I have a question for all members

[Caladan]

I have been trying to figure out the core purposes of this forum?
It is not to promote faith in God. Yet it is listed as a religious forum”

No. Nowhere to we give the illusion that this forum is intended to promote a certain faith or religion or a general faith in God. This forum is more accurately called Religious Education Forum. It's main idea is for people of various belief systems and philosophies to come together and learn about world religion, WITHOUT trying to preach their version as an absolute truth above all other opinions.

Those who believe in the Bible cannot say this is true, or that is false, unless they refer to their comment as, “In my opinion.” Those who do not believe in God, are free to say, “That’s not true.”

Not everyone here take the Bible literally, many others have their own scriptures like the Vedic scriptures, or the Qur'an. It's unrealistic to expect all members to accept your (biblical) beliefs as facts.

I understand rules. Many of the rules I see, are toward the support of those who do not believe in a God, or the Bible?

The rules are with the purpose of promoting a comfortable environment for debates, discussion and comparative interactions. We do not promote one truth over the other, or one side over the other. As long as everyone is respectful we tolerate all moderate opinions (and some eccentric ones).

Is the purpose of the forum to bash people who believe in God?

We have many Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, and various of other members who believe in God. Most of these members are either long standing esteemed members, staff members, and many others who are capable of a healthy discussion without preaching or proselytizing.

To sum it up and make it more clear: This is not a Christian forum, it's a forum for people interested to discuss religion, any religion, from various political angles.

 

[Draka]

Obviously I must go back through this thread and find where Quaggy took a whiz in Domenic's Cheerios. All I see is infantile slinging of diaper filling at Quaggy from the supposed mature elder here. Proving, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that age really has nothing to do with maturity.

Yes, some young people can go around thinking they know it all and can be rather annoying, but you know what? So can older people as well. When younger people do it it's just chalked up to youth and immaturity, however when older people do it it's just sad. Age does not automatically equal wisdom. People don't always learn well from their experiences. Sometimes, just sometimes, someone younger may learn very well from their experiences and may, in fact, be wiser and see things more clearly than someone older who is blinded by their set ways and ingrained prejudices they have lived with their whole lives. As the saying goes, "you can't teach an old dog new tricks".

 

[Debater Slayer]

It is still an hour a day for six years. Why would anybody spend 2,000 hours on a forum?
Would it be that a person who does that has a big hole in their need field that needs to be filled?

I don't wast my time, never have....bye.

You'd have to ask them. Personally, I enjoy the discussions and debates here, and being here has allowed me to learn new things.

Perhaps a real waste of time would be insulting people for choosing to spend their time a certain way throughout several pages of a thread on a forum you don't even think people should be on.

Goodbye, and good luck finding a one-sided forum where everyone would agree with you, since we don't have that here, unfortunately.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

It is still an hour a day for six years. Why would anybody spend 2,000 hours on a forum?
Would it be that a person who does that has a big hole in their need field that needs to be filled?

I don't wast my time, never have....bye.

As an administrator of the forum he is likely to spend several hours a day on his duties as a staff member and on administration... it goes with the territory.

Threads like this tend to need more watching than most.
Many of us have spent time on the staff here, few can stand the pace or can spare the time for very long.
A forum such as this needs constant moderation as it deals with very controversial subject matter, and the members can become very impassioned and out of control.

The average member is unaware of most of this, as the staff are very quick to smooth things out and clean up threads. They do a Stirling and onerous Job.

Staff operate as part of a team and all decisions are made collectively. This is time consuming but increases the fairness.

Few forums are as well moderated as this one, in many a moderator acts on his own. Others, like one I now help on, needs almost no moderation and most action comes down to removing spam.

 

[Sir Doom]

It is still an hour a day for six years. Why would anybody spend 2,000 hours on a forum?

I spend quite a lot of time here. I don't know how long. Most of the day when I'm not at work. Have I dropped any notches in your opinion of me? I certainly hope so. I do not seek your approval in the slightest. In fact, I would find your approval of my actions to be a gigantic red flag that I might want to rethink what I'm doing. But since that isn't a very likely scenario, I'm not too worried about it.

Would it be that a person who does that has a big hole in their need field that needs to be filled?

I don't really believe the concept of 'need' is very useful, but yes. You could definitely say I feel a need to be here. And that need is satisfied daily.

Is it time for me to be ashamed, yet? I can never tell.

I don't wast my time, never have....bye.

There is this river in Egypt...

 

[YmirGF]

It is still an hour a day for six years. Why would anybody spend 2,000 hours on a forum?
Would it be that a person who does that has a big hole in their need field that needs to be filled?

I don't wast my time, never have....bye.

Given that math does not seem to be your strong suit, does not bode well with the supposition that you have proof of miracles in the moldy text of the Bible.

"The lady doth protest too much, me thinks."


Wait a sec... wait a fricken sec... Did I just quote old QuiveringVine?

 

[Vinayaka]

In actuality, besides the barbs and the fun, I try to understand what may have brought a person to a particular POV. In other words, what life experiences brought that person to this point? This thread is a lesson (for me) in observation, and reading between the lines. I try to learn a lesson from everyone, be it what to do, or what not to do.

I believe our friend Domenic had some courage to come here. Most people with a similar subconscious view wouldn't have bothered. They would have taken one look, and left, afraid that mingling with 'others' in and of itself is dangerous. So to that point, I give the man credit.

