Announcement about RDF

[NineBerry]

Has ever such a childish, cowardly, fucktarded arse-achingly stupid action ever taken place on teh interwebz?

Yeah, it happens like every day somewhere on the interwebz

[klr]

Those stupid bastard cunting arsehammocking fuckfaces! Impotent rage, I haz it. Mazille, CJ, Valden, Kiki, you have been disappeared I see. Has ever such a childish, cowardly, fucktarded arse-achingly stupid action ever taken place on teh interwebz? Do you have room for a small, irritable, incandescent, grudge-bearing one?

Let me check ... ... yes, yes we have.

Welcome aboard.

[JimC]

Those stupid bastard cunting arsehammocking fuckfaces! Impotent rage, I haz it. Mazille, CJ, Valden, Kiki, you have been disappeared I see. Has ever such a childish, cowardly, fucktarded arse-achingly stupid action ever taken place on teh interwebz? Do you have room for a small, irritable, incandescent, grudge-bearing one?

Don't hold back! Tell them what you really think!

But, jokes aside, both welcome and commiserations...

[Mazille]

Those stupid bastard cunting arsehammocking fuckfaces! Impotent rage, I haz it. Mazille, CJ, Valden, Kiki, you have been disappeared I see. Has ever such a childish, cowardly, fucktarded arse-achingly stupid action ever taken place on teh interwebz? Do you have room for a small, irritable, incandescent, grudge-bearing one?

Hi there, Fallible. Good to see you here.

[CJ]

Those stupid bastard cunting arsehammocking fuckfaces! Impotent rage, I haz it. Mazille, CJ, Valden, Kiki, you have been disappeared I see. Has ever such a childish, cowardly, fucktarded arse-achingly stupid action ever taken place on teh interwebz? Do you have room for a small, irritable, incandescent, grudge-bearing one?

Holds at arms length with a pair of metal barbecue tongs while wearing furness gloves and goggles.

Come in and cool down, you're very welcome

[Ilovelucy]

#timonenfail is gaining momentum on twitter, anyone who's on there, get the information out there and append with #timonenfail

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23timonenfail

[misanthropic_clown]

I was actually in the middle of writing a post on the announcement discussion thread when the forum shut down, so I figured I would copy it here:

As a relative newcomer I feel I have little right to be offended except on behalf of those who have invested much time and effort into this forum. I hope any thanks I can offer helps to alleviate the blow - the forum is going, but the work wasn't for nothing in reality. This is the first community in which I have felt comfortable to think myself an atheist and I have enjoyed exploring the posts of greater minds than my own. It has helped me gather the courage to begin to make my transition away from religion in a real, physical way as opposed to continuing my simple long term disbelief whilst going through the motions of religion.

I think I do reflect the attitude of a few people who see this as an unfortunate move towards elitism. I am sure the new system has the ability to become a great information resource, but it is unfortunate that it comes at the cost of a sense of free community. It just seems wholly counter-intuitive to the support for the OUT Campaign. Sometimes, people need a good community when their atheism causes personal problems at home, work or even in their own minds. This community is not found in the refined discussion boards you seek to create, and I daresay that makes this a rather hypocritical move. Publicise your atheism, but don't come looking here for support.

It's a shame.

In any respects I am looking forward to exploring around here now. I hadn't even heard of this place before the forum faced shutdown.

[sforza]

No offence, but bollocks to that. The only new beginning I'll salute is one that doesn't involve Chalkey and Josh. Otherwise, it's not a new beginning, it's the same old shit, double concentrated and marinated in otter spunk.

None taken. I didn't really make my sarcasm about RDF's "fresh start" readily apparent - it was the new beginnings of the community here that I was raising my glass to.
The magnificent arsefaces Josh and Andrew can go screw themselves for all I care.

[Ilovelucy]

No offence, but bollocks to that. The only new beginning I'll salute is one that doesn't involve Chalkey and Josh. Otherwise, it's not a new beginning, it's the same old shit, double concentrated and marinated in otter spunk.

None taken. I didn't really make my sarcasm about RDF's "fresh start" readily apparent - it was the new beginnings of the community here that I was raising my glass to.
The magnificent arsefaces Josh and Andrew can go screw themselves for all I care.

My apologies. I think this whole situation has knocked my irony radar out of comission!

[JimC]

I was actually in the middle of writing a post on the announcement discussion thread when the forum shut down, so I figured I would copy it here:

As a relative newcomer I feel I have little right to be offended except on behalf of those who have invested much time and effort into this forum. I hope any thanks I can offer helps to alleviate the blow - the forum is going, but the work wasn't for nothing in reality. This is the first community in which I have felt comfortable to think myself an atheist and I have enjoyed exploring the posts of greater minds than my own. It has helped me gather the courage to begin to make my transition away from religion in a real, physical way as opposed to continuing my simple long term disbelief whilst going through the motions of religion.

I think I do reflect the attitude of a few people who see this as an unfortunate move towards elitism. I am sure the new system has the ability to become a great information resource, but it is unfortunate that it comes at the cost of a sense of free community. It just seems wholly counter-intuitive to the support for the OUT Campaign. Sometimes, people need a good community when their atheism causes personal problems at home, work or even in their own minds. This community is not found in the refined discussion boards you seek to create, and I daresay that makes this a rather hypocritical move. Publicise your atheism, but don't come looking here for support.

It's a shame.

In any respects I am looking forward to exploring around here now. I hadn't even heard of this place before the forum faced shutdown.

Glad you are here! We have been suffering a shortage of misanthropic clowns. We placed an order, but the bastards said the machine was broken!

[Faithfree]

Is this going to be the first Ratz thread to hit 1000 posts in under 24 hours?

[Feck]

I was actually in the middle of writing a post on the announcement discussion thread when the forum shut down, so I figured I would copy it here:

As a relative newcomer I feel I have little right to be offended except on behalf of those who have invested much time and effort into this forum. I hope any thanks I can offer helps to alleviate the blow - the forum is going, but the work wasn't for nothing in reality. This is the first community in which I have felt comfortable to think myself an atheist and I have enjoyed exploring the posts of greater minds than my own. It has helped me gather the courage to begin to make my transition away from religion in a real, physical way as opposed to continuing my simple long term disbelief whilst going through the motions of religion.

I think I do reflect the attitude of a few people who see this as an unfortunate move towards elitism. I am sure the new system has the ability to become a great information resource, but it is unfortunate that it comes at the cost of a sense of free community. It just seems wholly counter-intuitive to the support for the OUT Campaign. Sometimes, people need a good community when their atheism causes personal problems at home, work or even in their own minds. This community is not found in the refined discussion boards you seek to create, and I daresay that makes this a rather hypocritical move. Publicise your atheism, but don't come looking here for support.

It's a shame.

In any respects I am looking forward to exploring around here now. I hadn't even heard of this place before the forum faced shutdown.

Nice post .....oh and welcome, Not heard of Rationalia before Oh well you found us now enjoy .

[JimC]

Is this going to be the first Ratz thread to hit 1000 posts in under 24 hours?

Shit yeah!

And that's with Gawd sleeping!

[leo-rcc]

Glad you are here! We have been suffering a shortage of misanthropic clowns. We placed an order, but the bastards said the machine was broken!

I'm just a wicked clown, does that count?

[CJ]

Is this going to be the first Ratz thread to hit 1000 posts in under 24 hours?

Shit yeah!

And that's with Gawd sleeping!

And no Dev either! He is going to be royally pissed off he missed this