I started thinking about this last night, rethought it this morning in light of Tishie’s announcement and decided to go ahead and say it.
We have an opportunity to communicate that is unprecedented in human history. I live in Seattle. Via message boards, e-mail, and IM; I talk regularly to people in Washington DC, Kansas, England, Scotland, France, Denmark, Oz; and of all people a female colonel in the Royal Thai Army. Most of the message boards I visit are devoted to conservative politics and military history. I’ve only been on Tishie’s board a few months and I just discovered Simon’s. But I’m seeing the same thing on both boards.
This board displays more anger and profanity in a week than all the right-wingers put together generate in a year. I know that there is a diversity of views here, and there is bound to be some passion behind some of the discussion. I don’t care that some of you are gay, lesbian, atheists, wiccan or whatever. I DO care that some of you seem to be so angry that you can’t have a rational conversation with somebody who disagrees with you.
Take your Prozac, get counseling, get laid; do whatever it takes get yourself a life. Throw eggs at the local kingdom hall if that makes you feel better. We’ve all wasted some part of our life in the Watchtower, do we want to waste the rest of it spewing hate at the people around us?
I couple of weeks ago I said on this board that life is too short to spend it pissing people off. Life is also too short to spend it being pissed off.
PS Tishie: Thank you for all your hard work.
PPS: Annie, standing up and apologizing to everybody was a class act all the way.
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