I'm amazed!

Jason Lee Hayes said:
Still puzzled alittle why you would have such a place in a forum
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We all need a break from work, from programming from time to time. There's nothing better than to bitch about the World with like minded people!
 
Jason Lee Hayes said:
Must apologise, ignorance is no excuse; I clicked new posts and didn't realise this Water-cooled place is dedicated for off topic conversation. I will go stand in the corner and give my self a good telling off. 😌. Still puzzled alittle why you would have such a place in a forum though or how the forum would benefit from it but each to their own...👍
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People need to learn how to openly discuss religion and politics without it being such a "big deal", so taboo....as if it must be secreted off to sealed box and nobody must ever act out the rather obvious reality that it's part of life.

Jon is unique for allowing it, but I like that.

Just re-calibrate the expectation:
The website doesn't promise not to be about anything else.

The ability to talk civilly about these things without sealing them off into a place and 'must never discuss anywhere else' or at least something like that, is something I really like about British.

Perhaps that's exactly why I like AWF
I'm a human being who cares about technical solutions, religion & politics.
There! I said it out loud and the sky hasn't fallen on us yet 😀
 
This is a unique space for every opinion that's why "certain" people hate it, their first impulse is to shut it down or cancel it. This is not a true echo chamber, anyone can sound off about anything within reason. We should support free speech, it is a precious commodity on the web.

'Every Opinion Has A Millennial Offended' - Kid Rock
 
There was a well known case in the African continent - I forget which country - where a woman was gang raped by 6 men. She was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. I can't remember the final outcome of it all, but it doesn't age well.
 
The link is broken John.

And a girl being stoned to death is pretty harsh punishment for something that's not her fault I hope
 
Just as a reminder to all (and perhaps new information for @Jason Lee Hayes) - Jon allows multiple viewpoints in the Watercooler and asks us to just limit moderator-initiated bans to short term outages - a day or two up to a week. His official policy has been stated to be permissive for the most part. Jon even allowed a Hare Krisna to post - until the guy became abusive including sexually or scatologically explicit suggestions of what to do and when and to whom it was to be done. That was one of the few cases where Jon allowed an immediate ban and removal of the post.
 
The_Doc_Man said:
Just as a reminder to all (and perhaps new information for @Jason Lee Hayes) - Jon allows multiple viewpoints in the Watercooler and asks us to just limit moderator-initiated bans to short term outages - a day or two up to a week. His official policy has been stated to be permissive for the most part. Jon even allowed a Hare Krisna to post - until the guy became abusive including sexually or scatologically explicit suggestions of what to do and when and to whom it was to be done. That was one of the few cases where Jon allowed an immediate ban and removal of the post.
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Doc is right. I like people to be able to air their views. In very rare cases, they get the boot.
 
The_Doc_Man said:
Whether he was actually a drug user is hard to say, but some of his seizures might have been psycho-medically induced
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Lets refrain from such statements, i am a christian,but will never speak bad of any other religion.
 
oleronesoftwares said:
Lets refrain from such statements, i am a christian,but will never speak bad of any other religion.
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I was listening to Jordan Peterson recently. It came up that many religions are based on people taking psychoactive drugs which are known to induce religious experiences. We're talking about a long time in the past here, where these drugs were considered magical.

The Immortality Key; Psychedelics and the Ancient Age | Brian Muraresku & Prof. Carl Ruck | S4: E37​

 
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Lets refrain from such statements, i am a christian,but will never speak bad of any other religion.
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I respect that you wish to avoid even the semblance of conflict, but I invite you to consider Matthew 10:34-36 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.” This is generally understood to mean that one must take up the sword to fight evil, but put aside the sword in worship because one cannot fight with God, one can only submit or not submit. So... if you don't want to take up the sword against a religion that kills Christians - sometimes on sight - then what kind of Christian are you? Or consider John 15:18, which basically says that those who hate Christians do so because they hate Christ. This is the sword referenced by Jesus.

I will leave it to you to work through the irony that an atheist is explaining scripture to you, and if you bother to look up discussions on the subject, you will find that my statements are WELL within orthodoxy. You know that struggle - the jihad - that Muslims so often reference? It is the same struggle that Jesus suggested by bringing a sword.
 
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