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Edward Dolan
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"Chris Foster" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Edward Dolan" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>>>> What Vandeman and I have in common is our love of hiking in the
>>>> wilderness. Unless and until you have experienced this for yourself,
>>>> you truly do not know what you are talking about. Maybe you and
>>>> Curtiss could get off your freaking bikes long enough to just go for
>>>> a simple walk in nature. After all, it is something that mankind has
>>>> been doing for thousands of years.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Man has also been killing one another for thousands of years, does
>>> that make it right??
>>
>> Both Vandeman and I have noticed this penchant for dragging in a
>> totally unrelated topic and than somehow equating it with what has
>> gone before. My post above was all about comparing walking with
>> cycling on trails in the wilderness. Your reference is completely off
>> the board and is nowhere. What does killing have to do with how we use
>> trails? Very funny that you can't see this.
>>
>> Your comment above makes me want to talk about the confounded Eskimo,
>> one of my favorite subjects, but I do not see what it would have to do
>> with the topic.
>>
>
>
> I will spell it out for you. Simply because man has been doing
> something "for thousands of years" does not make it right. Man has been
> walking "for thousands of years". Man has been killing one another "for
> thousands of years".
You cannot equate walking for thousands of years with killing for thousands
of years. One is natural and the other is perverse.
> Just because the activity has been occurring "for thousands of years"
> doesn't give that activity priority over any other activity.
Yes, it does, depending on what is considered natural and what is considered
perverse.
> In a couple of thousand years, mountain bikers will be saying "we have
> been doing it "for thousands of years" take your anti-gravity craft back
> to the city/road where they belong"
In a thousand years, there will be no natural space left on this earth for
anyone to do anything. The entire face of the earth will look like the
Ganges Valley of India. Elementary my dear Watson!
But back to my maine point:
"Both Vandeman and I have noticed this penchant for dragging in a
totally unrelated topic and than somehow equating it with what has
gone before. My post above was all about comparing walking with
cycling on trails in the wilderness. Your reference is completely off
the board and is nowhere. What does killing have to do with how we use
trails? Very funny that you can't see this." - Ed Dolan
> Also, try to remember, I am not a mountain biker. I am a roadie, a
> hiker, and a back packer.
>
> There are places where mountain biking is not allowed. If you see a
> person riding their mountain bike off-road, then it is your
> responsibility to report it and possibly help prosecute that individual
> to the fullest extent of the law.
>
> On the other hand, if mountain biking is allowed on that trail, and is
> disturbs you, tough! Get over it. Find a place where off-road cycling is
> not allowed and walk there.
We need to get mountain bikes banned from most hiking trails. Vandeman is
right as rain and Foster is out to lunch as usual.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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> "Edward Dolan" <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
[...]
>>>> What Vandeman and I have in common is our love of hiking in the
>>>> wilderness. Unless and until you have experienced this for yourself,
>>>> you truly do not know what you are talking about. Maybe you and
>>>> Curtiss could get off your freaking bikes long enough to just go for
>>>> a simple walk in nature. After all, it is something that mankind has
>>>> been doing for thousands of years.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Man has also been killing one another for thousands of years, does
>>> that make it right??
>>
>> Both Vandeman and I have noticed this penchant for dragging in a
>> totally unrelated topic and than somehow equating it with what has
>> gone before. My post above was all about comparing walking with
>> cycling on trails in the wilderness. Your reference is completely off
>> the board and is nowhere. What does killing have to do with how we use
>> trails? Very funny that you can't see this.
>>
>> Your comment above makes me want to talk about the confounded Eskimo,
>> one of my favorite subjects, but I do not see what it would have to do
>> with the topic.
>>
>
>
> I will spell it out for you. Simply because man has been doing
> something "for thousands of years" does not make it right. Man has been
> walking "for thousands of years". Man has been killing one another "for
> thousands of years".
You cannot equate walking for thousands of years with killing for thousands
of years. One is natural and the other is perverse.
> Just because the activity has been occurring "for thousands of years"
> doesn't give that activity priority over any other activity.
Yes, it does, depending on what is considered natural and what is considered
perverse.
> In a couple of thousand years, mountain bikers will be saying "we have
> been doing it "for thousands of years" take your anti-gravity craft back
> to the city/road where they belong"
In a thousand years, there will be no natural space left on this earth for
anyone to do anything. The entire face of the earth will look like the
Ganges Valley of India. Elementary my dear Watson!
But back to my maine point:
"Both Vandeman and I have noticed this penchant for dragging in a
totally unrelated topic and than somehow equating it with what has
gone before. My post above was all about comparing walking with
cycling on trails in the wilderness. Your reference is completely off
the board and is nowhere. What does killing have to do with how we use
trails? Very funny that you can't see this." - Ed Dolan
> Also, try to remember, I am not a mountain biker. I am a roadie, a
> hiker, and a back packer.
>
> There are places where mountain biking is not allowed. If you see a
> person riding their mountain bike off-road, then it is your
> responsibility to report it and possibly help prosecute that individual
> to the fullest extent of the law.
>
> On the other hand, if mountain biking is allowed on that trail, and is
> disturbs you, tough! Get over it. Find a place where off-road cycling is
> not allowed and walk there.
We need to get mountain bikes banned from most hiking trails. Vandeman is
right as rain and Foster is out to lunch as usual.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
