OK, bye.lordpasternack wrote:Am I the only one getting a lot of deja vu here from OBC's similar behaviour on TAF?
Banning reference to this site, and obliterating dissent is just the height of pathetic. Then having the gall or delusion to claim that all are excited is just FARCE beyond my articulation.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
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Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
Twoflower
Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse
Millefleur
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lordpasternack wrote:Am I the only one getting a lot of deja vu here from OBC's similar behaviour on TAF?
Banning reference to this site, and obliterating dissent is just the height of pathetic. Then having the gall or delusion to claim that all are excited is just FARCE beyond my articulation.
What happened to TAF? Er maybe that's another thread or a pm only topic - I don't want to get in to forum wars... My thoughts on the whole RD.net fiasco here - http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2010/02/2 ... -to-close/
My major problem was trying not to turn it in ot a huge bloody list of names
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Hi, Jerome. I see you're still proudly sporting your winner's badge. That was going to be mine! Mine, I tell you! 
Dogma is the death of the intellect
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A theist is the ONLY winner of an RDF science writing competition! We should have known the apocalypse was coming...
“The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.” - B. F. Skinner.
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He cheated god wrote it for him .Mr.Samsa wrote:A theist is the ONLY winner of an RDF science writing competition! We should have known the apocalypse was coming...
Give me the wine , I don't need the bread
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hackenslash wrote:Hi, Jerome. I see you're still proudly sporting your winner's badge. That was going to be mine! Mine, I tell you!
It may well have been! You can have it tomorrow. Can we find Mazille and move the contest over here? I can't find my normal icon
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A lovely blog post, Jerome.Jerome23 wrote:lordpasternack wrote:Am I the only one getting a lot of deja vu here from OBC's similar behaviour on TAF?
Banning reference to this site, and obliterating dissent is just the height of pathetic. Then having the gall or delusion to claim that all are excited is just FARCE beyond my articulation.
What happened to TAF? Er maybe that's another thread or a pm only topic - I don't want to get in to forum wars... My thoughts on the whole RD.net fiasco here - http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2010/02/2 ... -to-close/
My major problem was trying not to turn it in ot a huge bloody list of names
j x
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The title of my entry now seems somewhat prophetic, no? 
Dogma is the death of the intellect
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REPENT SINNERS! No don't actually, be bloody boring if you did.Mr.Samsa wrote:A theist is the ONLY winner of an RDF science writing competition! We should have known the apocalypse was coming...
I'm really really hoping we can move the contest here, if the admins will allow it? I'll pm everyone who entered and copy all the posts across if need be? We will need a new name though, like the "Bugger Richard Dawkins Forum Science Writing Contest"...j x
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My PM rights have been taken as well.Peter Harrison wrote:They've just taken away my PM rights. Anyone else? I actually had stuff saved in there.
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Sounds good. gauge the interest levels and then let us know what we need to do to help set it up.Jerome23 wrote:REPENT SINNERS! No don't actually, be bloody boring if you did.Mr.Samsa wrote:A theist is the ONLY winner of an RDF science writing competition! We should have known the apocalypse was coming...
j x
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
Twoflower
Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse
Millefleur
Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
Twoflower
Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse
Millefleur
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Hi Guys,
I didn’t find out that anything was up till this morning, when I stumbled over the Admin announcement from Josh.
Over the past several weeks, the Mods were promised consultation and cooperation by Andrew (Chalkers, the tech weenie) and Josh (The “Admin” Dude), and the opportunity to test out a new site and work out the bugs before any transition. We were told that the current forums would be migrated over, but perhaps reorganised with more emphasis on science.
They’ve gone ahead and completely excluded the Mods, presented a fair accompli with a new format, and now we’re locked out of RD.net like everyone else. For 40 mins after the lock, the Mods were still able to post, but now we’re shut out too, probably because we all went berserk and Josh didn’t want to deal with us.
Topsy and Mazille posted the note that the Mods got which in addition to the info you guys got, which also demanded that the Mods shut up, don’t create waves, don’t try to contact Richard Dawkins and tow the party line. These additions were removed by Josh, as well as an entire thread in Tech Support which criticized the impending forum closure in 30 days. Of course, that’s now changed.
I'm fucking pissed off.
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I didn’t find out that anything was up till this morning, when I stumbled over the Admin announcement from Josh.
Over the past several weeks, the Mods were promised consultation and cooperation by Andrew (Chalkers, the tech weenie) and Josh (The “Admin” Dude), and the opportunity to test out a new site and work out the bugs before any transition. We were told that the current forums would be migrated over, but perhaps reorganised with more emphasis on science.
They’ve gone ahead and completely excluded the Mods, presented a fair accompli with a new format, and now we’re locked out of RD.net like everyone else. For 40 mins after the lock, the Mods were still able to post, but now we’re shut out too, probably because we all went berserk and Josh didn’t want to deal with us.
Topsy and Mazille posted the note that the Mods got which in addition to the info you guys got, which also demanded that the Mods shut up, don’t create waves, don’t try to contact Richard Dawkins and tow the party line. These additions were removed by Josh, as well as an entire thread in Tech Support which criticized the impending forum closure in 30 days. Of course, that’s now changed.
I'm fucking pissed off.
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First thing I saved onto a text file was Calilassia's list of Carnards in the Debunking Creationism section. It seemed like the thread that was the most helpful in RL argument 
"Another aspect of the particulateness of the gene is that is does not grow senile; it is no more likely to die when it is a million years old than when it is only a hundred. It leaps from body to body in it's own way and for its own ends, abandoning a succession of mortal bodies before they sink in senility and death" -Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene p.34
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Hi Guys,
I didn’t find out that anything was up till this morning, when I stumbled over the Admin announcement from Josh.
Over the past several weeks, the Mods were promised consultation and cooperation by Andrew (Chalkers, the tech weenie) and Josh (The “Admin” Dude), and the opportunity to test out a new site and work out the bugs before any transition. We were told that the current forums would be migrated over, but perhaps reorganised with more emphasis on science.
They’ve gone ahead and completely excluded the Mods, presented a fair accompli with a new format, and now we’re locked out of RD.net like everyone else. For 40 mins after the lock, the Mods were still able to post, but now we’re shut out too, probably because we all went berserk and Josh didn’t want to deal with us.
Topsy and Mazille posted the note that the Mods got which in addition to the info you guys got, which also demanded that the Mods shut up, don’t create waves, don’t try to contact Richard Dawkins and tow the party line. These additions were removed by Josh, as well as an entire thread in Tech Support which criticized the impending forum closure in 30 days. Of course, that’s now changed.
I'm fucking pissed off.
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
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virphen wrote:Nice to see so many familiar names in Siberia.
I'm fucking livid about not being able to get the chance to even swap e-mail addresses with so many of the people who I've bonded with on the RDF board. So I'm very much hoping more will come here.
We've witnessed arrogant fucknuttery on a monumental scale. Sheer folly too.
Hi Virphen, I was trying to PM you and Durro and Witti just to at least say goodbye !!! Who is online
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