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deerbreh Member (Idle past 2922 days) Posts: 882 Joined: |
Err - you are not being helpful here.
Let's keep this to discussing the merits of the question I raised, ok? I didn't intend this as an open opportunity to "bash" Tal, whatever I might think of the wisdom of his signature line.
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deerbreh Member (Idle past 2922 days) Posts: 882 Joined: |
Talking about taking a cattle prod to your wife to turn her into a lesbian so you can watch (her have sex with another lesbian) is not obscene? Maybe I am just old fashioned but that is not exactly "Little Miss Muffet", imo. OTOH, what exactly is a "tuffet"?
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CK Member (Idle past 4157 days) Posts: 3221 Joined: |
quote: Well it's agreed then, my new avatar is fine.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
The point is not so much to bash Tal as to point out what his .sig says to me. Tal should realist that .sigs usually say more about the person using htem than they do about anything else.
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kjsimons Member Posts: 822 From: Orlando,FL Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
Well it's agreed then, my new avatar is fine.
Gangsta' JC, I love it!
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Monk Member (Idle past 3954 days) Posts: 782 From: Kansas, USA Joined: |
Whatever floats yer boat. JC might even like it.
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deerbreh Member (Idle past 2922 days) Posts: 882 Joined: |
In my opinion a discussion board is about discussing things. Anything which inhibits open discussion ought to be carefully considered before posting. "Ad hominum" attacks on other posters, offensive sexist, racist, homophobic whatevers inhibit free discussion because they become the issue rather than the topic at hand. For myself, I have decided I can no longer respond to a post by Tal as long as he continues to use what I consider to be an offensive signature line. I would do the same with anyone else who refused to change something after I had pointed it out to them that I considered it to be offensive. If that means I don't post very often or at all, so be it. I cannot control what you choose to say or do to me, but I can control how I respond. Hey! There is a pretty good signature line.
Edit to add my new signature line.... This message has been edited by deerbreh, 08-24-2005 04:13 PM "I cannot control what you choose to say or do to me, but I can control how I respond."
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1474 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
There have to be limits on what can legitimately be labeled "offensive." Just disliking somebody's political sarcasm doesn't qualify to my mind. Tal's signature makes a political point satirically. Many of the signatures and avatars of my opponents on this site have been offensive to me in one way or another, though lately they seem to be less in-your-face, but I've only complained about one poster's suggesting Jesus' homosexuality.
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Trixie Member (Idle past 3735 days) Posts: 1011 From: Edinburgh Joined: |
I don't think that trying to make fun of a piece of science you don't understand counts as political satire!! I find his sig offensive and wouldn't like to be the parent of a child who looks in on this board and has to explain the hot girl on girl action.
However, while I do find it offensive, I think it should be left as it is - that is poetic justice since the sig makes him appear like an uneducated moron. Please note that I am not calling him an uneducated moron, his own sig is.
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randman  Suspended Member (Idle past 4929 days) Posts: 6367 Joined: |
You mean like whole threads titled "When Will Creationists Learn" and entirely based on a false premise, namely the people that reject ToE do so because they do not understand it, when in reality they do understand it and that's why they reject it.
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NosyNed Member Posts: 9004 From: Canada Joined: |
It isn't that I find the fool sig so offensive; it is that Tal put it there when he was given the evidence for genetic involvement in sexual orientation instead of responding in an appropriate place. It is another time when he has ducked when the discussion went beyond him.
I think he has an aversion to admitting to an error.
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deerbreh Member (Idle past 2922 days) Posts: 882 Joined: |
I think it is generally a bad idea to pigeon hole people by saying things like "When Will Creationists Learn", yes.
OTOH, sometimes people demonstrate that they do not understand something and them I think it is ok to point out what you think they are missing as long as you don't do it repeatedly just to be annoying.
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Trixie Member (Idle past 3735 days) Posts: 1011 From: Edinburgh Joined: |
I think you'll find the title is "Why won't Creationists learn?" It is NOT "When will Creationists learn?" and it is a valid question. With all the scientific info given in posts on this board and with a desire to engage in scientific discussion, why won't they learn the basics of the science they are trying to rubbish? How can they know a theory is wrong if they don't actually know what the theory says? Why won't they learn what the theory says before they dismiss it?
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Jazzns Member (Idle past 3941 days) Posts: 2657 From: A Better America Joined: |
In fact there is a post in that very thread answering your concern.
Message 33 ABE: As noted, the thread is not called "When will Creationists Learn?". The thread is about learning the theories in order to attack them properly and has nothing to do with acceptance of the ToE. This message has been edited by Jazzns, 08-24-2005 03:50 PM No smoking signs by gas stations. No religion in the public square. The government should keep us from being engulfed in flames on earth, and that is pretty much it. -- Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
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randman  Suspended Member (Idle past 4929 days) Posts: 6367 Joined: |
The thread is a crock of unproven horse manure without any redemptive qualities to it that I can see. I hate to use gross language, but it's the equivalent of an evolutionist's intellectual circle jerk.
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