Hey, just wanted to apologize to the staff for my thoughtless joke. Won't happen again, and I'll take whatever lashes you dole out without miff.
Sorry, guys.
Sorry, guys.
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  RE: The Rules
January 23, 2015 at 2:59 am
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2015 at 2:59 am by Cyberman.)
The one he didn't think of?
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.'
(January 23, 2015 at 2:42 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Throw it in the oven. 250 for 3 hours 15 mintues. Cure those brains. Sadly, those brains are incurable.
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.'
You don't gots ma mad curin' skills.
"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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January 23, 2015 at 3:35 am
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2015 at 3:36 am by Losty.)
(January 23, 2015 at 1:24 am)whateverist Wrote:(January 23, 2015 at 12:45 am)Losty Wrote: Then there's the necroposting rule. If I ever receive an official warning regarding this, then I'll consider not doing it. I think it's a terrible rule Yea yea guidelines schmuidelines. I don't think I have ever necrod anything that annoyed someone, but....I do tend to rep those who do it. I'm not rebellious enough to intentionally do things that might annoy mods. I know their job is tough and without pay. I just think bad rules are meant to be broken. If we can't call people out, but want to respond to a post in an old thread, our only option is to necro that thread. And if the user happens to be someone who doesn't hang about anymore...so what? We can continue the conversation without them or let the thread die again. If you create a new thread about the same topic, cool. If you comment in an old one and get the conversation started back up, cool. I don't see how one is better than the other. That's why it's good as a guideline only. Necroposting in the occasional interesting old thread never hurt anyone even if the person you respond to isn't here anymore. But...necroposting 8 100 year old threads about shit topics in your first week on the forum can be kind of annoying. (January 23, 2015 at 3:01 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: You don't gots ma mad curin' skills. 
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January 23, 2015 at 3:39 am
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2015 at 3:39 am by Alex K.)
It's really funny when there's some dusty thread like, whatever, "Proof that Jesus is gay" that had been sitting untouched since the stone age of 2007, and suddenly some random guy miraculously digs it out 7 years later and posts like "Jesus is totes not gay, loosers!". I always wonder how they find this stuff, does Google searches turn up old threads and attract these people?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
 RE: The Rules
January 23, 2015 at 5:09 am
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2015 at 5:14 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 23, 2015 at 2:54 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(January 23, 2015 at 2:49 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: Hey, just wanted to apologize to the staff for my thoughtless joke. Won't happen again, and I'll take whatever lashes you dole out without miff. The one which required a mod edit, and report. I thought it would be funny, but hey, everyone has an off-night. Anyway, apologies about it, I'll think more. (January 23, 2015 at 3:35 am)Losty Wrote: We can continue the conversation without them or let the thread die again. If you create a new thread about the same topic, cool. If you comment in an old one and get the conversation started back up, cool. I've seen, on more than one forum, the phenomenon where if you necro a post, you're told by the readership to stop necroing threads, and if you start your own thread on a topic already covered, you get told, "We have 17 threads about this already." I like the idea of necroing threads. I started a thread one time elsewhere as a contest, to see who could come up with the oldest necro. I think it's cool to see a site's history like that. 
There is a minor annoyance with necro'ed threads when people don't realize that it's been bumped and they respond to the early posts, then find that those posts are months or years old. For the occasional and meaningful bump, that's not an issue and can even be funny. When you have people who bump one old topic after another --especially to add some meaningless one-sentence reply-- it's no longer just annoying.
I do prefer DP's idea of consolidating a lot of the common arguments into a topic with links, to avoid the "don't necro, but don't start the same topic again" comments. It helps in those periods when there are a lot of new posters who bring up arguments we just finished discussing at length, or those who think that "Josephus spoke about the Christ" is some new and earth-shattering revelation for atheists.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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