Trace,
Recently you made a couple of post on a political thread. I felt the impelled to explain something to you through my experience here on this board. You had stated that we should not post threads about our political views here and should post political views on a political board.
Let me explain my experience to you and maybe it will enlighten you about your comments on a previous thread.
First it was not long ago there were a few threads started about Gays. I expressed my feelings about homosexuality and had said that I felt the gay people should go to a gay board if they wanted to post about gay ideas. I had long thought about this and had come to a realization that I was being selfish for several reasons.
I had not realized that there was a drop down box in the action part of this home page. In this action box there is a list of many topics to post in one being (adult) and if you take notice there is also a political list there too. You have to understand that here there are many ex witnesses and a few active ones. These people were deprived of there rights to do things that are actually actions we as a people have the God given rights to do, one of them being to vote.
For us speaking out about something we were not allowed to do in the past has given us a new freedom. This discussion board is a board open to many kinds of discussions. You call us names for posting here about political issues when there is a topic listing for political discussions.
I have learned not to be so critical about what someone else talks about because we all have needs that we did not have when we were involved in the JW religion. We all have questions , thoughts and personal feelings. Either being an issue of personal or politcal or even just funny fluff.
You got to learn to just let it go and not be so critical. Relax and roll with the flow. It does no one any good by being critical about what one person wants to talk about. I had to learn this same lesson and since just excepting and being understanding for others it has made me a better person, it will make you a better person too.
Anyway just a lesson on humility which we all can use some of.
I hope you stay here, post your view or thoughts or even suggestions and you will find that there are a lot of very fine people here no matter who they are or where they come from or what they feel the need to discuss, it's all good. It's ok if you disagree with what someone post here, not everyone is going to agree and if there is a thread you don't feel like you want to discuss then don't post. It simple. But you need to learn humility as I did.
Good luck and welcome to the board.