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RandFan said:
I've been posting on JREF for more than a decade and I've heard this about everything.

  • Why are you folks so obsessed with Big Foot?
  • Why are you folks so obsessed with psychics?
  • Why are you folks so obsessed with UFO's?
  • Why are you folks so obsessed with dowsing?
  • Why are you folks so obsessed with Homeopathy?
  • Why are you folks so obsessed with crystals?
  • Why are you folks so obsessed with conspiracy theory?
It's just what we do.
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Each of the examples you mentioned is of relevance to many people. There are hundreds of thousands of believers in Big Foot, psychics, etcetera.
Yet there is barely anyone who knows what "ceepolk" is and why one should care. So again, why are you so obsessed with these people?
 
Speaking of Ceepolk, I'm still waiting for my invitation for drinks.

I give my permission for PMs.
 
Verklagekasper said:
Each of the examples you mentioned is of relevance to many people. There are hundreds of thousands of believers in Big Foot, psychics, etcetera.
Yet there is barely anyone who knows what "ceepolk" is and why one should care. So again, why are you so obsessed with these people?
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I don't care how many people are interested. As long as they are there ******* skepticism and critical thinking up the *** I will be here calling them on it.
 
RandFan said:
I don't care how many people are interested. As long as they are there ******* skepticism and critical thinking up the *** I will be here calling them on it.
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Skepticism seems in a bad shape if it can be ********** up the ass that easily by a few dozen people who don't even pretend to be concerned with skepticism but their own dogma.
 
I'm sure I heard someone mention pie. I really like pie!!!
Where is the pie?
 
Verklagekasper said:
Skepticism seems in a bad shape if it can be ********** up the ass that easily by a few dozen people who don't even pretend to be concerned with skepticism but their own dogma.
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Oh, on the contrary, we don't let this nonsense go without skewering it. Like I said, that's precisely why we are here.
 
Verklagekasper said:
Start acting rational and just ignore that forum.
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Just ignore the scam artists, the big foot advocate, the homeopathy idiots, the psychics, etc., etc. **** that. If you are an idiot and you are propagating BS you are going to get called out. There are no sacred cows. The A+ group is foisting BS. Sorry, not going to give them a pass. Stop the BS and we can have something to talk about. Not before.
 
qwints said:
Telling someone to check their privilege is basically telling them to think if they're commenting on a subject that lack personal experience in or to consider that their words might mean something different to someone with different personal experiences.
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I believe that's the official explanation of the phrase. In reality it's just a silencing tactic.

Tsukasa Buddha said:
Apparently someone wrote a SJ-friendly call to civility. Well, we can't have that!

Basically, the rebuttal is that some jerks act nice when they are being jerkish... Which has nothing to do about how you should act when you have good motives!
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Social Justice? Civility? What a strange pairing.

And don't you love it how the 301 level discussions always seem to end up as them agreeing with one another? That is not my idea of how things should work out. Once we've settled the banal arguments that the common filth offer about gay marriage, we should be free to disagree about the deeper issues!
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Because they don't want dissent, they want an echo chamber.
 
Verklagekasper said:
Skepticism seems in a bad shape if it can be ********** up the ass that easily by a few dozen people who don't even pretend to be concerned with skepticism but their own dogma.
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Skepticism? No

Atheism? Hell yes.

There is a few people who do not agree with anti-theists and who lurk on that site and use it as a quote factory. Thanks A+.
 
16.5 said:
Skepticism? No

Atheism? Hell yes.

There is a few people who do not agree with anti-theists and who lurk on that site and use it as a quote factory. Thanks A+.
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But on the other hand, they do actually appear to be in favor of atheism. Skepticism, not so much.
 
Oh my god. I don't want to link to it because it was so bad, but in the "capracious mods" thread someone just told wind something... extreme. The mods "censored" this by putting one sentence of the rant... wait for it... in spoiler tags!

Problem solved :cool: .
 
Verklagekasper said:
A thread discussing what is going on in another forum. It should have died off long ago. Really, why are you so obsessed with those people?
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1) Their raison d'être is that the general skepticism movement is flawed, so responding to those criticisms (in the only indirect way allowed) on a skepticism forum is natural.

2) I am a genderqueer, generally queer, feminist, anti-racist, socialist with mental disorders.

If someone harmful is claiming to be acting for my oppressed group's benefit, I want to be there to deny it.
 
Verklagekasper said:
Each of the examples you mentioned is of relevance to many people. There are hundreds of thousands of believers in Big Foot, psychics, etcetera.
Yet there is barely anyone who knows what "ceepolk" is and why one should care. So again, why are you so obsessed with these people?
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Kooks are entertaining.
 
Verklagekasper said:
Yeah, I posted before in this thread. Long time ago when this was not exclusively about the A+-forum. Start acting rational and just ignore that forum.
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February 8th was a long time ago... that was like post three thousand five hundred something in this thread.

So, we get you. You're of-a-sudden against wasting your time on topics that don't interest you, or ceased interesting you, however recently. Some of us have differing views (why look at Kelly and her fondness for pies and my own fondness for cake).

Why does someone always come forward and fart under the blankets in pajama parties? We feel like posting on this topic and looking into them. You like discussing the teenager's battle with shoddy jurisprudence in that thread. Are you wrong because I think that conversation is fruitless and silly? Is Ben Burch wrong because he wants to post in gun control threads?
 
Foolmewunz said:
(why look at Kelly and her fondness for pies and my own fondness for cake).
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You both need to check your privilage and quit bakesplaining.

There are people who have been traumatized by being assaulted with pies and cake is a symbol of the patriarchy - note how their first act as man and wife is for the husband to shove food (and, symbolically his penis) into the woman's face.

Don't get me stared on cannolis.
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
Oh my god. I don't want to link to it because it was so bad, but in the "capracious mods" thread someone just told wind something... extreme. The mods "censored" this by putting one sentence of the rant... wait for it... in spoiler tags!

Problem solved :cool: .
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And I can't even respond to it!

It's like the forum has become some kind of Pavlovian hate excelorator machine.

On the bright side, die rhymes with pie, so Imma just gonna think some more about delicious chocolate pie.
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
Oh my god. I don't want to link to it because it was so bad, but in the "capracious mods" thread someone just told wind something... extreme. The mods "censored" this by putting one sentence of the rant... wait for it... in spoiler tags!

Problem solved :cool: .
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the one who was complaining about getting not being able to get time off from boarding school to do or attend to something? Or am I mixing my misfits?

Talk about your misdirected anger! And the point is that they just don't get it. Their little secret is out, they look like lying liarheads to all the members they've been conning with their "safe space" ("well, it's really a safe space, it's just that we sooper sensitive insiders are needier than the rest of the needy so we have a really really safe space somewhere else that you don't know about"). But the poor darlings are too a-scared to face the real bogie man.

Pogo comes to mind: We have met the enemy and he is us.
 
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