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| tinker683 wrote: | "How does one go about finding God?".
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The capitalized, English word 'God' is simply a nebulous term that typically refers to the monotheistic deity(actually triune deities in the case of Christians) of Western culture.
You find God in much the same way as you may find music or fashion or art, by being told about it, and exposed to it first by your parents, then by other people in a god training center (a.k.a. church), then by reading about god's exploits in literature, by discussing it with peers, and finally by taking these concepts and adding your own prefrences and attributes to these concepts of how you would like to imagine a god, in your own imagination and mind.
Had you asked: "How does one go about finding god or gods(little g)?", your question would be less loaded and make less assumptions.
Then we would need to further qualify and ask, what god(s) are you searching for? Allah? Vishnu? Odin? Aphrodite? Mithras? Reverend Moon?
Man has created and evolved countless mythical characters he labels 'gods', and named them just like we do the fictional human characters in our stories. It is only recently, in the West, with the incredibly successful franchising of Christianity, and the persecution of other religions by the Roman Empire, that the word God(big G) has come to mean the monotheistic, yet triune(again an amusingly contradiction) Christian gods.
So I was amused that when this question was posed, everyone assumed he was asking about the Judeo/Christian gods, and not the Greek, Egyptian, Norse or Hindu gods.
So the short answer is that you find gods by listening and reading what other people think a god is, and what it's attributes are, and what it's biography is, and what it can do, and what you should expect to 'feel' or see when a god is communicating with you, you take that information and then evolve it into your own personal god by incorporating any personal preferences you have for your own personal version of god.
Shasha seems to provide a good example of that in this thread. She's taken the Christian gods and made them into Shasha's god.
So again, the answer is, we have all been instructed to some extent as to what a god is, and what a god can do, and which god that - God(big G) - refers to in the west.
So to find this god, or any god, simply use your mind and your imagination and you have found it.
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A good example of expanding God's powers and biography and mixing it with an actual historical figure and perhaps a purely mythical cat is quoted by RickyRoma:
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(God knows)...the minor details of the secret love life of Napoleon's great-grandmother's black cat's fleas.
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If a man in a position of religious authority, wearing an ornate robe and headress, waving incense in front of an altar, consistently tells you that God knows the "minor details of the secret love life of Napoleon's great-grandmother's black cat's fleas". Not only will the faithful indoctrinate believe that this god is real and exists, but he or she may also start to believe that fleas have 'secret love lives' and that Napolean's great-grandmother had a black cat.
Of course after several centuries some brave heretic may claim that his God doesn't really care about fleas, or modern science may determine that fleas have no concept of 'secrets', and there will be a great schism in the church, and a new breakaway sect will form:
"The Reformed Church of What God Knows and What Fleas Can Do".
This is how gods and religion evolves as a cultural memeplex.
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If in a dialogue such as a philosophical question, I agree with you. I guess I was referring to pouncing on everything and anything another does when we see them straying  We can challenge positions here on the forum for instance. This is a relatively safe haven for practicing whatever one wants to get out of religious dialogue. Myself, I came to an atheist forum to observe a large number of atheists. I knew my concepts weren't that different from many atheists who are humanistic so I knew I would fit in.
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Ah, I see then, and yeah I would agree with you on that.
| ShaSha wrote: | Yes, on all accounts except using any excuse to overlook. What if there is an energy that has created us, loves us, has no intention of condemning us, inspired humanity throughout history as to the revealing of that self, and each period man's consciousness rises higher to where they get a clearer picture?
