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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
May 16, 2015 at 12:53 pm
(May 16, 2015 at 12:08 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: (May 16, 2015 at 12:14 am)robvalue Wrote: ...
It must be daunting to join as a theist, I do respect those that have the balls. I've not even looked into joining a theist forum.
It takes very little courage to post online without revealing one's true identity. (And think of getting bonus points with one's god, so one will get a better seat in heaven!)
So, I have no special respect for those who sign up. If they want to do so, it is fine with me, but it is not a courageous thing to do.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
May 16, 2015 at 3:22 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2015 at 3:27 pm by Nope.)
It is surprising how many theists seem to believe that they have something new to say that atheists haven't heard a million times already. I assume the theists who come here must enjoy debating but it seems that after a short while some of them go off the deep end and start going out of their way to annoy the moderators.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
May 16, 2015 at 3:30 pm
(May 16, 2015 at 3:22 pm)Nope Wrote: It is surprising how many theists seem to believe that they have something new to say that atheists haven't heard a million times already. I assume the theists who come here must enjoy debating but it seems that after a short while some of them go off the deep end and start going out of their way to annoy the moderators.
If they are banned in a holy cause, they no longer feel obligated to continue. They have done "all they could," so they get the brownie points from god for "trying," and yet they don't have to try anymore. It is really an obvious strategy, and if their god were real, he would see through that and probably send them to hell for it.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
May 16, 2015 at 4:07 pm
It is worthwhile to say, that for a den of heathens, a newly joined theist is most likely to ignore the rules, troll/spam/flame, act like we are being petty for insisting that they follow our rules, and overall be disruptive.
Our most famous theists that last longer than a month or two usually do so with a trail of warnings and speedbumps.
Think fr0ds, Drich, He who shall not be named, Rev777, JesusLover. All the same.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
May 16, 2015 at 9:57 pm
Not a banning, but a locking (maybe we should start a seperate peanut gallery for that?). Something about the Ask a kiwi thread went over my head. But apparently it was bad.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
May 16, 2015 at 10:05 pm
Trying to figure out what happened, there. I think it was moderated by accident.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
May 16, 2015 at 10:06 pm
Not me this time. Honest, guv...
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
May 17, 2015 at 2:38 am
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2015 at 2:39 am by robvalue.)
Yeah, when I said the theists have balls to come here, I should have made clear I mean the ones who actually engage in honest discussion. It's not hard to sign up and write a load of garbage until you get banned, sure 
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
May 17, 2015 at 3:38 am
(May 16, 2015 at 3:30 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: (May 16, 2015 at 3:22 pm)Nope Wrote: It is surprising how many theists seem to believe that they have something new to say that atheists haven't heard a million times already. I assume the theists who come here must enjoy debating but it seems that after a short while some of them go off the deep end and start going out of their way to annoy the moderators.
If they are banned in a holy cause, they no longer feel obligated to continue. They have done "all they could," so they get the brownie points from god for "trying," and yet they don't have to try anymore. It is really an obvious strategy, and if their god were real, he would see through that and probably send them to hell for it.
... or at least shoot them in the face with rocksalt for being such cocksuckers.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
May 18, 2015 at 7:18 am
What's up with the unintelligible spammers?
https://atheistforums.org/thread-33448.html
Do they like send their text through Google translate a hundred times in order to optimize it?
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