I don't know why I bothered coming back (not that it cost me anything other than time).
There's nothing going on here. Just little cliques doing their little things. Nothing in the groups either.
I did work something out: the CE board has gone back to the way it was when I was first here, before there was a CE board. I can't remember what it was called back then. I should probably care, but I don't.
Anyhow, it was much livelier then. There was a genuine desire for honesty, at least among the members (apart from Stockula and his ilk, of course). Or perhaps I'm deluding myself.
There's nothing going on here. Just little cliques doing their little things. Nothing in the groups either.
I did work something out: the CE board has gone back to the way it was when I was first here, before there was a CE board. I can't remember what it was called back then. I should probably care, but I don't.
Anyhow, it was much livelier then. There was a genuine desire for honesty, at least among the members (apart from Stockula and his ilk, of course). Or perhaps I'm deluding myself.
Certainly I felt then I might be able to learn something from it. Maybe I did. But that's one of those things you can't return to.
If I did learn anything, the things I learned are gone from SG. I should not be surprised, or disappointed. But I am.
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I could never endure the forums because gross ignorance coupled with overpowering confidence and certainty have been too common for my taste. That's all polite terminology for old and grumpy, I suppose, but even knowing everything as I must modestly confess that I do, hasn't made me entirely patient I'm afraid. We all must have a fault or two just for the sake of remaining at least partly human.
Times have changed, it's what it is. (I am also disappointed. not in the site, but in it's members. It happens I suppose.)