Then if would be mandatory to share the new ideas, not an excuse. I believe this is what is happening today including the understanding of atheists. The internet is considered the surface connection of all of us. Many of us believe we already have an innernet that connects us  Yup, wooooooooooo woooooooooooo woooooooooooooo
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Hehehe...yeah....that's a bit too 'wooo wooo' for me. Could you tell me more about this 'energy'? Whatever you'd be willing to share
| ShaSha wrote: | I think the more we as individuals work with the divine within us the demonstrations to ourselves it can be explained. Those of us in the spiritual life and that includes charismatics in traditional religion, understand the mystic descriptions at time of another. We study with each other sometimes and learn from each other and then usually go on because we too aren't herded because we know it is always individual contact that is more important than belonging to a church. It would be explained as being moved by the spirit in Xtian religion. I'm comfortable with the Xtian religion because while I left it because I was angry with some of the doctrines, dogmas and rules, I left it amicably in the end. I was very mature as a young person. Since my mother wasn't of the usual kind to count on daily, we kids helped take care of each other and the household. With responsibility like that, it was inevitable that I would have to challenge authority that told me how to live a good life once I reached legal age. Of course I didn't know that until hind sight. I like others lived a good life prior to that because of me. I think some of the rules can help guide us temporarily but the deeper insights of the bible and religion are what I value.
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(Emphasis mine) The first part of this I can see the general idea of where you're going with it and I'd like to say that I wish every mystic had such an open-minded view as you do. Too many 'spiritualists' I've met often have a view that they're particular perception and the only One Truth (tm) perspective on God, the Universe, and everything else. As an empiricist though, if something is true then I'd think that it should be able to be verified by a 3rd party and when I'm asked to trust my own instincts and gut feelings in spite of any evidence to the contrary.....my likelyhood for accepting it is going to be very low. I realize that this is a point that I've hashed on numerous times on this thread and I apologize for doing it.
Perhaps I'm just not 'there' yet, but that's just a view I'm not really willing to give up yet at this point.
*edit* I meant to add a string of thought here but I forgot to do so until after I had posted this and reread it: Something I've been looking at myself is not what exactly each religion teaches in terms of doctrine or dogma but rather the general idea that it is attempting to convey and to what pro's or con's those ideas could have. I wonder sometimes if that's what's happening among a lot of modern Christians...they seem to be moving away from the actually dogma of their respective churches and moving more toward the ideals that Jesus embodied. Even if he may or may not have actually embodied those ideas, a great many people seem to think he did and they desire to emulate that idea.
| ShaSha wrote: | It wasn't dragged out at all. I replied to very little of it because from my view, we've covered most everything. I am open to this thread being continued at any given time when you may have a comment or insight that you want to share. I think your questions and comments to yourself and ultimately to the forum and then to me are good. I understand the frustration sometimes of what seems like a "non answer" but that is because we are unique. Just because I say I know god doesn't mean I have all the answers for another. Just for myself. But we can share ideas that are similar and take it from there. I believed this so much that I didn't teach my children my beliefs. I knew that the way god was revealed to me wasn't going to be the same to them because that is just the way it is They knew nothing of the bible or Jesus other than the few Xmas carols and Social Studies when religions were studied and some experiences with their friends church. I told them they could choose their own religion or not when they grew up. This was at a time when there was no support group such as the internet. There was me and the unshakeable knowing that spirituality has to be an inner acceptance or it shouldn't be believed.
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And I suppose, in the end, that's all we really can do and I would also hypothesize that's where the divide between theists and atheists begin. Each of us has found something in our world views that, as much as we try, we can't explain it to the other side. In my time watching theists and atheists discuss something, I've always noticed that it's almost as if we're talking to each other on two different frequencies. I wonder for instance not what exactly the theist and the atheist are saying to each other but what they are not saying to one another: Their life experiences and the decisions they've made throughout there life that led them to this point.
I would full agree with your last sentence there. Somethings I've found you simply can't teach or explain to others in order for them to truly understand something...sometimes it's something they have to experience themselves.
| ShaSha wrote: | I enjoy answering questions but only you can experience knowing. You wondered what I meant. Knowing is knowing. You know you are the gender you are. It isn't something you believe. There's certainty. No questions or if there are questions it isn't about the certainty but other concerns of your appearance.
This is just my opinion but go on studying as you would any way. Don't try to make a decision of what your experience is but as you don't try to get the answers, they will come to you. And you will get answers in different ways such as maybe picking up a book or watching a show and saying ah ha! You can treat it as a coincidence but just start writing them down or remembering them and let it all happen naturally.
