PhantomJug wrote on Jan 6^th, 2015 at 2:06am:

mastertangler wrote on Jan 6th, 2015 at 1:22am: You have missed a rather unique opportunity to inquire about a lifestyle that not many in the outdoors have embraced.    Yeah, well, most of us that live up here are well aware of that 'lifestyle'.  It is not uncommon - it's quite typical in fact.  So, it looks like your unique MT . . . . just like everybody else.  Obviously, Keillor was lost on you.

Not lost in the least PJ.......I am well aware of the pitfalls of lifting yourself up......"The tallest tree in the forest is the first one to get cut down" >chinese proverb, "you can have your opinion or your friends, you can't have both" Ben Franklin and best of all Proverbs 27:2 "Let others praise you, even strangers, never do it yourself".

I get it, but a few caveats.......As a lover of truth I'm not going to sit here and be silent while folk like yourself accuse me of fabricating and/or exaggerating my frame of reference. Especially when it is the exact opposite of what is trying to be established.......... not happening. I react much the same when it is someone else who is being impugned unfairly. I have little tolerance for it. Truth is more important than being liked or accepted.

Lets look at it this way.......Many are perceiving a boast. I don't see it that way at all. I am rather establishing a frame of reference> Here is my experiences and a bit of history as to why my opinion should have any value. I never said I was the greatest trapper, or fisherman or climber etc. etc.....in fact far from it. Just a modest amount of inquiry would of established as much.

I'm not sure you have noticed but think back........when someone on this board reveals an accomplishment or an interest which is of a personal nature who is the first one to voice acceptance? To find what others have done as interesting? We have to many who are more interested in tearing down rather than building up IMO.   

As for Mr Keillor his show was lots better before he convinced himself he was a singer........His singing voice is so bad I have to change channels. (Ah the conundrum of life......in one sentence we talk about building others up and in the next we are trashing our fellow man  ;) )