Originally posted by Goldendragon7
Rich I think you and Ricardo have reached a milestone that I and others have also had....... LOL, The one problem with the net is that you don't "feel" :anic: the typed word. This is not the first and probably not the last post that has been misunderstood.
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I do thank you both for airing out your feelings and hopefully come out shaking hands :cheers: all in good fun. We all love to tease (especially me!!!!!!!!!):boing2:
Ricardo also takes this to the max....... so please ..... end any hard feelings I'm sure Ricardo never ment any harm :angel: nor did Rich.
Thanks guys
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GoldenDragon7,
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First, let me say thank you for your kind words and for your use of Smiles. I have, myself, said what you have said here many times to others and I understand your point and the intent of your words.
As for this post not being the first nor the last post to be misunderstood, I agree. Yet in all my contact with Mr. Castillo, I have had nothing but confusion and misunderstanding. He has never used any positive smiles only negative smiles to express his humor. To me, this is either someone who is not truly trying to be humorous, or someone who has made many assumptions that everyone shares and understands their own sense of humor. I bring this up since Mr. Castillo stated it is not my place to chastise people on their behavior, yet, he felt it sufficient to chastise me in a Private Message about making assumptions. This is not a positive step towards being understood and being able to communicate with people. The use of only negative feedback (smiles) or the duplicitous actions of one who states one thing and does another. As for Teasing, I have no problems with teasing and have been teased by many people here I have not met and there are those that I have met after being teased. That is part of the positive social interactions of this site.
As to Mr. Castillo’s sense of humor, I guess that this Non-Kenpo Person (* That is me, Rich Parsons *), is supposed to know that Tracy’s Kenpo is the joke of Kenpo? (* I know very little about Kenpo and the factions of the art. *) So this was not really an attack against me, but an attack and slam against another style / art? A similar comment made by me such I will ‘Insert most unliked system here’ all over you, is what I have should have replied with? This is confusing to me. Now, if this was preceded by either a positive smile as opposed to being followed by a negative smile, it might have been easier to understand this event as humor. I give the following links as my interactions with Mr. Castillo as being anything but positive. They might be sarcastic, and many might believe that sarcasm is humor, but I do not find it humorous. I apologize for my lack of humor at what I believe to be sarcasm.
First Contact: An aggressive Nuke Smile and NO non Aggressive Smiles.
http://martialtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=2333&perpage=15&highlight=parsons&pagenumber=3
Second Contact was a Private Message I sent and his reply with my follow-up reply with no further contact until . . .
(* These were Private Messages and hence I have chosen not to reveal them *)
Third Contact
http://martialtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=4586&perpage=15&pagenumber=2
I have argued (* Look it up *) with many a person on this board. Some of my favorites are Gou Ronin: We do not always see eye to eye, but we agree that we each have the right to our own opinions; Kirk: Who I and some others had a heat discussion or argument over a supreme court ruling dealing with the word ‘God’ and the Pledge of Allegiance, this did not leave us upset with each other; another great person to discuss things with is Nightingale8472: She has expressed her opinions and we have discussed much together. I offer these as people I can discuss with and exchange humor and issue we might disagree on, but not end up with the confusion and concern I have with Mr. Castillo.
I have no true ill feeling for Mr. Castillo, I only wish to no longer to try to communicate with him, since I obviously do not understand his sarcasm or sense of humor. As for shaking his hands, not an option, for I will not search him out, since I do not wish to met him. If we co-exist on this board with little or no interaction or at least some polite interaction than I have no problems with that resolution.
Thank you once again GoldenDragon7 and I apologize to everyone here for the misunderstanding.
Rich Parsons
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