Bacause that is the nature of religous war. You don't realize you're doomed until it's too late. You see a thread, read it, express an opinion and get your nose tweaked. Someone else comes along, reads it and tweaks back a little harder. Inevitably, the descent continues from there. Freedom of speech also comes with responsibility of speech. Not every post has to be responded to either. Some folks may enjoy a good banter back and forth. Fine, but with "religous" topics, the consequences of the banter are much more difficult to manage, something that hasn't gone well in the past. I've already violated my own self-imposed rule - if I'm not calm when I'm responding, I shouldn't be responding. All I know right now is that if I still feel this way tomorrow, there's a real good chance I'll walk away from WCG if not crunching all together.

Sad part is that if we humans did what we ought to, this whole topic would be a non-issue. For Christians, it's called being a good steward of God's creation. For non-believers, it's called living in harmony with nature. The outdoorsy types have the same idea applied to a much simpler situation - leave the campsite cleaner than you found it. Over-simplified - well, someone will say so whether it is or not. Plus, I'll probably get told the errors of my way soon enough. I'm bound to at least annoy at least someone saying this too simply because right now, I really don't care what others think about my opinion and I'm not all that concerned about the consequences since, given how I feel right now, this may well be the last post I ever make as a cruncher.

Here's today's wonderful "Climate" News

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6870115.ece


Doh !

I didn't see that one coming at all....who would have thought

LOL


Wrap up warm folks

Dave

That seems a bit overreactive. However it is your time, machines, money and, to some extent, your vote. You might want to reconsider in the next few days.

I can't help thinking that there is a very bright psychology student busily working a PhD paper on "An Investigation Into the Mean Time to Insanity of the Avid Distributed Computing Participant". I will not cite any examples over the years here and other projects. I wonder what the newbies think when they first join the forum and blunder into these threads. Worrysome ...

You're probably right on most counts DM. Idealism isn't limited to the young snots. Us old geezers dream of having lived a meaningful life, of leaving our kids a better world than what we got. I was on the road most all of yesterday. When I'm tired, I do tend to get cranky. Still, perhaps I do care too much. I mean after all, so what if a few more people die needlessly. So what that more folks suffer needlessly. So what if a new cure or new treatment comes a bit later. Geez, there's already over six billion of us. Who's going to miss a few hundred or a few thousand or even a few tens of thousands. Right? I mean, what's the odds of you or me ending up being one of them. It's not like we're going to win the lottery or to die of something the day before scientists announce they've found a cure. Pity the poor saps that do but hey, odds are it won't be us!

Do I care too much? Do I give a damn? Guilty as charged and proud of it!

Astroturf--what is your point?Do you keep coming back just to irritate the good (sic) people in this thread?

Whether you know it or not a lot of good information was deleted in those threads.

if you cant contribute to the conversation why not ignore this part of the chat room? or start a conversation in another thread that you are passionate about

stop being negative