RE: The Newly Departed thread: announcements (departures)
November 13, 2018 at 6:46 am
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2018 at 6:54 am by GUBU.)
(November 8, 2018 at 2:29 am)pocaracas Wrote: During the past year (maybe a bit more), I've noticed this place becoming more hostile towards theists.
Some people tend to be respectful, like whateverist and Tiberius.... Some people are engaging, like khem or jorm...
But some people are just nasty, like kit and tizheruk.
All too often the theists (and I include CL as all too typical in this instance) bring it on themselves by being rude, condescending and ignorant towards others. An example in point, the fairly recent "discussion" by the theist members. This quickly devolved into a whine about how the christians deserved special treatment on the forums, where they'd get the usual protections but the rest of us woudn't be protected from them.
Yes I know I am abrasive and can be very insulting at times, but I am reactive in nature and rarely if ever instigate an argument, both in real life and online.
(November 8, 2018 at 9:22 am)Joods Wrote:(November 8, 2018 at 8:36 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: There's always going to be a range of attitudes and engagement styles on the atheist side, just as there is going to be a range of styles on the theist side, from the thoughtful and engaging, like Neo, Steve, and alpha, to the shitters, like snowtracks, CDF47, and Little Rik. To expect one side not to express the variety of human nature and not the other is unrealistic, IMHO. I'm sad that we have seen a growing silence or departure from the more thoughtful theists, but I don't trace it to any change in behavior of atheists. I think the discussion the theists had about their purposes in being here recently may have contributed some to that growing silence, but others, like Mystic and CL, clearly have their own reasons for departing.
I wouldn't include alpha in that list of thoughtful simply because he's an admitted troll. He doesn't want thoughtful and engaging posts. He wants the complete opposite.
Nor Wooters, he's expressed neo-fascist tendencies on a number of occasions in the past and is only interested in making pronouncements of his rightness. Stege, while a lot more polite, is as uninterested in debate or meaningful discussion.
(November 8, 2018 at 4:34 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Of course we're assholes! We're atheists, aren't we?
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