Just wanted to chime in on a couple of these items. First and foremost, very glad to hear such good updates from you, Clarity. Here's hoping it keeps trending positive!
Regarding the poli board, I don't participate much in there but I do check it on the regular. Personally, I don't discuss too much politics or religion, but feel it's important to hear the opinions of other folks, as wide-ranging as I can manage. Based on the various shared interests we all have here at BP, and the thoughtful conversations that accompany those topics, it can be easier than a lot of online locations to gauge the level weight we can apply to the shared opinions of other posters. Along those lines, I've always felt the poli forum was a very reasonable place to get the thoughts of folks whose opinions I can value, even when I don't necessarily agree with it. There's plenty of disagreement; plenty of bull[Mark May]; plenty of uncomfortable discourse. But, more often than not, even the most heated arguments peter out without anyone truly harmed. And there's been plenty of times I hear of a perspective that is new to me, changing my own views in even the slightest way. It's similar to hanging at the bar late into the evening; except we can't actually escalate things to a point of ridiculousness (or physicality) as happens too often. There's always going to be folks that can't hold a reasonable level of acceptance with these topics so they choose to leave. My hope would be we can continue to debate and philosophize as Buckeyes, patriots/dissenters, theists/atheists/agnostics, and whatever other labels we place on ourselves (and others). Appreciate the community we have here; it's rare in this weird digital world. My thanks to all of you for making it that way.
