I''m responding to a posting by Mr. Info in a recent thread in which he catigates me for my comments about Jason and NY Confidential.

Mr, Info, there is no reason for you to go back and play private detective and search for my old postings to try to slam me.  I would think you have better things to do than research the TER Disc. Bd. threads from a year (or more) ago.  

First of all, I never shilled for Jason or NY Confi; I was a very happy client and became friendly with him.  And then I had a falling out with him in the same way as many of us do every so often with people in our lives  Now, after reading the NY Magazine story, I do feel a certain amount of empathy for what he has gone through despite the fact that it is a result of his own behavior.  He' obviously had a troubled past and a difficult childhood, which undoubtedly led to many of the problems.  Many of us have problems in our lives today because of childhood experiences.

The fact that I have changed my judgment of Jason doesn't mean that I am being disingenuous nor does it prove that I was shilling for him.  Haven't you ever had a falling out with someone and reconsidered issues and had a change of mind or a change of heart?

We all change and evolve as human beings on a day to day based upon our cummulative life experiences.   We are all people, with hearts and minds, and  we often go back and reconsider our judgments or assessments of people or experiences and re-evaluate those people or experiences from new perspectives as we ourselves change as people.  Sometimes, we can wake in the morning and have deep contempt for a person, only to get to know them better, and then perhaps develop some empathy as we learn more.  

Americans are always quick to accuse a politician of "flip-flopping" on an issue if he/she changes position and this causes us to distrust the politician.  And every politician tries to worm his way out of the situation with the parsing of words.  Why can't a politician simply say, "I've given the issue more thought, done more reading and research, and have changed my mind on the issue."  Wouldn't that be a refreshing  breath of honesty from a politician?

We are people.  All of us.  We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, and our character flaws.  And we have all made mistakes in our lives and exercised bad judgment and done imprudent things.   However, most of us are lucky that  we have not had our weaknesses or character  flaws made public.  

To get in touch with our own humanity means that we are willing and able to engage in some self-reflection, re-examination of people and of our own past, hopefully resulting in greater self awareness, growth as a human being, and development of a greater ability to experience true empathy.  That's what seperates us from other animals.  Without that ability, we are no different than a wild, uncivilized ape in the jungle.  

I'm hoping what I have writtten here has the ring of truth for some people and  therefore, find it unnecessary to go back and dig up my prior postings solely for negative and non-productive purposes.