Hello from the UK :)

[SteelCurtain]

[robvalue]

Welcome back! Glad to hear you changed your mind Of course no hard feelings.

My advice is to use the ignore feature. If anyone in particular, theist or atheist, is regularly saying things you don't want to see or being too angry and over the top, then just pop them on ignore. It works wonders for me. You can still peek at what they are saying when you feel like it (when using the full version anyway) or unignore them later. I think it's better to do that than let them ruin the whole experience for you. You're not obliged to read what everyone has to say.

If you think everyone here is too angry then that's not going to work of course! Personally I'm not angry at all, all my posts are intended to be read in a very calm voice.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Hi emjay,

Sorry you're leaving and this isn't for you. However, to save you some time, you can't close your account.

Good luck in your internets travels.

Hi Pandamonium,

Thanks for that and if that's the case I feel a bit silly for having burned my bridges so to speak by leaving a farewell message. Can I take that back ?


You'll have to forgive me, I just got freaked out by the site going down the other day and thought it might've been an attempted hack by religious nuts angry at something someone had said (which wouldn't have surprised me based on how 'vocal' the discussions are here ) - and therefore wanted to distance myself from it.

I still don't feel comfortable with how vocal the discussions are here but please don't take that to mean I am an apologist for religion. I am not. Religion has caused me nothing but grief in my life. I'm gay you see and that was what made me question my religion in the first place and what ultimately continues to drive a pointless wedge between me and my family that no matter what I do, no matter what rational arguments I put forward, I can't dislodge. So believe me I am angry with religion and immensely frustrated but I just don't know how to combat something which has as its first instinct the desire to shut out anything which threatens it.

So since I can't close my account I may well just throw caution to the wind and say exactly how I feel which is what I've just done ) Am I still welcome? 

Of course you're still welcome.

The site went down because we've been in the process of moving servers and updating the forum software. No need to fear about hacking attemps ^_^

Conversations can certainly get heated here, but overall we're a good bunch of people, theist and atheist alike. Just develop a thicker skin and remember not to take anything personally, it's only the internets after all

[robvalue]

The way I deal with angry people is to CUT THEM TO PIECES MAN

[LastPoet]

Oh ffs how long are we playing this game? You are welcome to this forum, if you want to leave, go for it, if you want to stay, requiem. The exit payment is the same of entry fees. Zero. Sorry if I sound an asshole to point that out.

[emjay]

Oh ffs how long are we playing this game? You are welcome to this forum, if you want to leave, go for it, if you want to stay, requiem. The exit payment is the same of entry fees. Zero. Sorry if I sound an asshole to point that out.

I haven't been able to reply to anyone yet because I work Saturdays and have been at work all day. I've just got back.

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Welcome back! Glad to hear you changed your mind Of course no hard feelings.

My advice is to use the ignore feature. If anyone in particular, theist or atheist, is regularly saying things you don't want to see or being too angry and over the top, then just pop them on ignore. It works wonders for me. You can still peek at what they are saying when you feel like it (when using the full version anyway) or unignore them later. I think it's better to do that than let them ruin the whole experience for you. You're not obliged to read what everyone has to say.

If you think everyone here is too angry then that's not going to work of course! Personally I'm not angry at all, all my posts are intended to be read in a very calm voice.

Sorry I haven't replied sooner. As I said I've been at work all day. By aggressive and angry I didn't mean against me, though of course that's not nice either, but just in general. In the sense that I have never been on a forum that even allows swearing let alone is full of it, so it just came as a bit of a shock to the system. And the thing is swearing always comes across angry and aggressive, so that's all it was really. Combine that with 'irreverent' swearing and it's just not something I'm used to. But that's what freedom of speech is all about so I just have to get used to it.

[Kitty Galore]

Hope you stick around, at least in the off topic threads, and the ones mentioned above. We are community. 'Ignore' is a great feature and it isn't forever. I personally don't have anyone on ignore, but that may change someday.

[emjay]

Hope you stick around, at least in the off topic threads, and the ones mentioned above. We are community. 'Ignore' is a great feature and it isn't forever. I personally don't have anyone on ignore, but that may change someday.

Hi there Yeah I am staying. Evidently I've pissed someone off for not saying that sooner but I didn't have the chance. So there it is said and there is also my initiation into swearing in a forum, another thing I have to get used to. Anyway, nice to meet you and l look forward to seeing you in the other forums

[Rhondazvous]

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Welcome to the forum Rhondazvous.