The most important message I can convey in the spiritual journey is enjoy it. It is meant to be an enjoyable discovery. The joy makes learning easier. It isn't a quiz that you will fail because you are the writer of your book of life. Whether you are atheist or theist, we all do write our own book of life. Nobody is going to read it or get as much out of it as you are although like you said we do touch each other in many ways. If you continue as an atheist, enjoy it. That is a valuable spiritual journey IMO also.
I have enjoyed our discussion. Thank you for your part in it. We are all teachers of ourselves but bounce off of others. So I have learned much and deeply appreciate your courtesy when your views have differed. |
Thanks, and I've enjoyed this discussion thus far as well. I'm not sure where my own journey is going to take me, but I feel that as long as I'm seeking to better myself and my own emotional well being, then I should (for the most part) stay on the right path. Whether or not I'll wind up in a church, a temple, or mediating in front of some statue or candle setup...who knows.
Thanks again for you're thoughts. Believe it or not, I have come away from this discussion so far with a good bit of insight and thought on where to go and what to do.
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Christians are experts on this. Let's see what they advise.
| Quote: | Let's imagine that you are a professing atheist. I will ask you two questions: First, do you know the combined weight of all the sand on all the beaches of Hawaii? I think I can safely assume that you don't. This brings us to the second question: Do you know how many hairs are on the back of a fully grown male Tibetan yak? Probably not. I think, therefore, that it is reasonable for me to conclude that there are some things you don't know. It is important to ask these questions because there are some people who think they know everything.
Let's say that you know an incredible one percent of all the knowledge in the universe. To know 100 percent, you would have to know everything. There wouldn't be a rock in the universe that you would not be intimately familiar with, or a grain of sand that you would not be aware of. You would know everything that has happened in history, from that which is common knowledge to the minor details of the secret love life of Napoleon's great-grandmother's black cat's fleas. You would know every hair of every head, and every thought of every heart. |
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So there we go. You have to check under every rock, and every grain of sand at every moment in history. Not sure exactly how you'll recognise God, because the author doesn't mention what he looks like.
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The problem that I've had with this idea is that it's as if they are saying, "In order to say God isn't real, you'd have to spend a time equal to pretty much the rest of you're life consider every. single. concept of God in order to disprove it" even though they're decision to believe in a deity, without any further thought, is considered perfectly acceptable. That doesn't add up to me. Why should we, the skeptic, have to spend a lifetime searching for facts why they can just kick back and say, "Well, I believe in God so that's all that's required!"
If they're particular version of God is the 'absolute truth' then surely the evidence for such a deity should be so overwhelming that the idea of proving it's existence should be at best child's play, shouldn't it? Why is it so hard to find this God then? Why is he/she/it so vague in it's communications and so, to be blunt, insane when it comes to it's methods of communication?
I'd think that a simple fax or an email instead of a several thousand year old book that's been rewritten ten dozen times would be considered a more reasonable attempt at communication. Are the publishers in heaven just asleep at the wheel up there?
Maybe there is something I'm missing, but that just doesn't add up to me.
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The capitalized, English word 'God' is simply a nebulous term that typically refers to the monotheistic deity(actually triune deities in the case of Christians) of Western culture.
You find God in much the same way as you may find music or fashion or art, by being told about it, and exposed to it first by your parents, then by other people in a god training center (a.k.a. church), then by reading about god's exploits in literature, by discussing it with peers, and finally by taking these concepts and adding your own prefrences and attributes to these concepts of how you would like to imagine a god, in your own imagination and mind.
Had you asked: "How does one go about finding god or gods(little g)?", your question would be less loaded and make less assumptions.
Then we would need to further qualify and ask, what god(s) are you searching for? Allah? Vishnu? Odin? Aphrodite? Mithras? Reverend Moon?
Man has created and evolved countless mythical characters he labels 'gods', and named them just like we do the fictional human characters in our stories. It is only recently, in the West, with the incredibly successful franchising of Christianity, and the persecution of other religions by the Roman Empire, that the word God(big G) has come to mean the monotheistic, yet triune(again an amusingly contradiction) Christian gods.
So I was amused that when this question was posed, everyone assumed he was asking about the Judeo/Christian gods, and not the Greek, Egyptian, Norse or Hindu gods.
