I'd share my cheese as generously as the next fellow; I would, but I do seem to be all out myself. The shop was out of Jarlsberg you see, and it's the only kind I like. I do have chicken though. I bought an Atheist Plus Pack. Unfortunately it seems to be full of left wings and arseholes.tattuchu wrote:Ayup, Skepticus. You haven't got any cheese about your person, would you? Only I'm a little short is all
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Skepticus wrote:I'd share my cheese as generously as the next fellow; I would, but I do seem to be all out myself. The shop was out of Jarlsberg you see, and it's the only kind I like. I do have chicken though. I bought an Atheist Plus Pack. Unfortunately it seems to be full of left wings and arseholes.tattuchu wrote:Ayup, Skepticus. You haven't got any cheese about your person, would you? Only I'm a little short is all
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Hi Skepticus, great first post. What was your username at RDF?
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If he told you, he'd have to kill you...Pappa wrote:Hi Skepticus, great first post. What was your username at RDF?
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Out of cheese?Skepticus wrote:I'd share my cheese as generously as the next fellow; I would, but I do seem to be all out myself. The shop was out of Jarlsberg you see, and it's the only kind I like. I do have chicken though. I bought an Atheist Plus Pack. Unfortunately it seems to be full of left wings and arseholes.tattuchu wrote:Ayup, Skepticus. You haven't got any cheese about your person, would you? Only I'm a little short is all
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Skepticus wrote:Hi there guys.
It's been a long treck for some of us and even from the sidelines, there seems to have been some significant evolution within the atheist/skeptic comunitity. There'll be plenty of time to get tinto the politics and philosophy later, but I just wanted to drop in and say g'day and introdduce myself. As it happens there may be a few old timers who remember the first days at RDFRS and the excitment during the booktour of The God Delusion. AS all of this was happening, Josh Timmonen had set up the RDFRS website and launched the original forum. I was there on that very first night, and put my hand up to help. I don't mind admitting to getting a little chocked up with nostalgia, when I recal those early days and the excitement around what we were doing and puting forward to the wider world. Anyhow, Josh repled to my PM telling me that he had made me the admin, if I didn't mind and would I watch over the forum for a while. So That's what I did and I made the original boards then put the first team in place. I do tend to be a wanderer and after awhile moved on to other things, but I still look back at a bright moment in the history of the nacent atheist community and recal with more than just a little nostalgia what it was like to be a small part.
I have been folowing the terrible news here, while waiting for confimation of my registration, about the whole PZ (Penis Zealotus) Meyers accusations of rape by Michael Shermer. Poor Mikey WTF? What drugs is that idiot on anyhow? It's not exactly like it was in the early days, because ther are hordes of bandwagon jumpers and they think that frethinking and godlessness is a new belief and religion. This will only assist to play into the hands of religiotards, who screw up their nose and declare "well... your belief is just another religion too". UM... actualy, I used to just dismiss this out of hand, but having noticed the brain farts of the A plussers in some quarters now, I seems the creatards may have a point. Not all of us are conformation biased dogmatists, but now we atheists seem to be in the same camp as the deluded creatards (I mean not so much deluded as politicaly entrenched). Atheism seems to have become (in some circles) a fassion accesory or something to promote other idealogical agendas with. I need a place that isn't so political and more rational than ideological. So here I am... I think.![]()
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6. Yes. Yes I do have all of the above.
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Hi Jim. Hi Pappa. I'd have to kill all of you, but thats ok, I wasn't planning to do much today anyhow.JimC wrote:If he told you, he'd have to kill you...Pappa wrote:Hi Skepticus, great first post. What was your username at RDF?
Seriously though. It was Skepticus there too.
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Hey Cormac, I'm way down south, so the only crocs around here are at the zoo. There might be a redback spider or two that have stowawayed in my nether regions.Cormac wrote:
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Before you are granted admission to the Republic of Rationalia, our Department of Wildife has tasked us with a duty to check all entrants under the Public Safety Act of 2009.
Have you ever been in contact with Australian wildlife of any type whatsoever?
