Yep, it just won't die. I offered some middle ground and have heard nothing, so I assume at this point that my offer has not been read. I try to give the benefit of the doubt to people, but when they categorize me and call me names, and don't see the whole picture in real time, then I get upset. I figured that the original anonymous poster put that post in the wrong topic, but then I noticed that it was in the right topic, and they were either unaware that their statements were highly offensive, and needed reminding, or that they were just cold blooded and had little care for others here that use the board for help. Either way, while it was some opinion, some insult, some preaching, some of a little of everything, it would have been better off left out. When my wife and I hosted the reunion last summer, we had over 22 survivors here. One of them put off killing himself because he wanted to see what the reunion was going to be about. After the reunion, he went back home, and started getting involved helping people, knowing that there were quite possibly more people out there that felt like him before the reunion. OK, so moral is that people need these gatherings, forums, boards, chats, IM's, phone calls, you name it, WE NEED THEM!!! What we don't need is someone doing like the original anonymous poster to Morli did. Maybe a lesson from this will be to be a bit more careful about how things are worded, or some more thought could be given to the ramifications of such "opinionated generalizations". I personally disliked that generalization of being the scab of a festering wound. Come on Carmel, you like that? LOL... I don't really think you do. MG8 :smokin:
