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But hey, you asked why people do it and I answered. If you don’t like the answer, write your own or don’t ask the question.

I don’t think I’m being disingenuous, and I’m sorry if I caused you to think I was. I was simply saying that your motivation to respond was not so different as his motivation to make the initial post.

I ask why the guy feels the need to announce his departure, and you say that my question is the same thing as his opus? As I said before, I refuse to believe that you are not capable of seeing the difference. You might very well prove me wrong, though.

If I start a thread about how I'm going to get up and go to the bathroom, I wouldn't be surprised if I get at least 100 responses. By your logic, however, the posts of all of the people who ask me why the hell I started that thread are no different than mine. By your logic, they are exactly equal in inappropriateness as my thread about going to the bathroom. So, in other words, one can never criticize any theory, belief or postulate posted in this forum, or else one is equally guilty of being wrong. I must say that I find your logic extremely faulty.

On a side note: I took a couple of months off from Free Republic once (I didn't make any formal announcement though). I still read the articles, but I avoided all of the discussions for a while. One of the reasons that FR can be frustrating these days, and perhaps accounts for part of the reason that this thread originator is leaving, is that we have a lot more posters these days who cannot:
1) make or understand a logical argument
2) post a reply without adding some sort of insult

As I said before, I refuse to believe that you are not capable of seeing the difference. You might very well prove me wrong, though.

(Snip)we have a lot more posters these days who cannot:

......2) post a reply without adding some sort of insult

Excellent example, right there in your very post!

Or maybe you don't see that you just did what you accused others of doing on this one either.

I'm not going to explain my comment a third time. The fact that you don't understand my point (or this one, for that matter) is not my fault and not necessarily a reflection of how faulty MY logic is.

I don't plan on writing an opus, but I certainly understand why some would want to do so after ten years. You don't. That's fine. That doesn't make me wrong.