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Old 18th July 2012, 04:17 AM
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Happy or not, allowing someone's hypocrisy, lies, self inflation, self promotion, manipulatation, general bullshitting etc to go on uncalled, especially when in dialogue with you, only belittles you.

As you noted ineffective moderation and unchecked bullshit have ruined that forum. Sure you could say something like "I disagree with you" and play nice. But it seems to self defeat the purpose of being a skeptic if you disagree, but don't state why. As such you might as well circle jerk. I think you are correct in your actions and we all experience unpleasant moments in our lives, the key, as I see it, is to take something positive out of it (i.e. the improvement in rhetoric and debatong skills you got from this forum) and once it's over blow off the steam as you see fit.
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Old 18th July 2012, 04:38 AM
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I used the quote function. If I have not used it correctly please tell me how I should have used it, note I am replying in forum runner and not within the standard website.

Otherwise I am unsure of what you are saying with this comment.
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The KH came out with a response to my accusation of fraud stating that he does believe in the Apostle's, Nicene and Athanasian creeds. I suspect this was a gambit rooted in sophistry, and that much waffle about believing in the creeds but not what's in the creeds was in the offing. Regardless, I was happy to let the disingenuous twat leave his bollocks resting on the anvil where he placed them without further comment. Sometimes it is more satisfying to leave a stupid comment out in the open where everyone can see it than it is to bury it in further pages of discourse, whether you feel you are making a valid point or not. I'm usually too compulsive to pull off such a stylish withdrawl, but I was determined to avoid responding in this instance.

Then another forum member called Anders made post 293. It's pithy poignancy is a joy in itself, but what really made me smile was that it shows other people are paying attention, and recognise that the bollocks placed so proudly on display do not need much further attention than a tap with a mallet to cause their owner distress.
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Old 30th July 2012, 06:26 AM
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In fact, atheists make the best pastors, since they understand the nature, origin, and purpose of Christian mythology better than those who literalize that mythology.

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Old 30th July 2012, 07:53 AM
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I normally don't go in for pissing contests between forums, but following some observation of the general depth of argument ...

silly guide to the universe?

swallow-whole guide to the universe?

simpleton's guide to the universe?

sucker guide to the universe?
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(I)t's been 42 years since the riots at Stonewall. The riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York were protests against police who raided the Stonewall Inn - a known gay bar in New York looking for people to arrest often voilently. The partrons of the inn and surrounding stores revolted and the protests turned voilent, the police backed down and within a year, it formed a grassroots campaign to lobby governments and organisations to decriminalised homosexuality and give us the rights we deserve.

42 years for rights that you already have is a fucking long time to wait and frustrates me to no end that I have to keep explaining why waiting to get the rights and protections opposite sex couples already have and how horrible it is to have to fight for the rights of that opposite sex attracted community has already had?

Have you ever been denied rights and protections under the law based on an aspects of yourself you can't change? How you ever been denied rights and protections under the laws based on aspects of yourself that harms no-one at all? We may have protections under the law for same sex attracted people in Australia in 2013 but the last state to decriminalise homosexuality was Tasmania, it was only decriminalised in 1997.

1997.

There will never ever be an acceptable wait time on equality for people.

I don't give a fuck how long it takes people to accept evolution. This issue impacts my life and how I can live it.
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Old 30th July 2012, 08:32 AM
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"Simple, Gullible, Unquestioning"
"gullible" was indeed one of the terms I fed into the thesaurus to find words starting with "S" to match "SGU"
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(I)t's been 42 years since the riots at Stonewall. The riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York were protests against police who raided the Stonewall Inn - a known gay bar in New York looking for people to arrest often voilently. The partrons of the inn and surrounding stores revolted and the protests turned voilent, the police backed down and within a year, it formed a grassroots campaign to lobby governments and organisations to decriminalised homosexuality and give us the rights we deserve.

42 years for rights that you already have is a fucking long time to wait and frustrates me to no end that I have to keep explaining why waiting to get the rights and protections opposite sex couples already have and how horrible it is to have to fight for the rights of that opposite sex attracted community has already had?

Have you ever been denied rights and protections under the law based on an aspects of yourself you can't change? How you ever been denied rights and protections under the laws based on aspects of yourself that harms no-one at all? We may have protections under the law for same sex attracted people in Australia in 2013 but the last state to decriminalise homosexuality was Tasmania, it was only decriminalised in 1997.

1997.

There will never ever be an acceptable wait time on equality for people.

I don't give a fuck how long it takes people to accept evolution. This issue impacts my life and how I can live it.
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