« previous next »
Pages: 1 2 [3]   Go Down

Author Topic: It's only R&E  (Read 5092 times)

Rhiannon

  • Guest
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #50 on: September 29, 2018, 08:03:42 PM »
Nor me. Never joined.
Logged

Nearly Sane

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 65858
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #51 on: September 29, 2018, 08:05:25 PM »
I use FB a lot but I wouldn't use it in conjunction with here - it's a different box. It's also one that is only marginally shinier than this one. It's like the youth wing of the Tory party, not everyone has a free bus pass.
Logged

Gordon

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18655
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #52 on: September 29, 2018, 08:12:12 PM »
I say we meander on as we have done for these last few years: and the last one to leave, whenever that is, should turn out the lights.
Logged

Humph Warden Bennett

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5013
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #53 on: September 29, 2018, 08:27:40 PM »
I think that Shaker turned out the lights for NGL
Logged

Robbie

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7512
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #54 on: September 29, 2018, 08:28:54 PM »
Agree with others about facebook.
Logged
True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest,
          What oft was Thought, but ne’er so well Exprest

Gordon

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18655
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #55 on: September 29, 2018, 08:41:35 PM »
Quote from: Humph Warden Bennett on September 29, 2018, 08:27:40 PM
I think that Shaker turned out the lights for NGL

No plans are afoot to turn off the lights here though, as long as there are enough of us to enjoy a chat - so as long as we have at least two addicts we're in business  :)
Logged

Rhiannon

  • Guest
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #56 on: September 29, 2018, 09:10:00 PM »
It'll just be me and you, G.

Unless you decide to let me out of the cupboard.
Logged

Gordon

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18655
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #57 on: September 29, 2018, 09:28:26 PM »
Quote from: Rhiannon on September 29, 2018, 09:10:00 PM
It'll just be me and you, G.

Unless you decide to let me out of the cupboard.

I'm afraid I've lost the keys!
Logged

Rhiannon

  • Guest
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #58 on: September 29, 2018, 10:08:21 PM »
Quote from: Gordon on September 29, 2018, 09:28:26 PM
I'm afraid I've lost the keys!

Which leaves me with the staff's supply of single malt...
Logged

Aruntraveller

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11683
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #59 on: September 29, 2018, 10:11:52 PM »
Quote from: Rhiannon on September 29, 2018, 10:08:21 PM
Which leaves me with the staff's supply of single malt...

No one ever notices me in the corner clinging to the bottle (and that's the way I like it)
Logged
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. - God is Love.

Gordon

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18655
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #60 on: September 29, 2018, 10:32:31 PM »
Quote from: Rhiannon on September 29, 2018, 10:08:21 PM
Which leaves me with the staff's supply of single malt...

However, we have the extra-long straws I pinched from the 'Slushy' drinks that my grandkids once had.
Logged

Nearly Sane

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 65858
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #61 on: September 29, 2018, 10:33:03 PM »
Quote from: Trentvoyager on September 29, 2018, 10:11:52 PM
No one ever notices me in the corner clinging to the bottle (and that's the way I like it)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM7zRfHG0no
Logged

SusanDoris

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8265
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #62 on: September 30, 2018, 06:34:17 AM »
Quote
author=Rhiannon link=topic=16181.msg749653#msg749653 date=1538246838]
There did use to be one.

The problem with FB groups is that eventually people give up on the message boards and stick to FB instead.
]
And that is why I would be strongly against a Face Book group - I simply cannot manage Face book. My software enables me to click on the site and cursor around, but it is fiendishly difficult and I'm not prepared to spend any time learning.
Logged
The Most Honourable Sister of Titular Indecision.

Samuel

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1011
  • geology rocks
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #63 on: October 02, 2018, 01:38:28 PM »
Lovely OP Rhiannon

I feel the same. I stopped coming here regulalry partly because I became fatigued by the repetition of some discussions, but also because I found the time commitment to properly engage quite difficult.

I was around back on the BBC boards... maybe 13 years ago now?. That's when I started. Like you I feel I've learned a lot about how to make a proper argument and my mind has certainly been changed on more than one occcasion.

I pop my head in occasionally, to see how things are doing, and its still worth it. Most recently because Nearly Sane tipped us off to some fab youtube vidoes about philosophy by Bryan Magee. They have turned into a proper dive into philosophy for me over the last few months... and all becuase of this forum.

I wish I could spend more time here in some ways, but I simply can't manage it.

