Feared or Respected?

Originally Posted by johndowe

Hi there.

Aw9725, i think you need to check your avatar, it's you in the pic? your avatar is a motorcycle!

Peter,

Well actually I am "Optimus Prime's" little brother. I sometimes transform into a motorcycle...

Seriously, I meant my "profile" pic. You should be able to see it if you are logged in. I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, managed to acquire far too much formal education, and have taught at a large university somewhere in the mid-western USA for the last ten years or so. I was married for almost 15 years and recently divorced. My areas of teaching include Operations Management and Quantitative Methods. And yes, I am into things like motorcycles, fast cars, and trucks. You can find some of my current and former "toys" in some of my other postings.

I have enjoyed reading your posts. I appreciate your sense of humor and irony. This forum has been both fun and educational for me as I have sought to learn more about myself.

Take care,

"Andrew"

[johndowe]

Hi there.

Well, Andrew Prime, it's nice to meet you...

But seriously, i also enjoyed your posts, especially the Prince one, it got me thinking, outch!

When i started this thread, i didn't realy have a good idea what i wanted out of it other then getting other peoples' pespective, and then i saw a movie called "Freedom Writers" that touched this subject and i shifted the direstion of the thread, and i was more interested in the responces than in the begining, and some of the posts were like questions so i ansewered them to the best of my abbilities.

I am not an expert in psychology nor am i an expert on human nature, (both are similar but there are differences) but i have had an interesting life, so i believe that can ansewer the questions posed here with a certain degree of accuracy, but i know that i am human and i don't have ALL the ansewers, the only ones that have all the ansewers didn't ask themselves all the questions.

Also, in real life i am very good at sizing people up, but when i started posting in this forum i didn't get that sizing up thing and it tought me about how other that can't size people as i could, saw things and people, and it was and still is an interesting experience.

JohnDowe.