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Marypop said:
A friend referred me to this forum. He said I would probably find it interesting, since I'm such a skeptic.

The site is bigger than I thought. I think I'll take some time looking around, and probably not post much until I get a feel for the place. Mainly, to see if people here play nice. I'm not really interested in forums where people just scream at each other.
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WHY THE HELL NOT??!! IS THAT SOME SORT OF SLAM AGAINST ARGUMENTERERS?

Oh, sorry - I thought I was in that Monty Python sketch. Welcome aboard. It is indeed a rather huge forum, but if you're an all-purpose skeptic as many of us were/are, you'll find some amazingly informative stuff. Hang out in the Forum Community section a bit. A lot of silliness, but even in really personal threads, a surprising amount of critical thinking and skepticism shows up. Plus, it has the advantage that you see some of the participants here in a different light compared to wading into a contentious homeopathy or Bigfoot thread.

But welcome, indeed.
 
Marypop said:
A friend referred me to this forum. He said I would probably find it interesting, since I'm such a skeptic.

The site is bigger than I thought. I think I'll take some time looking around, and probably not post much until I get a feel for the place. Mainly, to see if people here play nice. I'm not really interested in forums where people just scream at each other.
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Hi Marypop. I don't think you'll be disappointed. I recommend checking out the Membership Agreement and the Membership Agreement FAQ. If you do happen to see anything you think breaches these conditions, please use the Report button /!\ at the bottom left. The moderators do a hard and thankless job, but I guarantee they'll give your report fair consideration.
 
Intro

Hello.

My name is Antonio. I am a student at Rutgers University majoring in Evolutionary Anthropology/Archaeology with a minor in geological science.

Carl Sagan is my biggest inspiration. After he seduced my mind & heart with the beauty of science, I quit my $60K IT job and enrolled in college. This is my 3rd year.

I hope to give back to our planet in any way I can.

antonio
 
Howdy from Yacman AKA Scot Bastian

Hi I'm new here. Just want to say that I have been an admirer of James Randi for many years now and I 'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate him as a recent recipient of my "Rational Hero of the Week" award on my blog which I started about a month ago. My understanding is that, as a newcomer, I'm not allowed to publish external links, but I would like to humbly recommend that you search "Do ya think blog" on Google and check out my blog which is about the interface between Art and Science. You'll find the entry for the Amazing One on 2/17/13. Meanwhile poke around the blog and attached website, you'll find out a lot about my interests in Science, Art and Skepticism. In fact, I recently published a collection of short plays as a Kindle-Ebook entitled "Do Ya Think Science, Science Fiction, and Skepticism."

Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to the next TAM, which I have never attended before, and am going to try very hard to get to this year.

Finally, thank you Randi, for just being you.

Scot Bastian Ph.D.
 
Welcome Antonio and Yacman! I bet you'll like it here.

If you are planning to attend The Amazing Meeting keep an eye on that subforum where you can pick up a lot of tips and tricks. It will really heat up as the conference draws closer.
 
Yacman said:
Hi I'm new here. Just want to say that I have been an admirer of James Randi for many years now and I 'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate him as a recent recipient of my "Rational Hero of the Week" award on my blog which I started about a month ago. My understanding is that, as a newcomer, I'm not allowed to publish external links, but I would like to humbly recommend that you search "Do ya think blog" on Google and check out my blog which is about the interface between Art and Science. You'll find the entry for the Amazing One on 2/17/13. Meanwhile poke around the blog and attached website, you'll find out a lot about my interests in Science, Art and Skepticism. In fact, I recently published a collection of short plays as a Kindle-Ebook entitled "Do Ya Think Science, Science Fiction, and Skepticism."

Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to the next TAM, which I have never attended before, and am going to try very hard to get to this year.

Finally, thank you Randi, for just being you.

Scot Bastian Ph.D.
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Welcome, Scot.

Nice blog. If you have anything to post in your early days that requires a link, you can always parse the link with extra spaces and anyone wanting to find it can close up the spaces. Like....
http : //www. scotbastian.com/ do-ya-thin-blog.html

Or, some helpful old guy will come along and do a little digging and post it for you.

http://www.scotbastian.com/do-ya-think-blog.html
 
Hello JREF,

I can't seem to get a quote or picture uploaded. Is that userfail for not finding the right button or are those earned privileges through a post count or something?
 
