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Originally posted by Diogenes Of Pumpkintown:
I would be very alarmed for the fate of the human race if this forum were currently like what some of you seem to be saying it should be, just a place where all we talked about were trivial aspects of life and told jokes. Hell, if tempers and passions weren't flaring over the late events, what would that show except that we were emotionally dead to the world and practically souless creatures who didn't give a damn about anything important?
Yes, there is a down side to passion. But the alternative is worse.
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This is probably the most sensible thing I have heard!
I realize some people come here to get away from this 'passion and emotion', but some of us come here to express it. We should be able to co-exist! My question is, why do we need to move serious discussions to a seperate forum? I didn't know 'general' excluded 'serious'! What next? A seperate forum for 'home repair' threads, or perhaps a joke forum. That would seem more appropriate as jokes aren't really a 'discussion' are they?
As I have stated before on numerous threads now **sigh** We are mature enough to realize when we need to calm down and take a step back. The fact that those of us that are mostly involved in serious discussions, are still here and have not 'left' is a testament to that maturity IMHO. I may get flamed for this, but I think it is those that stomp off in a fit that the forum has 'changed' are the immature ones! If you can critisize us for passionately debating issues that we feel are important to us, then you open yourself up for the same critisism!!
Just MHO
*ducks in coming flames*
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