Och! Tell me this is an elaborately planned, well ramped up, April Fool's joke!
This is utterly fascinating and quizzically amusing and stunningly illustrative of people who seem remarkably large in number and include the highly educated, doctors, and nurses, and more, so as to perhaps be a trait other than one institutional learning can alleviate, who choose slightly informed, highly illogical ignorance over easily informed, reasoned understanding through inquiry and listening. My apologies to those following this thread for the off-topic nature of this rabbit hole, which my choice to respond only seems to promote rather than resolve. I had hoped mocking and pointing out stupidity would serve to at lease dissuade further stupidity rather than doubling down. Because of the ignorance and arrogance of these responses from Steve and now Matt on this group, I will take more license than I usually would, for it reveals one of the challenges people with brain injury encounter often in finding stunning anger and ignorance from many people, including their own doctors who are supposedly experts in brain injury. Dear Matt, Why are you choosing to remain in ignorance? Your first sentence indicates you are in a position of ignorance, and you know it. "I do not see how anyone can disagree with Steve." It is a stunning shame there is no resource to which you could turn to inform your ignorance of why I choose what I choose. Yet there you stand. Firm in your believe that though I clearly have arrived at a conclusion different than you can see any possibility of, you choose to remain ignorant rather than inquire as to whether there are perhaps things of which you are as yet unaware. Do you realize you just gave a diatribe justifying your non-inquiry? You exude a stunning amount of effort to support this intellectual inertia, citing a singular fact as if it is Highly Informative to me-the-ignorant-one, that brain injuries are cumulative. Were you aware that I've had 8+ concussions since I was 12? Even a slight modicum of logic on your part would indicate that perhaps I am aware of the cumulative nature of concussions, and that, perhaps, there is more to the story, more that explains the apparent contradictions. (By the way, such surface-level contradictions are common with brain injury and most all chronic health issues. I have constant vertigo and can't take two steps in most shoes without needs days or weeks to recover, but I run and bike mountain trails. Unless one understands proprioception via going barefoot, this makes no sense.) Were one to apply logic, from your position, combined with a presumption of goodness that at the very least I clearly have reasons, whether good or not, for doing what I do, the following thread-of-though might occur: I, Matt, stand on the outside of brain injury, looking at the outside choices of someone with brain injury. His choice directly contradicts everything that I know to be true about common sense and self-preservation. Thus, either I have superior common sense and capacity and need to help this person see how stupid he is being, or there are things below the surface I do not yet see that make the apparent contradictions make sense and at the very least more of a judgement call than I realize. What possible means at my disposal is there to help shed light on which of these two possibilities contains the truth? Is there anyone I could ask to learn why this poor and utter fool chooses not to wear a helmet when riding a bicycle. Should you find a way to inform your ignorance, please let me know. I'm here to help, if I may. "I don't think Christ's healing balm has anything to do with Steve opinion, or mine for that matter." I am sorry your Christ is so small! If you believe Christ is fully divine and fully human and thus not only the savior of humanity but also the height of humanity to which we should all aspire (we are like Christ in all ways but sin), would not Christ have something to say on every aspect of human experience, including one as seemingly piffling as this? Every choice we make impacts our eternal body and soul, either bringing us closer toward Christ or taking further away. No choice, therefore, is trivial. Perhaps your understanding of Christ is too small? Perhaps you can look for a way to choose the Best Good Christ reveals in every choice you make today? What a perfect week, this Holy Week, to discover who He is and how much bigger he is, and thus how much bigger he calls each of us to become. The truth is that wherever any of us fall short of our human potential, we sin. I fall short of my fullest human potential and turn to His healing balm to help me become more fully who He created me to be, and I pray that same peace and healing balm for everyone, including you and Steve. May God startle you with joy! With abandon, Patrick On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 10:14:40 PM UTC-6, hangtownmatt wrote: > > Personally, I do not see how anyone can disagree with Steve. Maybe his > delivery is harsh but the message true. Bangs on the head are cumulative > and the long term results have been proven. If I had a bludgeoned brain I > would be taking measures to protect it. I'm not saying helmets are perfect > or the only answer, but if you need further proof just look at what's going > on in the NFL. As inferior as helmets may be, I do not see anyone > choosing to play in the NFL without a helmet I do not like wearing > helmets either, and for me, someone who doesn't have a post-bludgeoned > brain, I probably stand a better chance of getting melanoma than a brain > trauma riding a bike. That's why I wear a Treadley helmet hat! It allows > me to continue to wear a helmet to help protect me from potential brain > trauma and also helps protect me from the sun ...without all the chemicals > in suntan lotion.. But hey ... if I ate Deacon's recommended Paleo diet > (or whatever variance it may be) I wouldn't have to worry about melanoma or > getting run over by a car because that diet alone would kill me first. > > Deacon, I mean no harm to you personally. But you put this stuff out > there, and you are free to speak and do as you wish, but we are also > entitled to our opinions based on our own personal knowledge and > experience. I don't think Christ's healing balm has anything to do with > Steve opinion, or mine for that matter. > > Your brother in Christ, > > Matt > > > > On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 12:16:10 PM UTC-7, Steve Palincsar wrote: >> >> On 03/31/2015 09:19 AM, Deacon Patrick wrote: >> > Dear Steve, >> > >> > I am sorry something happened to you and/or those you love that causes >> > you great anger toward me because I do not wear a helmet. Should you >> > ever email me directly, either in the group or privately, I am happy >> > to explain why I ride without a helmet, but that, I suspect, is not >> > the real issue here. I wish pray you experience the peace of Christ's >> > healing balm and that God may startle you with joy. >> >> Do what you like. I said what *I* would do. I would not do what you >> do, for the reason I stated. I'm not angry, I just think you are being >> very foolish (or, as they say in the vernacular, "being an idiot"). >> >> It is now well known head trauma is cumulative, and you have on numerous >> occasions made it very well known around here that you are already >> suffering the effects of multiple head traumas. You may be willing to >> risk more; as I said, if it were me, I would not. >> >> As for the rest of you, by all means wear or don't wear whatever you >> like. I truly do not care, and was not speaking about you. >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
