No I don't post much here because I find I have very little to add.  Yet, I do appreciate some of the conversations, give and take, debates and forthright ideas. 

Today, I am gobsmacked by having been shut down by the "Open Minded" discussion on one UCC forum.  The Google Groups Technology forum that the United Church has.

 By next Saturday the trout fishing season will have ended.  Often I will meet a couple of friends to go fly fishing on the last weekend of the season.  It has become a bit of a tradition.  We expect  that the fishing will be difficult or even grim.  Cold gray skies.  Big fronts moving in.  Few insects hatching and few fish rising.  We go anyway.  We justify it by saying that the big ones are feeding heavily as they get ready