Fw: this is the last,I promise!

["Whitney Bass" <bass@bigsky.net>]

> 
> ----------
> > From: Whitney Bass <bass@bigsky.net>
> > To: Tivers@aol.com
> > Subject: Re: this is the last,I promise!
> > Date: Monday, February 07, 2000 6:43 PM
> > 
> > I guess it all, then, comes back to one simple thing:  we don't agree. 

> > "Trying to win", to MOST endurance riders, means trying to finish, with
a
> > horse that is willing and capable of going on.  And "competition" means
> > very different things to different people.  Your "analogy" of
gardening,
> > I'm afraid, fell on deaf ears as there is no possible way you can
compare
> > growing a carrot with caring for, feeding, conditioning, and riding a
> > horse.  If you don't understand that, than you have less business in
this
> > sport, than I thought.  (Although gardening is a true art form -- one
> that
> > I hope to get better at!)  So keep to the stuff you know and are truly
> good
> > at. . . because you'll never convince me of ANYTHING, outside of it.
> > 
> > ----------
> > > From: Tivers@aol.com
> > > To: bass@bigsky.net
> > > Subject: Re: Fw: RC:  endurance prospect, etc.
> > > Date: Monday, February 07, 2000 6:12 PM
> > > 
> > > In a message dated 2/7/00 8:54:57 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> > bass@bigsky.net 
> > > writes:
> > > 
> > > << I NEVER attacked you personally, Tom, as you are continuing to do.

> > And
> > >  calling someone not smart, because they don't choose to go for the
> win? 
> > >  I'm assuming that you're having fun, and not actually believing some
> > >  ridiculous statement like that.  That would be calling 98% of
> endurance
> > >  riders, not smart.  That doesn't make much sense now does it? >>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Whitney, if you choose to participate in a competitive sport, but
then
> > you 
> > > choose not to win, and are sanctimonious about this choice, putting
> down 
> > > others who take the idea of competition seriously, then there is
> > something 
> > > wrong with your mind. With you, it's really not stupidity, because
> you're
> > 
> > > obviously literate and intelligent. But the wires are crossed
> somewhere. 
> > > 
> > > Let's take it out of context. Take gardening. That's not remotely a 
> > > competitive sport. It's all about the joy of getting close to
> > nature--like 
> > > riding in the woods--but with a spade. However, as soon as you decide
> to
> > take 
> > > your vegetables to the fair and compete for a blue ribbon, then
you're
> > into 
> > > "winning" And if you lose to a guy who figured out how to grow huge
> > carrots 
> > > with a certain kind of fertilizer, and you decide not to use that
> > fertilizer 
> > > and go for third place--and tell everyone that the guy using the
> > fertilizer 
> > > is something less than a true gardener, then you're a sanctimonious 
> > > hypocrite. 
> > > 
> > > It's really very simple logic. "Competition" means "trying to win". 
> > > 
> > > ti