wildernesse

My husband (an atheist) quit posting to CF because of the obvious bias against non-theists in the moderation. He was bawled out because when he didn't get a response from a mod, he went up the chain of command to Erwin--and the mod got pissy.

I don't know that sheer quantity of mods would benefit CF. If the quality of the moderation improved, they probably wouldn't need to increase the number of people being mods. In fact, in some threads mods admitted that they had been *ignoring* whole forums because they felt like the forum was "anti-American". Since they started attending to their responsibilities however, debate has been stifled that doesn't align with the current politically conservative view. I don't know which is worse.

I think that mods need to be more thoughtful and less emotionally involved in threads. I also disagree with letting mods have sockpuppets so that their participation is not transparent.

I would appreciate greater moderation on CF that held strictly to the rules for everyone. I don't know that Christian boards need more moderation or just more maturity in dealing with opposing views.

My two cents.

--tibac

SULPHUR

I began to get the feeling that if you were not an american you were not welcome especially if you did not agree with american values. It showed me that there was a vast gulf in the understanding of some things between the two cultures. Maybe it is the type of people the forum attracts.

HazyRigby

Hi all. Can't believe I haven't seen this thread before.

It's nice to be here, but I can't seem to get pissed off here the way I can at, oh, Susan, for example.

That girl burns my britches, and I don't know why....

Godless Dave

Not exactly. You are not welcome if you do not agree with the values of the specific Americans running that board. Not all Americans agree with everything our government is doing (especially in foreign affairs), and not all of us think disagreement with the US government is anti-American.

Birdsmgp

... I'm "MakgpBirds" over at CF. I just have "Birds" In front of my abbrevated name here: Mgp or Makgenp as over on the Atheist Network Message Board. Here just: mgp.

... I have been in: > Open Discussion & Debate > Philosophy & Morality > "( Poll: ) Pornography and the Christian viewpoint" at CF. As I have said in some previous Post here. I recognize: "HazyRigby" over there.

... At this point, it drives me crazy that people have to take something that was Man made to deceive us, just like that of the Bible to Christians is that it has to be some word of "God". People are so obsessed with those words and what they say, that I would say that there is more to the word "Lust", when the convictions of those that "Lust" the words in this book. I said this in a Post on that Thread two weeks ago. "Lust" is nothing more than a chauvinistic word, to make the sexual desires suppressed or repressed in us, so as to get (Man = Men and Women), to have things re-routed for the cause of the erroneous beliefs. I am not going to Post this in that Thread there, or else, I will be in trouble with the Moderators there. I was rash or to general and quick to try to point out that I found the belief to be: "A Cult" and "Pray4Isel" decided to edit those comments out of my Post and gave me a warning not to say those things again. Plus the idea of trying to observe the ideas of "God", have been that I haven't seen anything "Good", but things that show: "Cynicalness and Evil". That I find "God" to be Cynical and Evil" I again was told by "Pray4Isel", that I could not say that.

... I find Christianity is hyprocrital in the terms of "Lust", cause in the things of their paradigm. They "Lust" in those areas. Christians are not going to admit to the comparisons. It is all an illusion that the Bible does to us. I was young and didn't know better at a time in my life, and I have been there. I have been through the Christian experiences myself. I woke up and found out how deceiving it is. It sometimes takes I quess some learning experiences. Then when that happens, the Christians think being an Athiest is rebellion.

... I think if "Lust" in sexuality went in the right direction, then you could combine it with Humor. It really is a deeper: Yearning, Harmony and Appreciation when it combines with all things. Some insights I get, that Christianity will never discover, for the Religion is a closed box of subjugated ideas. Then they say they are open minded. One can be just Open minded if it is limited to the chauvinistic ideas of the closed box one is in.

... One looking at nature, will find the sexual desires in other animals and creatures will look like a couple fighting. I have seen birds that look like they are in a fight. It is the Love of breeding. Without the restrictions, they have some better understanding what is natural for them. In this sense, the harmless has been harmless. I see more of the trouble, when Man wants to interfer with what is natural. These are the lessons for discovering the fallacy of Religion and how ridiculous the concepts of "God" would be if one is to try to understand the things in the Bible where to really be of some divine inspirations. Why does "God" need it writen down and then disappear? Very Odd.

SULPHUR

Could you me a photo of yourself and I promise I will lust over it

HelenM

Birdsmgp, were you 'magpie' on 711? If so I posted to you there a few times. I haven't posted there for a while now. In fact I forgot my username there - oh, wait, I remember - it was 'HIM', my initials

If not, welcome anyway

Helen

Birdsmgp

No. I don't know the place: 711. I do see the real birds around here of them: The magpies. Half Black and White Marbled Pattern, being somewhere between a Crow and a Jay. California has the Yellow bills or beaks.

... Well? Thanks that I am welcomed anyway ...

HazyRigby

We get the Black-billed Magpies around here, too (Colorado). I lived in SoCal for a year and never saw a yellow-bill. Sigh.

....Though I don't know what that has to do with this thread.

Birdsmgp

... HelenM had asked: Was I the User Name: "Magpie" over at 711? So as I was answering: No. I just wanted to add a comment about that name is in reference to them being Birds.
From what I gather, Yellow-billed Magpies range from Modesto up to Redding of Northern California Valley. Other places in California you would not see them.