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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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 Posted - 06/24/2009 : 11:00:43 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Originally posted by theybannedme
Clever but skepticism for me entails avoiding relying on heuristics and forming your own judgments about people from firsthand interaction.
I graduated from Skepticism 101 a long time ago; let me know if you need a tutor for these more advanced techniques.
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So let me get this straight.... your experience with other "skeptic" sites leaves you hopeful that we are open minded, unlike all those other places you have experienced being banned from.
That interesting bit of irony, combined with your obvious arrogance, is rather amusing. |
Did you miss the "for me" part? Obviously, theybannedme is working from a personal definition of "skepticism," and we've only been treated to one of its entailments. Perhaps if we knew the whole definition, it would be less ironic.
I am skeptical, of course, but I'm going to withhold other snarky remarks until I see more evidence. |
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Why not question something for a change?
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Baxter
Skeptic Friend
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - 06/24/2009 : 11:02:49 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Hey Bax, long time, no hear from. Wjhere ya been, bro? |
Oh, just haven't been to the site in a while but started lurking again the past couple of weeks.
SFN's activity seems to have gone down from what I remember. |
"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me." ~from Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
"We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know." ~Robert G. Ingersoll
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 06/25/2009 : 16:32:46 [Permalink]
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Guess he banned himself....
Oh well.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 06/25/2009 : 16:42:08 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Guess he banned himself....
Oh well.
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Munchausen by proxy just past through here. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 06/25/2009 : 17:21:29 [Permalink]
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What I'm beginning to think has happened is that our friend banned has been visiting those wussy forums where serious contention is not allowed. Get a little rough and you get tossed. Perhaps he thought SFN is more of the same.
It's a form of moderator protection that doesn't exist in here, where we are expected to take care of ourselves. When he realized that we were more than willing to get down and dirty with him, and lacking that protection, he decided that this was not his bag.
Me, I hope he comes back. It's been slow around here, lately.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 06/25/2009 : 17:33:29 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by casimir
You guys think a lot, I just want to get laid
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Sorry, our female members are a little deeper mentally than "lets hook up".
This may not be the place for you.
Perhaps onlinebootycall.com might be more your speed. |
Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2009 : 01:12:40 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by theybannedme
I am hopeful that this is an open-minded bunch, unlike many other "skeptic" communities I have visited.
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I'm curious... I've never heard of closed-minded skeptic communities. Would you care to tell us which sites you were banned from?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2009 : 02:30:50 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
Originally posted by casimir
You guys think a lot, I just want to get laid
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Sorry, our female members are a little deeper mentally than "lets hook up".
This may not be the place for you.
Perhaps onlinebootycall.com might be more your speed.
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Hmmm, yes. Isn't that one of those websites where on-line cops prowl in order to bust slavering idiots trolling for children?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2009 : 19:57:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
Originally posted by casimir
You guys think a lot, I just want to get laid
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Sorry, our female members are a little deeper mentally than "lets hook up".
This may not be the place for you.
Perhaps onlinebootycall.com might be more your speed.
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Hmmm, yes. Isn't that one of those websites where on-line cops prowl in order to bust slavering idiots trolling for children?
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No. According to the commercials it's for people who just want to "hook up".
I think you are thinking of Facebook, Myspace, and Craigslist. |
Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2009 : 21:40:41 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Guess he banned himself....
Oh well.
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I guess it was some sort of game that we never got around to understand the rules of nor probably did good fodder for... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 06/27/2009 : 02:04:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
Originally posted by filthy
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
Originally posted by casimir
You guys think a lot, I just want to get laid
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Sorry, our female members are a little deeper mentally than "lets hook up".
This may not be the place for you.
Perhaps onlinebootycall.com might be more your speed.
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Hmmm, yes. Isn't that one of those websites where on-line cops prowl in order to bust slavering idiots trolling for children?
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No. According to the commercials it's for people who just want to "hook up".
I think you are thinking of Facebook, Myspace, and Craigslist.
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I confess, I don't know much about that sort of thing nor want to. "Bootycall" seems a lot more suggestive than the others, though. It seems to me that an enterprising pimp could get a pretty good business going there.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 06/27/2009 : 05:24:30 [Permalink]
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Am I the only one who's noticed that this thread has an unwarranted number of hits -- some 600 at this writing? What gives?
So just for the hell of it, I ran a google. banned has been busy. I didn't open any of the links, but it might be amusing.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Zebra
Skeptic Friend
USA
354 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2009 : 19:41:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
Originally posted by casimir
You guys think a lot, I just want to get laid
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Sorry, our female members are a little deeper mentally than "lets hook up".
This may not be the place for you.
Perhaps onlinebootycall.com might be more your speed.
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As far as I could see, casimir did not specify a preference for female partners for getting laid. However, Valiant Dancer's assumption that that's what casimir meant seems likely to be correct, on a statistical basis.
Which raises (for me) a question: how are "heuristics" and "assumptions" related?
It seems that heuristics involve assumptions. Yet they're not quite the same thing, are they? (not a rhetorical question)
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I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone* -Dick Cheney
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2009 : 21:23:22 [Permalink]
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Interestingly, there have been no discussions of theybannnedme and/or any cohorts in the Secret Moderator Hideaway. I think this is significant in itself, showing that the experiences of the Administrators of SFN (and to a lesser extent the Moderators like myself) have led them to no sense of concern, much less panic, over this situation.
I possess no insider info, or IP data. My personal guess is that there is a group of people centered around Theybannedme.com who are competitive in trying to see how many sites they can get themselves banned from, while also competing to get banned for the most minor possible reasons.
This seems quite a bit silly to me, but different strokes. I don't see this behavior, thus far, as being any threat to SFN. It's only a kind of relatively benign sort of trolling. Compared to the malicious trolls we've seen, it's nothing.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2009 : 21:43:09 [Permalink]
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I'd agree with you HM.
Sould this new sport be named competitive freestyle trolling? |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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