Thanks for that. I'm a little calmer now.

What gets me is -- even if what I am offering is TOTALLY self-less (meaning I am focused 100% on what THEY would get out of "it" -- and my motives ARE genuine), I get the exact same reaction as if I was BERNIE MADOFF (a giant SWINDLER).

So, making the offer 100% THEM-oriented does NOT yield any better result than if it were a TOTAL CON JOB. The receiving end (them) is INCAPABLE of seeing the difference -- and they seem not to WANT to see the difference.

If I were to hand out 100-dollar bills on a street corner, they'd hold them up to the light and crumple them up + throw them in the nearest garbage bin, accompanied by a skeptical grumble.

Real 100-dollar bills get thrown away at the exact same rate as fake money.

Can't wrap my brain around that knee-jerk reaction to incoming ideas.

One would think, in order to REJECT an idea, one would FIRST have to KNOW WHAT THE IDEA *IS* -- no?

-- TW