I hate being called a bigot. An idiot? Sure. But not a bigot. Mormons need ridicule, they're not the only ones, but they need it. I think I've been equally unfair to most other groups as their respective turns have come up. Amorph, you have been a little pissy lately, wassamatta?
Don't think the administration will sit idly by while this board becomes an unpleasant place.
Matsu, there's nothing wrong with Amorph. He's simply doing his job, and, frankly, if I were you, I wouldn't be taking on authority figures too much right about now.
I'm just glad I got out of the "Mormons" thread before the sharks REALLY started to bite. And now it's locked.
Maybe more people need to read and heed Peacekeeper's post.
p.s. <sarcasm>Oh, yeah. Applenut is very cool.</sarcasm> <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> Though, given applenut's track record, I'm not surprised he said that.</strong><hr></blockquote>
given your track record I'm not surprised you can't see the joke. must be that old age of yours. your so mature that everything has to be serious.
I feel sorry for you. really do
[quote]
Matsu, there's nothing wrong with Amorph. He's simply doing his job, and, frankly, if I were you, I wouldn't be taking on authority figures too much right about now.
Get my drift? <hr></blockquote>
seems like you're using pretty strong words for such a minor thing.
Just remember where you are, watch your language, keep it tasteful and there shouldn't be any interventions from the forum administration at all.
Matsu, your posts are always well-written, but you occasionally get a bit extreme in your use of language. Keep clear of the "lick the feces" rhetoric and there shouldn't be an issue. As for Amorph, his moderation has always been in good taste, and some of the stuff he did regarding you was directly in response to emails of complaint we received.
I don't personally keep track of any of your posts very diligently, but at the point where I start receiving emails of complaint at the language being used, it's time to start keeping it in check.
Remember that this board has a far more lax censor filter than MacNN does because it was assumed the member base could handle it; if this turns out not to be the case it'll have to be used more actively, which would be unfortunate and against the wishes of the moderators here.
To quote the ever-useful Terms of Service:
[quote]"You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this BB to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law."<hr></blockquote>
I believe "licking feces" should fall into one of those categories.
Ahhh, come-on guy? (done in weird mock Sadam Hussein south Park Caricature voice)
I know there's nothing wrong with him. Just wanted to jibe him a little. Let the record show that I quite like the mods here, and over at MacNN too. Even when they get on my case. Even when they're right, and lets face it, that's the hardest time to like sombody -- when they're right. What's wrong with being a little pissy?
I'm not sure an energetic exchange or two makes the place unpleasant. Then again I often enjoy watching other drivers' road rage against each other from the safety of my own car. That's funny. Especially like one I saw just the other day where the guy tried to spit on the other car while rolling down the window. That goober didn't get too far! I guess I'm a little masochistic, in a passive agressive anti-social kinda way. I need to work on that.
I really don't see my comments as a challenge. You have the editorial privledge of the last word, natch. You use it at your discretion. No problem here. But so long as this thread is open, why not go back to one of the threads that sparked this one?
Admidst my mental flatulence was at least one post that reasonably, if perhaps too agressively (and too briefly), argued (nee, 'highlighted') why certain groups don't really qualify as religions to many western theists. It is not a simple case of big words hiding bigotry. There is no bigotry to hide. From theological, historical, and some creepy social/organizational standpoints there are a lot of mayflower puritan/N.A. Christian sects that really fair badly compared to their old world counter parts. Not all of them, but a lot. Without even getting into the new-age psuedo-pagan happy go lucky wicca tree craft baloney, there is a proliferration of religion 'light'. It seems to start with American colonization, but has continued to reach around the world to mangle religions from both the east and the past. Wicca, neo-paganism, popular California style Bhuddism (not the real disciplined version), Hare Chrishna. Even psychology and secular humanism are unsafe: ie. scientology -- Basically cults with good marketing and social penetration -- But on the Christian side we have affronts, today, by two main prosylethizing groups: the Jehova's Witnesses and the Mormons. Jehova's Witness recasting much of the spirit of (cultish) biblical misinterpretation and social organization about a hundred years or so after Mormonism. Creepy parallels abound. We could start with the way both try to re-appropriate the truth of Judaism and radically reconfigure the idea of Jesus, or the basic corruption of Evangelical ideas, or the hidden and unaccountable 'leaders' of both faiths. And that is only the surface.
