LHoD, gex: That makes sense. I hadn’t been exposed any logical proof of God’s existance.
Granted, I’m a bit odd, but Tuba-My-Love allowed me to take a sabbatical for about a year then I was reinstated moments after she got my email requesting it. Some people have more willpower than I but I found that the only way I could get away from here and STAY away was by making it so that I had to stay away.
In the past when someone took a sabbatical they had to be banned, leading to “Why was So-And-So banned?” threads. The newer way allows people like me to vanish for a while (though it never prompted a “Where’s dropzone?” thread 
) without the mods or admins having to explain it.
I, too, had to take a self-imposed sabbatical. The issue was that my emotions were riding too high for SDMB- and non-SDMB related issues; I was becoming very aggressive and borderline-inappropriately abusive, and felt that if I didn’t step back and handle the current issues in my life I wouldn’t retain my posting privileges. However, the SDMB had been such a large part of my life that unless I couldn’t post, it was pure habit to post and I would spiral away into BANNEDdom.
Hopefully, I’m a better man all around for it, but I won’t expect that judgment to be universal. 
ALTERNATIVE (TINFOIL) THEORY:
- Libertarian gets sick of the board and wants to be with the cool kids on the other forum.
- Libertarian, being a drama whore with a martyr complex, wants to go out with a bang.
- Libertarian tries to provoke Lynn into banning him ( for his radical ideas about freedom of expression :rolleyes: )
- Lynn doesn’t want to give Libertarian the satisfaction of a banning which he can use as proof of how fascistic the moderators are, and simply deletes Libertarians attempt to dramawhore.
- Libertarian, realising that his plan has been foiled, just asks to be banned instead.
- Libertarian claims to be banned for his radical ideas about freedom of expression. Cool kids at other forum are impressed.
- Mecha Stalin rises from his grave and tries to get into the next season of Survivor.
Dryga_Yes: For your number 3 to work, you’d need to assume that Libertarian thought that `free expression’ needed to exist on private property. That is not a Libertarian philosophy: If you own a MB, you can run it as a Stalinist state modulo forcing people to participate. That is a Libertarian idea and that is, indeed, what Lib said a few times on this MB.
Your analysis may be correct, but not for the reasons you posit.
I never said that he considered it his god-given right to post hate speech here, just that he wanted freedom of expression here.
Or rather, that he considered a message board with hate speech rules to be “below” him.
Or that hate speech rules on message boards was something just inane enough that he could make a big deal about it and start getting self-righteous
He was (is) a drama queen and talked to hear himself talk. He’s a waste of great intelligence. I hope he doesn’t ask to come back. After his ‘look-at-me, I’m so OPPRESSED’ bullshit that he used to introduce himself over there, I think it would be foolish to let the man back anyway. That post clear has delusions of grandeur and silly resentment all throughout. Good riddance, pompous buffoon.
I have no desire to interfere with folks doing the traditional dance on the grave of the departed that is such a popular ritual, here, (and on other boards). However, I suspect that there are a sufficiency of (useless) folks posting on both boards (along with numerous other boards) who have delusions of grandeur and silly resentments. Regardless whether Lib actually suffered from those disorders, I think that you could simply rejoice in his absence without demanding that the Administration take further steps to make you happy.
JMO
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Since the OP has been answered and we’ve had plenty of time for kibitzers, I am locking this thread.
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