Logged
A lot of people don't believe that the loch ness monster exists. Now, I don't know anything about zooology, biology, geology, herpetology, evolutionary theory, evolutionary biology, marine biology, cryptozoology, palaeontology or archaeology... but I think... what if a dinosaur got into the lake?

Nearly Sane

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 65858
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #64 on: October 02, 2018, 01:52:12 PM »
Glad to hear you enjoyed the Magee programmes and continued on, Samuel. If you haven't found them then would thoroughly recommend Philosophy Bites


http://www.philosophybites.com
« Last Edit: October 02, 2018, 01:57:39 PM by Nearly Sane »
Logged

Nearly Sane

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 65858
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #65 on: October 02, 2018, 02:23:42 PM »
In another 300 or so posts, we will pass 750,000 posts on here since we started. If we take a quick average we on posts we are averaging about 80 words a post which works out at around 60M words!!!!
Logged

Sebastian Toe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7760
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #66 on: October 02, 2018, 02:43:16 PM »
Quote from: Samuel on October 02, 2018, 01:38:28 PM


I wish I could spend more time here in some ways, but I simply can't manage it.
Stay off the Xbox then?
 :)
Logged
"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends.'
Albert Einstein

Free Willy

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 33872
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #67 on: October 20, 2018, 10:42:52 AM »
Quote from: Rhiannon on September 27, 2018, 10:47:56 AM
This is a post that I've been thinking about making over the past few days...even as I sit here typing the opening lines I'm not sure if I'll hit 'post' or not. But whatever.

I'm not sure how many years I've been posting here for now, but one thing that struct me recently is that posters change, and that is a reason why this place works. People's views shift, maybe just subtly, maybe not; their lives change. There's always something new to learn.

The world has changed. We blink in incomprehension at Trump just as we do at Brexit. That change brings a need for new understanding, new ideas.

Sometimes it can feel like Groundhog Day, but then something will open up that I find myself thinking about and pondering - it is enriching, actually, to pick over ideas and events with posters here. We are blessed with some great writers and some great personalities. And I didn't have the first clue how to make an argument coherently til I started debating on here. Feel free to say that I still haven't, but honestly, I've learned so much. And I've laughed a load too. And cried on occasion.

There are posters I like, posters I miss, posters I think of as friends. I'm glad that this mad little outpost of the interweb thingie is still going.
Before we get carried away in a frenzy of self satisfaction maybe another perception could be reflected on namely that this forum is for the comfort, succour, entertainment and yes, sport of antitheists and that any camaraderie, bearing in mind the experience of at least three posters and former posters on here, is really the camaraderie of the hunt and prehunt. Sherry anyone.
Logged

Rhiannon

  • Guest
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #68 on: October 20, 2018, 11:41:24 AM »
Now there's a man in need of a hug. Come on, Vlad, you know you want to...
Logged

Sebastian Toe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7760
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #69 on: October 20, 2018, 01:32:32 PM »
Quote from: The poster formerly known as.... on October 20, 2018, 10:42:52 AM
Before we get carried away in a frenzy of self satisfaction maybe another perception could be reflected on namely that this forum is for the comfort, succour, entertainment and yes, sport of antitheists and that any camaraderie, bearing in mind the experience of at least three posters and former posters on here, is really the camaraderie of the hunt and prehunt. Sherry anyone.
Maybe, just maybe you should heed the advice of a wise poster?

Quote from: The poster formerly known as.... on October 18, 2018, 07:03:50 PM
No, I'm off now now......
Logged
"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends.'
Albert Einstein

Roses

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8119
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #70 on: October 20, 2018, 03:38:03 PM »
I have been sickened by three of the other forums on which I have been posting. A couple of them were for the over 50s, where many of the posters were racist in the extreme, and kept on about how proud they were to be white and English, and migrants should be kicked out, especially if they aren't white. >:( I have left them and will not return, not that I would be welcome if I did, my parting posts ensured that would be the case.

R&E is the best forum on which I have posted, even though I have flounced off from time to time. In order that I don't do so again, I have handcuffed myself to it and thrown away the key. ;D ;D
Logged
"At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them."

Nearly Sane

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 65858
Re: It's only R&E
« Reply #71 on: October 21, 2018, 10:41:28 AM »
  Moderator:   See update to 'Clarification regarding confrontational posting' thread on Mod & Admin.   
Logged
Pages: 1 2 [3]   Go Up
« previous next »