They're just plain wrong about so much I don't know where to start. To say that Christians (from any of major divisions: Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican, or Catholic) or Jews, or Muslims, -- basically any of the great western Monotheistic faiths -- and to add also the giant Eastern (if unfortunately 'Orientalized') faiths (the Hindu and the Bhuddist), to say any and all of these is deeper in thought and fuller in scope than the 'faiths' previously described is hardly bigotry. It is probably the first thing these legitimate faiths would agree on.
Hey, but I didn't say any of that the first time around. Well, not a lot of it anyway. Might makes right -- something I happen to believe -- Clearly then, I am at least partly wrong, and will, unfortunately, only get 'wronger' as time goes by. So before too much of my inner fatalist emerges, let me apologize to any Mormons out there who took offence to this particular schema of the facts.
I feel old today, and not nearly as stupid as I would like when posting here or anywhere, so I'll go to bed. But not before tucking my tail between my butt-cheeks, and thanking God I don't live in Utah. I barely have enough energy for one woman, imagine her sister too... ummm, perhaps I'll stay up late afterall.
Sorry 'bout the Moron stuff. Feel free to actively convert this sinner over e-mail if you wish.
<strong>OK, I know this is now the kindler gentler AI, but anyone else want to make fun of Jonathon for what he wrote on the main board? Here's an excerpt:
<strong>OK, I know this is now the kindler gentler AI, but anyone else want to make fun of Jonathon for what he wrote on the main board? Here's an excerpt:
I think that this was a good thread...it worked out some problems and the overall message of the thread was a positive one. AI definatly needed a kick in the pants.
I think AI has only gotten stupider cause there is nothing happening with Apple....well there is, but no juicy info, no controversal insiders posting here, no elaborate fakers, nothing. At least when there are false posters, its something to talk about.
however over at Future Hardware someone is talking about a g5 video to appear soon...I personally think that whole thing is balogne but at least its an interesting scenario(but the guy that says he is goin to do it seems like some snotty kid)
what happened to Dorsal and Workerbee(R.I.P and Kormac and all those....'insiders' at least they were interesting.
I guess without stimulus the populus reverts to mush.
Comments
Don't think the administration will sit idly by while this board becomes an unpleasant place.
Matsu, there's nothing wrong with Amorph. He's simply doing his job, and, frankly, if I were you, I wouldn't be taking on authority figures too much right about now.
Get my drift?
<strong>I totally agree with Peacekeeper.
I'm just glad I got out of the "Mormons" thread before the sharks REALLY started to bite. And now it's locked.
Maybe more people need to read and heed Peacekeeper's post.
p.s. <sarcasm>Oh, yeah. Applenut is very cool.</sarcasm> <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> Though, given applenut's track record, I'm not surprised he said that.</strong><hr></blockquote>
given your track record I'm not surprised you can't see the joke. must be that old age of yours. your so mature that everything has to be serious.
I feel sorry for you. really do
[quote]
Matsu, there's nothing wrong with Amorph. He's simply doing his job, and, frankly, if I were you, I wouldn't be taking on authority figures too much right about now.
Get my drift? <hr></blockquote>
seems like you're using pretty strong words for such a minor thing.
Just remember where you are, watch your language, keep it tasteful and there shouldn't be any interventions from the forum administration at all.
Matsu, your posts are always well-written, but you occasionally get a bit extreme in your use of language. Keep clear of the "lick the feces" rhetoric and there shouldn't be an issue. As for Amorph, his moderation has always been in good taste, and some of the stuff he did regarding you was directly in response to emails of complaint we received.
I don't personally keep track of any of your posts very diligently, but at the point where I start receiving emails of complaint at the language being used, it's time to start keeping it in check.
Remember that this board has a far more lax censor filter than MacNN does because it was assumed the member base could handle it; if this turns out not to be the case it'll have to be used more actively, which would be unfortunate and against the wishes of the moderators here.
To quote the ever-useful Terms of Service:
[quote]"You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this BB to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law."<hr></blockquote>
I believe "licking feces" should fall into one of those categories.
My 2¢.
-gzl.
[ 02-13-2002: Message edited by: gorgonzola ]</p>
I know there's nothing wrong with him. Just wanted to jibe him a little. Let the record show that I quite like the mods here, and over at MacNN too. Even when they get on my case. Even when they're right, and lets face it, that's the hardest time to like sombody -- when they're right. What's wrong with being a little pissy?
I'm not sure an energetic exchange or two makes the place unpleasant. Then again I often enjoy watching other drivers' road rage against each other from the safety of my own car. That's funny. Especially like one I saw just the other day where the guy tried to spit on the other car while rolling down the window. That goober didn't get too far! I guess I'm a little masochistic, in a passive agressive anti-social kinda way. I need to work on that.
