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Your first post &/or first kudos
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 (February 15, 2015 at 2:03 pm)Nestor Wrote:(February 15, 2015 at 2:00 pm)whateverist Wrote: Reality Salesman hasn't passed on. I still see him on FB and he recently bought a new house for his kiddo, girlfriend and big-assed dog.Well good, Jesus! I just meant passed on from the forum world. Why doesn't he drop in to say hello or something? Speak of the devil, and he shall appear. Hello! It's nice to see that I'm being remembered. I miss you guys! And no...ain't dead!  RE: Your first post &/or first kudos
February 16, 2015 at 2:16 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2015 at 2:23 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
...I forgot to respond to the OP! Sorry, it's been a while. I don't know how many of you remember the bible-banging Christian extremist that went by the name of "jstrodel" but, he was actually the first one to rep me for "elevating the level of debate". I can't seem to find the thread but I remember pointing out a flaw in an argument made against Strodel, perhaps he noticed that I was new and was attempting to gain an ally by giving me a compliment. While I was flattered, no such thing was accomplished by Mr. Strodel. Come to think of it, I don't recall him ever thanking me for anything I said in an argument thereafter.
This is my 4,000th post! It took me almost two and a half years to get here, but whoopee!
 Quote:And no...ain't dead! Always a good sign. 
"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."
-Stephen Jay Gould  (February 16, 2015 at 2:16 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I don't know how true it is, but I remember reading that well over 90% of a forum's members never post once. I think a lot of people are a little gunshy because of the rough-and-tumble forum posting can be. I don't know how true it is in general - but food for thought: Our member list is by default sorted in reverse order of number of posts, and contains 355 pages. The first member with zero posts appears on page 219. So, here at least, two thirds of all members have posted at least once. |
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