So the short answer is that you find gods by listening and reading what other people think a god is, and what it's attributes are, and what it's biography is, and what it can do, and what you should expect to 'feel' or see when a god is communicating with you, you take that information and then evolve it into your own personal god by incorporating any personal preferences you have for your own personal version of god.
Shasha seems to provide a good example of that in this thread. She's taken the Christian gods and made them into Shasha's god.
So again, the answer is, we have all been instructed to some extent as to what a god is, and what a god can do, and which god that - God(big G) - refers to in the west.
So to find this god, or any god, simply use your mind and your imagination and you have found it. |
A good answer, and you were correct about my usage of the word God... I apologize for that and should have used god in lowercase. At the time I was referring to the Christian God at the time I put together the OP but I knew that it was very likely some non-Christian theists would post. So....my bad
Your post though expresses much of my own views as to why I am an atheist. When I was first in the process of deconverting, I was a Neo-Pagan for about a week. I stoppped being a Neo-Pagan when I was speaking with a Priestess and she told me that, "It's all a matter of how you choose to view the God and Goddess". When she told me that I thought about it for an moment and then I asked, "So...theoretically... I could say that 'Science' is my God and 'Logic' is my Godess and that under Neo-Paganism...this would be acceptable?"
When she told me that Yes, it would have been, I realized that at that point, God could eaisly mean anything we want it too based on our own desires and to therefore keep calling it 'God' or 'Goddess' was no longer needed.
I'm willing to consider that 'God' is this huge, for lack of a better word, thing that we as human beings can't fully understand and could easily spend all of our lives trying to understand and fail to do so. My only request is that once we are able to ascertain something about 'It', we be able to demonstrate it to be so. If we can't...then in my humble opinion, the only recourse we have is to agree with disagree with those who have different ideas on 'It' and then work together for a mutual, beneficial future for each other.
Thank you all or your responses thus far. I look forward to future responses and again apologize if my response takes a while.
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How do you find God?
Have you followed the yellow brick road?
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| tinker683 wrote: | | LakeGeorgeMan wrote: |
The capitalized, English word 'God' is simply a nebulous term that typically refers to the monotheistic deity(actually triune deities in the case of Christians) of Western culture.
You find God in much the same way as you may find music or fashion or art, by being told about it, and exposed to it first by your parents, then by other people in a god training center (a.k.a. church), then by reading about god's exploits in literature, by discussing it with peers, and finally by taking these concepts and adding your own prefrences and attributes to these concepts of how you would like to imagine a god, in your own imagination and mind.
Had you asked: "How does one go about finding god or gods(little g)?", your question would be less loaded and make less assumptions.
Then we would need to further qualify and ask, what god(s) are you searching for? Allah? Vishnu? Odin? Aphrodite? Mithras? Reverend Moon?
Man has created and evolved countless mythical characters he labels 'gods', and named them just like we do the fictional human characters in our stories. It is only recently, in the West, with the incredibly successful franchising of Christianity, and the persecution of other religions by the Roman Empire, that the word God(big G) has come to mean the monotheistic, yet triune(again an amusingly contradiction) Christian gods.
So I was amused that when this question was posed, everyone assumed he was asking about the Judeo/Christian gods, and not the Greek, Egyptian, Norse or Hindu gods.
So the short answer is that you find gods by listening and reading what other people think a god is, and what it's attributes are, and what it's biography is, and what it can do, and what you should expect to 'feel' or see when a god is communicating with you, you take that information and then evolve it into your own personal god by incorporating any personal preferences you have for your own personal version of god.
Shasha seems to provide a good example of that in this thread. She's taken the Christian gods and made them into Shasha's god.
So again, the answer is, we have all been instructed to some extent as to what a god is, and what a god can do, and which god that - God(big G) - refers to in the west.
