The Dude wrote:Gee, I'm surprised I'm not on the list as well, since I take a day off from time to time. It must be a fluke.
Lots of these people are still around and have made recent posts. Blixa posted in this very thread shortly before this list of "losers". What a dis@!
You aren't on the list because you're still an active poster, with more than the occasional comment. Blixa posts only rarely. Runtu even less. Most of that list doesn't post at all anymore.
Losers? I never said they were losers. I said they aren't here, and because they aren't here, our discussions have lost the savor they once had.
Please notice it's not just one side or the other that is on that list. There's posters from both sides on it. The group that is not on that list is posters like PP... the nonsubstance contributors who clutter up the board with nonsense, contribute nothing to the conversation (see his comments on this thread), and are so offensive, even the most devoted have departed. We can certainly count on PP to stick around depositing his mental manure wherever he squats.
Another one left this morning. That's 3 in 3 days. Will anyone notice they are gone? They didn't leave a parting message on any thread, to be a target for snide comments and parting shots from the likes of PP and others. They're just fading away. We are less with their loss.
But by all means, let us all sustain the board as presently constituted. Even after all this time of being away from the church for some of our posters, this place is run just like it. The inability to see one's own bleeding isn't solely a church phenomena. The lack of vision, the brushing aside of suggestions for improvement, the "all's well on the board" is so close to the "All's well in Zion" we're fed from the pulpit, it's incredible.. and pathetic. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. Many here have worked so hard to distance themselves from the church, but when they're feeling attacked by someone who's supposed to be one of their own, they turn on the extra viciousness and attack the messenger, ignoring the message itself.
None of you addressed the message. None of you asked why I posted this. None of you got past your kneejerk reaction. Instead, you gloated, you dismissed, you marginalized, you trivialized... anything so you didn't have to focus on what is right in front of you. You attacked the messenger, not the message. If you can't see how that makes you and this board exactly like the church, then you're as blind as the FP.
Welcome to Zion: Shades' Board. The irony drips, even without smilies.
Three more are gone.
