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Re: [RC] [RC] how to subscribe to Tome Ivers list? - Maryanne Stroud GabbaniTom Ivers is a fantastic lesson in critical thinking. I have his tendon book and The Fit Race Horse. They are both excellent and his basic premises are good. But not every key fits every keyhole and you have to look for the right fit. He can say what he wants, but you are free to decide if it is rubbish or not. I belong to the list and occasionally search the archives for information when I need it. Eleanor Kellon is a jewel.As I understand, he's pretty much housebound due to ill health, so his list is his way of getting out into the world and he exercises himself through it. Often some of his more inflammatory remarks are ways of prompting responses, which he does brilliantly. Once or twice I called him privately on some of his more romantic visions of the Gulf Arabs who had hired him for a time, and he acknowledged as much. I suspect his posts and arguments would be less wild if he could get out and do more. That said, I don't think that Tom needs to be either attacked or defended particularly. He's a crotchety old man with a good mind in a bad body, and some of what he suggests is good, while some is not. You have to work that out for yourself, as usual. This discussion reminds me of an interesting family trait here in Egypt. If you have a famous doctor in the family, you use him for everything. Well, my husband's uncle is a world famous internist, a specialist in disorders of the stomach. But if his sister, my mother in law, gets an earache, she calls Mustafa, and to be honest, concerning ears he knows almost nothing. When my children were small and we were visiting from Canada, if they were ill, I was told to call Mustafa. It didn't take me long to see that he was probably the world's worst pediatrician and to refuse his "help" insisting on a real pediatrician. I caught a lot of flack for that and in self defense I learned a lot about medicine and pharmacology, which isn't after all rocket science but the application of information and logic. All resources are useful. Just not all of them are useful in the same place at the same time for the same problem. You have a full toolbox in your car but you wouldn't use the screwdriver to hammer a nail, would you? Why would your use of human resources be any different?
"The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for" Louis L'Amour On Wednesday, Sep 15, 2004, at 00:22 Africa/Cairo, heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: I just joined due to this discussion here (I was curious) and because I thought his bowed tendon book was good. Just in looking at the last few days' posts on his list, I can see the attitude people are mentioning. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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