This post did not start out as fun or as lighthearted banter, and with that criteria applied it has been illegal from the start. Perhaps it should have been placed in General Discussions from the beginning.
Did the original topic fit in with the criteria for General Discussions?
Perhaps it is true, as Rhys has observed, that another section is needed. Perhaps we can instead rely on the flexibility and governance of mature moderators.
The observation that this thread has diverted from the original topic is a minor point, that is, it is not important compared to profitable (if it is profitable) discussion. In this thread I think that the original topic was hardly discussed at all and went on quickly to the will of God (which was related) and then on to prayer (which was related) and then on further to prayer (which perhaps wasn’t related) and then on to Gethsemane (which wasn’t related and so I am guilty as charged).
I am not saying that I am the only guilty one.
In regard to my digression from the original discussion: perhaps I was too much of a coward to start a new thread. Or there was another or were other reasons. Or I just slipped up. However, I ask for forgiveness. Am I forgiven?
Even if I had started a new thread the discussion has already digressed.
I would like to make a strong protest however.
The discussion as to whether this discussion has digressed or not, or fits into the category or not of fun and lightheartedness, or whether or not another category of discussion is needed or not, should have I think, strictly speaking, been started as another discussion (post), as such discussion digresses from the original discussion, and does not fit into the category of fun and lightheartedness.
It seems that those who are protesting are not following their own protests.
Please don’t think that I am being entirely serious. I am trying to fit in with the category of fun and lightheartedness. But then I have digressed from the original topic. At least I am half right.
Am I?
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