In that same..ahem..vain...Wilkey, like many of your long winded philosophical posts in the previous thread, imo you've come off once again as having an excuse. The title of your thread strikes me as "I'm sorry, but can you blame me?"
I'm sorry that it could be interpreted it as such. Perhaps that says less about my intent, than the feelings of the one doing the interpreting? Just saying. And BTW, I meant it as saying I am as human, and all that that entails, as any one of us. Any one of us who has or might one day find ourselves in this same position. How mean spirited and sardonic an interpretation indeed. It is the same perspective that paints any explanation as an excuse. How utterly unbrotherly.
Apparently, there are other accounts that must also be settled, not just Bill's.
Let's not forget those in order that this entire episode can be brought to a satisfactory close.
No need for insinuations. If there are other transactions that need to be closed, then I'd ask that the participants contact me directly and remind me. Or post here. Your choice. I tell you now that if they are unconsummated, it is because I have forgotten. I have successfully executed many transactions and have done so with the best possible, but seemingly imperfect follow up. If the insinuation is that I've welched for personal gain, then your proof of intent had better be pretty air tight. I've come back to close this transaction and any others that have lingered for some reason. Strangely, no contact in months, perhaps years asking for deals to be finished. Why now? Why not then?
Warning: long winded philosophical goodbye, as I stand here against the firing squad wall, I demand the right of a final statement
And to those who have gained something from my time here, I leave you all the work that I've produced. Let that, if nothing else, be my legacy. Once we are done here, we are done. The uncharitable comments in this thread have truly, fully, and irrevocably shown me that this is no longer the place for me. Although I will treasure and maintain the friendships I've developed, I find myself simply liking it here less and less. The camaraderie and the jollity have long since been tainted by a lingering veil of scorn and venom. It has stopped being my home and become a little more like...something else not quite as good.
Here is the towel. Consider it thrown in. Bill, Neal, George, Bruce, you wanted me gone. I'm gone. You've won. You've made this place sufficiently unpleasant, unwelcoming, and unfulfilling for me to finally leave. How do you know this is not just another couple of weeks away only to return with a cheery 'how do?' Because I am telling the entire forum that I give up and you have won. It's funny. Back in 2005 I was looking for a place to call home and happened to make contact with Bill. It was, in part, his praise of CigarPass that brought me here. It was that reality fulfilled that kept me here.
But now I leave CigarPass in your hands. For you to treat as you see fit. Yours to shape into a vision of what this community should be. This place is yours now as, apparently, it ever was. What it is, what it is to become, all this will be the fruits of your guidance, your example. I trust that will be sufficient. If not, at least rest easy in knowing that the average sentence length of posts on this forum will soon drop precipitously.
Now let's get this done. Hell, I'll even buy the first bullet.
Wilkey
. Wilkey/Bill I am glad this may turn out better than it appeared. Happy New Year!!
