Why can't we all just get along?

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"The list is not the place for this personal attack stuff. Take it offlist...I am not here to debate the good or bad of someone due to their profession. I have no problem with anyone on this list and no interest in reading this garbage. I'm here to support, and learn about WLS related information" AMEN!

This list becomes more and more every day like a 'fight room', ONE ISSUE SLOWLY LOSES WEIGHT and another takes it's place. Provoking people on this list has become a past time. I am so sick of this playground mentality. Will you people grow up? I know that your lives have been so full of anger. It is very difficult to change that. Some of you are biting the hand that feeds you and some are just waiting for the issue you can become the aggressors in. Take a good look at what has been going on for the last 7 months on this list. What is it that you want from this list? If you want to vent then there are places to do that.

Do any of you know how to personally reply to someone's message instead of involving the whole group? I know I am sick to death of people's OPINION'S. We are not here to hear of your opinion but to hear about weight loss stories and what we can do to help pre-ops with support and post-ops with problems.

Before you click that reply button and address the whole group with your anger towards this message, STOP, LOOK, LISTEN! Reply to me directly. Do not forward anything to the group anymore that is ugly or nasty.

People have begged and pleaded with you to stop this ugliness. If you do not have the power to do so then you need to go get you some help. This is not normal behavior. As one list member says "I'm tired of sifting through all the hate to find the people who need help" and I am too. My dh has asked me to remove myself from this list for several months now but I did not want to be selfish and get my surgery, go on with my merry life and forget about all the others out there needing help. I am at the point of no return. I think I will follow the lead of Joe and other's and find a different forum. For those of you that love this kind of stuff, go join a debate team or go fight for reform. If you must fight for the sake of fighting, do it constructively. Is there no SHAME for your behavior. Or is that because you will never see the persons face you are attacking that allows you to be ugly.

Viau http://www.angelfire.com/on/wannabemagic/WLS.html 3/29/01: 3166/26/01: 256 (-60 lbs)Dr Ren, NYUMC http://www.thinforlife.orgTo join the new group for Dr Ren click on the link belowhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/NYUMC-thinforlife