Originally posted by vivify You know what, maybe I should just drop the theist vs. non-theist contest altogether. I thought it would be kind of a fun competition, but there's not enough people (on either side) who agreed to this.
I'm going to do it if there is a group joining me or not.
I do think it will be harder than I first thought, but I'm going to try to watch what I say to
others and keep it clean.
Originally posted by Suzianne You say this because what you're talking about was merely him disagreeing with you.
Disagreement doesn't equal "pants down".
Sure. You seen the shlt I get here from my fellow Christians. I never ignore anyone. It's the hight of forum rudeness and completely childish.
I can't remember what it was now but it was definitely a "pants down" situation. Something to do with blood transfusions and the state intervening to save a JW child I think.
Originally posted by vivify It's all in KellyJay's motive.
Well then I think you'll have to give up on the whole plan as it is remarkably difficult to discern motive from posts on the internet, and even harder to discern it from the absence of posts. One of my key objections when the idea was first brought up is that rudeness isn't about how many rude words you use, but rather how and why words are used - or not used. To me, the rudest person on the forum is Grampy who as far as I recall has never used a swear word. Now I really don't know for sure whether his rudeness is deliberate or he is merely a poor communicator but he comes across as rude to me.
I am calling out Kelly on his practice of shunning because I find that rude too. In addition, the reason he stated for shunning me was that I apparently lied about his position. But he refused to state what I lied about or even which post was the offending post. I generally take offence at people who accuse me of lying but refuse to explain what I lied about.
In summary, you can certainly decide to try and be civil yourself, but you will be unable to judge whether anyone else is trying to be civil.
Unlikely as there would still need to be contact and interaction. My point was highlighting KellyJay's hypocrisy in this matter; calling for us all to "get on" while completely ignoring those he himself fails to get on with. I'm reminded of a group of kids linking little fingers and singing "make friends make friends never never breaks friends" but excluding the kids they don't like.
Originally posted by Suzianne Maybe we could all sit around in a circle holding hands and sing "Kum-bai-yah". Would that work? 🙂
August is not a time for wussiness.
There is no reason that we can't be strong with our posts and yet still respect other posters.
So who's modding this? Just vivify?
Will one person be enough to mod all the posts in a whole month?
I know I would have trouble checking all posts in a month.
29 Jul '15 22:13
August starts this weekend
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