Johnny, I, too, hope he means what he says. Maybe now you'll post one of those stories you've been holding onto, knowing that now you can post without his usual snide comments?
There really are some good threads but some of those get so soon derailed and then everyone loses interest.
Can the irrelevant bits be dragged off to the Soap Opera or to some place called "Boxing Ring" so that just the relevant stuff or at least the not so argumentative stuff remains?
It helps sometimes to draft a post, leave it for a few minutes, come back and re-read it. Perhaps if posters used the Smileys and other kinds of punctuation a bit more, it would help replace the non-verbal signals that would accompany a spoken comment. (At work I use a dictaphone and of course give emphasis when I dictate. When the typed-up letter comes back for signature, because there is no emphasis it can read quite oddly or give a wrong impression. And I know what I said! I don't add Smileys, but I do change the wording.)
Hi Belle! Hope you had a great Christmas and holiday season and all of that! Mmmmwwwaaahhhh! And so, I'll look into a story I can post. A while back I had one in mind that I was just going to post in a thread of it's own. I'll have to look back into the "attic of my mind" and try and remember which one it was. But thank you! And love you too!
I don't know man, I think that if the whacked biotch on the right were not spewing her sick venom and twisted version of God's Word, I would rather listen to the gal on the left! I think the gal on the left was just appalled and went on the attack. Hard to blame her, although, strident female voices are in fact tough to listen to. But, and plus, the Fox gal is way better lookin' ( ), even if the old sea hag on the right called her a "bimbo....."
We are going to do some experimenting. If there is the hint of a personal attack in a post, I am going to delete that post. What was time consuming was editing the post to take that out. Hopefully the meaningful posts will remain. Is this going to be subjective? Yes. But we will do our best to be fair. And if we make a mistake, we will do our best to repair it. You, as a poster here, will have to think before posting.
Excellent! Thank you Pawtucket and the moderators!
As to your question, and this is just my opinion, which is worth even less than the amount of bandwidth these few words will cost, but I don't even have to think about that one. The anti-gay "church" doing the protesting should be silenced. There is a time and a place for everything. A funeral is NOT the place for any group to protest. Combine that with the fact the few, if any of the fallen soldiers that they are protesting are, themselves gay, and it's easy to see this "church" is nothing more than a group of pretty sick individuals.
As to the freaks little dig against the PGR groups, they are a really great organization. I am on their mailing list and plan to take part in some of their missions when time allows.
This is a real good thread even though Groucho is a jerk. (There, I made a personal attack just so I could be like everyone else. I actually think very highly of Groucho. :) )
What's most fun about being a CARTOON CHARACTER! is that the CULT WAYBRAIN still considers what you say as being...A Threat! Imagine, all the Ephesians Bible Way Corps training, and you feel THREATENED by a Cartoon Stuffed Tiger!! Amazing! <_<
Even More Funny is they were unable, scared or so cult obsessed with their cult cartoon characters, they never even wished the poor tiger, a Happy Birthday! :(
Maybe I misread you, but did you have a birthday recently? If so, belated Happy Birthday!
Rick
Thanks Rick! I would have invited you to the Paaarty! I was practising that Water to Wine special show, and you know what... it Works!! All you have to BELIEVE is...in the Renewed Mind of Cult Rehab!
What's most fun about being a CARTOON CHARACTER! is that the CULT WAYBRAIN still considers what you say as being...A Threat! Imagine, all the Ephesians Bible Way Corps training, and you feel THREATENED by a Cartoon Stuffed Tiger!! Amazing! <_<
Even More Funny is they were unable, scared or so cult obsessed with their cult cartoon characters, they never even wished the poor tiger, a Happy Birthday! :(
And for those of you that seem insistent on diminishing or destroying victims' stories, it won't be tolerated any more.
Well that certainly seems to be fair, really. But I ask you, what if someone tells a story of a fine and wonderful time that they had in The Way Corps or as a WOW and then gets lambasted as a "Wierwille apologist" with a "sophomoric attitude" because they have chosen to focus on the "good times" (rather than the bad times) that they had in The Way Ministry or in The Way Corps?
What if the person who tells a story with a positive twist is accused of "Way brain-ism" which is tantamount to de-railing the mission of the Grease Spot Cafe and therefore is still an "automaton" and akin to Wierwille and his "evil minions"? Will you not tolerate those kind of attacks also? I can't count the times I have told a positive story here about times in The Way and then been outright attacked for doing so. I hope the wind blows both ways if there is to be a more intensive amount of moderation (censorship?) here...
Why do you have to set out the parameters first? What if......and suppose so and so.....?????
That takes so much time to figure out!
Well that certainly seems to be fair, really. But I ask you, what if someone tells a story of a fine and wonderful time that they had in The Way Corps or as a WOW and then gets lambasted as a "Wierwille apologist" with a "sophomoric attitude" because they have chosen to focus on the "good times" (rather than the bad times) that they had in The Way Ministry or in The Way Corps?
What if the person who tells a story with a positive twist is accused of "Way brain-ism" which is tantamount to de-railing the mission of the Grease Spot Cafe and therefore is still an "automaton" and akin to Wierwille and his "evil minions"? Will you [i]not[/i] tolerate those kind of attacks also? I can't count the times I have told a positive story here about times in The Way and then been outright attacked for doing so. I hope the wind blows both ways if there is to be a more intensive amount of moderation (censorship?) here.
Why not just live life and enjoy what you have. Be honest and forthright, and see what happens. You're just looking for somebody to pounce when you set up stories like that.
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Johnny, I, too, hope he means what he says. Maybe now you'll post one of those stories you've been holding onto, knowing that now you can post without his usual snide comments?
