Johnboy3434 said:
My beef isn't with those who think that only the movies are canon instead of including the EU. My beef is with those who pick and choose certain versions of the movies and maybe certain parts of the EU as part of their personal canons and then proclaim it as indisputable truth, like Vaderhasanoverlylongusername has done on more than one occasion and will most likely continue to do. That grinds my gears, and so I post in response. While the last line of my previous post may sound like I feel otherwise, I have nothing against OOT purists. This is about one user, not the whole movement.

You're still not getting it. Canon exists independent of Lucasfilm's word. Canon is about what's the real thing, hence what's the real thing is the real canon. Anybody with a brain can take a stab at judging what's the real thing and thus what's the real canon. This is not about "personal canon", this is about the issue of what's the real Star Wars. I do not pick and choose to suit myself and then call that canon. I studied Star Wars works and the overall sitaution and then made my judgement on what I believe to be the real thing. And I believe in my view, after going through so much effort in judging and examining. I do not take some piece of EU and say "I like that, so it's canon". It's not the real thing, so it's not canon, WHETHER I LIKE IT OR NOT. What I like or don't like is irrelevant, what I want is irrelevant . What counts is what happens to be the real thing as judged by the standard of the films that made the legend. As for versions of the films, it is very obvious which versions of the films are the real thing. I don't pick to my taste there, I merely go by the original that made the legend.

As for what grinds your gears, judging from your posting now and in the past, what grinds your gears is somebody confidently expressing an opinion you don't agree with. And you react to this by getting insulting. And that grinds my gears.