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 Post/Thread of the Month, August, 2005
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Dave W.
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Posted - 08/10/2005 :  07:41:37  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
Since it's near the beginning of the month, I'd like to issue the SFN's regular call for nominations for both "Post of the Month" and "Thread of the Month," for August. We'll collect the nominations here in this thread, and then the staff will make the final choices, and publish links to the selected post and thread in the first Skeptic Summary following the beginning of the next month, and I'll edit the selected items to reflect their status.

Please keep in mind the SFN's mission statement when nominating posts and threads:
The mission of the Skeptic Friends Network is to promote skepticism, critical thinking, science and logic as the best methods for evaluating all claims of fact, and we invite active participation by our members to create a skeptical community with a wide variety of viewpoints and expertise.
The reason I'm starting this thread now is that I'd like you to go ahead and post nominations while things are fresh in your head, instead of trying to remember stuff after the month in question is over. Feel free to nominate more than one post and/or thread, or even to "de-nominate" your own previous nominations if you feel that a better post or thread comes along later in the month.

Please do not nominate your own posts, or even threads you've started. And let's definitely refrain from arguing about nominations (or the results). Also, while I've got high hopes for this effort, I feel I must say that the staff reserves the right to disqualify, modify or otherwise ignore any and all nominations for "Post of the Month" and "Thread of the Month," and we also reserve the right to change, modify or otherwise ignore any rule or guideline, whether they be express, implied or completely unstated.

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moakley
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USA
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Posted - 08/10/2005 :  09:48:14   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send moakley a Private Message
Bush: Intelligent Design should be taught

http://www.skepticfriends.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4754

Life is good

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist

USA
4955 Posts

Posted - 08/11/2005 :  13:55:29   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Cuneiformist a Private Message
Ok, so I love this post:

http://www.skepticfriends.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4783&whichpage=11

sts60's third from the bottom really cracks me up.
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard

USA
4907 Posts

Posted - 08/12/2005 :  16:20:42   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
I nominate this post.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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dv82matt
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Posted - 08/23/2005 :  01:04:07   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send dv82matt a Private Message
TotM nominees:

Wind
Cosmic string found?
Weird advice from Focus on the Family

I would have nominated The "Pascal's Wager" Wager, but alas, since it was started last month, it isn't eligible. A worthy thread nonetheless.
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Valiant Dancer
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USA
4826 Posts

Posted - 08/24/2005 :  08:45:54   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Valiant Dancer's Homepage Send Valiant Dancer a Private Message
I nominate the one three from the bottom by tw101356

http://www.skepticfriends.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4801&whichpage=7

It just tickles me.

Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils

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moakley
SFN Regular

USA
1888 Posts

Posted - 08/24/2005 :  09:12:51   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send moakley a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer

I nominate the one three from the bottom by tw101356

http://www.skepticfriends.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4801&whichpage=7

It just tickles me.

No doubt about it. I laughed my ass off.

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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend

Sweden
9688 Posts

Posted - 09/01/2005 :  12:31:37   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by moakley

quote:
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer

I nominate the one three from the bottom by tw101356

http://www.skepticfriends.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4801&whichpage=7

It just tickles me.

No doubt about it. I laughed my ass off.

Though I agree with you that this is one of the most intensly funny posts of the month, it is none the less a poor nomination for "Post of the Month" since it fails to address the SFN Mission Statement (at the bottom of any page).

Please make more nominations.

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dv82matt
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760 Posts

Posted - 09/01/2005 :  14:36:20   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send dv82matt a Private Message
A couple PotM nominees:
08/24/2005 : 02:00:12
08/02/2005 : 17:46:10

Edited to add, TotM nominee:
Can you be a good scientist and believe in God?
Edited by - dv82matt on 09/01/2005 23:40:10
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