Personally I have gotten as much out of the relating/projecting posts as I have from the objective ones.

Actually, I think it is quite a stretch to swear full objectivity.

On my thread right now, getting input from the guy who left is so helpful and pacifying.

I welcome all of it. Of course, who am I to project that you should feel the same? wink

Besides, most of us do have our biases anyaway (for example, your loathing of French people and assumptions about H and his accent which doesn't actually exist). We paint pictures in our minds tainted by our biases and certainly our heightened sensitivities right now. So what?

Just food for thought.