So to find this god, or any god, simply use your mind and your imagination and you have found it. |
A good answer, and you were correct about my usage of the word God... I apologize for that and should have used god in lowercase. At the time I was referring to the Christian God at the time I put together the OP but I knew that it was very likely some non-Christian theists would post. So....my bad
Your post though expresses much of my own views as to why I am an atheist. When I was first in the process of deconverting, I was a Neo-Pagan for about a week. I stoppped being a Neo-Pagan when I was speaking with a Priestess and she told me that, "It's all a matter of how you choose to view the God and Goddess". When she told me that I thought about it for an moment and then I asked, "So...theoretically... I could say that 'Science' is my God and 'Logic' is my Godess and that under Neo-Paganism...this would be acceptable?"
When she told me that Yes, it would have been, I realized that at that point, God could eaisly mean anything we want it too based on our own desires and to therefore keep calling it 'God' or 'Goddess' was no longer needed.
I'm willing to consider that 'God' is this huge, for lack of a better word, thing that we as human beings can't fully understand and could easily spend all of our lives trying to understand and fail to do so. My only request is that once we are able to ascertain something about 'It', we be able to demonstrate it to be so. If we can't...then in my humble opinion, the only recourse we have is to agree with disagree with those who have different ideas on 'It' and then work together for a mutual, beneficial future for each other.
Thank you all or your responses thus far. I look forward to future responses and again apologize if my response takes a while. |
Just a quick reply here and will post more maybe Sunday or Mon.
I never assumed you meant Xtian god. In fact I wouldn't have answered since I don't believe in that god. I do believe there is only one creator but it is vastly different from the Xtian view yet, is what some recognize as love. As I mentioned it isn't about the bible, it is about exploration and experience.
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| tinker683 wrote: | A good answer, and you were correct about my usage of the word God... I apologize for that and should have used god in lowercase.
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god in lowercase is basically meaningless, and will just lead to bad assumptions being made by who hears the word.
Gods have specific brand names, just like deli meats and cheeses. So just like you wouldn't go up to the deli counter and say "Give me a pound of meat", it's always best to remember their are countless gods, and to assume their is only one, is a very bad habit to get into for anyone, but especially an atheist. So it's best to use the proper name of the brand of god you want:
"ie. How do I find Jesus...or How do I find Vishnu...or How do I find Shasha's god..."
| Quote: | Your post though expresses much of my own views as to why I am an atheist. When I was first in the process of deconverting, I was a Neo-Pagan for about a week. I stoppped being a Neo-Pagan when I was speaking with a Priestess and she told me that, "It's all a matter of how you choose to view the God and Goddess". When she told me that I thought about it for an moment and then I asked, "So...theoretically... I could say that 'Science' is my God and 'Logic' is my Godess and that under Neo-Paganism...this would be acceptable?"
When she told me that Yes, it would have been, I realized that at that point, God could eaisly mean anything we want it too based on our own desires and to therefore keep calling it 'God' or 'Goddess' was no longer needed.
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Quite the epiphany, and that is just what people do. The word god is so nebulous and maleable it truly is meaningless.
At least your Pagan friend was honest, the folks in revealed religions like Christianity, Judaism and Islam would never admit that. That is why they require their subscribers to swear to creeds that they believe in a certain god with certain specific attributes.
The other amusing groups are the new agers and pantheists who can just about call anything or EVERYTHING..."god". Again it renders the word meaningless.
Sorry Shasha...the word 'love' describes a broad set of human emotions and behaviors...there's no reason to call 'love' - 'god', or say 'god is love'...that's simply a fallacious equivocation. God is fear, god is anxiety, god is jealousy, god is pettiness, god is gas pains...for some odd reason you don't see these theistic newagers chanting any of those mantras. I wonder why?
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I'm willing to consider that 'God' is this huge, for lack of a better word, thing that we as human beings can't fully understand and could easily spend all of our lives trying to understand and fail to do so. My only request is that once we are able to ascertain something about 'It', we be able to demonstrate it to be so. If we can't...then in my humble opinion, the only recourse we have is to agree with disagree with those who have different ideas on 'It' and then work together for a mutual, beneficial future for each other.
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Yeah...good luck with that.
How about this instead.
The new god only has one commandment.
