RE: Introduction
September 12, 2014 at 11:05 am
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2014 at 11:09 am by Keri.)
(September 12, 2014 at 10:50 am)sswhateverlove Wrote:Quote:Perhaps some of your members here could benefit from that lesson.
Perhaps you could benefit from your own advice. You certainly come off a bit too aggressive. You're constantly defensive. This is not a debate forum. If you want to constantly be on the defense, join a debate forum.
Woooahh... wow, now I have to totally admit my ignorance. My entire interaction here was based around the assumption that this was a debate forum... It was the exact reason I came here. If you're telling me it's an atheist support group, I will respectfully bow out and go elsewhere.
And I'm actually quite proud of my assertiveness with regard to my experience here. Defensiveness is to be expected when defensiveness is required.
I'm horrible with sarcasm on the internet so I can't tell if that's you being sarcastic or not. But I believe someone else has already replied to you (in this thread maybe?) that this is not a debate forum. It's also not a support group per say. It's considered an online community as you've already been informed of multiple times.
You can call it assertiveness all you want but it's pure (unnecessary) defensiveness mixed with a shit load of attitude.
If you have two eyes that have the ability to see you can scroll down the front page of AF and see that it's not a debate forum based on the numerous sub-forums. Example, the Arts sub-forum. With threads about members posting their art or favourite music. How is that any indication of a debate forum?
"Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere. And I have the further right to demand a free and unrestricted exercise of that right, and it is your duty not only to accord it, but as a community, to see I am protected in it. I trust that I am fully understood, for I mean just that, and nothing else."
— Victoria Woodhull, “And the truth shall make you free,” a speech on the principles of social freedom, 1871
— Victoria Woodhull, “And the truth shall make you free,” a speech on the principles of social freedom, 1871