It's rare in the EM forum, but not unheard of - if you keep being disruptive, you could be banned. Again, start your own thread, if you like.
As for your (anti)religious diatribes, I don't care if you are saying "Confucius says" or "According to Ganesh" or "Dianetics dictates" or whatever, it is annoying. I said it, and someone else did - you're making something out of nothing. Who is the religious nut about whom you are talking? Who injects religion into every thread? I can't think of who that is. And recall the definition of a fanatic - "someone who can't change their mind, and won't change the subject". That's you, right now, buddy.
Sickle cell anemia patients have a bad disease. They are sick. Be glad you don't have their disease. Treat them as such.
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FWIW, I don't think Rustedfox should be banned. As far as being banned, it's a complete mystery as to what gets someone banned on SDN. Someone just got banned on the Gas forum. No one can figure out why. If fact, some forums have tons of banned people and you go through their old threads and you can never find anything crazy, spam, hate speech etc. After 1,000 posts the guy gets banned? In fact, I'm sure it's a matter of time before I get banned. Probably Apollyon, too. For what, I don't know.
As far as the atheist vs. religion thing I have a couple comments. This is not directed at rusted fox or anyone else on here, because no one on this forum has offended me (not since mineraleq....or whatever his name was last spring). I'm speaking in general.
Atheists can be as militant as people who are religiously militant. My post that I first put here about the Sandy Hook shooting, a few people liked, most ignored it. I've written much better posts; I've written worse. (I don't know if it's still up or not). Maybe some people thought it was stupid. Regardless, few cared enough to comment on it, either way (accept a few studs who gave
, you know who you are!) But KevinPho accepted it as a guest post on his blog and the atheists go
off in the comments, because I used the word, "evil," and because of that I'm some sort of religious nut, and as a doctor I should know the guy was "mentally ill" as if that's a specific diagnosis, and as a doctor I should know better that obviously this mass murderer had no control over his actions, didn't know what he was doing was wrong, and is excused because he had Asperger's and had no free will to decide to plan an attack, cover his tracks by smashing his hard drive, shooting his Mom in her sleep, and then methodically shooting a bunch of kids instead of just himself. By the way, I did not pick the title, Pho changed my title.
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2012/12/words-explain-sandy-hook-pure-evil.html
First of all, the term evil, can be used in a completely generic, and non-religious context. I pointed that out in the comments but, this one commenter just kep coming back, enough that now I think he was just trolling to annoy me. For all he knows, I could be an atheist myself. Then he comes back and says, he read my other posts and they are "religious based". What? Because in my post "Those Shoes" I used the term OMG? That makes my posts "religious based"?
There is an entire argument called, "The problem of evil," which (to make a very long philosophical discussion very short) involves
atheists accepting the completely atheistic view of "evil,"
using the term themselves and hinging their entire argument to prove God doesn't exist on what they consider an unarguable fact, that "evil" whatever it is, does exist (in their opinion, in the absence of God).
http://www.existence-of-god.com/problem-of-evil.html
So a few of you stand up SDNers went over there to back me up with this guy (EM2BE, you rock!) who had me pegged as a religious nut, because I used the term "evil," and therefore decided that any thing I've ever said and written has to be discredited because, using the word "evil" which even atheist philosophers use, means I'm a religious nut that must have a secret religious agenda that I'm secretly using to "judge" my patients. As if the Sandy Hook shooter was my patient, and I can't judge his mass murdering actions, because having Asperger's and depression absolves someone of the responsibility of murdering people.
So my point is that people need to chill. That's why I made the cro-magnon comment to diffuse the situation. When people start talking religion, atheism or
even think someone else is talking about religion, or lack thereof, they get totally irrational in their sincere efforts to be rational.
So I don't think rustedfox should even remotely be considered for a ban over this, but I do think people just need to chill. If someone even so much as throws out a term with a religious or atheist connotation people freak out and go Cro-magnon.
Now I know to not even throw out a
word that might even have a potential religious connotation, without necessarily even using it as such.
That's why some people say, never discuss religion or politics.
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