Ralph,
"Before my post, I read everything else posted. After wading through 4 pages and 46 posts, I found about 8 to be relevant to the topic and about 38 related to bickering. Though I find the whole ordeal rather humorous, I can relate to you Justin as being quite unhappy over the matter, especially since you asked for no comments to begin with."
Topics do divert, and even the OP said screw it. Connecting the dots further, being quite unhappy in the light of that is sad in an entirely different way. Wading through is as valid as skimming through, but the latter has a purpose of getting there whilst the first option is begging for status quo, with the hardship of reading through posts as the reason to reach that end.
Dude,
"Perhaps we should all just Lighten up?

"
How many afterlife knowledge posters does it take to change a light bulb? None, too busy commenting the change of path in the topic about changes.
Wonderer,
"I'd hate (and I'm sure others too) to start reading a thread with a specific topic and then it leads to something else which is not relevant to what the OP had in mind of discussing..."
It leads to something else, which is a discussion of freedom of speech, banning and censorship. It does tie in with speaking about changes, or any other topic on this board. Highly relevant in that regard.
So anyways, to both hold and keep the line;
Earth changes, will it be accompanied by cha-cha dancing and the odd bit of stuttering?