Philosophy

[Tiberius]

Oh, here we go. Same old story, and does anyone remember me predicting this? And why?

No, I don't remember you predicting this, and if you did, it only shows that you understood you were being disruptive.

Because I've been doing this for years and years and years. I write well, and I get lots of attention to my posts, and this makes the moderators and the owners of blogs and forums feel threatened.

We're not feeling threatened. We love the threads you've started and the posts you've made. What we object to is your attitude when we object to your ideas, or to an idea that you like. Take what happened in this thread. I called dagda's idea "fucking ridiculous", as is my freedom to do so on this forum. You couldn't stand for this blatant freethinking, and made numerous false assertions, most of which were ad-hominem attacks:

you have absolutely no intellectual curiosity at all
All atheists seem to know how to do is berate what they won't take the time to even think about.
I guess with a wave of your what, 20-year-old hand, you would dismiss them as "fucking ridiculous" as well.
You think you're advanced, intelligent, wise, oh, and what's the other word...educated. But you don't espouse any original ideas.

Now you see, I could use the same method and simply attack you multiple times with ad-hominems and make false assertions, but I didn't. I countered every point you made.

So they issue warnings first--usually at the same time they themselves are breaking the rules they say I am breaking, and then their scrawny finger hovers over the "ban" button until I finally say something that pushes them over the edge, or I post a post that gets a hundred responses in a day, and they just know that all their problems would be solved if they got rid of me. After all, no one starts a forum or a blog with the intent of someone else stealing the show. No one starts a forum just to manage it. Isn't that right, Adrian? They start a blog that allows responses or a forum with the hopes of getting a community going that becomes dependent on the interaction, and the more dependent the members become, the more power the owner with the "ban" button has. The next thing you know, people are saying things like: "You're all a bunch of idiots, except maybe Adrian." And, well, that's just the next best thing to heaven. In fact, maybe that is an atheist heaven.

Blah blah blah...mindless assertion...blah...assertion...assertion. Just so you know, none of us have our fingers over a ban button. We only ban extremely disruptive people, because a warning seems to help most calm down a it. Happened with frodo; he's still with us. Will it happen with you? Well it all depends on your attitude, and whether you break any other rules. We want a nice discussion here, but if you simply want to go around and blacken my name over things I haven't ever said or done, then you have another thing coming. We don't stand for threat and we certainly don't stand for mindless abuse.

You know what I get out of it. The absolute knowledge that you digested every single word in that big-ass rambling paragraph.

Like to see you try and prove "absolutely" that I read it

Attack ideas, not people please.