Do you have on your person any of the following:
1. A "saltie", a.k.a. A saltwater crocodile
2. Any bastard vicious spider?
3. Any bastard vicious snake?
4. A bastard vicious platypus?
5. Any kind of Australian creature whatsoever*?
Should you answer:
1. Who's asking?
2. Fuck you copper!
3. You'll never take me alive, see!
4. Maybe I do, maybe I don't.
5. No, well, yes, well, there's only Barney, me old mate. He's a 40 foot long Saltie and he's in my back pocket here. He's an old bugger...missing an eye and one leg, but he's a crusty old fella really. Oh, hold on, nah, he's not there any more. He must have gone for brekkie...
6. Yes. Yes I do have all of the above.
...we will have no option but to take off, and nuke the whole place from orbit. It will be the only way to make sure.
Thanks. So, anybody know the whereabouts of ol matey OBC? How about Richard Prins? Who's left from the original RDF boards?Welcome to Rationalia. Lifeboat for ex-RDFers, and a notorious hive of scum and villainy. Have a nice day!
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Oh well then, I must insist you try some of my Jarlsberg.Xamonas Chegwé wrote: Out of cheese?![]()
You won't last long here with that kind of soft, rindless attitude, mate!![]()
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Skepticus wrote:Hey Cormac, I'm way down south, so the only crocs around here are at the zoo. There might be a redback spider or two that have stowawayed in my nether regions.Cormac wrote:
Good day sir.
Before you are granted admission to the Republic of Rationalia, our Department of Wildife has tasked us with a duty to check all entrants under the Public Safety Act of 2009.
Have you ever been in contact with Australian wildlife of any type whatsoever?
Do you have on your person any of the following:
1. A "saltie", a.k.a. A saltwater crocodile
2. Any bastard vicious spider?
3. Any bastard vicious snake?
4. A bastard vicious platypus?
5. Any kind of Australian creature whatsoever*?
Should you answer:
1. Who's asking?
2. Fuck you copper!
3. You'll never take me alive, see!
4. Maybe I do, maybe I don't.
5. No, well, yes, well, there's only Barney, me old mate. He's a 40 foot long Saltie and he's in my back pocket here. He's an old bugger...missing an eye and one leg, but he's a crusty old fella really. Oh, hold on, nah, he's not there any more. He must have gone for brekkie...
6. Yes. Yes I do have all of the above.
...we will have no option but to take off, and nuke the whole place from orbit. It will be the only way to make sure.fuck knows, I do have cobwebs in some godawfull places.
I 'm gonna hafta go with number 4.
Thanks. So, anybody know the whereabouts of ol matey OBC? How about Richard Prins? Who's left from the original RDF boards?Welcome to Rationalia. Lifeboat for ex-RDFers, and a notorious hive of scum and villainy. Have a nice day!
Well, we'll just have to nuke your nether regions. Be stoic.
I see Richard Prins posting a fair bit on FB. OBC - not sure...
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Well ... there was quite a lot of drama, in various waves.Skepticus wrote:Thanks. So, anybody know the whereabouts of ol matey OBC? How about Richard Prins? Who's left from the original RDF boards?
This place, Rationalia, was born out of the destruction of the RDF Off Topic forum - when it was closed, OBC created a new forum called TAF (Thinking Aloud Forum - no relation), and the Off Topickers went there: eighteen months later, OBC also had a drama and banned everyone (I'm paraphrasing), so they jumped ship to here instead.
In the meantime, the rest of RDF continued, however a year or so later, the RDF forum was shut down completely in a drama that put all others to shame. A good number of RDF folks came here temporarily before creating their own post-RDF forum at Rational Skepticism. http://www.rationalskepticism.org
As to where individuals are ... can't help you, sorry! (Though I think I've seen RP's name on Facebook.)
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Family? Now that I would have to kill you for, if I told you.Clinton Huxley wrote:I say, what's this? A new person? Hmmm...who are your family, sir? What are your prospects? How many acres do ye have? Regiment?
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