Mytake, +1 and a refuah sheleimah to your loved one.
DY, I did and always do offer an apology when and if I step out of line and it is brought to my attention. I don’t appreciate your digs then or now and that is why, if you haven’t noticed since then I have not been responding to any of your posts and some others. I choose NOT to instead of engaging with someone who chose to fence with pointed sharp swords.
I try my best to filter and not involve myself in threads where I don’t feel I can be of any help. But I certainly don’t come here to be hurt and abused, I am not anyone’s punching bag. It is fine to politely agree to disagree and it is certainly fine to have different opinions and points of view. But it is NOT fine to be rude and hurtful. It is the responsibility of each one of us, including myself, to be accountable for our words and not aim them at anyone’s heart.
Debating a topic is one thing, even though topics can bring out heat and emotions, but trying to get the better of someone by getting personal or purposely going for the jugular is the reason why so many people have left. Just because we have anonymity that does not give us the right at any time to do so. And just because some here are so nice and sweet on most threads and then attack one person or another on some others does not absolve them of their accountability for that. There is a human being with real problems and issues behind each screen name whether they bring them to the front or not. At the very least behind each screen name, there is a human being with a heart and soul who bleeds if you cut them, and hurts if you punch them.
One does not need to be right in every discussion. It is fine to learn from others as well and just because a person throws punches it doesn’t make them any more right, it just makes them more hurtful.