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I have been coming by and glancing at your site once in a while - try to pick up any useful tidbits. Not any more!!! This bathroom fetish of yours is sick!!!
Amen to that. I've been a lurker, but no more. The gross-out factor is too much for me. Sick, sick, sick. :-(
Rich1945 and Anonymous:
I hope you guys will give us another chance in some future day. In any event, thanks for stopping by to let us know why you are going before taking your leave of us.
It's gross when a doctor cuts open a human body. So why does he do it? He does it to achieve the good that he believes will come of it. I believe that a good will come from reaching a better understanding of what it takes to invest successfully for the long run.
It is humans who buy and sell stocks. Humans experience negative emotions from time to time. These are facts. They are poopy facts. But they are facts all the same.
One of the things that I like about the internet discussion-board as a communications medium is that it is a personal medium. There's all sorts of jumping around in the arguments that are being developed. That's the bad side of it. It's a disorganized medium. But it's a personal medium. That's important when you are exploring money questions because money questions are at root personal questions. That's always so. No exceptions.
Investing is a personal activity. It is an emotional activity. You cannot come to a full understanding of how to invest effectively by looking at data. Data can help a lot, I am a big believer in making reference to it. But data can never tell the entire story. Only by studying what humans do with the data can you gain access to the full story.
Humans poop.
Like it or not, it's a fact.
If we were angels, we wouldn't poop, would we? We would be fine spiritual creatures, with no physical side to our existence. As things stand today in the real world, we are poopers. If you want to know all there is to know about the humans, it's something you are going to need to take into consideration from time to time.
It's not just that we poop in a literal sense. We poop in a figurative sense too. We deceive others. We deceive ourselves. We are willful. We are cold. We bully. We shake with fear. We scream with greed. We swear. We hate. We eat too much. We buy Barry Manilow records.
You get the idea.
There another side to the story that is every bit as true. We buy Joni Mitchell albums. We contribute to charities. We teach our kids to spell. We help the new guy or gal at work to learn the ropes. We put something aside for a rainy day. We invent machines that play Scoobie-Do videos so that mothers who are about to lose it have a way to entertain their kids while they obtain a few minutes of peace.
We're a mixed bag.
We're builders. And we're poopers. The reality is that we are both.
There are lots of articles at this site talking about how we are builders. They're all over the place. There need to be a few talking about how we are poopers. It's not pleasant to think about or to talk about. It's part of the story, though. I am a reporter by trade and I see it as my job to tell the financial freedom story to the best of my ability as it is, both the non-poopy stuff and the poopy stuff too.
I'll do my best.
There's poop all over the floors of the various Retire Early boards. There's poop all over the floors of the newspapers and the television stations that are urging people to buy stocks without telling them how much more risky stocks have become in recent years. The poop won't go away by us turning our heads the other way.The poop goes away by someone like me drawing people's attention to it and lots of somebodies like the people reading these words getting together and doing what needs to be done to make our boards (and then our world) poop-free again, or at least reasonably so.
I will be writing about poop from time to time. It's not because I am a poop fan. It's because I want to see the poop sent wherever it is that poop goes when you remove it from your living quarters. There's a place for poop, and it's not the place where aspiring early retirees congregate to trade ideas about how to win financial freedom early in life.
I come here not to praise poop. I come to put it back in its proper place -- far away from where my nose can smell the unpleasant odors it generates.
Make no mistake. I am not a poop advocate. I am a poop destroyer.
Rob
I don't mind the article using the toilet analogy to tell the story. Although the pictures a little grusome. Just let you wonder some people who thinks they never poop in their life!? Ahaha. Anyway, the good are far more then just silly poops.
Although the picture's a little grusome.
That much is more than fair to say, my new friend!
Welcome to the community, Fauzi. We're all here to serve both your poop and non-poop needs. Let's just hope that it turns out that there are a lot more of the former than of the latter!
Rob
Actually, I meant that the other way around.
I was hoping that there would be more non-poop needs being served here!
Oh my goodness!
Rob
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