It has been brought to my attention that I hurt the feelings of some of the people who put on conferences. For this I am sorry. I had received many phone calls, messages and emails about how others felt about the conferences. We are all entitled to our opinions. I DO think there’s a need for conferences. I know how much work, time and thought go into putting these together and not many of them make the money back that they’ve put into putting the conference on.
With that said, there’s a need for conferences, but there’s also a need for other events to educate people. Conferences are the best we have at the moment save for college or high school classrooms and podcasts and radio shows. Anything we can do to educate others as to the Truth is a good thing. (notice I capitalized Truth) But I stand by what the gist of my original post was. We must learn to politely agree to disagree. There’s no need for sniping, back biting and name calling. Civil discourse is a lost art and at times, that has never been more evident than in the JFK Community. Why is it so hard to treat others like we would like to be treated?
It is evident that we all will NEVER agree on every aspect of this case. But that’s okay. What’s not okay is believing theories without question. It’s also not okay to be rude to other people just because you don’t agree with them.
We also need to think critically. What does that mean? It means we ask questions. It means we, like professional researchers, dig deeper. It means when we see inconsistencies in the discourse we ask why. It also means we question or own thoughts and our writings. I offer this blog as an apology to those I personally offended. That was not my intention.
History, like language is a living thing. We are the keepers of our languages and our history. We decide by the way we act now how history will be understood in the future. Can’t we all just get along?
