figured she'd already wrecked our relationship.
And how was I during all of that? The same way I am now (though thinking of divorce honestly since my life is too short to deal with any more bullshit from anyone). Sure, I had a few terrible rough days and have had more than a few crying fits. I was pissed for months on end, but outside of acting like a total psycho one day, I chose my reactions. And that included knowing that "what a bitch" muttered in my head or "you had no problem fucking him then" had no place in my mind. If you let it, it takes hold and doesn't let up. Many people do not know their limits and often overstep them and regret it. You already show signs of not liking how you've been regarded this. After all, it's not you. I'm just trying to point out and help by saying, just choose not to be that way. It's that simple. Difficult, especially when so raw and hurt, but it's that simple.
As for abuse, don't worry about it. I'm not sensitive to anything. That shit is part of my life, I accept and accept how it has affected me and how I've chosen to be in light of it all. That's why I can talk almost flippantly about it. My experience with it has helped mould me into who I am, and I try to share that experience with others in hopes it does something for them. Hell that's the only reason I post around here much anymore, people keep saying my posts are insightful and helpful. I usually do that by talking about myself and my approach to life, I actually dislike giving direct advice to people. But I'm typically over in Reconciliation talking about Flow and Contrition and shit.
And I really am glad you appreciated my response. No one should be enemies here.
Like I said, I wish you well in your personal journey. This shit is hard. Just bolster yourself and who you want to be, and realize you have choices.
Don't the army pukes whine enough as it is ?
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