Min,
Not all my stuff is meat, if you look at my few posts over the last few months they have been mostly humor. I do enjoy some of the more meaty subjects but a good majority of the more meaty "type" posters have left the board. I hate to see that. Several of them were my friends and I miss them.
When I post here, which has been rare in the last year, I try to do it with a balance between the humorous side of being and exJW and the more thought provoking side. I think we need both sides to help us all deal with the pile of shit that has been forced on our lives. That balance has helped me understand the need for both kind's of topics. Some of my friends couldn't see that and became increasingly frustrated with the less intellectual topics as well as those who post them.
As many have seen on this board over the past few years it has gone through a painful growth at times. In an effort to try and calm things down those who were the most passionate about the heavy issues used strong language to try and get their disappointment across and were asked to tone things down. Things got out of balance. The balancing scale swung from the heavy and passionate side to the light and fluffy side. Even though the tempers were cooled down we became out of balance again.
This board will not do what it is intended to do with an unbalanced load. For those who just think it is for the more meaty topics, they are wrong. For those who think it is just a place for fluff and sophomoric antics they are also wrong. We need it all, but we need it in balance.
Min, you are one side of that balance but I have seen you step over to the other side at times. I hope you never completely stop with what many have deemed "Minimus type" of threads, this board needs them. But we also need the meat. You stated that "my" type categorizes my stuff as "meat.' Min, if you really knew who I was, you would see that I have "no" type. I post in both kinds of threads in an effort to maintain my own personal balance. I am a very serious deep thinking kind of person and that hasn't always been a benefit in any kind of pursuit of happiness. It is hard work for me and I mostly fumble at my attempts to try and lighten the hell up, but I keep on trying.
All I asked of you was to try and keep what I saw was an effort to find your own balance in mind. If I said it wrong and it offended you I apologize. I think if we can all work on not categorizing each other as one certain "type" or the other we will finally find a balance on this board and we will stop loosing some of the more passionate deep thinkers.
Take care,
Dave
Forty,
Is that the razor kind of barbed wire or the standard kind? I need to know so I can decide to ware either boxers or briefs.