ApostateltsopA said:
Hello JREF,

I can't seem to get a quote or picture uploaded. Is that userfail for not finding the right button or are those earned privileges through a post count or something?
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Hello ApostateltsopA,

If you're referring to a quote for your signature and a picture for your avatar then you'll need to rack up 50 posts.

To include links (both URLs and images) within the body of posts you'll need to make 15 posts.

Enjoy, and welcome!
 
ApostateltsopA said:
Hello JREF,

I can't seem to get a quote or picture uploaded. Is that userfail for not finding the right button or are those earned privileges through a post count or something?
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Hi,

I welcomed you "in-thread", but you've got a few people there responding. Welcome, again. As the Pharoah said, to avoid spammers and save bandwidth (equal parts both) there's a fifteen post rule for links and a fifty post rule for avatars and signatures. The JREF Forums have about 20,000 members with one post or less, so it's a sensible rule in terms of housekeeping. Has nothing to do with freeze peach, as you can drop into the humor or community sub-forums and post in any number of threads that require one line or one word (Word Association Thread) and get up to the required level rather quickly.

To answer some of the questions you've been raising and possibly encountering...

Thread drift is acceptable, intentional derail is not. e.g. the FTB/A+ can pretty much touch on anything being said or done in either of those groups or by participants in those groups. But if one particular discussion goes too deeply into detail of a specific argument, essentially importing the discussion from there to here, that's probably a derail and the mods and members would probably want to spin it off to a specific thread on that particular topic... say, "Misogyny causes acne" if that was the heated discussion.

There's no "basket o' links", but you can find the MA and some helpful tips on how things work in the Forum Management/Help sections down at the bottom of the page on the main index.

Oh, and Humor is not funny. At least from the evidence in that sub-forum.

Welcome aboard. Make yourself at home. You don't have to become the spokesperson for A+. You stand or fall on your own merits and if you'd rather discuss Etta James doing Randy Newman's awesome tune (yeah, I noticed that on your site because I love Etta and love Newman and I had no idea she'd done a cover)... feel free to do so. We have posters with tens of thousands of posts who never venture out into the debate threads and just hang out in Community, Movies, History....
 
Thank you both for the welcome, and I suspect I can hit post count just responding to people on the A+ section, though I will be creating at least one spin off for clarity, posterity and personal sanity. That thread grows by two or more pages every 24 hour cycle I have watched it.

At any rate 50's not so bad.
 
Newbie

As the title suggests i'm new to this forum, so just thought i'd say Hi.....hope to have some interesting discussions. :):) I'd say that I'd like to believe but not sure.
 
fzwylde said:
As the title suggests i'm new to this forum, so just thought i'd say Hi.....hope to have some interesting discussions. :):) I'd say that I'd like to believe but not sure.
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Hiya mate!




I'm sure you have many interesting discussions ahead of you, possibly many of which will be with curmudgeons like myself who are more than happy that they don't believe nuffink.

Enjoy!
 
Hello, everyone,

I am a recovering New Ager, and am open-minded about the "mysteries of life and death" in a non-New-Age way (hard to do after all the NA books and internet stuff). The greed, the scams, the "certifications" to do oracle card readings or magnet therapy (!!) just disgusts me.

Fortunately I was not a heavy New Ager so am not too far gone, just done with the crystal meditations, chakras, karma returns to you 3 times over, what you think about you attract, etc...quite difficult to deprogram myself.

I'm not a total skeptic of all paranormal stuff, as I personally have experienced stuff as well as prophetic dreams that have been verified (not claiming to "be" anything (like psychic, clairvoyant, all that New Age bs :o) Just want to be a normal person.

I want to just believe in myself instead of believing all the New Agers' websites and books that are filled with absolute cr*p. So annoyed at being so gullible...anyway I am glad to be here, really need some support in coming back to earth.
 
Kataleena said:
Hello, everyone,

I am a recovering New Ager, and am open-minded about the "mysteries of life and death" in a non-New-Age way (hard to do after all the NA books and internet stuff).
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Hi there, Kataleena.

I'm an Old Ager, but sadly I don't seem to be recovering.

In fact, it appears to be getting worse every day.

:)


Pedo mellon a minno
 
LOL!! I like that! I'd rather be an Old Ager, not recovering, than any form of New Age!!

Thank you for the welcome.
 
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