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Well done, Mike, at long last you got a "reputation" or "like" vote. Well, a couple of votes, actually.

An Apology About an hour ago I implemented my decision to apologize and stop posting. I started with a long letter of apology to So_crates, and then followed with shorter apologies to others. I’m re-writing the letter to So_crates below for all to consider, so that this decision is not well buried. Please allow me to apologize to others here for the way I have been. After a week of soul searching I have come to realize that the main reason I returned to post here was NOSTALGIA. I just miss grads and grad talk. Part of that nostalgia kick has been reading up on posters stories and other threads by the current frequent posters. In doing so I’ve come across lots of emotional reminders of the problems that happened at TWI. Most of those problems hit me much lighter than the others whose stories I was reading. In general, I’ve come to realize that my nostalgia thrills are not worth it, seeing the commotion and stir that my posting has been. I really thought that after a 10 or 12 year hiatus, things may have calmed down. They did not; some ways they are worse. Some of the problems posters recounted that hit me hardest were in how families were disrupted. It reminded me of hurt grads, close friends of mine, of long ago who got ground up in the ministry machinery. I had forgotten their pain. *** I think I was wrong in posting, seeing my topic causes grief. Grief causing was not my intention. I now feel it’s my moral duty to stop posting my message. I honestly thought the hostilities would calm down after a month of my recent posting. I was wrong. I honestly thought the hostilities would be GONE after my being gone for 10 years. I was wrong. *** I see better now the lingering hurt of TWI that still bothers MOST people here. I should have seen how something that I consider good news is not so good an association for me to bring up over and over here. I owe apologies to all here, and I have sorrow for what I’ve done. This has been going on and off in my head for a week now, and it’s not been letting up, but getting worse. I want to learn from this. I will stick around for a little (like a few days), hoping for a means to make some kind of token amends. Possibly, if I offer to answer questions (best of my ability) that may help, but I also can’t see anyone losing any sleep if I just split immediately. I will stick around long enough to try and clean up any issues, if possible. My usual style and agenda for using questions as mechanisms for getting my message out is in the trash can. Instead of dodging questions that may interrupt my message flow and/or be useful later, I’ll just try my best to answer them. I have no plan, but to stop posting my message. Maybe if I stick around a tiny bit people can get some closure on this episode. I’m sorry I didn’t read all those personal stories first, before I started posting. Peace.

Got it. Thanks.