1. Dang, dang, you are kinda mean, gratuituously so…
2. Does it occur to you that Belle is bonded with people here and in turn others may be bonded with her?
3. You speak for all of the members in saying she does not benefit anyone here?
4. All you do is pick with fights and declare yourself a victim? That is hyperbole.
5. Why be mean? What do you get out of it Dang?
I will be answering all of your points, and have broken it out for ease of reading.
1. I suppose one could read it with a mean tone in their own head. That’s the reader’s interpretation. I’ve had discussions with at least one Mod about behavior and best approaches. I know that they would be sending me a PM if I were being mean. And if I were being mean, truly, then I would expect to be kicked off without notice, account deleted.
2. I know she has as ton of “friends” on here. I don’t take online friends too seriously. If you’ve bonded, then that’s cool, I suppose. I don’t care who has bonded, who has not, who has been here a long time, or who is new. That does nothing in the way of moving the conversation.
3. I NEVER said that I speak for “all of the members,” and I do not know why you would make that up, or why you would even BELIEVE for one second that I was declaring that I speak for others. I don’t even claim to speak for Atheists in general, and will often note that “I can speak only for myself.” If she makes an assertion and does not support it, then it does no good. If she gets mad and says something is not true, without saying WHY it is not true, then it does no good. I was primarily asking about HER benefit, or what SHE gets out of it. From here, it seems like aggravation.
4. It has happened in more than one thread. You may not be able to see it through the “bonding.”
5. I get absolutely NOTHING out of fights, just as I get nothing out of unsupported claims and vapid platitudes. I’ve gotten lots of things from being here, such as the recent discussion that ventured into “theory of mind.”
It has nothing to do with whether or not someone agrees or disagrees, either. Here are TWO examples of waste-of-time posts that serve no purpose:
“I agree with you.”
“I disagree with you.”
In both cases, it does nothing to inform. It’s not a discussion. It’s not a case being made for or against anything. It’s agreement or disagreement, and neither do anything to move a discussion. It’s pointless.
I see nothing about what I’ve said as being a mean, personal attack, and yet you’ve felt the need to “white knight” this and turn it into something that it is not.
MODS – HERE’S THE DEAL: I know that you don’t like to sweat things like this, and have better things to do than engage in confrontations, even though you know that I am not confrontational. I’m going to go away for a while. If I come back, and I can login, then I will stay. If I cannot login, then I will “take the hint” and go away.
Assertions are cheap and VERY easy to make. The hard part is backing it up. In keeping with the topic of the thread, NOBODY has ever seen a prayer be answered. Never. If they did, then they must prove it. But then it falls back onto the problem that the supernatural world cannot be proven.
Simon Paynton 6 years, 9 months ago.
Dang Martin.
