My Formal Apology To AC And The LVA Community

This was in a separate post in the sink, but I realized I should repost it here so it is seen.  I it has been a long road.

I am going to quote some of that post.

Nowadays a lot of people are addicted to being angry.  Every day they run to the Internet or their social media feeds looking for something that will outrage them.  They need that sense of relief they experience when they feel that rage.

That was me for years and I didn't even realize it.  Once your brain rewires itself, it expects to be fed that anger and rage all of the time. It becomes an addiction.  You become more desperate to find things that make you angry.  You make mountains out of molehills. You have to have the last word in every argument.  

Trust me it isn't any fun going through life angry all the time.  Get out meet people and be kind in the end you will be a much happier person. 

For some of you who have known me for years here, I guess this is my coming out party as a changed person. This is also my formal apology to AC and the entire community for all the trouble I caused him and everyone else here over the years and for just generally being an all-around asshole. 

I haven't been around these parts all that long, but I've only known you to be pleasant, Mark.  

Mark, you have never been bad at all.  I've actually had a bit of an awakening in the last few months myself. I'm done combatting with Kevin.  Kevin was actually gracious enough to even give me some good pointers for my upcoming trip next week.  I'm definitely going to follow them and look forward to it.  

I'm done with anger.  I'm done with politics in general.  As you know, I'm kind of a middle ground person anyway.  But I'm just done with politics and people that lean one way too much.  It is all pointless and wasted energy anyway.  

Well said, Jerry.  

I've been here awhile, but I've never seen it, either. Must have been quite a while ago. Regardless, Mark's a nice guy, and I won't add the qualifier "now." I suspect he has always been.

The internet makes us all combative (to use a euphemism, perhaps). But I think it got worse when one political party started to slowly go crazy and then a crooked opportunist saw a way to achieve fame and fortune by pandering to the worst of them. And he succeeded brilliantly--in large part by stoking hatred and division.

I was generally able to ignore all that for the most part, until two dear friends of mine were killed by that crooked opportunist's actions. Those deaths happened a week apart, and to honor their privacy, I won't supply details. But I hold that bucket of slime directly responsible, and that's not hyperbole. If not for what he did, they'd both be alive today. And if not for the pieces of human filth that lifted him to power--millions of them--he never would have had the power to do what he did.

So I can't forgive. Not yet. First, I have to understand what's wrong with those millions. I know what's wrong with him--that's easy. But I can't fathom why a political platform that's based on hurting countless vulnerable people is appealing to them.

NOW, ALL THAT SAID, I'd like to join Mark in apologizing for the anger I've expressed. I should keep and should have kept that private. Furthermore, there are some here, including the Sink's "prediction wizard," who are "participants" for the sole purpose of stoking that anger, in me and in others. I'm not going to gratify them any more. They're less than human, and don't deserve human consideration.

And I intend to do my 1/165,000,000th part in averting the coming disaster, and if that's not enough, well, so be it. Nothing that happens or is said in these forums will change that anyway (I mean, my God, is there anyone here on either side whose mind isn't already made up?).

I wish there was the ability to "like" a thread here.

This is the best news I've read on forum.So much back and forth piss off from members.I feel it's been a turn off for people using the site.I am a senior.Have not only read angry remarks amongst member.Also had them aimed at me.Because I don't always write in good form.So congrats everyone for turning over a new leaf.

Talk about what we enjoy about Las Vegas and deals to make it even more fun.

Silence is golden.  

But, Mark, I never saw/read in you what you describe.  But, it is your own insight and perception is everything, it was real to you, and congratulations for finding a better view and pathway for experiencing life as we all should hope for.

Candy