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Posted by IngoB (# 8700) on :
 
I would like to thank the many people who have made the last decade here on SoF a frequent pleasure and continuous learning experience. You know who you are. I would also like to ask my victims and enemies for forgiveness, or at least for forgetfulness. Time may not heal all wounds, but ill memories of me hopefully will fade to insignificance with the usual speed of this medium.

I feel it is time for me to move on, before the flame within me is extinguished by my pretentious activities here (John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, 3.4). For those who care, rest assured that I have no crisis of faith. But in order to listen, one has to stop talking.

Please be not offended by a lack of reply, including to PMs.

Godspeed.
 

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Posted by Erroneous Monk (# 10858) on :
 
I could have better spared a better man.

Or rather, I can't really spare you at all right now. But so be it. I suppose that, in many (most?) cases, I will know what you would have said.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Fear not, there is nothing wrong with a good old ding dong.

Good luck in all future online-ishness and in RL
 

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Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
Fare well, Ingo B. I have long admired your intellect and energy. And I admit as a Catholic that you helped clarify and explain aspects of my faith better (and more thoroughly) than any of the priests and nuns in my long years of Catholic education. For that, I thank you.

But I understand your desire to move on. I cannot fathom the time and energy you must have spent researching and preparing your many responses.

What I would request (should you, perchance, be reading this)is that you keep your Ship password committed to memory. Maybe in a few years you might form the desire to sail with the Ship again.
 

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Posted by MrsBeaky (# 17663) on :
 
Blimey, IngoB this comes as a bolt out of the blue!

Respect to you for the decision.
May the listening prove more fruitful than you could have hoped or imagined
Godspeed to you too
 

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Posted by Jack o' the Green (# 11091) on :
 
While I sometimes didn't agree with your views, they often made me think deeply about the issues under discussion, and I why I believe what I do. Debating with our opponents (and you weren't always in that role), can be better for us than agreeing with our friends. I for one think the Ship will be the poorer for your absence.
 

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Posted by agingjb (# 16555) on :
 
Goodbye IngoB. I will miss your posts.

I hope others of your faith and tradition can continue with some of your skill and ability to express its implications, so that I can both understand them and (charitably) choose to accept or reject them.
 

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Posted by Paul. (# 37) on :
 
Sorry to see you go. You made me think.
 

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Posted by passer (# 13329) on :
 
Damn. I feel a sense of loss.

I wish you well.
 

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Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :
 
Fare thee well. I suspect we'll always think of you as a Shipmate, even if you never hop on board again.
 

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Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 

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Originally posted by IngoB:

I feel it is time for me to move on, before the flame within me is extinguished by my pretentious activities here (John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, 3.4). For those who care, rest assured that I have no crisis of faith. But in order to listen, one has to stop talking.

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In hastening to solitude and exile, do not wait for world-loving souls, because the thief comes unexpectedly. In trying to save the careless and indolent along with themselves, many perish with them, because in course of time the fire goes out. As soon as the flame is burning within you, run; for you do not know when it will go out and leave you in darkness. Not all of us are required to save others. The divine Apostle says: "Each one of us shall give account of himself to God." And again he says: "Thou therefore who teachest another, teachest thou not thyself." This is like saying: I do not know whether we must all teach others; but teach yourselves at all costs.

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Originally posted by passer:
Damn. I feel a sense of loss.

I wish you well.

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This.

Godspeed, IngoB.
 

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Posted by cliffdweller (# 13338) on :
 
Godspeed, Ingo.
 

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Posted by TurquoiseTastic (# 8978) on :
 
I am very sad to say farewell IngoB! I have been reading and posting (at a low level) for over a decade - since before I switched from programming to teaching over twelve years ago - and it feels as though a pillar of my virtual life is vanishing. When a vastly experienced and respected colleague who feels like part of the very fabric of the school retires I feel just like this.

