In Reply to: so true, Perry posted by Acheick on January 31, 2005 at 16:07:06:
The trick for the very diverse exmember community, I think, is to learn how to communicate and cooperate with each other in our common goal of exposing TF and holding it to account despite our sometimes opposing opinions. That is something I've personally strived for here, but have not always been successful. I've still got so much to learn and this site is helping me with that.
In some of my earliest posts, to you and others such as Mr. Don, I expressed the desire to learn how to communicate with those who hold views very different from my own. Some of my early efforts didn't go so well, as like others here, I'm easily triggered by certain things, and I no longer hold back what I'm thinking, like I did in TF. But it's something that's important for me to keep working on. Elimination of the politics board certainly helps me, :-)
I think that the many diverse voices from the exmember community will come across as less self-serving,in the court of public opinion, than the synonymity of accounts from current members and their supporters.