@Mujus

I find this series concerning for 2 reasons (you'll note neither has to do with content):

1) You are not posting any content. Perhaps you could actually ask a question, or direct the conversation in some way?

2) There seems to me to be no need to post a new thread every day on essentially the same subject. Perhaps this could either be contained int the same thread or spaced out to a weekly series like obi's defunct Philosophy Weekly.

As a side note, way to go pretty much everyone in this thread (the notable exceptions surprisingly being krellin and NB). Real classy way to handle a thread you don't like that needn't involve you at all.

@ krellin

No harm in the odd religious debate or even the occasion religious post, but this thread is terrifying because of its use of the word 'daily' and the implication that it may be the start of a flood even worse that TC's 'I am considerably wealthier than thou' economics/politics threads. As such it must be crushed like one would a cockroach. Swiftly and without mercy.

@krellin
While I fully support Mujus' right to post anything he wants here I do think there is a key difference between this and MOST threads, in that there is no particular question or assertion being made. By not being specific Mujus has opened the door to this which I'm sure isn't what he had in mind. What kind of scathing remarks would you have for Putin if instead of actually commenting on anything he just posted random links to quotes from Karl Marx?

@abge,
Agreed and I'm one step ahead of you regarding the "new thread" every day.
Here's the daily thread for religious thought/message:
http://webdiplomacy.net/forum.php?viewthread=864999#864999

"Church of Abge followers"

Can I worship the Anti-Abge?

To be honest, he does have a subject. It's like a Bible Study in that he has picked a chapter to read and discuss. That said, maybe weekly would be more appropriate than daily as, yes, daily would result in way to many threads especially if the discussion were hotly debated and carried over from day to day. Most threads die within a week, but a lot live longer than a day or two and havign three or four of these clogging up the top of the forum is too much.

I guess what I'm saying is daily would need to be locked at the end of the day to prevent over clogging the forum and that would require mod intervention and be problematic from the "free speech" advocates (of course, there is no right to free speech in a private forum any more than in someone's house). So maybe make it weekly.

@Draug

If you'd believe some on this forum, I can't pass through the threshold of a church, so please correct me if I'm wrong. Don't bible studies usually have some sort of direction or lesson? I very much doubt sunday school consisted of the teacher calling out a chapter to read and then remaining completely silent, as is the case in these threads.

@abge - Not necessarily. Usually they are "read and discuss" and left open for interpretation. any Bible study which tells you up front what the verse means is an indoctrination, not an honest study.

And Sunday School is indoctrination into that chruich's belifs, not a Bible Study.

Jesus, that one line had enough typos to gag a hooker!

And yet I highly doubt that if this were a classroom, the teacher would stand silent as people plaster "FUCK" all over the room and the discussion moves on to Greek gods.

If Mujus wants to start a series, I (personally) think he should take charge of his own thread and address the comments being made.

@abge - There is where your thinking fails. Not in the "Fuck plastered all over the room" but in the idea that Bible Studies take place in classrooms. I have been to many a study in my years at various churches and most were in private people's houses and were completely open and honest. The idea of a proper Bible study is that God speaks to all of us about different aspects of the same scripture based on how it affects our lives. We discuss these for our unique perspectives looking for the truth that resides within them collectively.

And the really good ones can get heated on ocassion. although rarely with invictives like "fuck" thrown in the mix. after all, they are usually a group of believers.

The reality is this: Mujus' threads are a complete and utter failure as a bible study. Not a single post in either thread relates to the section in question and the OP does nothing to direct the conversation. I am just trying to suggest a way in which his series will be more successful and not horribly clutter the forum. A win/win for everyone, no?

I find it amusing that Mujus can't see Draugnar defending his right to post quotes and such because he has muted Draugnar for his use of language, which is probably what prompted him to get all religious on this forum to begin with.

Oh, sweet irony,
how I yearn for thee.
Life's pale indeed
If it weren't for ye.

"the teacher would stand silent as people plaster "FUCK" all over the room"

Mujus cannot see the FUCK plastered all over the room. He has me muted. Much to my consternation, because I liked talking to him (before the discriminate mutes; now I cannot talk to him -_-).

I'm with you there, dubmdell. It really is a shame that Mujus had to be a fool and close his eyes and ears (and mind) to what we could offer all because we have a more colorful language.

@Abge "As a side note, way to go pretty much everyone in this thread (the notable exceptions surprisingly being krellin and NB). "

What the hell did I do wrong now?

Krellin, he was being sarcastic. He was complimenting you.

Draug, you know, I cannot recall being "colorful" towards Mujus prior to his muting me. That's what really gets my goat about the discrimination he showed.

I thought he might have been...but given that I am an constent AUA (asshole-under-assualt) here, I was looking for the buried insult!

I find your screen name/handler offensive, dumbbell.
It's not a particularly cool object to begin with and you misspelled it badly. You out-Draugnar Draugnar with his autocorrect typo nonsense.
If I had any sense of decency, I would mute you. I applaud Mujus for muting you. Discrimination is the least he should do. I think he should create a thread about inane objects and misspell the hell out of them. For example, youranus --> uranus.

Well zultar is the name of my alt-worship God since I am disenchanted with the Christian church. I find your impostering about as my new god offensive.

@krellin

dub is correct. I was actually trying to compliment you.

I understand and thank you. I am (by my own admission and fault) paranoid and defensive because of my frequent assholish outbursts which bring about deserved abuse...and some undeserved abuse in the form of criticism without reading what I write (which, again, I do understand and blame myself for.)

@dubm - It didn't have to be towards him. Anyone who cursed in nay thread was on his "to mute" list. It offended his kids eyes and ears.

So does he have cable/sat TV? Does he have the internet period on a computer without a power-on login pw? Does he...I don't know...walk through the mall past Victorias Secret or Fredericks?

Protecting eyes and ears....good god...ridiculous. My kids see stuff...we talk about it if it concerns me, but tryign to live in a bubble is insane.

My freshman year in college I met a few bubble kids. They were the wildest, drunkenest, find-anything-to-fuckingest kids on campus...

"find-anything-to-fuckingest kids on campus" - LOL! Best phrase in the thread!

"find-anything-to-fuckingest"
QFT

Not sure what Quantum Field Theory has to do with freshman hormones...but I guess the uncertainty principle does come in to play when the beer goggles are on thick. Never know what you will wake up next to...

^ Damn, Krellin is on fire today!