Hi, back again. While some might say "wow, I knew he couldn't keep his word", I'm just saying that I'm back under my own conditions. And one of these conditions is that people take me for who I am and not try to change me. Quirks and all, that's me. I apologise to the rest of the board for the shit that went down in the meltdown, but I still have reservations with one or two. Nevermind, we can't all get along.
Anyway, let's make the most of everything, OK?
Sorry mate but your own conditions are your own.
No one is under any obligations here to follow anyone's imposed conditions.
Our greatest benefit here perhaps is the ability of unrestricted, unrestrained, unmoderated, freedom to be able to say what we want and as long as we do not seek to hurt the forum, we are free to act and behave and say what and how we like.
The biggest drawback naturally is the flipside of this and that is that others can do the same, regardless of what we would "like" them to do.
Integral to these freedoms is a demand to back yourself and your claims and your stances.
I for one understand meltdowns. I understand the inability to articulate and think rationally in the midst of a meltdown. I do not meltdown online, true, but I am not a stranger to meltdowns and neither are many here, I would imagine. That said, it does not diminsih the responsbility for what one says in grief or anger or in full meltdown. It may delay the ability to recognise the effect or to rationally appreciate the implications but does not take away what was said nor the effect of what was said.
I like you. I always have and so i would hope that you would not expect that you would dismiss the relevance of what you said any more than the relevance of what was said to you. I would hope you would not seek to make demands of members and yet seek to have members not make demands of you.
No fairness here.
More than that, I really hope you are not here to denounce any responsibility for anything you said whilst seeking to fan the embers of disagreements for which you may want back up or support when they turn into a fire.
I like you here and I like your posting. i don't like seeing you work yourself into a position where you incite others into arguing vehemently against you and driving yourself into meltdown. I hope that doesn't happen. For the people involved. The people who like you, seeing you in meltdown mode. For the board in general.
But also ....and this is important...for you.
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