Close Down the Origins & Creationism Forum

a reply to: intrepid

Wellll given how many people perceive me as condescending . . . unless they know me face to face . . . or know my heart . . . I don't know that I am a good one to rate condescending.

Do I think I'm right about some things? Certainly. Who doesn't?

If we didn't think so, WE'D BELIEVE SOMETHING DIFFERENT!

Do I think I'm right about everything? Of course not.

Do I think I can't learn from others--even those who disagree with me? Absolutely not. I love iron sharpening iron.

Maybe I don't understand other folks definition of condescending very well.

To me, it means someone who is very arrogant and 100% convinced that they are always right; that there's no one they can learn from . . . and that it is their magnanimous graciousness to stoop to communicate with the riffraff at all. That's condescending, to me.

I never think that way and never feel that way.

By the same token, I am going to state my case for my strongest, most emotionally intensely held beliefs with all the forcefulness I can muster. Some folks say I can be intimidating in such regards. Given my insecurities, that still surprises me somewhat though not as much as it did 50 years ago. I still tend to think of myself as a toe headed poor white trash hick farm boy that happened to get a good education.

Anyway . . . Didn't realize that ramble was in there.

a reply to: NoCorruptionAllowed

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh . . . that's what I suspected on reading the OP.

Kind of axiomatic, it seems. Sigh.

a reply to: intrepid

What you live for?

What . . . cutting others insecure desperate fantasies about their length down to realistic proportions?

LOLOL.

There is a certain satisfaction in that, alright.

originally posted by: BO XIAN
a reply to: intrepid

What you live for?

What . . . cutting others insecure desperate fantasies about their length down to realistic proportions?

LOLOL.

There is a certain satisfaction in that, alright.

Nope. Just good with bullies. I'm well educated as too. English major.

a reply to: Astyanax
Hey , what are you wanting it shut down for ? That forum is a very popular place to start threads and post. Including yours....

a reply to: intrepid

Welllllllllllllllll, imho,

BULLIES

NEED AND DESERVE

you cutting them down to side. More power to you.

Now how you define a bully would be interesting.

it's probably not the best forum for a "mind firmly closed."
Just sayin'.....

a reply to: Astyanax

If the section is almost inactive, it is taking up valuable space. I agree.

a reply to: reldra

How convenient for your beliefs and sensibilities.

Sheesh.

originally posted by: BO XIAN
a reply to: reldra

How convenient for your beliefs and sensibilities.

Sheesh.

originally posted by: BO XIAN
Now how you define a bully would be interesting.

Defined.

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it, like a hand cannon!

Ya never know what might pop up in a month or a year.

a reply to: intrepid

I defined that as exceedingly gentle.

A bully would have said something like . . .

hmmm . . . pondering . . .

"You just want to close down views not close to your own on that sphere of reality. You deserve to go suck rocks for thinking of such a thing!"

Even that is not quite a bully, to my definition.

It seems to me that with that defined as bullying, anything annoying or uncomfortable to the other person would be defined as bullying. Not out West where I live.

Your avatar, now THAT is bullying!!!

BTW, you have a PM.

I think bullying might be defined as an overwhelmingly intimidating threat and/or use of physical or verbal violence.


I can't bring myself to type what I think a bully would have said.

a reply to: BO XIAN

That's why I'm being gentle too.

a reply to: reldra

If the section is almost inactive, it is taking up valuable space. I agree.

Space? What space? Surface area on a server hard drive? Not a whole hell of a lot I would venture.

originally posted by: Astyanax
I believe this forum has outlived its currency, and I think ATS would be better off without it.

I notice a lot of good stuff disappearing. I dunno why.

Delete, remove, expunge.

It seems there is some sensitive guy behind the scenes that don't like a lot of things.

Of course, it could just be the need for space on the hard drives.

Pity.

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: reldra

If the section is almost inactive, it is taking up valuable space. I agree.

Space? What space? Surface area on a server hard drive? Not a whole hell of a lot I would venture.

I did not know how much space. I was basing my answer on recent talks about how expensive it is to run the site. I also recall, but am too tired to look for, comments about the amount of forums having increased over years.

a reply to: reldra

As I understand it, the expense is not in disk space. It's in security measures.

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: reldra

As I understand it, the expense is not in disk space. It's in security measures.

Is it also in bandwith and the number of pages spidered for search engines?

a reply to: reldra

Bandwidth is bandwidth. Neither bandwidth nor bots care what forum something is posted in.

Personally, I would just as soon that the content of that forum stay there.

No.

I don't often go to the forum...but there are those who do--or would, if the conversations were just that---conversations.

It's an outlet for those who wish to let their opinions be known--one way, or another.

If that's not to your liking, don't go to that forum.