Here’s an update on FSM communications:
Comments
Referring to the comments you can leave at the end of posts like this one. These are not moderated or censored in any way. We get thousands of spam comments a day, so there’s always some sort of automated spam filter running to fight that. I’ve been hearing that a lot of comments are being wrongly marked as spam and that some users are being full-out banned. I’ve switched back to the old spam-filter, but this one has it’s flaws, too. A few hundred comments a week are held in a “maybe-spam” folder – and I don’t have the time to check it every day.
Comments are more likely to be held if they contain a lot of links, or if you’re making many comments a day. I know a lot of people here like to use the comment system as a type of discussion forum, and that’s fine, but the spam-filter will target you and there’s not a lot I can do about it. Without an automated-spam-filter, the comment system would be unusable.
Discussion Forums
The discussion forums are moderated by a very hard working group. Anything written in the forums is subject to the moderators discretion, but they are very fair. Anyone who feels targeted by the comment-spam-filter here is welcome to move their conversations over there. The discussion forums are built on a user registration system, so spam is not as much of an issue.
Chat
We had a live-chat system up for a couple weeks. It was popular but the server couldn’t handle it. I’d like to have a remote chat system set up. The one I’m looking at is around $50-$100/month. I’m looking for an advertiser to step up and sponsor it.
Emails
I get a lot of emails. I read as many as I can. But I’m still way behind. If you *really* need to get a hold of me, put something like **important** in the subject field and I’ll probably find it quicker.
@۞ Aug 26th, 2007 at 5:22 am: ” It is frankly hilarious to excuse torturing person A on the grounds of torturing person B more. In my mugger metaphor God is asking to be excused wounding someone because he killed someone else!”
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Or to say it in Shadok words:
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“Pour qu’il y ait le moins de mécontents possibles il faut toujours taper sur les mêmes.”
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“In order to have the least unhappy persons possible, you should always hit the same ones.”
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The Shadok world is a pretty bizar one, but has its own bizar logic. Meant as an absurd animated cartoon series back in the sixties, its logic has sometimes less flaws than krony’s. Their math isn’t bad either…
@Jean Bart
“Their math isn’t bad either…”
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I don’t know the cartoon you talk about. But going after christians for their math is slightly akin to picking a soft target. Look at the trinity. Three members in there, father, son and holy spirit. And these three form one. So 1 + 1 + 1 = 1. Oh well.
DPG,
It is important to remember that it is easier to do bad than redeem. So even if you accept the good God has done, it is very difficult for it to make up for his flaws.
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There is also (as I recall) precious little good done since creating the garden of Eden.
He threw a major wobbler over someone eating some fruit (he planted without fencing off), hello! That doesn’t excuse what Eve did, but I’m not sure the his reaction was appropriate.
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After that he’s been a massive grumpy guts, scaring, killing, inciting genocide etc.
Jesus does a couple of nice turns, but basically there’s a shed load of very very bad to make up for.
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It isn’t duplicitous to say God is bad despite doing some good things. It is foolish to describe him as good given all the terrible things he has done, and according to Jesus and his followers, continues to do (supposedly).
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It is pretty re-assuring that no such terrible monster actually exists!
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People who read the Bible should find salvation in realising its a load of hogwash.
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“It is important to remember that it is easier to do bad than redeem. So even if you accept the good God has done, it is very difficult for it to make up for his flaws.”
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I hadn’t gone into the issue of whether the good outweighs the bad yet. First I’ll see if krony is even prepared to admit god is responsible for a tremendous load of misery, whether it is made up for by other things or not. That should make for some, uh, shall we , ‘creative’ reasoning again.
krony,
There is an interesting logical paradoxon here:
1. God is omniscient
2. Because God is omniscient, He should know all of your future decisions from the beginning of the world. Thus, you are kind of determined to behave good or bad, and to believe or not believe. In principle, He could send you to hell if you die immediately after birth (since he should know what bad guy you would have become otherwise).
3. Since God obviously has a desire to punish, He closes his own mind (so to say; restricts his omniscience) to NOT knowing what you are about to do. Then He could pretend to not knowing your decisions himself, make his “judgement”, and throw you in hell, HA HA!
From this paradoxon, I feel that omniscience and true decision-making (either gods’s or man’s) exclude each other.
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