[IslandJeff]

Don’t go, Jack. Just step away from the Internet for a couple weeks. Works wonders.

If I can’t change your mind, I’ll FReepmail you my e-mail address.

Don’t do it - you are far too unique a FReeper and a tremendous ideological and pragmatic resource. Reconsider.

-J

[Jack Black]

Thanks to all of you on the CWII ping list. You are the elite of the elite. May you soar with the eagles!

[RushCrush]

Godspeed. Next time put ‘opus’ in your title so it will come up in searches.

[FreedomCalls]

Our greatest failure has been the inability of the Republican majority, which many of us worked for decades to achieve, to even attempt to implement any of our key issues.

So true. Drop in every so often when things heat up and you feel a need to help steer the debate. I lurked for TWO years before I couldn't take it anymore and just HAD to reply to someone. And since joining I've taken sabbaticals myself. It's good for the soul.

[cherry]

"At this point I think I need to seek more harmony with the world around me, and that has to include coming to terms with the fact that I live in a very socialist state, run by many corrupt individuals. For me, given where I am in my life and the burdens I carry, it just isn't working to care about these things quite as much as I do."

I struggle with this too.....but what I have done over the years is really eliminate talk radio.....very little Rush, or Micheal, or Sean......its all just too much.....

instead, I listen to a little of them, a lot of financial talk....the "stock doctors" are just plain funny, not political, and are light hearted in their financial advice...its refreshing....

but to find out the real news, the real angles, I could never give up FR...

[ConservativeMind]

I understand what you are saying, but I suggest what is needed, in the words of the man Buckhead helped bring down, is “Courage”.

You need not get bitter about anything. I don’t see Free Republic making people bitter. You have a community talking about news events. News items will always happen. They shouldn’t bring us down because we talk about them.

I encourage you to rethink your indefinite absence.

[My Favorite Headache]

Jack..I came onto FR in 99...you are one of the originals around here...we can’t afford to lose someone like you. Take some time away and come back after the holiday’s.

2008 is the year where we need more voices like your own out there and FR is leading the way for those kinds of voices to be heard...more than ever we are making an impact.

I know you will be back...so I won’t say good bye.

[ValerieTexas]

bye

[JerseyHighlander]

We haven’t crossed paths here in a while, but still remember you from the years past. Good luck in your endeavors.

Do yourself a favor and write down your FreeRepublic password on a piece of paper, and hide it somewhere.

[endthematrix]

“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” — opening lines of 101 Things To Do ‘Til The Revolution by Claire Wolfe

[steelyourfaith]

Put your hands up where I can see them and slowly step away from the keyboard.

Take a break.

Changes move at a glacial pace . Your input remains important hereabouts --- unless, of course,you've found a better way to spend your time.

[Global2010]

Take a break.
I am homebound do to being KV’s 24/7 careprovider and FR has been wonderful.

However like you I needed to do other things so I bought a Brunswick Pro Pool Table (LOVE IT) and next week a basketball (portable hoop).

But there are dayz that due to reasons I am not able to do other things and FR is here to read or post.

Think of it as moving away from home but coming back for the visits.

[fish hawk]

There is life outside of FR? You can't quit like this. You have to rant and rave and make a scene and we have to say something like, "don't let the door hit you on the way out. One would think you would have known this by now.

Seriously, the best of luck to you and God be with you. Aloha

[JennysCool]

While you have very good points, the second some MAJOR news happens — and it will — you’ll be right back here.

Meanwhile, have fun out there ...

[Prince Caspian]

I’ve never understood these OPUS things. It’s just a web site. A forum where news and viewpoints are shared. 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? Did they think everyone was going to come to see things in the same way as themselves? Whatever happened to balance and perspective? I don’t get it. It’s just a web site.

[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.