Dear gransnet

Thank goodness I have been in London today and missed all this much ado about bugger all nothing.
It would never have occurred to me to start a thread all about myself

petallus just answer the individual posters you are referring to. I can take criticism, but I hate bloody paranoia. And Gransnet can be very paranoia inducing.

Just give it straight between the eyes, or don't comment at all.

They just won't let us tell it!

The truth is out there.

TriciaF I read your link and found it very interesting and wise.

Regarding unhelpful, unkind and unnecessary words, soontobe wasn't the only one contributing those to this thread. Far from it in fact.

We all need to guard our tongues. I quite agree.
But as regards me answering posters' multiple questions, gransnet HQ dont have a problem.
But I take your point that me learning to stop posting eventually is a lesson I need to learn.

Soontobe:
If you're still reading this, and are interested in religious study, I suggest you look at this link:
www.theologyofwork.org/new-testament/pastoral-epistles/2-timothy-encouragement-for-a-faithful-worker/a-challenge-to-guard-your-tongue-2-timothy-214-26/
It's about guarding your tongue but also applies to writing and posting on forums.
I hope I don't sound holier-than -thou but I was,and still am a lover of idle chatter, and have been following a course of guarding my tongue for some years now. With a little success.
Originates from psalm 34, verse 31.

#conversationkiller

Three whole hours off this thread. I have not looked anywhere else. Is this a record? #rapsownknucklesforbeingnaughty. Bad nelliemoser.

Are you getting worried now, stansgran? Six minutes and nobody's posted on the thread.

I generally post and move on as I seem to have a natural gift for killing a thread#somethimgipridemyselfon

What have I missed this time? #always in the wrong place.......

Thank you for the cake, bags!

Get thee to the philosophy thread bags & pompa

"There are very few absolute truths" well that's one for a start

Truth can be elusive. There are very few absolute truths.

Last piece of advice soon. You do not have to announce to everyone that you will be stopping on a thread.......Just stop!

Last word on the subject?

(Don't answer that, it was a rhetorical question...)

I will stop on this thread now.

It's all in your control Soon, just stop when you want!! Did you really expect GN to rule on unwritten threads with unknown content happening at some indeterminate time in the future? How can they? I think I would have used a different word than disingenuous.

Never mind tea and biscuit....large piece of carrot cake required. Very large.

I think that my problem, if I have one, is that I need to see things that I write are correct.
So if someone misinterprets what I write, or misunderstands, I need it corrected. And I think that it is quite a big need.
Truth is hugely important to me.
Perhaps I should accept though, that whatever I, or anyone writes, may not be able to be wholely expressed to its entirety. But I cant leave some of the misunderstandings or misinterpretations, because else it alters what I am trying to say.

LucyGransnet answered my question, as I had wondered if I was breaking any rules, but realised, as the thread progressed, and partly last night that I wasnt. Yeah.

rhetorical questions - I find them hard to spot, if not impossible.

mcem - nothing to do with last word or attention seeking. And now I know for sure that I am not breaking gransnet rules, I will answer those sorts of posts a bit more robustly in future when they crop up.

You can have cake too, lily

We've had them for a while, Lilygran but they're not in the Smileys list.

Just type 'biscuit' between square brackets.

I like the biscuits, Ana, jingl