(April 24, 2011 at 11:13 am)Garmston Ansell Wrote:

(April 24, 2011 at 11:11 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Well, can't say I'm surprised.

You received several warnings and ignored them.

I suggest you learn from your experience.

No, I didn't receive any warnings, formally or informally.

I read the entire thread. Yes, you did receive warnings, you simply ignored them. And sending private messages to that arsehole 'noreligion' was asking for trouble in any case.

I have to ask,

What christian/religious forums have you been on asking the same questions and how were you received?

(April 24, 2011 at 11:28 am)theVOID Wrote: I hung out on those forums before I found these ones, some of them were pretty cool but most of them were obnoxious twats (not like I'm completely immune to that), so I left and found these forums, I haven't left, so at least that's one subjective account of the superiority of AF.org

Just out of curiosity, what exactly did you send to NoReligion?

Me too Void, I was chookrooter. (Yes, my bad, the name was taking the piss out of the Americans,who I was pretty sure wouldn't get it; they didn't)

I finally left when one of their moderators (Flat Earth, I think) called me a cunt once too often.

However, to be fair, that mob are the acme of reason and civility compared with Raving Atheist, whose members can be more properly described as inmates.

(April 24, 2011 at 2:54 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I'd like to direct you to a thread you started entitled 'I'm a troll'

http://atheistforums.org/thread-6656.html

If you are not in fact a troll then this is a bizare thing to do.

To be fair, I've done far weirder

I'm not holding my breath, but i'll still be cordial enough to vaguely wish you a pleasant stay. Without further ado:

Welcome, I hope you have a very pleasant stay

(April 25, 2011 at 6:01 am)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: To be fair, I've done far weirder

I'm not holding my breath, but i'll still be cordial enough to vaguely wish you a pleasant stay. Without further ado:

Welcome, I hope you have a very pleasant stay

Yes you have havent you!
But I get your surrealist humour and didnt detect any in the other blokes post.

Frankly, if you PM'ed someone who turned out to be a raving asshole and asked you not to do it again, why would you do it again? If it were me I'd simply apologize and forget them. The mod told you not to do it again, and yet you did. Ignoring mods is one easy way to get banned from forums.

And I, too, am a bit skeptical about this whole "essay" thing. It's not like you're shooting a documentary like "Religulous." The questions you're asking are just way too simple and broad to get any use out of. I don't think you're a troll, though, you just appear to not being used to having good interviewing skills.

Doubting Thomas Wrote:It's not like you're shooting a documentary like "Religulous."

That movie is not a documentary: it is humor

(April 25, 2011 at 1:48 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Frankly, if you PM'ed someone who turned out to be a raving asshole and asked you not to do it again, why would you do it again? If it were me I'd simply apologize and forget them. The mod told you not to do it again, and yet you did. Ignoring mods is one easy way to get banned from forums.

And I, too, am a bit skeptical about this whole "essay" thing. It's not like you're shooting a documentary like "Religulous." The questions you're asking are just way too simple and broad to get any use out of. I don't think you're a troll, though, you just appear to not being used to having good interviewing skills.

That's fair. I shouldn't be considered a troll just because of the way I ask my questions. That's just the way I've always been. I know it comes off as blunt and maybe abrupt but it's what I'm used to. I can imagine it being annoying but I don't really know any other way. Sometimes I'm not even aware of it.

(April 25, 2011 at 2:41 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote:

Doubting Thomas Wrote:It's not like you're shooting a documentary like "Religulous."

That movie is not a documentary: it is humor

Humour? Only with a certain generosity of spirit, and only in America.

A personal opinion: I think Bill Maher is a twerp, as funny as cancer,but probably a little more ethical than Michael Moore.

It had some marginally humorous moments (the interpretation of the text message received/sent by the hat wearing islamic man) as I recall. Otherwise it's mostly a boring movie :S