Which Posters Would You Like To Hear From More??? (page 5)

Xena,
I don't hate women, I just don't trust most of the ones I have known, there is a difference. As the old guy in the joke said, I'd rather have the talking frog.

Biskets,
I did not just leave this board, I left all EXJW related online association of any kind. It was eating up too much of my time, effecting my heavy work load and taking me back to a place and attitude I had long ago left behind. I was also starting to let the ignorance of others effect the peace in my life. Not from this board, but from a select group of exiled posters. I slipped up and momentarily forgot the fact that you cannot reason with ignorance and infantile hatred. I jumped on a few people who I once considered friends. I began to "again" replace understanding with bitterness. That is something I had dealt with many years ago and thought would never come back. When I recognized that in my comments, and felt bad for making a few of them, I realized that it was time for me to go.

Fiends will usually only say good things about you. Those who do not like you will usually say only negative things about you. I have come to realize in life, the truth about yourself sits somewhere in the middle. I listen to both, weigh and balance to find the truth, recognize my mistakes and then make the proper adjustments. Leaving the online exJW community was that adjustment. Until I can find that balance again and center it with understanding instead of bitterness and reactive negativity, I'll continue to stay away. It's a "trying to be being a good human thing".

I deleted myself from this board and deleted all my files on religion, philosophy, psychology, science and religious history from my computer's hard drive. It felt damn good and helped me begin to get Dave back. I came to this board three years ago to play with my friend Alan. I stayed to help those who asked for help. This board has grown to the point where there were a lot of people here who could help other exJW's as well, and even better than I. It was just time for me to move on. I have done that. I had Craig undelete my account a month or so ago so I could say hi to a few old friends on the mod board. I did that.

I never intended to ever post on the main board again. I read it very sporadically but have never seen a thread that I felt I wanted to respond to until reading the comments from you and Xena babe (she hates me calling her that) on this thread. I knew you would find a like minded buddy here and Xena does seem to be your evil twin who was separated at hatching. I think you two can cause a lot of mischief together and I had to slip in and say hi and be good to both of you.

Stay well and play nice.

Big hug,

Dave

SpannerintheWorks

Good to see you posting again, Dave. I can relate to what you have said and I too fell by the wayside for a while for almost exactly the same reasons. This can be a difficult medium through which to convey our true thoughts and sometimes, especially when things get a little personal, they can be easily misconstrued. And I am as guilty of that as anyone.

But hats off to Simon, Angharad and the mods for doing a such great job under what must be very difficult circumstances.

minimus

DAVE____GREAT TO HAVE YOU BACK!!!!

obiwan

Good to see you posting again, Dave. I can relate to what you have said and I too fell by the wayside for a while for almost exactly the same reasons. This can be a difficult medium through which to convey our true thoughts and sometimes, especially when things get a little personal, they can be easily misconstrued. And I am as guilty of that as anyone.

Yes, I too can relate with Dave. It is very hard having friends on a forum and never seeing them. Sometimes things can get out of hand and so misconstrued.

And Dave....Great to see you again, I had been wondering how you are getting along these days.

obiwan

Mindchild

Mindchild is doing well. He moved out west and is building an empire of his own. I do hear from him from time to time.

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