I think repetition and hostility can really be a mechanism for burning out at EvC.
They say as soon as your hobby becomes like work, its time to get a new hobby. I think you've done a great job holding up your end, even when we disagree, so you don't have to feel bad about taking a breather.
I know for me I've taken breaks and then come back before (this last break was for a whole other thing of course). I guess I feel like Chiro said, browse through, find a few things, sometimes nothing. Sometimes I feel animated and start threads. Or a thread gets me thinking of something new and I want to see how it gets handled.
In the end what I really like is when there are some very interesting permutations of an argument I haven't seen before. New angles. That or interesting information on a topic I'd likely not get anywhere else.
Since coming back I've gotten some great resource links I did not know of before, a re-introduction to a great scientist which made me very happy, and Chiro personally added three new elements to my personal philosophy. That's on top of enjoying what people have to say.
So it was worth it. I'm likely to be getting busier and busier with the new year and may fade out again. Post less anyway.
I do miss many of the past great posters. What happened with Archer anyway?
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." - Robert E. Howard
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