FG thanks no pocket peeing I like your posts and thanks see I mostly inhabit just this section of the page.
I miss some posters, some have not returned after the time spent on the naughty boys bench.
Others, sorry truth has merit, feel some posters go far too far, think I am over my thoughts of leaving but came very close.
I give as much as I can, will continue to till death.
Some could give without it hurting, we have something special here.
I think we should never stop talking politics but it is degenerating a bit.
And I would like to expand on my thread about contracting out and other such threads maybe new posters will come to new subjects?
Again would not have known about GY thing if you had not highlighted it.
Come those who can give a few bob to keep us moving forward.

On the subject of not coming back to OLO -add me to the list
BYE ALL

Horus has a different point of view than me, yet we wrestled but did not get too rude.
I respect him, but why not say just why he left?
May even be me, I do give as much as I get, often more.
But will not back down from my view confrontation is hurting Australian politics.
Good grief I stand firmly on my unpopular rock,not wanting Muslim enclaves in my country.
But did we see the hatred against refugees in that WA meeting?
I saw those same faces in old films of street violence in America during school integration, on the faces of women too.
We are divided may never get back to our once proud tradition of excepting our side ran second.
Am I to ignore the taunts of Shadow Minister and such?
Or can we all back off just a little and consider others rights to be them selves.
OLO is much like Australia, unhappy at the extraordinary events in this country's politics over the past 12 months we are shouldering a place for our views .
We have lost posters before but this time it has hurt Horus tell us, if you read this what would you ask of OLO,that I and those you disagree with be banned?
Now I saw C J Morgan say he would not contribute to a right wing site like OLO.
I never would do so to a left wing one, often find trouble in saying it but 15% should not have more say than 85%
I ask the fence sitters, even those who dislike me, to post.
And to those who can, give, truth is this, in my job I found those most able to painlessly give never did.
A down and out workers would give his last few bob ,so do we want to grow OLO.
Lets all be part of the solution not the problem.

There's something a bit pathetic about sulkily slamming the door on the way out.

I spend far too much time on line, and I have considered withdrawing from OLO, as GY knows. I haven't because I believe it's the best example of the type that we have. Despite the whinges from the Left, it is a balanced and very informative site. Yes, we often go around in circles, that's the nature of public discussion, but I think we've had some excellent dabates on very important subjects.

I also agree with you belly, on the subject of supporting OLO. I have not done so previously, but I will do so now.

People like morgan don't have genuinely thought out views, they have vague, ill-formed notions that owe more to being popular than to rationality. OLO, where our every assumption is often fair game, is simply too confronting.

I've got to say that I find OLO irresistible simply because it is an arena for some reasonably solid debate - something that is often not available in everyday life.
I like that I learn things here and that I also enjoy choosing (or trying to) the right words to convey my meaning. Most days I find I'm exercising my mind in one way or another.
I miss C.J. and Foxy and the others a lot - they were here when I joined, but of course, that is life - things change.

Hi all,

Always good to see positive response in this forum. Belly sorry to here that stress is an issue for ya. It's a pandemic, now spreading to asia and the rest of the under developed countries.

I suppose some of the contributors choose to leave because spending time in this forum makes them have to think about the problems we are facing each day now, and there are so many. The more you read, the more pop up each day. Yet we read about them, and spend time venting our thoughts and opinions here. Time which takes up quite a bit of our day depending how much of it we spend here.

The more involve you are in a topic, the more it is on your mind and in your daily lives as it is important and we think about it. I appreciate quite a bit I read here and have learn a lot from the forum. Also, I know that trying to debate my opinion with the rest is like trying to argue with a wall at times.

We take the good from this forum, and leave the bad, and learn and grow to be a better person in life. Cheers, have a great start to your week everyone!