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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2173751, member: 112&quot;]Let me see if I can explain something to you Bryan. If Q. David Bowers was a member of this forum and he answered your questions, just like I have been doing, would you believe what he had to say and take him at his word ? Or it could be anybody else, any other person who is a giant in the numismatic world, would you believe them ? And no, I am not trying to compare myself to them, I am trying to make a point.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point is this, you would believe them because of who they are, but you would only believe them until they said something that you disagreed with. At that point you would start asking questions, saying things like can you show me how or why this true ? </p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s the thing, and it&#039;s not just you, it&#039;s everybody. People will only believe what they want to believe, especially when they already have an opinion on the matter, regardless of who it is that tells them differently.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, not matter who comes on this forum and tells you something, if you are not willing to believe them, you won&#039;t. And for the same reasons no matter what you read on any web site and no matter who it is that says it on that web site, you are not going to believe them either, unless you are willing to do so.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I do on this forum is pretty simple, I share, and ask all others to share, the information they have learned over the course of their lives. Once that is done it is up to the reader to either believe that information and accept it for what it is, or not. That is their choice.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, you asked me for links to back up what I am saying. I understand the reasoning for that, I really do. But by the same token you have to also understand that without a great deal of effort on my part that I cannot just whip off links at the drop of a hat to verify the information I share on any given subject. In the first place there is a hundred times more information that can only be found in printed materials than there is on the entire internet. In fact the vast majority of all information is not even on the internet. And of the information that is available on the internet, much of it used to be on the internet, but isn&#039;t any longer because web sites come and go like the wind.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lemme show what I mean. Click on this - </p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/forums/numismatic-resources.33/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/forums/numismatic-resources.33/">https://www.cointalk.com/forums/numismatic-resources.33/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Spend some time there, see how much is actually there. You see, I built that entire section quite a few years ago for the very same reason - because of people asking me to provide links. Now it took a long time to build that section, a lot of work and a lot of effort. But it took 100 times as long, many, many years, just to gather all of the links to begin with. I have thousands and thousands of links all stored in my bookmarks and files of nothing but other bookmarks, that I have gathered and categorized and filed away over the years. And the sole purpose of doing that was to share them with others, to share information. That is who and what I am, always has been.</p><p><br /></p><p>But now, that link I gave you above, explore it and click on the links you find provided there. Now tell me what happens with a lot of them ? I can tell you, they&#039;re dead links because the web sites they refer to no longer exist. And yet every single one of them was valid and a working link when I put it there 8 years ago. And more go away every day. So if that can happen in just 8 years, imagine what can happen in 20. All of that information that used to be available, all of that information that I used to have at my fingertips and able to share anytime anybody asked for it - much of it is gone. Poof ! No longer available.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that doesn&#039;t mean that I don&#039;t still retain the information in my brain, still know all of it. And am still more than willing to share it. But because I cannot provide &quot;links&quot; to every single thing piece of information that I share, then many consider that the info I provide is no good, not valid, and even just plain wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, remember what I asked to do above - <b>think ! </b>Why would I share information that was no good, not valid, or just plain wrong ? I certainly stand to gain nothing by doing so. I am retired, disabled, can&#039;t work, can&#039;t do much of anything really anymore, except to share with others what I have spent my lifetime learning. I don&#039;t even collect coins anymore, I stopped, sold my collection, at the same time I built that section of the forum I linked to above. My sole purpose is to help others in any way I can. So when I share information, take it with that in mind <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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