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Rosie, thanks for what you said yesterday. I appreciate it:)

Corin, I am sorry I caused you tension. I thought we had things worked out. I told you last week I would scroll past your posting, and I did, you said your piece Monday. We all had an understanding. Why the tension?

Carton, my posts to you about spamming, was my attempt to try once again to have conversation with you, I was in no way trying to be a room mother. I thought a friendly warning was a nice thing to do. I said I thought the spamming as it is done on this thread was funny. I was not trying to monitor you. My motives were one of trying to get on friendly terms.

To the rest of you, I am not saying I won't post here again, There are no hard feelings on my part. But I would like to say I do feel bad about what has happened here, but I don't feel I am entirely to blame. This thread has a reputation among people that don't post here at FR. Just as The Religion Forum and The NES has. This thread's rep. is one that is a non-contraversial, friendly thread. The NES actually has been given a bad rap. It gets an "ick, sounds contentious," because things do get heated over there, and frequently, people who have never even read it assume because religion is the main topic, it is a "bad" thread full of hateful self righteous people. But the thing is, in spite of our heated discussions, disagreements, name calling, and so on and so forth, the regulars stayed friends thru it all. No one left. Now which thread would you say has the more geninune freindships? That thread welcomes newbies, let newbies come in and state their opinions just as the regulars got too.

I have cut way back posting over there not because someone said something I didn't like, we are after all suppose to be adults, but because as I said as far as religion, it has all been said numerous times, we need to leave it in God's hands. But I still read the thread everyday, I enjoy hearing about those people's lives, I still think of them as freinds, I believe they think of me the same. I asked them to pray for Devon also, and I know they will.

Last week I was surprised at some of the posts where people were being named and bashed, calling them liars and stupid, with out pinging them here to see what was being said. Is that what you call a friendly, non-controversail thread? I didn't understand how all of you can let that go on knowing the type of rep. this thread has, which is the very one you WANT it to have. I am not trying to rub salt into a wound. Really. I am saying how I feel, because the blame has been laid at my door by Corin and I feel I have a right to address it. This is not intended to be a gottcha post, it is not intended to cause more problems, it's how I feel, and what I see here. You really should not be surprised by any of the last few days given the tone of some posters vs. the rep. you are trying to convice the forum you have when new people show up.

Peace at any cost is no peace at all. That is what causes tension. When there are subjects that can't be talked about because it might upset the apple cart, because someone might leave. True freinds stay freinds in spite of differences.

Becky