Why I Have Deleted Posts and Threads

[Miss Z]

Gawd, I hate not being around that much lately.

Sara, I do hope that you haven't left the boards and are still following this thread. Rest assured that I always have the very deepest of respect for you.

In life, the only true opinions you take to heart are those of people you respect. The words of anyone other than those select few are just that, words.

I am akin to you, and a fair few others on this board, in that I stick up for myself and am fiercely defensive of anyone else I believe is being treated unfairly. That is a good quality to have even if it very often results in being the 'condemned', the 'accused', or any other silly synonym people come up with.

I'm always on the other end of a PM.

[Puckstop31]

In life, the only true opinions you take to heart are those of people you respect. The words of anyone other than those select few are just that, words.

I'm not digging, posturing, trolling or any of that.

I disagree with this idea. The greatest lessons in life are learned as a result of a failure/being proven wrong/losing, etc... If you discount what somebody has to say, just because you don't like them, well... You are possibly missing an opportunity to learn.

Just sayin'

[Miss Z]

And I completely agree with that. However, that was not what my comment was about. It's not to do with learning lessons, becoming a more educated person or whatever, but more about taking on board and considering what someone has to say.

i.e. Someone I don't particularly like tells me to shuttup. I keep talking.

Someone I respect tells me to shuttup on the same matter. I shuttup and think about what I've done. I may or may not have been proven wrong. I may or may not learn from it. But I don't instantly hate that person for going against my judgement. In fact I probably will respect that the person stuck by their own judgement rather than supporting me because they felt they had to so I would 'like' them.

No difference in the subject or the request, just a different set of people. That was my point.

[Karen]

Okay, let us let this thread die now. All that needs to be said has, let us let this be the last post. And, blue, we have a whole thread over in General started just for National Parks info and pictures! Feel free to add yours, I'll PM you the link.

[slick]

I am proud to be the original Dragon lady. I take the cake. I confess, I'm tried and true. Go ahead, call me a Dragon Lady, because I was born in 1952 - the year of the Dragon.

[wombat2u2004]

No Slick,
You've never given me good reason to do that.
Wom

[lbaker]

"let sleeping dogs lie".... well, not to start yet another argument BUT.. dogs don't know how to lie, sleeping or otherwise they, as opposed to some other species, only know what they love, feel and respect. That, I believe, is something we all can learn from dawgs