Posted on 09/14/2005 10:39:29 PM PDT by publana
"Goodbye, farewell and amen"
Life's changes are always such that you never expect them, and they take a minute or three to get used to when they occur.
My life is taking a turn now that is forcing me to give up writing Ramblings' Journal.
I've accepted a new position that will preclude me from continuing my writings here. So I'm pulling the plug on R/J in order to focus on the new opportunity that has been placed before me.
Contrary to the opinions of others, I'm not running for office (I don't have the patience), nor am I joining a monastary. But I am turning the page on this chapter of my life, and moving forward. I'm very thankful for the friendships I've developed as a result of the blog, and I'm still going to be around -- you never know when an e-mail from me or a note in your comments section will show up to jab you or give you a thumbs up.
I want to say a special thank you to my Conservative Brotherhood bretheren, and encourage you to take a look at their blogs -- they are each fantastic writers in their own right. Their views are varied and they are each outspoken in their own ways. Their work is beginning to show up elsewhere, which makes me both happy and proud to know them.
The other blogs I've participated in -- Blogcritics and The Dead Pool -- are both worth your time and your thoughts. (Laurence, I'm still in the pool, even though I don't have a bunch of points. And Eric, I'm sorry that I hadn't had the opportunity to do more critiques in the past.)
A huge thank you to the Mu.nu community -- they've been incredibly supportive and fantastic. Pixy, you're the best.
I know I'm forgetting folks, and I apologize to you in advance.
I've asked Pixy to pull the plug next weekend.
Life's changes happen all the time, and for reasons known and unknown. All I can do is to step out on the path that God has lain for me, and know that He is at my side during my journey. I'm also happy to have my wife and my kids with me - they help keep me grounded. After twenty years (it'll be twenty years in a week and a half) of wedded bliss, I'm certainly happy.
Thanks again to everyone. God bless you all, and I'm sure we'll see each other 'round the 'net.
'Bye.
Note to Wormwood: Doctor, heal thyself. You have been accusing some of us of getting RM banned without a shread of the vaunted evidence that you love asking others for. I'll repeat it again - I can defend myself without the admin's help; stop the innuendo (if you care to). Either way, I don't care.
Of course, I wans't defending his entire posting history—just tonight's. ;-)
Well, which was it?
Are you now going to admit that you didn't read my entire post where I clearly stated that they wre my sister's OWN stem cells
or
are you going to admit you just ignored that part so you could jump into the middle of this conversation and pontificate to the rest of us.
I think it's Door Number Two, Monty.
I am sorry for one thing though: I'm sorry you mistook my mocking of you for bitterness; I'm never bitter about anything; it's a waste of time.
Thank goodness you don't represent real Christains.
I don't have any beef with you. I was merely pointing out that Howlin seemed to be getting a raw deal for a point that he did NOT make on this thread.
Seriously, you need to relax.
I didn't accuse anyone of anything—I simply pointed out that your adversary has been cast out of the forum, granting you a win by default.
And out and out lie; I make it a HABIT to avoid the self-rightous religous threads at all cost.
But since you've made such a declarative statement, I'm positive you'll be able to back that up, right? How about you go and find a post where I've been in "shoving matches" with Christians.
We can all wait while you back up your accusation.
Oops...my bad.
I know I'm not :o)
It's one that doesn't take it upon themselves to judge others and practically damn them to hell when they don't see eye to eye with you.
In other words, you don't fit the bill.
My half-empty bottle of Frïs vodka agrees with you! Good night all, and may cooler heads prevail!
Oh, but now it has a beef with you because you dared to contradict it!
Happily for me I stayed away from my TV today, but I haven't seen the race hustlers with this level of animation since the 60's.
And at least in the 60's we were focused on a goal. Todays hysteria is fueled completely by generalizations, innuendo, and absolute partisanship.
I'm not sure where we're going with it all, but it's not "forward". :(
As my nom de guerre suggests, I used to love a good flame war, but now I find that we are surrounded by our real enemies and all we seem to want to do is attack each other. Kind of sad.
With malice toward none, in the hope that we can see the hubris in all of us, isn't this just the kind of bickering that is the cause of the departures we are supposedly lamenting on this thread?
170-some posts ago, this was all about the loss of two reasonable, insightful posters who are probably doing something better with their time than we are at this moment.
Just Damn.
AMEN
Because you PREACHED to me on a subject that was basically none of your business.
I was discussing my sister with friends on this thread; you inserted yourself into the conversation so you could PONTIFICATE to the rest of us about abortion.
And, of course, by jumping in as you did, either deliberately ignoring my point or blinding not comprehending it at all, you only proved my original point: that some of you are too myopic in your opinions to see the real world.
Nobody here is speaking against the word of God, unless you've convinced yourself that anybody who disagrees with you is speaking against God's word.
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