Wyoming and its challenges

[biathlon]

 Duncan, would you please get the f@#$ off our forum? Would you prefer tar and feathers. Your attitude sucks! Just leave.   

[MamaLiberty]

The guv doesn't like you people and niether deos the WY Homeland Gestapo.

Just a thought... if we are all so pointless, useless, incompetent and hopeless - I wonder why the governor, HS or anyone else would even know we exist, let alone not "like" us.

And, I strap on my gun every day. I never leave home without it and work endlessly to convince others to do the same. I don't look for trouble, but I would never run away from it either.

We are well aware of the problems. We have no desire to "take over" or control any lives but our own. We have no illusions about "utopia" either.

Go away, duncan.  You obviously do not have anything positive to contribute here.

[Boston]

Duncan, you are allegedly a proponent of freedom
(and thus private property), yet you continue to
trespass here after I politely asked you not to post any further.

Good luck with remaining on whatever forums will still have you.

Boston

[Boston]

"Wyoming sucks, and if it doesn't it will in ____ years!"

OK folks, now that you've seen a full-blown troll in action,
it'll be obvious what not to feed the next time . . . especially
after I've explicitly asked it not to post. 

Criticism is welcome, but let's not facilitate outright bitching.

Boston

[kylben]

OK folks, now that you've seen a full-blown troll in action,
it'll be obvious what not to feed the next time . . . especially
after I've explicitly asked it not to post.

Criticism is welcome, but let's not facilitate outright bitching.

But we get so few here, we never get to play....

OK, seriously, I was trying (mostly) to be constructive, and maybe get through to him.  I know it's futile, but sometimes I can't help but try.  But more importantly, he's representative of a certain strain of libertarianism that is unfortunately quite common.  I was hoping a discussion of that would be somewhat productive, though I guess it's best if such a discussion is not with that.

I'll put my bag of breadcrumbs away now and stop feeding him, though I assume he's banned by now anyway.

[biathlon]

OK Boss, duct tape instead of tar and feathers.

[bobcat]

 

I just can't help but laugh a jokers like D, Boston.

.............
Back to our regularly scheduled program.
 

[Pumpkihn]

Ok, well, now that that's all over I feel a little torn.  On one hand I like forums where someone can say whatever they really feel and it won't be censored or lead to banishment.  However, it's nice that things can be regulated to actual meaningful conversation.  I don't know which I like better.

[biathlon]

We don't need the distraction of morons like d keeping us from the inspired effort. Some people just don't understand the difference between a contrived and directed endeavor and what happens when you inspire folks to greatness. Self reliance!

[MamaLiberty]

There is also the little matter of attracting what we concentrate on. If you look in the mirror each time and see only a hopeless, defeated person - doesn't it seem logical that your thinking will be bent that way and you will BECOME a hopelessly defeated person, ineffective at building anything positive in life? If you consistently tell yourself you "can't" do something (even something you say you want very much), why would you even try it?

Or - if you look at yourself and concentrate on the positive things (not denying the problems, just not dwelling on them), isn't it logical that you will gravitate toward making that positive the reality in your life?

I think this duncan dwells on the negative in all his thoughts and actions. Is it any surprise that it is the negative he mostly finds in that life?

[kylben]

Or - if you look at yourself and concentrate on the positive things (not denying the problems, just not dwelling on them), isn't it logical that you will gravitate toward making that positive the reality in your life?

Yes.  Prepare for the worst, expect the best.  The preparation allows you to not have to focus on it. 

[bobcat]

Well said B, ML and K.

If there's going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, I prefer it be on positive dreams for the future.  Think positive, be positive and positive outcomes will become the norm.

Onward and upward.

[M1A4ME]

I just read all this for the first time today and I think:

Duncan had more "fun" that all the rest of you put together.

Duncan probably didn't learn anything from it though, hopefully others did.

Duncan and my youngest brother are two peas in a pod, neither has really accomplished anything noteworthy but that's okay because it's somebody else's fault - it's always somebody else's fault.

Places change.  If you live there during the change you may not be as aware of it as someone who used to live there, moved away for a spell and then moved back.  Like my mom said about my dad one time, he spent 23 years in the Air Force so he could retire and go home.  Problem was, when he got home it wasn't home anymore.  It's a long story, but it's true.  Everything changes, not always for the best.

At least it sounds like you folks have the opportunity to find many of the negative changes that have occurred elsewhere.

Ain't it a shame that all those folks from somewhere else move in, buy up the property (driving the property value up - but driving the quality of living free down) and then want to make their new county, city, state just like the one they left?

Duncan will never be happy, neither will his friends, unless they begin to understand how much better off they are than Duncan.

Have a good one.

[wyomiles]

I'm happy as a lark and I was challenged to come here on a lark to prove that you guys hate having your oxes gored. There is nothing liberty minded about being a control freak.  

Duncan was not here to help, he was here on a dare to see if he could get us stirred up. He has a great time doing so wherever he shows up.

[Pumpkihn]

Ain't it a shame that all those folks from somewhere else move in, buy up the property (driving the property value up - but driving the quality of living free down) and then want to make their new county, city, state just like the one they left?

This seems to be a problem everywhere.  It is hard to understand.