[quote]Professor X wrote:
I don’t really know what I’m doing.
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Does anyone really know?
quitter.
[quote]TC wrote:
CaliforniaLaw wrote:
I am honestly surprised he stuck around for so long. I thought he would have left a long time ago.
While I still think Biotest is an industry leader, and that there are still some good articles, look at where the site is heading.
Here is the evolution in three clear phases:
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We’re hardcore. Here is what we’re about. We are unapologetically high testosterone, we are interested in steroids (even if we don’t take them). We like lifting heavy shit, looking big, and can’t stand the 'N Sync wannabes populating our guys. If you don’t like what we stand for, we don’t care. In fact, we started this site to serve as a refuge for people who want to avoid people like you. Go heavy or go home.
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Our goal is to help anyone who comes to the site looking for help. Even if your goals are “different” than ours. If you think weighing 150 pounds with a six pack is ribbed, welcome aboard.
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Our goal is to protect our new audience from your jerks who still think we’re living in phase 1!
CL, while I’d like to debate each of your points, I’ll just respond to the above 3 right now.
In 1995, we estimated that there were about 12 million lifters in the hard core market.
Now, we estimate that there are about 5 million lifters in the hard core market.
If we don’t convert some newbies, it won’t be long before we’re shouting into an empty cave.
All we ask is that you try to mentor some of the new guys. Sure, a lot of them just want abs or some such other bullshit, but if they hang around long enough, get enough advice, they’re probably going to end up seeing it our way.
I follow baseball. When teams sign grizzled old veterans, it’s not just for their skillls but the fact they mentor the younger players. They have wisdom to bestow. They want to give back to their sport.
Similarly, that’s what I’d like to see our veterans do–give back to their sport.
Go ahead and be tough with them, but don’t toss them out on their skinny behinds.
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I’ve been around here for quite a while, I’ll probably stick around for a while linger.
But CL is right, and so is TC.
I remember quite a bit about the old site that I liked, and there is quite a bit about the new site that I like as well.
I miss the old days just as many others do. But everything has to grow and change at some point.
I’m not trying to bust anyone’s balls here but if someone wants to disassociate from a certain online forum, why not just stop posting?
If you get fed up and see no fix, just move on.
I don’t see a need to say “goodbye”. It’s not like we all roomed together in college or served in WW2.
I love T-Nation as much as anyone but it’s just a anonymous bodybuilding chat-room for goodness sake.
[quote]derek wrote:
why not just stop posting?
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In the past when he stopped posting for a while, threads began to popup asking where he was. This saved those who care the 5 pages of speculation over where he’s gone.
[quote]derek wrote:
I’m not trying to bust anyone’s balls here but if someone wants to disassociate from a certain online forum, why not just stop posting?
If you get fed up and see no fix, just move on.
I don’t see a need to say “goodbye”. It’s not like we all roomed together in college or served in WW2.
I love T-Nation as much as anyone but it’s just a anonymous bodybuilding chat-room for goodness sake.
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I agree with your logic here, but X was one of the most prominent posters here. If most of the guys here stopped posting, no one would notice, let alone create thread topics on it. When X stops posting after a while, people wonder where he is and then we have 10 new threads asking about what he eats, how he lifts, what his numbers are, etc. So in this particular case, I feel like it was necessary.
[quote]Magnate wrote:
derek wrote:
why not just stop posting?
In the past when he stopped posting for a while, threads began to popup asking where he was. This saved those who care the 5 pages of speculation over where he’s gone.[/quote]
I see what you are saying but even that would die out quick enough and everyone can just move on.
[quote]jtrinsey wrote:
Gayest thread ever…[/quote]
Only if it really is a farewell post, which I’m almost certain it isn’t. I suppose the majority of the posts are from people that seem like they want to hump a meaty dentist’s leg though.
It you think this thread is gay…don’t post. X may not have been the nicest guy, but he has alot of poster’s respect.
If I am ever driving down a lonely windy highway and a large, no helmut wearing, shiny bald headed, black man flies by on an exotic crotch rocket,with dental floss flowing out of his back pocket, I will quickly raise my triple stack double bacon cheeseburger to the sky in salute and only hope he sees it.
D
[quote]Revo09 wrote:
derek wrote:
I’m not trying to bust anyone’s balls here but if someone wants to disassociate from a certain online forum, why not just stop posting?
If you get fed up and see no fix, just move on.
I don’t see a need to say “goodbye”. It’s not like we all roomed together in college or served in WW2.
I love T-Nation as much as anyone but it’s just a anonymous bodybuilding chat-room for goodness sake.
