Self-imposed Rockbridge Forum exile is the game.
The Rules:
I can sit here and mind my own business, and only chat, ONLY to those who post here on crux's corner. I won't be allowed to post freely on ANY other thread, unless authorized by the original poster, or a registered user prompts me:
"Crux?" What say you???
That-a-way, then bingo BANGO!! I get to take my best shot at a thoughtful contribution!! The best foot forward.
Playing Fair:
So long as 2 separate users feel I am being at least 2 of the following ways: kind, rational, logical and helpful, I can continue to post to that thread.
Further...
Poor sportsmanship: 3 users may anonymously request or simply "Vote" that I be banished again to my corner again!!
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comments? Just a joke inspired by all that Fangz and Amy Poll, teenage romance stuff and the "FOE FILTER" junk.
There's been plenty of all that "Taking my bat and ball home" nonsense too. Too much hypocritical name calling...
Seriously It is time for me to go. I am really really busy and ready for CHANGE. It must be the STARS...
I have done what I hoped really. Thought deeply about truth and perception.
I have been challenged and castigated. To me there is a flow to conversation.
We have lost each other if one of us feels attacked, or derided, or made fun of.
Even if it dysfunctional projection. Maybe we are just thin skinned or incapable of self examination. Whatever.

I do not have a rigid ideology per say, but follow CERTAIN ethics. I mean PROVEN ethics and principles. Folks throw around worthy principles or moralize, and then accusations of "HYPOCRISY!!" are bandied about (AO approves of the word bandied. It is better than tripe for instance...) I am no exception but I don't hide. I don't shy from running the THING to the ground.
This forum has been fun and I have learned a lot and had to dig for facts and strain my presumptions and opinions.
But look, this was and wants to be a group of like minded leftistic locals. I mean the constant, "Idiots, Morons, Stupid, Racist, Backwards" kinds of marginalization you pronounce! "Republicans are dumb. Rich people are greedy. Liberals are always right. Corporations are BAD." Nonsensical blind bias and bigotry, unexamined and mean spirited. It is really what you guys need. I have said my piece, and made peace with you. It has been fun, but i am not feeling it. You guys got it bad.
If you are gonna be all anonymous, act like you would in public, or with your good neighbor who is like, a Christian Conservative, RIGHT.? Here the bash is anonymous. "Hugh Bouchell is an idiot. Governor McDumbell!" Look at yourselves! What are you a bunch of Winston Davies?? Between this place, Obama the lying scammer in chief and Krugman and the Daily Koss and Harry Reid, Axelrod, Piers, and Candy Crowley and Chris Cox I have reached another PINNACLE! I am INSPIRED!!!
I guess I am blathering. What is Twitter's limit, 144 characters? I gotta stop the "violence" of my posting here. Any righteousness I have achieved or good I have done for Rockbridge County via this forum, as if, is getting old. I will not
need a corner, and there is a lot of water under the bridge. Perhaps I have thin skin but don't doubt my motivations...
I think this is my goodbye to an old way of participating. Talk is cheap I know, and I will have to prove it. Life is short and I have to live it. Going forward I have to think about HOW I want to engage. Thanks for the fun and opportunity.
I will see you around the bend. I would erase all my posts here to date if I could. I would start all over fresh if I could. Let us be honest though. If you are pointing your finger at ME, you really need to check yourself. I think what I will do, as it occurs to me just now, is just REINVENT myself. Hey this is good... The New Leaf. The fresh flower. The sun rise...
I got it, maybe? I will hereby request my account be FROZEN. My words and petty contributions FROZEN. Lock me up not in a corner but lock me out permanently. STONE!!! Cancel my account!!! Lock it Big Daddy. I will no longer contribute as CRUX!!!
For really really really REAL!


I chose the moniker for obvious reasons. The gist or the central truth. The crux of the matter, as if I could.
Haughty right? You can't blame me though, I mean, the EGOS around this place are large and well established.
I will return as another voice perhaps but CRUX IS DEAD...
CRUX IS DEAD ...he is done... His name is retired.
This will be my Swansong... "Sing Already!!" you say.

DON'T RUSH ME!! It is like plunging into cold water. This is LOCAL, and you have engaged me... I will be back likely but not as crux. I have NEVER posted here as anyone else, although I do not doubt there are multiple personalities here.
I might come back as I don't know...
Any Ideas? dimwit? Dumbo? dipsydoodle? No, too hard to type. I will think of something. You'll know. I will not be able to hide it! But I will start over here and give it my best. I have given it my all. I have put a huge foot forward, and generally wasted a lot of time. It was fun though. I expended MUCH energy, time and effort sometimes selfishly.
I have too enjoyed TANGLING with my opposition. You guys are infuriating! If I could suggest something. Admit it when you are proven WRONG. Don't be embarrassed. I wasn't. It is tough to challenge hardened calloused belief and bias.
I have said I would meet you where you are, right where you HIT me. I still will but I will start over and try again to BE THE CHANGE. HOLD the hope...yaddayaddayadda... We're good people well, some of us right? Even amy P. surely.
There are the incapable here, who are JUST PETTY, and too ideological and I will not name names. I will include myself to all scrutiny. Mostly everyone here is smart, introspective and well intentioned and motivated to live life fully and die trying.
Rambling now. It is a flaw I will overcome when I reincarnate.

How about Mr. Positive? buddhaJr.? obamasux? I like Mr. Positive but it isn't good enough. Hey Kit Huffman by the way!, if you are still here. I respect her, Stephanie Wilkins, Amy P. too I mean, you guys are not anonymous. Is there a Parker Longbaugh for real? I doubt there's a Buck Turgidson but I haven't checked the phone book or nor do I care.
He is like the Kooky Uncle chained in the basement watching nothing but MSNBC. WELL, he is!!
I am intending to remain anonymous myself. Most of us do. I will tell you this. You old timers, and I have gotten there myself really, and that is the calling, WE have to make this place welcoming. There are moments of worthy words and high ideals but only the blind would say that is how they have actualized their voices here.
This place red like a GANG, when I got here...
SELF EXAMINE! You know who you are. It really is just about everyone. I am not immune from scorn I know!

Stonewall, I am over all impressed. You have a tough job description, you kool-aide drinker you!!

Just kidding. You are all right. I mean a good guy. A lefty sure, but a good guy going beyond...
Anyway, that's all I got. There is so much I could say but my shoulder hurts, and a broken toe is no real excuse for wasting time here. It has been fun.
Love you all, even Auntie Nudge and Cranky uncle AO, good hearted '56, coondog, Juggler, history, parker, sam, Uji, neck, amy P., Stonewall, cannoneer, trendy, glendale, loverockbridge, and anyone I have forgotten to mention. To all the NON progressive bots. Good try. It really is hopeless to any large degree, but I always hope some guests came here and got a little JUICE.
When I return, I will do my best to contribute something worthy, say nothing if I can not say something nice, etc.
Now AO. If you don't know it is me right away, don't try to pull all that dis-proven chuckleheaded crap either!!!
Or faking the high road and being all conciliatory and nice. Be honest. Be, a little more humble... Nevermind.
Coon, Fangz, Juggler and ok, AO you too, kinda... Thanks. To you too Sam. ...for motivating me to try, Old Man...
I will AT least surrender and end my posting reign of terror.

crux
Peace Out. Peace unto you and you are absolved. Now go get EM and put your best foot forward!!! All the best...