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How did you become an atheist?
RE: How did you become an atheist?
And just as a side-note, I don't see how one can appoint himself as an arbiter of what people can and can't do unless he is staff. So again, how exactly was I crossing any lines over there? - that's rhetorical, as some other earlier questions and remarks of mine are. I am merely expressing a concern with how my speech was being regulated, just now, with no good reason for doing so.
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RE: How did you become an atheist?
(December 26, 2015 at 1:38 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: I'm not trying to be unreasonable.


This is you, apparently not trying to be unreasonable:

(December 26, 2015 at 1:05 am)excitedpenguin Wrote:
(December 26, 2015 at 12:56 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: How about leaving the decision as to what's OK to post up the the staff, eh?

IOW, you don't get to pick and choose who or what posts in any thread, regardless of who started it, so how about you stop acting like you do?

This post is so retarded I don't even know how to reply to it.


I call bullshit.

Bullshit.

Bull. Shit.

Bull fucking shit.

You sir, are a bullshitter's bullshitter.
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RE: How did you become an atheist?
(December 26, 2015 at 1:44 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: And just as a side-note, I don't see how one can appoint himself as an arbiter of what people can and can't do unless he is staff. So again, how exactly was I crossing any lines over there? - that's rhetorical, as some other earlier questions and remarks of mine are. I am merely expressing a concern with how my speech was being regulated, just now, with no good reason for doing so.

Considering the context of my observation about you, this is quite funny.

You're a funny man, do you know that? You say funny things.

Say a funny thing, would you?
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RE: How did you become an atheist?
Ok, I'll put it this way.

In terms of the stability of the forum, I answer to the whole memberbase.

In terms of my actually doing my job, whether I am justified or sanctioned to perform a certain act, I answer to my fellow Staff.

In terms of my continuing in my job, I answer to Tiberius.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: How did you become an atheist?
(December 26, 2015 at 1:40 am)Stimbo Wrote:
(December 26, 2015 at 1:38 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: I'm not trying to be unreasonable. Your colleague over here was trying to force me stop doing what you just said I was allowed to do. How do you explain that exactly?

Constructive criticism - yes.
Dictating what we should and shouldn't be doing - no.

Don't strawman me.

How was I dictating exactly? I was not, he misconstrued my intentions in that case as can be be seen from the context in which I said that. And even if one could "dictate", why should anyone care about it and more importantly why wouldn't it be allowed? Presumably, one can't dictate without having some power. What power do I have on these forums to dictate? If what I said can be called as dictating then any single thing can.

How do you think I'm strawmanning you exactly?
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RE: How did you become an atheist?
Well this banter has been.... fun? Yeah, fun. But I gotta go to bed.

Do try being less of a cock, EP.

Toodles!
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RE: How did you become an atheist?
(December 26, 2015 at 1:50 am)excitedpenguin Wrote:
(December 26, 2015 at 1:40 am)Stimbo Wrote: Constructive criticism - yes.
Dictating what we should and shouldn't be doing - no.

Don't strawman me.

How was I dictating exactly? I was not, he misconstrued my intentions in that case as can be be seen from the context in which I said that. And even if one could "dictate", why should anyone care about it and more importantly why wouldn't it be allowed? Presumably, one can't dictate without having some power. What power do I have on these forums to dictate? If what I said can be called as dictating then any single thing can.

How do you think I'm strawmanning you exactly?

That's a lot of words for "He told me to STFU", EP.
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RE: How did you become an atheist?
(December 26, 2015 at 1:45 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(December 26, 2015 at 1:38 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: I'm not trying to be unreasonable.


This is you, apparently not trying to be unreasonable:

(December 26, 2015 at 1:05 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: This post is so retarded I don't even know how to reply to it.


I call bullshit.

Bullshit.

Bull.  Shit.

Bull fucking shit.

You sir, are a bullshitter's bullshitter.

I was referring to what I was doing right then. But I can see now Stimbo might have been talking about my earlier posts. Just because that escaped me, doesn't mean I'm intentionally "bullshitting".
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RE: How did you become an atheist?
(December 26, 2015 at 1:47 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(December 26, 2015 at 1:44 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: And just as a side-note, I don't see how one can appoint himself as an arbiter of what people can and can't do unless he is staff. So again, how exactly was I crossing any lines over there? - that's rhetorical, as some other earlier questions and remarks of mine are. I am merely expressing a concern with how my speech was being regulated, just now, with no good reason for doing so.

Considering the context of my observation about you, this is quite funny.

You're a funny man, do you know that?  You say funny things.

Say a funny thing, would you?

The difference being, I'm not staff. You are.
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RE: How did you become an atheist?
(December 26, 2015 at 1:51 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(December 26, 2015 at 1:50 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: How was I dictating exactly? I was not, he misconstrued my intentions in that case as can be be seen from the context in which I said that. And even if one could "dictate", why should anyone care about it and more importantly why wouldn't it be allowed? Presumably, one can't dictate without having some power. What power do I have on these forums to dictate? If what I said can be called as dictating then any single thing can.

How do you think I'm strawmanning you exactly?

That's a lot of words for "He told me to STFU", EP.

I have no idea what you mean by this.
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