This PPR forum could be enjoyable, but it's oten not.

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Ok, it's nice to be original. So what you're saying is you want to only believe certain aspects of the bible, ignore the rest and come up with stuff to believe on your own?
I'm not trying to sound rude or anything, but why do you believe those things? Was there a source to your information? Is there any proof that they happened at all? Coming up with things to believe in from your imagination is, well.... Interesting? Although it's not unusual, as it's what most christians do.

You did very well then, considering you weren't trying.

Depends what you planet you live on.

No, it didn't really help by removing the word storm and bolding bits, but your straightforward interpretation of the gist got through. I'm dreadful at poems, I don't know

There are things we can agree on which I would class as being true enough, true enough for jazz. I can't seem to put my hand through a solid mass, most of us would agree on that. Conventional truths.

I remember an argument I got into once with 'you are are who you is' or something about it once, I'd like to dig that one up. He really couldn't believe how I perceived reality.

If you really wanna nitpick, make a thread! I might play if I've time.

This thread is quite strange.

We have a moderator deciding to redefine words and label their use under any circumstance as 'an attack', we have another moderator saying this forum is exempt from the rules and yet another moderator saying that it isn't.

If the word 'delusional' is now going to be put on a blacklist surely Shrox should be banned first as he was the first person to use it on this thread?

Right here, the fifth post on the thread in case you missed it
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp4158924.html#4158924

Here he goes on to compare people airing views he doesn't like to being smothered with a chloroform soaked rag
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp4160183.html#4160183

And then here he suggests the forum be renamed 'the coliseum', comparing non violent, non threatening people that disagree with him on the internet to the people that threw christians to the lions for sport as part of a systematic campaign to wipe out christianity by murdering christians.
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp4164419.html#4164419



Just a little question for the mods who have fielded complaints about PPR, there are people with a wide variety of political, philosophical and religious views here, of those complaints do they seem to disproportionately come from people who are all christians or do you get as many outraged fiscal conservatives complaining of persecution for their views?


Perhaps you should have a read of this
http://in.christiantoday.com/articles/b ... t/6818.htm

In Britain 73% of christians report feeling marginalised and persecuted in Britain. similar research has been done before and since and also in the USA with similar results.

Yup, in Britain where christianity is the official state religion, where christianity is the largest religion and where christian bishops are automatically given seats in the House of Lords. The same nation which has many, many tax-payer funded christian schools and ALL publicly funded schools are required by law to have a daily act of worship, christians feel more persecuted than any other religion, or any ethnic minority, or even homosexuals.

Wow.




Would it be possible to suggest that perhaps some people of a certain faith have a persecution complex?

ok.


he said the forum "historically been exempted from such rules (within reason)". that is not to say that it is currently exempt, nor that it would be exempt in future. you can see from his wording that he isn't saying it has ever been completely exempt, but moderators tended to leave it alone unless there were complaints or unless there was a frank rule violation that caught our attention.


since he was not calling another member delusional or mocking them, i think there is not much to worry about there. i think you can discern the difference between using the word delusional in a sentence and using the word as an attack.


not sure where you are going with that. you'll need to explain what the problem is.


words can be hurtful. that is why we have rules about what you are allowed to say. i do think that if he felt persecuted on the forums he can most likely describe his feelings like this and it would not break any rules. he has a right to feel that way.

interesting that you took more offense to what he said than what the poster immediately following him said. it seems like if you were going to get offended then calling the forum the "Fourth Circle of Hell" would be far more upsetting.


all of us, though we get fewer complaints than we should.


we don't keep a tally, nor do we plan to. for myself, i have never personally fielded a complaint from a christian person being attacked for their beliefs.

if you think fiscal conservatives need protecting, then by all means alert a moderator when they are being attacked.


so... they feel persecuted. ok. nothing wrong with that. and it has nothing to do with this forum.


how is that any different from your complaints right now (or in that thread that you started in the WP.net forum after your comments were moderated on another thread)? is that a persecution complex too?

Just had to pull that one out of there. How many complaints should you be getting? Now I know that personally I tend to only fix things that are broken and would see a lack of complaints as a positive signal that a forum is largely working as intended, but that's just my view.

we don't read every thread, so some things get missed. if people reported problems it would be more helpful than having the attacked member get upset and strike back, or worse.... having the person leave the forum.

it's always better to report if you are uncertain, because then the moderators can have a look and either take action or advise you as to why no action was taken. it's not a bother; we are here to help.

The PPR is the beesknees

I wasn't complaining either in this thread or the thread I started with the title 'I'm a little confused'. If I was going to complain about something I would use the word compain, not confused.

I thought this was a discussion thread that I was taking part in and not a moderator notice of a change in policy that I was complaining about.

In my thread, I asked for clarification about why that particular thread had been locked and if it was any of my comments that were the cause.

You replied as follows:



But you didn't send me a PM.

I thought it was reasonable to assume therefore that nothing I had said had been a cause for alarm. I still couldn't distinguish which posts were deemed offensive or why, but oh well.

However now you seem to have changed your mind and you seem to be telling me that it was my comments that were being moderated in that thread.

Do you see why this might be confusing?

fair enough. this is a clarification of the rules you may find helpful: don't generalise about the members of a religion/cultural group/gender/race/nation/etc and do not personally insult WP members who are in those groups (that includes insinuations).

the thread that i locked did not follow those guidelines.


ok, take out the word complaint. use another word... like discussion. the same would go for the OP, then. no need to imply he (or another christian) suffers from any persecution complex when they are just taking part in a discussion.


good point - you was correct about your involvement in the thread. the thread itself was locked and you are right that i didn't send you a PM. you didn't cross a line.

The chloroform soaked rag is a reference to a bit on Family Guy...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLx9VBfMi0k[/youtube]



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsqJFIJ5lLs[/youtube]




I would not be one of those. I would be more like our beloved gladiator above.

It funny how you can review and cite specific quotes from specific posts, yet fail to see the overall pattern of humor and self deprecation in them.

I am a thread killer!

The police are on their way.

Oh, I see there is life in the ole girl yet...

DC has got you entirely wrong, methinks.

Some of us have Asperger's syndrome...