Goodbye.

F.R. ^ | 9/29/2007 | Jack Black

[dixiechick2000]

You are a smart person to look up his posts.

He’s a smart man.

Welcome to Free Republic!

[CaliGirlGodHelpMe]

While I understand and agree that every day is precious, I don’t think it’s necessary to leave because you worry about becoming cynical or getting tunnel vision. A nice long breather might be just the thing. This forum is filled with good people fighting the good fight, and you’re a part of it, a seminal part. With another Clinton trying to cajole, bamboozle and B.S. their way into the White House, you’re needed perhaps more than ever.

Please do reconsider. For now, I won’t say goodbye, but au revoir.

[fr_freak]

What is is with people who feel a need to announce to the entire forum that they are leaving? You feel the need to explain it to everyone?

Also:

1) FR is a tool. It is a tool for gathering and disseminating information. If the nail that I'm trying to put in a board gets bent, I don't throw away the hammer. Why throw away FR? If the discussions are starting to irritate you, don't participate in them, but to decide that you don't want accurate news and insight because the world isn't changing the way it should is ludicrous.

2) If you are going to give up on one of the best tools for getting the country going the right direction just because of a little irritation, how the hell were we ever supposed to believe that you would have done what needed to be done when the chips were really down? Our forefathers, as well as some guys even today, risked their very lives to make and keep this country, and you can't even deal with a little frustration? Maybe you weren't really all that valuable to the conservative movement after all.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Take a vacation from it all. I hope you don’t fall victim to the MSM that reports everything in negative viewpoint because they do it on purpose. According to the MSM, we are not allowed to be happy when there is a Republican President. Have fun, cu.

[Mark]

I have decided to leave Free Republic.

WAIT A DAMN MINUTE! Is this allowed? I have to study the rules. It's like that war hero, John Kerry who discovered that three purple hearts and you're out of the war. I did not know that. I was there, but did not look at that rule book.

When I get frustrated, I spend about two minutes at DU and that cures me of any notion of leaving FR.

[celtic gal]

Wish you would rethink this..I too get frustrated with the way of the world and what is happening in this nation. When it gets to be too much I just back away from the site, or refrain from posting for awhile and then return to FR refreshed.

[pissant]

Enjoy. You’ll be back.

[Brad from Tennessee]

I think it’s easy to get addicted to this site. But like others have said, take a break for a few weeks or more. Walk the Earth for a while. When you come back things will be fresh again. God Bless You, Brother.

[CAluvdubya]

I’ve never understood these OPUS things

I'm with you. Why the drama thing? For attention? For all to beg the person not to leave? If one wants to quit posting, then just quit posting.

[Finalapproach29er]

quitters never win; winners never quit.

Take a break and let your eyes heal up for a few months.

Stop back for the primary season.

Regards.

[Lancey Howard]

Perhaps it is the spector of his wife becoming President that has soured me on the future of our country, and on internet activism as a way to influence it.

That's a thought that would make anybody throw up in their mouth a little.

Here’s the good news: Hillary will not be elected President of the United States. Not in a million years. Not ever. When Americans walk into their polling places in November, 2008 - - when it is time to cast their votes FOR REAL - - they simply will not be able to vote for Hillary Clinton.

I predict the biggest GOP Presidential landslide in history.

Hope to see you back the second week of November, 2008 if not a lot sooner!

FRegards,
LH

[Bryan]

Hey Jack, you’ll be back.

Seriously. I was gone for a while but I came back. You will too.

[Jeff Chandler]

I don’t think this post belongs in “News”. This post belongs in “Breaking News”.

[LowOiL]

Classy way to shut the door sir.

[Steve Van Doorn]

The best part about FR isn’t the babbling that we do it is the resources that are not archived anyplace else.

Besides if you brake from the union we will have to kill you. :)

[expatguy]

"Do these dramatic goodbyes mean the person no longer believes in the substance of current events or the value of opinion? Or did they think they were going to change the world on their terms and their schedule? And, eventually, they tire of the effort?"

I believe the answer to that question is yes and no.

"Did they think everyone was going to come to see things in the same way as themselves?"

Allow me to answer this...

For me this is really the first time participating on a forum such as this. What amazed me the most though was the issue of debate. In all honesty, I never came here to debate, but rather to inform.

FR is a wonderful place - there are people here who are experts on a variety of subjects and there can be a lot to learn - There is also a propensity here for almost everyone to argue and debate, often about subjects that many times the individual knows nothing about other than what they might have read on the internet. This in itself can be frustrating for many.

Reading what Jack Black wrote - I sense that Jack felt a similar frustration and decided that instead of simply rehashing the same issues over and over he would just leave.

[Lancey Howard]

By the way, you have been one of my favorite posters here over the years. I’m sure you’ll be able to laugh along with (most of) the rest of us at the handful of posters who don’t know the difference between an angry, juvenile, foot-stomping “opus” and a polite “goodbye” to a community in which you have participated and made friends.

Personally, I appreciate your courtesy and your comments.
That said, I am pretty sure you’ll be back, and I sure hope so.

Regards,
LH

[Brad’s Gramma]

God bless you, Jack, in your endeavors...thank you for the contributions you’ve made to FR.

[fatima]

bye Jack,take a few days off.Maybe a few weeks.From FR of course(((Hugs)))Fatima

[Yaelle]

What if one of our Founding Fathers took a “break” or gave up for a while? Please make your break short. We need people like you in the fight. The USA is not a Republic in Stone but in Blood, Sweat, and Tears. We have to be able to Keep it, as Old Ben said.