I am one of “those” people, Description to follow:
If someone makes a statement of “Fact” concerning something it could be anyone saying this: could be family, friends, or just someone I may be having a conversation with at a party, or convention, who cares, doesn’t matter, if it concerns something I have some information/understanding of, and what they say about this subject is obviously incorrect (to me) I must, as gently as possible, correct this oversight on their parts. It is a failing of mine, what can I say, But it must be done. This inability to keep my mouth shut generally gets me in Hot Water well over my head with my dear wife, who for her part has plenty beans in her head her own self. She, however, does not have the need to prevent people from running around spouting nonsense like it had been given to them on tablets of granite, (not the cheap shit either but first grade $100.00 a square foot Granite) and therefore undoubtedly the irrefutable, undeniable: “TRUTH”. How can I, as a contentious (SP?) human being wanting to further the knowledge of the Human race in general, let someone run around thinking that Dinosaurs and Neanderthal fought each other for supremacy of the Jurassic Period, wielding stone implements invented (to our current dating techniques to period thousands of yeas after Neanderthal disappeared (aliens picked them up)?
EDIT 2025, Neanderthals did make tools, and fairly sophisticated ones at that, and it is now proven that Homo Sapiens existed side by side (while is now believed that We existed as much or further back than 300,000yo as we are) and that interbreeding happened regularly. So no dissing of your Grand parents about 1800 generations back.
B.S, in general. There is no such thing as the Absolute TRUTH. There is only the Truth of the Moment, and by that I mean the truth of Right NOW, this exact moment in time . . . . .whoops! Too late, new truth just overwrote the truth I was just going to explain, in short truth 2.1.
Well, you get the point. Truth is not an absolute it is changing all the time, but what I will endeavor, At All Times, is to bring the truth to this Blog as it is currently understood. No Spin. No B.S. Just the Facts Sir and Ma’am (don’t be so easy to offend, jezzz)
I look forward to arguing with you, James Herbert! And you are both contentious AND conscientious, LOL. But I like Rebecca’s method better I’m afraid: Correct with kindness. People listen better.
I quote from the above my dear friend, “if it concerns something I have some information/understanding of, and what they say about this subject is obviously incorrect (to me) I must, as gently as possible.” I am Gentle when I correct people, if I even do it. my wife does not like when I correct people, so I try not to do it at all anymore. I have decided that if she prefers it, then I will let people go on in ignorance, and here again the word ignorance is not a pejorative.