1. Don't pretend you speak for me.
If more people adopted that humble position, we wouldn't have religion or religious conflict...there'd also be a lot of theologians and priests and TV ministers who would need to get real jobs.
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| tinker683 wrote: | | rickyroma wrote: |
Christians are experts on this. Let's see what they advise.
| Quote: | Let's imagine that you are a professing atheist. I will ask you two questions: First, do you know the combined weight of all the sand on all the beaches of Hawaii? I think I can safely assume that you don't. This brings us to the second question: Do you know how many hairs are on the back of a fully grown male Tibetan yak? Probably not. I think, therefore, that it is reasonable for me to conclude that there are some things you don't know. It is important to ask these questions because there are some people who think they know everything.
Let's say that you know an incredible one percent of all the knowledge in the universe. To know 100 percent, you would have to know everything. There wouldn't be a rock in the universe that you would not be intimately familiar with, or a grain of sand that you would not be aware of. You would know everything that has happened in history, from that which is common knowledge to the minor details of the secret love life of Napoleon's great-grandmother's black cat's fleas. You would know every hair of every head, and every thought of every heart. |
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So there we go. You have to check under every rock, and every grain of sand at every moment in history. Not sure exactly how you'll recognise God, because the author doesn't mention what he looks like.
Best of luck. |
The problem that I've had with this idea is that it's as if they are saying, "In order to say God isn't real, you'd have to spend a time equal to pretty much the rest of you're life consider every. single. concept of God in order to disprove it" even though they're decision to believe in a deity, without any further thought, is considered perfectly acceptable. That doesn't add up to me. Why should we, the skeptic, have to spend a lifetime searching for facts why they can just kick back and say, "Well, I believe in God so that's all that's required!" |
The main problem I have with that argument is we are expected to reject as absurd the concept of a being who could see every point in space and time.
Conversely, we are expected to accept as eminently reasonable a being who could create a universe, interfere in its workings, and see every point in space and time.
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Was my anal probe comment removed?
Is light-hearted humor now an offense?
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josephpalazzo
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:19 am Post subject: |
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| Vyrian wrote: | How do you find God?
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Someone put some logical posts along it, and the theists got confused. |
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Moloth
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| Shiranu wrote: | Was my anal probe comment removed?
Is light-hearted humor now an offense? |
Loveshack, dude... this is the place for the Mods to flex their muscles.
(and i'm okay with that, btw...)
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Mr_C
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Shiranu wrote: | Was my anal probe comment removed?
Is light-hearted humor now an offense? |
I've no idea and I don't remember the comment, but if it was meant to insult or threaten somebody, I suppose it could have been removed.
I sorta doubt you would do either, but whatever. To answer the question, of course light-hearted humor isn't an offense.
To be honest, I haven't had to do anything moderation-wise in the Love Shack. People tend to moderate themselves when everybody knows the rules of the game.
*shrugs*
Also, don't assume that your posts were deleted. This site has had some bugs in the past, including swallowing posts. I think all of the long-time posters here probably have a story of writing a novel of a post and the forum monster eating it up.
| Moloth wrote: |
Loveshack, dude... this is the place for the Mods to flex their muscles.
(and i'm okay with that, btw...) |
/derail |
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josephpalazzo
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| Mr_C wrote: | | Shiranu wrote: | Was my anal probe comment removed?
Is light-hearted humor now an offense? |
I've no idea and I don't remember the comment, but if it was meant to insult or threaten somebody, I suppose it could have been removed.
I sorta doubt you would do either, but whatever. To answer the question, of course light-hearted humor isn't an offense.
To be honest, I haven't had to do anything moderation-wise in the Love Shack. People tend to moderate themselves when everybody knows the rules of the game.
*shrugs*
Also, don't assume that your posts were deleted. This site has had some bugs in the past, including swallowing posts. I think all of the long-time posters here probably have a story of writing a novel of a post and the forum monster eating it up.
| Moloth wrote: |
Loveshack, dude... this is the place for the Mods to flex their muscles.
(and i'm okay with that, btw...) |
/derail |
Oh come, come Mr_C, a monster eating up the posts?!? Let's call a spade a spade; in this case, censorship. |
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