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Paw and the mods:
There really are some good threads but some of those get so soon derailed and then everyone loses interest.
Can the irrelevant bits be dragged off to the Soap Opera or to some place called "Boxing Ring" so that just the relevant stuff or at least the not so argumentative stuff remains?
It helps sometimes to draft a post, leave it for a few minutes, come back and re-read it. Perhaps if posters used the Smileys and other kinds of punctuation a bit more, it would help replace the non-verbal signals that would accompany a spoken comment. (At work I use a dictaphone and of course give emphasis when I dictate. When the typed-up letter comes back for signature, because there is no emphasis it can read quite oddly or give a wrong impression. And I know what I said! I don't add Smileys, but I do change the wording.)
(Okay, sometimes I can't type properly either)
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Hi Belle! Hope you had a great Christmas and holiday season and all of that! Mmmmwwwaaahhhh! And so, I'll look into a story I can post. A while back I had one in mind that I was just going to post in a thread of it's own. I'll have to look back into the "attic of my mind" and try and remember which one it was. But thank you! And love you too!
JL
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satori001
So whom would you silence?
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Tom Strange
well... I could only 'stomach' listening to about a third of it... but I'd say 'both'...
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Bumpy
I agree, both of them, along with the frenzied Fox FeMale Freaks producing all their "factual fractured made for TV fairy tails"
:biglaugh:
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I don't know man, I think that if the whacked biotch on the right were not spewing her sick venom and twisted version of God's Word, I would rather listen to the gal on the left! I think the gal on the left was just appalled and went on the attack. Hard to blame her, although, strident female voices are in fact tough to listen to. But, and plus, the Fox gal is way better lookin' (
), even if the old sea hag on the right called her a "bimbo....."
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GarthP2000
I've noticed that more and more posts are containing the phrase or something to that effect.
Are the moderators going to go thru the ENTIRE message board for such editing? Just curious, as I imagine that gonna take a l-o-n-g time to do.
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cman
lol! I think that's a nice way to put it.
The 'ad hominum' type of speaking is usually a personal attack.
But not in every case of using it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominum
I was surprised I did one and had to look it up!
:)
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oldiesman
Excellent! Thank you Pawtucket and the moderators!
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Bumpy
That's True! And usually there is a message from an imaginary stuffed Tiger talking about freedom of spppeeech!!
Then Poooof! He disappears!!
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I've noticed that more and more posts are containing the phrase or something to that effect.
It's the Latin Assassin
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Hi Satori, good to see you!
As to your question, and this is just my opinion, which is worth even less than the amount of bandwidth these few words will cost, but I don't even have to think about that one. The anti-gay "church" doing the protesting should be silenced. There is a time and a place for everything. A funeral is NOT the place for any group to protest. Combine that with the fact the few, if any of the fallen soldiers that they are protesting are, themselves gay, and it's easy to see this "church" is nothing more than a group of pretty sick individuals.
As to the freaks little dig against the PGR groups, they are a really great organization. I am on their mailing list and plan to take part in some of their missions when time allows.
This is a real good thread even though Groucho is a jerk. (There, I made a personal attack just so I could be like everyone else. I actually think very highly of Groucho. :) )
Rick
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What's most fun about being a CARTOON CHARACTER! is that the CULT WAYBRAIN still considers what you say as being...A Threat! Imagine, all the Ephesians Bible Way Corps training, and you feel THREATENED by a Cartoon Stuffed Tiger!!
Amazing! <_<
Even More Funny is they were unable, scared or so cult obsessed with their cult cartoon characters, they never even wished the poor tiger, a Happy Birthday! :(
No, Not One came to the Party.
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Bluzeman
Maybe I misread you, but did you have a birthday recently? If so, belated Happy Birthday!
Rick
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Thanks Rick! I would have invited you to the Paaarty! I was practising that Water to Wine special show, and you know what... it Works!! All you have to BELIEVE is...in the Renewed Mind of Cult Rehab!
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Bluzeman
Well if you get it down, could you teach me how to turn water into Absinth? It's legal here in the US now, but it's EXPENSIVE! :)
Rick
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happu birthday bumpy
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Pawtucket said;
Well that certainly seems to be fair, really. But I ask you, what if someone tells a story of a fine and wonderful time that they had in The Way Corps or as a WOW and then gets lambasted as a "Wierwille apologist" with a "sophomoric attitude" because they have chosen to focus on the "good times" (rather than the bad times) that they had in The Way Ministry or in The Way Corps?
What if the person who tells a story with a positive twist is accused of "Way brain-ism" which is tantamount to de-railing the mission of the Grease Spot Cafe and therefore is still an "automaton" and akin to Wierwille and his "evil minions"? Will you not tolerate those kind of attacks also? I can't count the times I have told a positive story here about times in The Way and then been outright attacked for doing so. I hope the wind blows both ways if there is to be a more intensive amount of moderation (censorship?) here...
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pawtucket
personal attacks either way will be dealt with. I added the victim's for emphasis.
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Groucho,
Marvelous thread and a good idea.
However, somehow I think this picture fits in here somewhere:
(I'd call myself a cynic, but that screen name is already taken)
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Bluzeman
Hi Mark, long time no see! How are things?
Rick
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Why do you have to set out the parameters first? What if......and suppose so and so.....?????
That takes so much time to figure out!
Why not just live life and enjoy what you have. Be honest and forthright, and see what happens. You're just looking for somebody to pounce when you set up stories like that.
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GarthP2000
It's Moderation is when something is blocked and you approve.
It's Censorship when something is blocked and you don't approve.
Ehhh? ;)
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