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Rahvin Member (Idle past 406 days) Posts: 3964 Joined: |
Goodness. Mine is here.
A moderate-length post about how irrational faith is...and how I was perfectly happy to be irrational. The whole thing was just dripping with cognitive dissonance - you could very easily tell that I didn't really believe in God, I simply believed that it was good to believe in God. A lot can change in five years.
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Straggler Member Posts: 10328 From: London England Joined: |
Indeed. I don't recall ever reading any of your pre-atheitised posts before. Interesting.
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Straggler Member Posts: 10328 From: London England Joined: |
Always one to kick a man when he is down....So while you remain suspended and unable to reply.....
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3..........And counting.
I looked this up. Banned from a whole forum!!! Way to go. But glad to see you got that revoked. The whole physics thing is where I first encountered you here and is where I figure your "passion" lies. Electric halos aside.
It's a good job most of us aren't subject to that rule.
Your spat with Rrhain has it's moments of amusingness but I suspect it is in danger of becoming as tedious as mine and RAZD's thang was a while ago.
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Omnivorous Member (Idle past 361 days) Posts: 3811 From: Adirondackia Joined:
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My first suspension was for a deliberate, flagrant, enraged, over-the-top rant--and certainly merited.
I asked for it and got it--two days after my birthday, on 9/4/2005. It was also a dark classic, IMHO.
I had better friends than I deserved among the admins:
Here's what I did:
Whew! AdminBen beat him to the punch. Faith had provoked that with:
I lost friends in New Orleans; I lost family members just prior to my most recent, long-term suspension a couple of years ago, when I erupted over what I saw as unfair treatment of someone I considered a friend. In both cases, I was emotionally wracked and using prescription narcotics in the wake of surgery. I've had more surgeries and narcotics since and will have more soon: I no longer go online in that state; the disinhibition is too powerful. Unfortunately, in the latter event, I was an admin, and instead of acting to calm things down as I had committed to do, I poured gasoline on the fire with intemperate posts. As a result, many good people who were more loyal (and perhaps more riled up by my flights of rheotoric) than they should have been were also suspended. Some of them, like me, have recently returned; others have not--I wish they would. I am trying to find them. The posts that led to their suspensions are the only words I've ever posted here that I would pay dearly to take back. Have you ever been to an American wedding? Where's the vodka? Where's the marinated herring?! -Gogol Bordello
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Blue Jay Member (Idle past 1449 days) Posts: 2843 From: You couldn't pronounce it with your mouthparts Joined: |
Hi, Omnivorous.
That sounds like a subtle hint for somebody to mention you on the Birthday Thread. Happy Birthday! -Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus) Darwin loves you.
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Omnivorous Member (Idle past 361 days) Posts: 3811 From: Adirondackia Joined: |
You have a subtle and discerning mind... ...though it was the birthday that made me put both stories in coherent form. I thought some of the "young" posters might be curious about this flood of freezers (freaky+geezers, not my invention)... Thanks. Life is good. Have you ever been to an American wedding? Where's the vodka? Where's the marinated herring?! -Gogol Bordello
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Straggler Member Posts: 10328 From: London England Joined: |
{**Straggler talks to camera in best sports com voice with mic in hand**)
So jar how does it feel to be the odds on favourite to be the first EvC member to reach 20,000 posts? Are you excited by this landmark? Or is it all just part of your dedicated lifestyle?
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Blue Jay Member (Idle past 1449 days) Posts: 2843 From: You couldn't pronounce it with your mouthparts Joined: |
Hi, Omnivorous.
I first began reading in January 2008, and first began posting in February 2008. So, I was at the beginning of the first generation at EvC without the "old school." But I briefly overlapped with the Great Extinction, so, I had participated on threads with the likes of Jar, Nator, Trixie, Quetzal, Ringo, you, etc., before the forum entered its Cenozoic Era. -Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus) Darwin loves you.
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Omnivorous Member (Idle past 361 days) Posts: 3811 From: Adirondackia Joined: |
Quetzal was inimitable; Trixie a delight: both of them sweethearts with steel-trap minds.
I remember your arrival. I was impressed--still am. As I approach wrapping up my sixth decade, it is clarity of mind and generosity of heart that matter most, both in what I aspire to and who I want around me. That, good blood pressure and a quiet prostate I suppose it's no coincidence that the evolutionist-camp contains the better educated, more articulate posters. It no longer surprises me that the creationists, by and large, are less caring and compassionate than their supposedly more clinically detached opponents, but it still seems remarkable. And Evc is still the best forum for folks accustomed to being the smartest person in the room to gain a little humility--or at least good company. Have you ever been to an American wedding? Where's the vodka? Where's the marinated herring?! -Gogol Bordello
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Straggler Member Posts: 10328 From: London England Joined: |
Amen to that.
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nator Member (Idle past 921 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Yes, I am very powerful, thank you.
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onifre Member (Idle past 1702 days) Posts: 4854 From: Dark Side of the Moon Joined: |
They let me out on good behaviour.
Yeah, I like that subject a bit too much for my own good. I think I know more than I do, until cave or son humble me and I retreat to a dark corner to cry in shame.
I'll take it as a challenge!
Whenever you go after a heckler on stage, you run the risk of looking like a bully. At first, what you may be hitting them with could be hilarious, but after a while the crowd kinda takes their side instead of yours and it isn't as funny anymore. I think I've enjoyed teasing that cigarette too much, but it's now running the risk of looking less and less amusing. - Oni
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Huntard Member (Idle past 1047 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
I thought you just wanted to compare him to an unpleasant old lady? ![]()
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onifre Member (Idle past 1702 days) Posts: 4854 From: Dark Side of the Moon Joined: |
Or that - Oni
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Blue Jay Member (Idle past 1449 days) Posts: 2843 From: You couldn't pronounce it with your mouthparts Joined:
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Hi, Onifre.
In your case, it was relatively good behavior. -Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus) Darwin loves you.
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