The Newly Departed thread: announcements (departures)

[Aroura]

I keep trying, and I honestly cannot tell if it's me or not. I try and get involved in conversations, just sharing my views or ideas or trying to be helpful, and most replies feel like attacks.

So I back off and try again a day or two later. I try, not always successfully, to participate in a level headed way, but almost instantly I'm provoked again.

I don't come here to feel unwelcome or attacked or trolled or to feel stupid or worse about myself or humanity in general. I can get that IRL. I come to share with what I feel are, for the most part, reasonable and like minded individuals. By which I mean skeptics.

I just feel that the reasonable conversation are offended drowned out by a small number of asshats. Yes, I can and do put them on ignore, but then someone quotes their quote to me and I read it and I want to leave.

Some of you may be aware I'm having something of a personal crisis. I thought it would be best not to withdraw from the world, though that is my instinct when wounded. So I try and try again, but I just don't know that I have it in me anymore. Not right now at any rate.

I'll try and come back when I feel like I can handle humanity again.

It ain't you.

I actually asked a my kids friends mom to read it.  I realize she probably isn't going to be completely impartial, but she just started laughing, and then she said the exact same thing.    So thank you, though, for making me feel less nuts, Mr. Brewer.

I AM still totally overreacting to minor insults lately. I can recognize it in myself.  However, I think I will, if I may, redact this little drama queen moment of mine, and simply try to refrain from political threads, but remain on the rest of the forum. And also I need to learn NOT to peek at posts by people I put on ignore.  I did it for a reason!

I've also noticed a lot of sensitivity in a lot of people, so I think this really is partly a result of the political climate.  Everyone seems to feel attacked right now.