I really don't see my comments as a challenge. You have the editorial privledge of the last word, natch. You use it at your discretion. No problem here. But so long as this thread is open, why not go back to one of the threads that sparked this one?
Admidst my mental flatulence was at least one post that reasonably, if perhaps too agressively (and too briefly), argued (nee, 'highlighted') why certain groups don't really qualify as religions to many western theists. It is not a simple case of big words hiding bigotry. There is no bigotry to hide. From theological, historical, and some creepy social/organizational standpoints there are a lot of mayflower puritan/N.A. Christian sects that really fair badly compared to their old world counter parts. Not all of them, but a lot. Without even getting into the new-age psuedo-pagan happy go lucky wicca tree craft baloney, there is a proliferration of religion 'light'. It seems to start with American colonization, but has continued to reach around the world to mangle religions from both the east and the past. Wicca, neo-paganism, popular California style Bhuddism (not the real disciplined version), Hare Chrishna. Even psychology and secular humanism are unsafe: ie. scientology -- Basically cults with good marketing and social penetration -- But on the Christian side we have affronts, today, by two main prosylethizing groups: the Jehova's Witnesses and the Mormons. Jehova's Witness recasting much of the spirit of (cultish) biblical misinterpretation and social organization about a hundred years or so after Mormonism. Creepy parallels abound. We could start with the way both try to re-appropriate the truth of Judaism and radically reconfigure the idea of Jesus, or the basic corruption of Evangelical ideas, or the hidden and unaccountable 'leaders' of both faiths. And that is only the surface.
They're just plain wrong about so much I don't know where to start. To say that Christians (from any of major divisions: Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican, or Catholic) or Jews, or Muslims, -- basically any of the great western Monotheistic faiths -- and to add also the giant Eastern (if unfortunately 'Orientalized') faiths (the Hindu and the Bhuddist), to say any and all of these is deeper in thought and fuller in scope than the 'faiths' previously described is hardly bigotry. It is probably the first thing these legitimate faiths would agree on.
(and hello everybody).
I feel old today, and not nearly as stupid as I would like when posting here or anywhere, so I'll go to bed. But not before tucking my tail between my butt-cheeks, and thanking God I don't live in Utah. I barely have enough energy for one woman, imagine her sister too... ummm, perhaps I'll stay up late afterall.
Sorry 'bout the Moron stuff. Feel free to actively convert this sinner over e-mail if you wish.
<strong>
a minor thing.</strong><hr></blockquote>
you have no idea.
these boards are getting more ridiculous every day....the times have definatly changed.
[quote]Let's all try to contain the negative vibes and keep this site free of puerile curtness. Du calme, as it were.<hr></blockquote>
"As it were?" Who says "as it were?"
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
<strong>OK, I know this is now the kindler gentler AI, but anyone else want to make fun of Jonathon for what he wrote on the main board? Here's an excerpt:
"As it were?" Who says "as it were?"
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
hahahha
u shoulda seen it earlier. it was much longer and more elaborate.
pretty amusing to find.
<strong>OK, I know this is now the kindler gentler AI, but anyone else want to make fun of Jonathon for what he wrote on the main board? Here's an excerpt:
"As it were?" Who says "as it were?"
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
This is the sort of behavior up with which we will not put, Mr. SProut.
Just for you, it's now bolded.
Oblique literary reference? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
sigh... AI has gotten stupider...
[ 02-14-2002: Message edited by: Jonathan ]</p>
Of course, some people say I talk like a pretentious ass.
ph34r!
<strong>I also say "as it were" and "indeed".
Of course, some people say I talk like a pretentious ass.
ph34r!</strong><hr></blockquote>
INDEED you do.
Point taken, and your agreement appreciated. Now we can drop the issue and move on?always a welcome end to a conflict of sorts.
thanks,
-gzl.
<strong>Matsu-
Point taken, and your agreement appreciated. Now we can drop the issue and move on?always a welcome end to a conflict of sorts.
thanks,
-gzl.</strong><hr></blockquote>
how bout u lock this sucker then? that would leave a good impression...
I think AI has only gotten stupider cause there is nothing happening with Apple....well there is, but no juicy info, no controversal insiders posting here, no elaborate fakers, nothing. At least when there are false posters, its something to talk about.
however over at Future Hardware someone is talking about a g5 video to appear soon...I personally think that whole thing is balogne but at least its an interesting scenario(but the guy that says he is goin to do it seems like some snotty kid)
what happened to Dorsal and Workerbee(R.I.P
I guess without stimulus the populus reverts to mush.