I use the angry frube to show my displeasure at an external link that i find displeasing.
Example Texas - Terrible abortion law doing what Republicans said it wouldn't do
7 of the 11 frubals on that OP are angry
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I use the angry frube to show my displeasure at an external link that i find displeasing.
Example Texas - Terrible abortion law doing what Republicans said it wouldn't do
7 of the 11 frubals on that OP are angry
It is useful for news stories etc. that make one angry, I agree.
The masses would think it's a joke.No, that is to much.... might actually scare folks off.... and cut down on available pick-a-nick baskets for inspection...... how about a pre-mauling frubal...more like this
This would make them slower & more trusting.
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Subduction Zone
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It is hardly watering down. It is merely being polite and honest.
What does honesty have to do with any of this? Why are you bringing people's integrity into this discussion?
Subduction Zone
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Wishing someone well is no different from positive prayers. There was no personal integrity brought into it by me.
If it's no different, then why be against a prayer rating?
I hear that all the time.
But is it not yet obvious that it's nominally
about religion, not for only religious folk?
Criminy...most of the posts here have nothing
to do with religion at all.
Without us heathens & secular gadflies, RF
would be nothing more than arguing which
god is the true god, & how many fingers
does He have on each tentacle.
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Perhaps from your perspective. From a many theists' perspective, the two are quite different. For theists, the former demonstrates a personal desire for someone to be well, the latter petitions a deity for aid.
Subduction Zone
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I gave my reasons. It is more inclusive with the add on. I thought that was an aim of the forum too.
How is it inclusive, though, when it excludes prayer? Prayer and well-wishing are not the same, and well-wishing is not what theists are doing. Just having a well-wishes emoji excludes the majority on this forum, religious people who do pray. This notion that secular things are neutral is not true; it excludes religion by default, and on a religious forum that is absurd. If you interpret prayers as well-wishing you are completely misinterpreting what theists are doing.
This has nothing to do with what I responded to.
From this logic should we conclude that a religious forum excludes secular things?
Oh, yes it does.
But I also expanded upon the theme.
In includes them, but not with the exclusivist view that some on here seem to be perpetuating; the idea that secular symbols suffice for everyone, theist and non-theist, which is clearly untrue.
You have not provided a reason why a secular frubal would be best for a religious forum.
I guess some people would go into a church and complain upon seeing a cross.
I & other posters have addressed this issue.
If the goal is an option that the OP posted....
" Add a prayer/well wishes frubal."
....it would cause discomfort for some that
it could be seen as offering a prayer.
BTW, it doesn't concern me personally.
I'd just eschew a frubal that suggests prayer.
We have enuf to do the job already.
Most people on this forum know who the atheists are, though, and it's not hard to understand use of a prayer rating in a metaphorical way. I'm also not sure why there's so much upset at being mistaken for offering prayers. I mean, again, it is a religious forum, people are going to offer prayers. If you are offended at being construed as praying, that sounds like an issue with you, not prayer.
I can see where that is coming from if someone feels insincere about giving a rating that could be taken as expressing something they don't believe in.
I'm also in favor of adding a "Prayer" rating, so I think that perhaps it would be best to add both that and a "Best wishes" one.