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Originally Posted by bonsaial1
One man's @#$% is another man's shinola. Who are we to judge?
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Who are we to judge? If we don't know the answer to that question perhaps we should refrain from saying anything at all. If someone comes to you and asks if such and such paint is OK to use on the exterior of their house and you say yes, knowing that it is an interior latex paint, someone who thought they were getting bread actually got a stone.
I will never apologize for the truth. I always assume that beginners who come to me really want to learn bonsai, I want to teach them. I don't let them continue in the wrong direction because I think I might discourage them by telling them they are on a road to no-where. Real discouragement and disappointment is in the wasted time and effort taken on those things that accomplish nothing.
I had to learn the hard way most of what I know because there was no one to tell me different, why should I think it is alright to tell someone with a stick in a pot that someday that stick is going to be a bonsai?
You and I and all of us know that is not the truth. When the truth is out there it, with the choice of the right material available in their area, will send them down a path where in fact
(and not fantasy) the tree will become a bonsai. This kind of thinking,
encouraging failure, does not make sense.