Should Rationalia Merge With Another Small Forum?

[Jason]

A eTontine idea chaps. We each put $500 in an account and the last person posting collects it. I'm sure there's a lawyer or two around here that can draft it up.

[MrFungus420]

If you can't say something nice...

Say something surrealistic.

Fish on a bicycle.

[charlou]

As small as they may be, all atheist forums are overmoderated.

Not all.

[Audley Strange]

As small as they may be, all atheist forums are overmoderated.

Everyone wants to be captain of the cyber-ship and understandable given how little influence there is in reality for atheists, especially state side.

Not everyone. You see I had a revelation last night. Hitch and Dawk are wrong. Religion and God are not the problem, it is humanity that is not great, it is humanity that is poisoning everything, the beliefs are just rationalisations for such brutal animal behaviour. They'd do it with or without religion law politics etc.

[JimC]

As small as they may be, all atheist forums are overmoderated.

Everyone wants to be captain of the cyber-ship and understandable given how little influence there is in reality for atheists, especially state side.

Not everyone. You see I had a revelation last night. Hitch and Dawk are wrong. Religion and God are not the problem, it is humanity that is not great, it is humanity that is poisoning everything, the beliefs are just rationalisations for such brutal animal behaviour. They'd do it with or without religion law politics etc.

However, religion cements things; it demands that there are only certain ways of being truly human, it restricts us through fear.

Our seething hominid nature is problem enough without compounding it with fear of the big daddy in the sky...

[Xamonas Chegwé]

As small as they may be, all atheist forums are overmoderated.

Everyone wants to be captain of the cyber-ship and understandable given how little influence there is in reality for atheists, especially state side.

Not everyone. You see I had a revelation last night. Hitch and Dawk are wrong. Religion and God are not the problem, it is humanity that is not great, it is humanity that is poisoning everything, the beliefs are just rationalisations for such brutal animal behaviour. They'd do it with or without religion law politics etc.

However, religion cements things; it demands that there are only certain ways of being truly human, it restricts us through fear.

Our seething hominid nature is problem enough without compounding it with fear of the big daddy in the sky...

It's not humanity that's the problem, it's stupidity. As Zappa said, The two most plentiful elements in the universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity - and Stupidity has a longer shelf-life.

[Audley Strange]

As small as they may be, all atheist forums are overmoderated.

Everyone wants to be captain of the cyber-ship and understandable given how little influence there is in reality for atheists, especially state side.

Not everyone. You see I had a revelation last night. Hitch and Dawk are wrong. Religion and God are not the problem, it is humanity that is not great, it is humanity that is poisoning everything, the beliefs are just rationalisations for such brutal animal behaviour. They'd do it with or without religion law politics etc.

However, religion cements things; it demands that there are only certain ways of being truly human, it restricts us through fear.

Our seething hominid nature is problem enough without compounding it with fear of the big daddy in the sky...

All faiths and cultures, cliques, subcultures, gangs and every other place where humans gather make such demands on humans through threat and fear though without the obvious supernatural sideshow. That is part of our pack mentality. "Fit in" or be cast out. Which is why we all schism so much. So what would be the point of clubbing together with others when it's inevitable that it will lead to such?

[JimC]

Audley Strange wrote:

All faiths and cultures, cliques, subcultures, gangs and every other place where humans gather make such demands on humans through threat and fear though without the obvious supernatural sideshow. That is part of our pack mentality. "Fit in" or be cast out. Which is why we all schism so much. So what would be the point of clubbing together with others when it's inevitable that it will lead to such?

The hominid tribal "us versus them" mentality is a two edged sword. It creates much of our horror, and yet it also provides the emotional grunt behind looking after others. Religion (and other cultural memes) ride on our evolved nature, and feed from it. The best of religious constructs feed from the "compassion to others" aspect of our tribalism, but much of it feeds greedily from the deep source of venom and bile that is, like it or not, part of our deep nature.

But in essence, my main quarrel with religion is that it provides an uncritical and blatantly false model of the nature of the Universe.

That is the unforgivable sin of all religions.

[SteveB]

To humanity! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems.

Wait, that's not right.

[pErvinalia]

As small as they may be, all atheist forums are overmoderated.

                      

!!1!	NOTMOD Reported.

[Brian Peacock]

As small as they may be, all atheist forums are overmoderated.

Ban him! Ban him now!

[Tero]

I don't have a problem with debates, arguments and namecalling. I just put those people on ignore. But when the mods move or remove my posts as "derails", that is when I quit posting. I've never been kicked out. Once almost. A woman posted a blog entry. I tried to debate her and used her own words from the blog but a different entry there. She said I was not to quote her ever again.

Sheesh, people in1997 thought blogs were diaries. Not public ones!

[charlou]

But when the mods move or remove my posts as "derails", that is when I quit posting.

I think that might be why CES has left.

[JimC]

But when the mods move or remove my posts as "derails", that is when I quit posting.

I think that might be why CES has left.

We would never "remove" posts, but will sometimes move clear derails, but even that is pretty rare...

I suspect CES left because he couldn't accept a warning during a spat with rEv...

[macdoc]

size doesn't matter ....