In regard to relationships in this community? When a discussion becomes awkward, uncomfortable, or when our personal viewpoint collides or clashes with another do we give others room to express? Or do we get irritable, impatient, frustrated, or even angry? Do we grant grace and patience or do we attempt to shut down communication?

Recent deleted threads and posts remind me that this is a very mixed bag of personalities; we are all not going to agree which is a wonderful thing! Variety is the spice of life and difference of opinion provides even more flavor. If we believe that this is a family of sorts then we’ll work hard at getting along. But what healthy families don’t do is have a desire to harm one another. It's one thing to throw food at each other at a holiday dinner; it's quite another to pull out a gun and wave it around.

I hope we can discuss this in a civil manner and really hope this doesn’t get deleted because a handful of members don’t like the topic. If you don’t like it no one is forcing you to participate.
We all love our cars but they don’t have souls, feelings, and express love... or hate for that matter. If we can’t talk about these kinds of serious, life altering things here then this whole exercise of a “community gathering” is totally superficial and meaningless.

THAT my friends sounds like an unbelievable waste of time.


If no one pipes up then I'll activate King K's switch and turn this into another running dialog of Dumb and Dumbest.