I agree with your logic here, but X was one of the most prominent posters here. If most of the guys here stopped posting, no one would notice, let alone create thread topics on it. When X stops posting after a while, people wonder where he is and then we have 10 new threads asking about what he eats, how he lifts, what his numbers are, etc. So in this particular case, I feel like it was necessary.[/quote]
He’s not the first prominent poster to leave. There were a lot of different folks back in the day that left for various reasons.
This is only a web forum. It’s not the gym or the real world. long winded wistful farewells are gay.
Unless you’re Lou Gehrig retiring. but he wasn’t very ong winded.
[quote]P1 wrote:
cocaine is a hell of a drug[/quote]
I love the Chappelle’s Show reference!
Prof X didn’t die, so enough of the bullshit. If he offers up some advice in the future, Great! If he doesn’t, I won’t lose any sleep over it. I refuse to patronize a quitter with words of praise.
[quote]derek wrote:
I’m not trying to bust anyone’s balls here but if someone wants to disassociate from a certain online forum, why not just stop posting?
If you get fed up and see no fix, just move on.
I don’t see a need to say “goodbye”. It’s not like we all roomed together in college or served in WW2.
I love T-Nation as much as anyone but it’s just a anonymous bodybuilding chat-room for goodness sake.
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Yeah, really what a drama queen. I think people have been riding his balls to hard for a long time and this gave him a feeling of superiority, a feeling of being a leader on the forum. In reality, there are many guys bigger, stronger, and not as opinionated…
Really, who cares?
[quote]keaster wrote:
derek wrote:
I’m not trying to bust anyone’s balls here but if someone wants to disassociate from a certain online forum, why not just stop posting?
If you get fed up and see no fix, just move on.
I don’t see a need to say “goodbye”. It’s not like we all roomed together in college or served in WW2.
I love T-Nation as much as anyone but it’s just a anonymous bodybuilding chat-room for goodness sake.
Yeah, really what a drama queen. I think people have been riding his balls to hard for a long time and this gave him a feeling of superiority, a feeling of being a leader on the forum. In reality, there are many guys bigger, stronger, and not as opinionated…
Really, who cares?[/quote]
Yeah. He certainly had that sense of superiority and a strong following on here. Believe me, I’ve had enough arguments with him to know.
But just because I may disagree with many of the things he or CLaw might say, doesn’t mean I’m happy to see him go. Diversity = strength.
[quote]Captain Glanton wrote:
I am going to miss the sensation of seeing that screaming icon and knowing that some rationality was about to be thrown into a thread gone wrong.
Peace, Prof.[/quote]
True.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Reality is, for the few decades you actually get to survive on this planet, you either choose to be the type of person who works hard to make something out of those dreams you had as a kid…or you end up being one of those guys who thinks those dreams can’t be reached. The latter dies broken and wounded, doubled over by every blow life tossed at them. I don’t want to be that.
I don’t ever want to grow up.
it’s time to find a new place to play.
I hope this place always attracts the warriors and the true thinkers.
I don’t really know what I’m doing.
I hope I live long enough for the next one.
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After selective reading the post, I think I figured everything out. Prof X is quitting the medical field and trying out for Air Force Pararescue ( United States Air Force Pararescue - Wikipedia ).
He is on his way to indoc to see if he can put his muscles to a good use. He is nervous that he won’t make it. It was probably a childhood dream of his to HALO into a foreign country with a M4 carbine and a bucket of protein powder to rescue a downed pilot.
Of course, he could just be tired of spending 7/8ths of his life on an internet lifting forum endlessly debating the value of functional training and body fat estimation.
This is just his way of saying that the hormone therapy is complete and it’s time for the operation. Prof X will come back in a couple of months on the Muscle Sorority site.
Good luck and Godspeed Prof.
DB
[quote]TC wrote:
In 1995, we estimated that there were about 12 million lifters in the hard core market.
Now, we estimate that there are about 5 million lifters in the hard core market.
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How are you defining “hard core”?
I think if you include, what I call, performance training there are more hard core lifters right now than ever before.
[quote]Irish Muscle wrote:
I think professor x is just trying to make up his mind whether or not he should start his first cycle of anabolic steroids.[/quote]
Ha ha ha ha! Nice…
[quote]on edge wrote:
TC wrote:
In 1995, we estimated that there were about 12 million lifters in the hard core market.
Now, we estimate that there are about 5 million lifters in the hard core market.
How are you defining “hard core”?
I think if you include, what I call, performance training there are more hard core lifters right now than ever before.
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I think the more important question is, what the hell happened to 7 million hardcore lifters?
Maybe he got tired of the fact that every 3rd article posted anymore is about fat loss and kettle bell complexes.