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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2869828, member: 71723&quot;]No, not lately, I guess I&#039;m not. I&#039;m under an awful lot of stress, with losing my dad and numero uno mentor, and having to move, again, at my age and chronically deeply painful ill health all the while getting the &quot;bum&#039;s rush&quot; from a sibling who is the executrix of the estate who understands NOTHING ON HER BEST DAY; I lately have a VERY short fuse. I&#039;m seethingly blood-spitting spit-flinging angry at &quot;takers&quot; who have an overinflated sense of entitlement. (In case you hadn&#039;t noticed.) (Sis is one too, the head witch of the coven.) I sit in genuine horror at what we are collectively becoming because we have been browbeaten to death by careless mediocrity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look, &quot;J.D.2K$&quot;, I have committed myself to &quot;giving back&quot; to this hobby, almost entirely through American Numismatic Association activities and volunteerism, as well as financially, since my 2009 stroke. THERE AT LEAST, I encounter truly grateful &quot;knowledge sponges&quot; among the YN&#039;s. I don&#039;t EVER see, in that venue, &#039;treasure hunters&#039; in this field because &quot;theres money to be made and lots of it&quot; like I find here on CoinTalk among the newbs. They stinking disgust me. At least at the ANA the money grubbers are mostly the guys who have metaphorically &quot;paid their dues&quot; and are on the way out, with a few exceptions, one of whom was granted a Money Talks slot at Denver. A REAL creep among creeps. Buuut he buys big ads, so there&#039;s that. I&#039;ll ID him if you care.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m about a nanometer from letting this place rot in its own little Dante Aligheriesque digital hell and concentrate on the ANA COMPLETELY. Problem is - what&#039;s going on at CoinTalk sure isn&#039;t &quot;Divine&quot; and it&#039;s nobody&#039;s &quot;Comedy&quot;. Its a stinking Tragedy.</p><p><br /></p><p>What amazes me is there are otherwise smart and wise people here at CoinTalk, including a moderator or two, who feel they&#039;re &quot;better&quot; than to associate with the ANA and who &quot;don&#039;t need it&quot;. As if, John, as if....</p><p><br /></p><p>I wish their attitude were sensible, really I do, but it simply is not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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