DK If I understand your post, you are saying that the people are leaving because of the forum moderating.(Moderator) and that we need people like you
and others to help with the moderating.
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
Nope, not even close to what I said... Rather than an army of moderators as some forums have, how about moderation yourself?
I (as a member here) am simply asking for some self control... We all can get mad, or say things in the heat of the moment, but if we act like family,
we get over it and get on with life.
Self moderating means to remove nasty or unkind/ personal attacks... as Doug can't be here all the time... Keep it a friendly Baja camp, for everyone
who comes to have fun, learn and play nice.
I'm guessing that if a new visitor to Nomad, unless he was looking for a place in Baja called Doug, would not open this thread. We've all just joined
in the intramural pot shot-ing at a self-made target.
This is a diverse community. This is part of the mix. And I don't doubt for a second that should the call come, every one of these jousters would drop
their sticks and try to find a way to help anyone in need just as Nomads always have. It is tear-jerking amazing, the generosity of the folks on this
board. It really is more than just a place to get Baja questions answered.
Even up here in the Alta. Nomads have a Green Angel on I-5 between Redding and Medford. I'm in the book.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
Originally posted by vgabndo
In the field of Skeeterology, I've always had a question about the two people who posted under that name. There have always been a certain percentage
of posts which were properly spelled, punctuated, and demonstrating a good control of the language. I remember thinking "who the hell wrote this for
him".
BINGO....I brought this up once....talking to deaf ears, but you're right Perry......he does have assistance with his posts....mostly prior to
Jack-Time.
Fun that you noticed this as well.
Originally posted by David K
I (as a member here) am simply asking for some self control... We all can get mad, or say things in the heat of the moment, but if we act like family,
we get over it and get on with life.
Originally posted by LaPazGringo
Maybe I'm more sensitive than most cause I lived in TN and Alabama for years and got my fill of ignorant trailer trash who are fascinated by that
word.
YET, IT'S PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE FOR BLACKS TO CALL EACH OTHER THAT.
Originally posted by LaPazGringo
Maybe I'm more sensitive than most cause I lived in TN and Alabama for years and got my fill of ignorant trailer trash who are fascinated by that
word.
YET, IT'S PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE FOR BLACKS TO CALL EACH OTHER THAT.
I was the only white man in a black church for 7 years,
It was amazing the names they called each other,
but oh boy, careful what you say.
They called me the "WHatt Boy" and I was chairman of the deacon board.
But it was great fun, and an extraordinary learning experience for me, and for them...
Originally posted by LaPazGringo
Maybe I'm more sensitive than most cause I lived in TN and Alabama for years and got my fill of ignorant trailer trash who are fascinated by that
word.
YET, IT'S PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE FOR BLACKS TO CALL EACH OTHER THAT.
Your point being that therefore it's perfectly acceptable for anyone who hates black people to use the term to revile them. Listen, I'm not the least
bit interested in debating anyone who promotes for such spew. Especially malicious, antagonistic old farts who hang around here sowing bitterness
every chance they get...
I've enjoyed your posts over the years, but anyone who condones the use of that kind of hate speech on this forum and then hides behind the bulls**t
curtain of political correctness is definitely not worth my time to read. Oh, and the smilies don't help. They make you seem sort of creepy.
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
Where's the funny in that video? It has a black woman using the N word. Hilarious. There are a million funny clips from Sanford and Son on YouTube and
we had to post that one? This thread is disgusting.
No, it isn't digusting, it's silly. All these nomads trying to punch their race card? Punch it! Heck, stick it in your pocket and save it for a
serious situation. Or maybe you can find some other place to stick it?
At the time Sanford and Son hit the air it seems it was clear to all the folks I hung out with that throwing the N word all over the place was being
done to take the sting out of it. Archie Bunker was a completely disgusting caricature but he helped take the sting out of what had been traditional
Christian American hate speech. Much more recently the technique found it's way into the GBL? community when gay people started calling themselves
queers. It helped soften the impact of the word when used in hate.
Interestingly, to be an atheist is to be mistrusted, lied about, and indeed hated more than any homosexual or person of color. We just don't have to
show it on the outside, so don't have to live it. Americans have made atheist a dirty word filled with insane connotations. It is actually the absence
of an act, and is akin to being an "afairy" if one doesn't believe in fairies.
I like humanist best right now. Skeptic and free thinker also help to keep the hatred of atheists from my door.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
"If it were lush and rich, one could understand the pull, but it is fierce and hostile and sullen.
The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back
if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt
"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them or to them." - Malcolm Forbes
"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others
cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn
"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - Cunningham's Law
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