Now, on this particular subconscious, it is a mindset prevalent in the Bible Belt, and common to a lot of elderly people from subconscious conditioning, some might call it a being a victim of circumstance. If all you hear is a certain thing (once or twice a week, and forcefully) about faith, and you fail to 'get around', then what else is to be expected?

I found personally that I couldn't get past the idea that 10 000 Biblical prophecies have come true. So once I read that part, ... well, I behaved the same way someone form the 'other' side might. Yet everyone deserves love. Some are just harder than others.

 

[Iti oj]

In actuality, besides the barbs and the fun, I try to understand what may have brought a person to a particular POV. In other words, what life experiences brought that person to this point? This thread is a lesson (for me) in observation, and reading between the lines. I try to learn a lesson from everyone, be it what to do, or what not to do.

I believe our friend Domenic had some courage to come here. Most people with a similar subconscious view wouldn't have bothered. They would have taken one look, and left, afraid that mingling with 'others' in and of itself is dangerous. So to that point, I give the man credit.

Now, on this particular subconscious, it is a mindset prevalent in the Bible Belt, and common to a lot of elderly people from subconscious conditioning, some might call it a being a victim of circumstance. If all you hear is a certain thing (once or twice a week, and forcefully) about faith, and you fail to 'get around', then what else is to be expected?

I found personally that I couldn't get past the idea that 10 000 Biblical prophecies have come true. So once I read that part, ... well, I behaved the same way someone form the 'other' side might. Yet everyone deserves love. Some are just harder than others.

I agree im also impressed how he tried so hard to follow the rules and not shove his religion down my throat. its ashame he got so upset and flamed and left us.

 

[Vinayaka]

and left us.

I don't think he'll be gone forever. He threatened that once already, and then came back. So even if it's to look in on what people have said since he 'left', he'll be back.

 

[dust1n]

It is still an hour a day for six years. Why would anybody spend 2,000 hours on a forum?
Would it be that a person who does that has a big hole in their need field that needs to be filled?

I don't wast my time, never have....bye.

Well, if you think the forum is a waste of time, than you have posted 150 posts, apparently at an hour per post, which means you have wasted your time.

It's impossible that you just wasted your time and have never wasted your time simultaneously.

 

[Sir Doom]

I don't think he'll be gone forever. He threatened that once already, and then came back. So even if it's to look in on what people have said since he 'left', he'll be back.

Those of us who crave attention never go long without getting it.

 

[Iti oj]

Those of us who crave attention never go long without getting it.

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give me give me give me please

 

[Vinayaka]

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[dust1n]

I don't think he'll be gone forever. He threatened that once already, and then came back. So even if it's to look in on what people have said since he 'left', he'll be back.

I wouldn't be surprised.

 

[Quagmire]

It is mind boggling to me that you have spent 30,000 hours on a forum?

Doesn't usually take me an hour to write a post. But then, I'm not a "professional script writer".

If you spent 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the forum, that is 3.4
years !

And I'll bet I've learned more in those 3.4 years than some have in, say, 77.

I’m sure you have to take time to sleep, eat and shower…say you only spend daylight hours on this forum. That’s every day, seven days a week for six years! What are you thinking? Have your family, or friends not talked to you about this?

Ah, so now I'm the topic of this thread.

OK then, I'll give you some background: Once upon a time, I was on a desperate quest to find someplace where I could slap the crap out of punks, hypocrites, bullies, self-important twits, and your basic generic jerks, without getting locked up for it.

And here we are.

Notice I said "we".

 

[Kilgore Trout]

That is a stupid statment. What can you know about what I've been thinking all my life All of your comments on this thread are just throwing mud. Can you not comment as an adult on the OP?

Well, at least you've managed to perfect the expression of irony after 78 years of living, so it hasn't been a complete waste.

 

[Quagmire]

It is still an hour a day for six years. Why would anybody spend 2,000 hours on a forum?
Would it be that a person who does that has a big hole

I actually do spend a lot of my time here dealing with holes.

in their need field that needs to be filled?

What's a "need field"?

I don't wast my time, never have....bye.

No, you're too busy wasting everybody else's.


And bye.

 

[Sha'irullah]

I have been trying to figure out the core purposes of this forum?
It is not to promote faith in God. Yet it is listed as a religious forum”
Those who believe in the Bible cannot say this is true, or that is false, unless they refer to their comment as, “In my opinion.” Those who do not believe in God, are free to say, “That’s not true.”

This seriously reminds me of my mother. She is a Christian and is under the impression if you do not believe in Jesus yo do not believe in god. So she tries bashing everyone and thinks a Hindu does not believe in god. Any other faith outside of Christianity is atheism. This obviously displays a lack of intellect and makes interfaith dialogue impossible.
This forum exist for all religions and not for Christianity alone. Debate, interfaith dialogue, free thought and expression are the purpose of this forum. Not promotion of somebody's god. You don't sell or advertise god.

 

[InformedIgnorance]

It amazes me that with an enormous DIR section, anyone might consider this forum to be for the purposes of 'bashing' people of faith.

 

[Sir Doom]

I was just wondering how affronted he must have felt about the 'Everything But the Kitchen Sink' area of the forum... Nothing to do with religion, DELETE IMMEDIATELY!