Mod-42, thanks for the heartfelt compliment. I sometimes get frustrated that my words are hitting a brick wall. I am glad that somebody appreciates them.
I hadn’t been keeping up with all the recent threads, as there are so many new ones, and the number of responses has grown to over 1,000 in some, so it gets hard.
Also, I had been getting frustrated that I would debate some people on a news item or CR thread many months previously, and then all of the sudden they would bring up the same topic in a new thread and start from scratch with their position as if everything we had discussed the first time had totally been discarded. I felt like my posts were useless and not getting anywhere.
The bottom line of my whole hashkafa is that achdus is key, and we must appreciate every individual’s contribution to the klal and not be mevatel anybody. I think the current war and the Mumbai massacre has made the klal closer.