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Beach Bum
Joined: Dec 08 2010
Location: At the pants party.
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I'm just impressed anyone managed to read those posts enough to offer any rebuttals. They kept growing exponentially with every refresh it seemed. I just kind of gave up when the first massive wall of text got edited for the fifth or sixth time.
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Hacker
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Truth be told I felt like I was going to be one of the only people who defended or tried to reason for Christianity. I only expected 1, maybe 2, not the good chunk of people that did
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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You can quit patting yourself on the back now.
Also, since this thread has pretty much passed "reasoned debate" territory, here we go:
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Preng
Title: All right, that's cool!
Joined: Jan 11 2010
Location: Accounting Dept.
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Looks like things escalated pretty quickly - yet I would like to say that it has been very, very interesting to read everyone's opinions on the matter. Overall, I would say that the tone was rather civil, which is what I've come to expect from you fine folks.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
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| Looks like things escalated pretty quickly |
I killed a guy with a trident.
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Preng
Title: All right, that's cool!
Joined: Jan 11 2010
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| Preng wrote: |
| Looks like things escalated pretty quickly |
I killed a guy with a trident. |
You may want to law low at Doctor Jeebus's place for awhile, because you're probably wanted for murder.
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sidewaydriver
2010 SLF Tag Champ
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I like to think that Bill Nye is lurking on these forums laughing maniacally as he watches the mess he created unfold.
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Zinja
Joined: Sep 05 2012
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| Hacker wrote: |
| And another one takes their potato and goes home. |
fixed
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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| JoshWoodzy wrote: |
You can quit patting yourself on the back now.
Also, since this thread has pretty much passed "reasoned debate" territory, here we go:
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im glad i opened this thread up.
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| I'll eat a turkey sandwich while blowing my load |
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Cattivo
Joined: Apr 14 2006
Location: Lake Michigan
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Wow, looks like I missed a bunch of stuff over the weekend, geez.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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I didn't really read a whole lot of this thread after my initial response to Alowishus. I read the first few lines of his response and it immediately became clear that he didn't understand what I was trying to do. What I was trying to was demonstrate how condescending and hostile he was coming off as by feeding him back some of his own medicine. But apparently my sarcasm did not provide the epiphany and empathy that I had hoped it would and instead only served to enrage him further.
I saw a reference to Alowishus "taking his ball and going home". If that is the case, that he ragequit the forums, that is unfortunate. I would like to make it clear that:
1) Alowishus is not banned.
2) Alowishus is not unwelcome here.
While I was not a fan of his browbeating and incivility in this particular thread, it does not diminish my overall opinion of him. He was a solid poster for three years and if he has left, he will be missed.
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Fighter_McWarrior
Title: Gun of Brixton
Joined: Jun 05 2011
Location: Down by the River
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This is why I never debate religion on the internet. At least there's a degree of fact involved in politics.
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Yo te querda oh ma corazón
Oh ma corazón, oh ma corazón" - The Clash, Spanish Bombs |
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
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The great thing about politics is that all sides lie and spin facts, and if you're a skilled debater you can always win a political argument.
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Vaenamoenen
Joined: Mar 18 2010
Location: Tuonela
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Has the debate concluded? In any case, here's a nice picture of Jesus posing with a dinosaur:
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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Shopped, but still amazing.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| Shopped, but still amazing. |
prove it
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| I'll eat a turkey sandwich while blowing my load |
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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I can't, you just have to have the right kind of eyes. But Jesus, the girl, and the rainbow were clearly added into that bitchin' brachiosaurus picture.
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
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Bob Dylan`s Blues
Title: Worlds Strongest Man
Joined: Jun 08 2011
Location: Your nightmares
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^ I would like an action figure of that.
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
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Off-topic: I've wanted an action figure of Peter Frampton pretty much my whole life.
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Fighter_McWarrior
Title: Gun of Brixton
Joined: Jun 05 2011
Location: Down by the River
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| I can't, you just have to have the right kind of eyes. But Jesus, the girl, and the rainbow were clearly added into that bitchin' brachiosaurus picture. |
Plus the scaling on the dinosaur is totally off.
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Yo te querda oh ma corazón
Oh ma corazón, oh ma corazón" - The Clash, Spanish Bombs |
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Beach Bum
Joined: Dec 08 2010
Location: At the pants party.
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| Fighter_McWarrior wrote: |
| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| I can't, you just have to have the right kind of eyes. But Jesus, the girl, and the rainbow were clearly added into that bitchin' brachiosaurus picture. |
Plus the scaling on the dinosaur is totally off. |
Shrinking dinosaurs shouldn't have been much of a challenge for a guy who could turn water into wine and make people not be blind.
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Fighter_McWarrior
Title: Gun of Brixton
Joined: Jun 05 2011
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You know, if he'd brought dinosaurs back to life and shrunk them for domestication, nobody on Earth would ever worshiped anyone else. Plus, the Romans would have given up and gone home, because who wants to tangle with the people who have MOTHERFUCKING DINOSAURS?
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 "Spanish bombs, yot' quierro y finito
Yo te querda oh ma corazón
Oh ma corazón, oh ma corazón" - The Clash, Spanish Bombs |
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Alowishus
Joined: Aug 04 2009
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Right, i've cooled off considerably and i want to just explain briefly how this has flown.
I firstly want to apologise especially to Sydlexia. If it hasn't been noticed at all by some it should be noticed now that i am very argumentative. His post (up there) was actually quite nice despite the asshole i was to him.
I understand that his post wasn't what he intended to be taken from it. From my point of view at this stage i didn't view anything being said by anyone as being mean and that his post was literally just an attack at me out of nowhere.
I will state that the material in my posts may have been interpreted in the wrong way. I spoke to my consul on all these issues Woodzy and the questions he asked me about my posts and his interpretation of them where not what i meant in some cases.
I will admit i was pretty harsh and i am honestly surprised i wasn't banned for it. The rule on this actually wasn't what i thought it was - i remembered the rule but not the explanation of it - aka not a pulpit and nothing else.
If i had that in mind i wouldn't have written what i did. However irrespective of the shit that went down the material in my posts as i interpret it i still believe and i do mean how i interpret it.
Woodzy stated that i was mean spirited. This is difficult to explain but my points i do agree were very critical and that offence may be taken from that (and i agree now that i shouldn't have even stated most of them) but i was not intentionally trying to be mean. I was trying to just explain my opinion and at no point was i mad or anything before i reacted to Sydlexias post.
With the nature of the things i was saying i can understand how people could think i was being mean but i was really just saying what i believe and if it conflicts with what you believe then i apologise for that as well. I did not want this to result in how it did.
As well as being an argumentative person i am also a person who finds it difficult to apologise for things so when i do say it i do mean it.
So i do apologise that offence was taken but my views are still my views and with the nature of this forum and the rules it's not really the place to put forward the views that i have on this matter.
Indeed discussion of this matter via text is also not particularly a good way to express my points. It's difficult to clarify things via text and then things can be interpreted differently than intended. I would say if i was speaking in person with all of you that this would have been a completely different conversation.
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JoshWoodzy
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