Big Gunns answer to a pm from JLC

Wow BG! Good work dude! Don't let people put you down for living your life the way you want and doing what you feel is right!

Personally I think it's kind of crazy how some people can wake up every morning and just not care... Go to work, watch tv, sleep, eat. Then these people who have done absolutely nothing but complain about people who are doing something have children. I guess what I'm getting at is give some thanks. You will get to enjoy having a pet, seeing a whale, seeing a dolphin, seeing whatever it is that is amazing but will your children? Or your childrens children? Oh wait... You don't care.

Well BG I gotta say, if there were more people in this world who cared it would be a much better place :). Thanks BG!

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Originally Posted by wilomn

Knowing NOTHING you give advice that may well be more than just slightly detrimental to someone you also know NOTHING about.

Did you ponder, even for a moment, that the adults in his life, which he has stated are prone to mental problems, may NOT have his best interests in mind?

Stick to what you know, whatever the heck it is, before you seriously hurt someone.

Not joking.

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Originally Posted by Big Gunns

Willy Willy Willy, BG thinks we can all agree that the adults in his life "PROBABLY"(like BG said) do know what's best for him. Notice the word "probably" like BG stated. He said "plenty of mental illness in his family". He didn't say it was the adults. Then maybe you'll notice that BG said he doesn't "know all the ins and outs of his life to say". Keep trying Willy....you didn't get BG this time.:P:D BG is sorry that the adults around you growing up couldn't help you out....maybe you wouldn't have grown up to be such a sourpuss.:rofl:

"Not joking" either.:P

ps. Didn't BG say something about professional help also? So Willy, are you just going to criticize BG for actually caring and trying to help, or can you add something constructive to this thread and maybe help him? BG is just asking.:) It's very easy to criticize someone when you're doing absolutely NOTHING Willy.:P That's OK....it's to be expected from you.

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:colbert: I'm a her, thanks..At least last I checked. Anyways, only one with mental illness in my immediate family is my dad and I don't live with him. I was saying that my family has a lot of mental illness in its history. Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents, etc.

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Originally Posted by Jeremy78

Wow BG! Good work dude! Don't let people put you down for living your life the way you want and doing what you feel is right!

Personally I think it's kind of crazy how some people can wake up every morning and just not care... Go to work, watch tv, sleep, eat. Then these people who have done absolutely nothing but complain about people who are doing something have children. I guess what I'm getting at is give some thanks. You will get to enjoy having a pet, seeing a whale, seeing a dolphin, seeing whatever it is that is amazing but will your children? Or your childrens children? Oh wait... You don't care.

Well BG I gotta say, if there were more people in this world who cared it would be a much better place :). Thanks BG!

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Trust BG Jeremy. BG really really doesn't care what some "people" think(BG keeps saying it, but doubts "they" believe it). "They" are not who or what is important to BG right now. In a million years the old BG would never "open up" like this and make himself so vulnerable to attack. ONE MILLION YEARS!!!!!!!

I will tell yah this Jeremy. If it wasn't for a few people in the world who "cared"...there would be no more wild Tigers, Great Apes, Bald Eagles, etc....etc.... I hope one day I can be counted in that small group of "people who cared". I know it sounds corny to some, but that's just how I feel right now about my life. The cynical "naysayers" can think what they want. This is Big Gunns new course in life(has been for a while) and nobody is going to change it.

Whoever first said "actions speak louder than words" was one of the smartest people that ever walked the face of this earth. BG will let his actions speak for him....just like their(cynical naysayers) actions speak for them. Big Gunns was one of them at one time....so at the very least he understands them.

Thatta boy Big Gunns :) Keep it up! :gj::gj:

make no mistake BG, im not hating on you. and i mean forgive me if i dont think we should support the people who want to end our hobby/businesses. just saying.

I'm a BIG fan of BG and saving/conserving wildlife....However I'm still on the fence with how I feel about Sea Sheapard (they may be a little too extreme for me). Either way...It seems like you are doing the right thing, so keep up the hard work!

BIg gunns, man all I have to say is thank you.... There are not near enough "Steve Irwins" in the world.... I think its awesome "good on ya"

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Originally Posted by Big Gunns

You're 100% right, but they don't do anything like that in Japan.....only international waters right now. Let me tell yah this. If they didn't sink those ships those ships would be still whaling right now. Don't worry, they'll save the whalers on the sinking ship.:D

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Did you read your response before you sent it to the board? That sounds rediculous. It's okay to sink a million dollar ship and put a few dozen human beings in danger? And for what, your own personal interpretation of "International Law"? When did the Sea Shepherd group become marshalls of the sea? I don't agree with what Japan is doing, but to purposely sink a ship to prove your point is going way too far.

Have you watched that group of imbecils on that ship? They can't do anything without screwing things up. The best was running a 4 inch rope to try to foul the prop of the Japanese ship. However, they attached the rope to about 400 pounds of steel pipe. Did they actually think that the rope running through 400 pounds of steel pipe was going to float long enough to catch a prop?

If this is your idea of memorializing Steve Erwin, you've got a funny way of showing it. He believed in education.

Jim Smith

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Originally Posted by Big Gunns

You're forgetting the fact that the whalers are illegally killing whales. What do they "deserve"? Their "butts kicked to jail" maybe???? Lets see. Dead Mammals on one side......sunken boats on the other. Somehow BG sees the dead Mammals as the more evil side, but that's just him.:confused:.

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How are they "illegally killing whales"? They are mandated to a number of whales they can take. This coming from an international committee that is responsible for whaling. True, they say they are doing it for research, but we know it's not. But with that said, they NEVER harvest more than their quota.

Sound illegal to me...NOT.

Sinking ships because you don't agree with the policy of an internation whaling committee, wrong. Any way you look at it.

Don't get me wrong. I don't agree with Japan's harvest of any whales, but as long as the committee approves of their actions, what can you do? Try to change the voting for next year. If that doesn't work, don't inact your own justice. That's illegal in almost every country.


Jim Smith

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Originally Posted by j_h_smith

How are they "illegally killing whales"? They are mandated to a number of whales they can take. This coming from an international committee that is responsible for whaling. True, they say they are doing it for research, but we know it's not. But with that said, they NEVER harvest more than their quota.

Sound illegal to me...NOT.

Sinking ships because you don't agree with the policy of an internation whaling committee, wrong. Any way you look at it.

Don't get me wrong. I don't agree with Japan's harvest of any whales, but as long as the committee approves of their actions, what can you do? Try to change the voting for next year. If that doesn't work, don't inact your own justice. That's illegal in almost every country.


Jim Smith

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Actually, this is incorrect if I recall correctly. I seem to remember seeing some data about "incidental" kills of whales that were not accounted for in allotments. Fishing net drownings, collisions with boats and, I think, one other weird one that left perfectly usable dead whales who had died is ways that were difficult to prove or disprove and were not accounted for at all.

It was a lot of whales and not just Japan doing it.