Agreed that his ABSENCE is a source of such. I thought I'd check in on the thread...and whoa. It's like waaaaaaaay long. I'm staying outta the "fight" to as I am pretty new and don't feel I have much to say about things I had nothing to do or any knowledge of. I spose you can call that burying my head in the sand or whatever. Also, when I first came here knowing NOTHING, I was favorably impressed as some of you knew and you all "warned" me...and ol' Bobert figured I was another creation of MG's. Well, I'm not.

I actually WAS interested that he was goin' to Europe in a detached kinda way. Maybe because of his Jewish roots he'll stop by the ruins of Auschwitz or Dachau and see what hatred in its worst most demonic form can lead to. I think actually STANDING on those ruins is different than reading ABOUT them, or watching old news footage on it, which is what most of us get. I've been "lucky" (seems like a poor choice of words) to see it first hand...and I left a different person than I came. Take that for what it's worth. When I wished him well on his trip and encouraged him to get in touch with his roots, that was a part of it. Now maybe he'd say he knows all about this kinda stuff-but that will be one point I'd be willing to debate with him: ya gotta be there, and you feel it. Hard to put into words.If he IS serious about music, he should understand: kinda like hearing a recording of a great concert, versus being in the audience at one (although that is a piss-poor analogy in THIS case, and I know it, so don't have a hissy).

Anyway, to me, this is the kind of negative energy I don't need, and like I said when I first joined up, I'm just not into fights or whatever. Call me naive, call me a dreamer. You're welcome to discount my 2 cents on this whatever y'all want.