I've found your posts extremely provoking in just the sort of way I imagine SoF ought to be about. Like good chillies, they've been punchy, surprising and sometimes difficult to take, especially if your usual diet doesn't contain much of that sort of thing. Really hot ones might even make you cry for a bit - but they'll do you no harm in the end. They certainly make things a lot more interesting. Some weirdos even get to like the taste. Certainly I would always click on a Purg thread with your name in the "Last post" column.

I hope to encounter you again sometime, by sea or shore. God bless and God speed.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
All the best, IngoB.
 

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Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
I'm sorry you're going. I hope you find what you need; have a peaceful, replenishing, and enlightening journey (enlightening as both finding light and lightening your load); and find your way back to the Ship.

And, in keeping with the thread title:

--I occasionally find it a relief to think of Mrs. Enid Kapelsen;

--42;

--and never forget where your towel is.


 

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Posted by Jamat (# 11621) on :
 
I found your posts helped to clarify things for me so you are a great loss imv. Go well!
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Peace, Ingo.
 

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Posted by Amos (# 44) on :
 
Wishing you well in all you do, and sending blessings.
 

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Posted by hatless (# 3365) on :
 
Go well, IngoB.

I often found you very hard to take, but that's a lesson and learning is precious.

Have adventures on your way.
 

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Posted by Chesterbelloc (# 3128) on :
 
IngoB, you know it will not just be pertinacious papists like me to whom your departure from these boards will be a great loss. It will be a greater loss than I think is currently appreciated.

Although disheartened - after all, you did so much of the work that we remaining Catholics would otherwise have had to stump up to (or, more likely, wouldn't have had the time, discipline or skill to do, but would have felt bad about it) - I think I do understand.

Others will doubtless differ from me in this [form an orderly queue] but I'm certain that you have demonstrated by your enormous efforts that the fullness of the Catholic faith is coherent, defensible and compelling, even in the face of the most implacable and determined opposition from so many corners. You have done what you can - what few of the rest of us could or would - and have done it bloody heroically, as far as I'm concerned.

Thank you, and may you keep on keeping the faith to the end.
 

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Posted by Hilda of Whitby (# 7341) on :
 

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Originally posted by Chesterbelloc:
I'm certain that you have demonstrated by your enormous efforts that the fullness of the Catholic faith is coherent, defensible and compelling, even in the face of the most implacable and determined opposition from so many corners. You have done what you can - what few of the rest of us could or would - and have done it bloody heroically, as far as I'm concerned.

Thank you, and may you keep on keeping the faith to the end.

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Originally posted by Hilda of Whitby:
Vogue la galère.

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I don't know what this means, but the irony of that is certainly not lost on me.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 


Neither did I, but according to Google, it means "let the galley be kept rowing".
 

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Posted by Leaf (# 14169) on :
 
Thanks for your posts. I hope to meet you again at this table, or another.
 

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Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on :
 

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Originally posted by Piglet:


Neither did I, but according to Google, it means "let the galley be kept rowing".

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Originally posted by Chesterbelloc:
IngoB, you know it will not just be pertinacious papists like me to whom your departure from these boards will be a great loss. It will be a greater loss than I think is currently appreciated.

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True, that. Of course, nobody is irreplaceable, but some people are more difficult to replace than others. Nowadays we would have to be very lucky indeed for someone of Ingo's knowledge and skills to happen upon this board whilst meandering through the internet, and then decide to devote time to it. So many alternatives. So many variables.

Still, with Corbyn's election and all, that's one turbulent priest in, in one field, and one successfully got rid of in another.
 

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Posted by Qoheleth. (# 9265) on :
 
I'm another who will sorely miss your clarity of exposition. Living just down the road, I was looking forward to meeting you IRL at a Shipmeet sometime.

Pax at bonum.

Q.
 

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Posted by Ricardus (# 8757) on :
 


The Ship will be a lot poorer.
 

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Posted by saysay (# 6645) on :
 

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Originally posted by IngoB:
But in order to listen, one has to stop talking.

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