If Rim gives us nothing else, maybe we are now getting a valuable
lesson. When I first started on RB, I was a long and was exchanging
e-mails with Excel on a different subject. Once I discovered
Rim to be a scam, I posted such and immediately lost most of
my new-found internet friends. In fact, I changed my name to
"goldrusher" so I could continue to e-mail as a friend. As I
said, Beachbreak and I were lonely back then. Soon, however,
Excel and many others jumped the fence and I then had about
as many friends as enemies.
Then the first lesson. I met "HopefulOne", Alan Kodicek and
we lunched many times. A finer guy you would be hard pressed to
meet. He finally admitted to realizing he had been defrauded, but
he never blamed Ray. He blamed himself for not being more diligent.
That was the character of the man and I still miss him now after
a couple years have passed since he died.
Now, Alan had also met Sherman (Cobra) and related to me what a
fine guy Sherman was. What??? Another "enemy" that is a fine
guy? Yeah, but he was a "long". How can that be?
Maybe, the real worth of our characters is not determined by
how we perceive the value of any given stock at any given time.
Yes, I wish I had convinced more and sooner as it would have
saved them big losses, but was that my real concern or was it
to protect my ego after having been called a "basher", etc.
Now is the time of year to re-evaluate our perceptions of
"friends and enemies"
The Christmas sermon is over and I will now pass the collection
plate. Be generous.
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