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Originally posted by RiveR6213:
How does a thread go from being a topic about Heaven and Hell jump to this? Couldn't you guys take your off topic conversation, and create another thread, and let this one die with grace instead of treating us to your pretentious, chest-pounding, protecting the damsel-in-distress, woman-protecting, hero of Canton speeches?

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Originally posted by zoid:

Causal:

I agree with you. Once begun, a thread belongs to its participants. This is actually very topical, in the sense that Attack Of The Show posed a variant of this question last week on one of its The Loop segments. Specifically, they asked whether forums belong to its users, or is it the right of the forum owners to censor content and speech on their forum. While the interviewees sort of danced around the issue to a lesser or greater degree, the viewers' poll AOTS simultaneously conducted returned +80% that forums belong to the users and that speech/content should not be censored for being unrepresentative of the forum's stated mission.

...of course, that was probably just a bunch of trolls multi-voting...



Vox Popularly,

zoid

P.S.
While I've seen a thread originator try to keep folks on track, I've never seen one try as hard as RiveR6213 to end a thread. This is what? Her third or fourth attempt to gently guide people toward the exit? This desire for control at both ends of the life span seems a little overly manipulative of the participants, to me...but, hey, put it down to differing notions of hospitality...

Having said that, this thread is over for me. I know when to leave a party. The hostess is in danger of being ungracious; I wouldn't want to be the cause of that. Peace to all, and I'll see you around GenDis, when another meaningful topic arises.
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"I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'

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Originally posted by seryn:
i'm aiming for that level of Hell some one mentioned on here a while back - Dante or something, the level for the virtuous unbelievers?

Something about a castle surrounded by endless rolling fields, where all the secular greats live - the philosophers, the artists, the interesting guy from the pub. All living it out, in a sunlit place of sanity and reasonableness, un disturbed by cataloque salesmen, chavs, serial killers, scientologists, those who talk at the theatre and anyone who ever bought a Cheeky Girls album.

ahhhh, bliss.


I went through a similar think - not a big deep one, never had much time for religion - but questioning the why's and wherefores, and came out the opposit way - if there was no deity behind it all, there didn't seem to be much of a point, except exisiting, but what was the issue with just existing? I just decided to me choosing to believe cause just because the alternative was not a nice idea was just deluding myself. (Edited cause it really could have been seen as offensive!)

I'm always ready to reconsider, but so far nothing has made me want to.


Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt

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