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Hey, NFW, good to cross paths again.

You haven't been on some of the forums I've been on. I've read far too many posts about "The War of Northern Aggression" and how it had nothing to do with slavery and everything to do with "state's rights". Not only are there people who would put the North and South on a similar moral level, there ...

Yep, Texas is a fucked up state. Trying to elevate Jefferson Davis to the same level as Lincoln is absurd. Even Shelby Foote, a Southerner, has said Jefferson Davis wasn't in Abraham Lincoln's league. Foote said if Lincoln were president of the confederacy the South would have won the Civil War. Th...

Dropping "capitalism" in favour of "free markets" is clear evidence that they are using history books for the propaganda purposes: 1) Capitalism and free markets aren't the same thing. 2) If you really think capitalism is so fucked up it can't be taught to school kids, maybe you should have a close...

Removing Jefferson and adding Aquinas. Right. That's just so consistent with the "Founding Fathers" shtick these people have been yammering about for the past couple hundred years. Dropping "capitalism" in favour of "free markets" is clear evidence that they are using history books for the propagand...

Put's on my sedimentologist (sedimentry geologist) hat - they actually pay me to interpret this sort of stuff for a living. :biggrin: Hi Bolero, Plenty of good sources above; I'll just add a few more points here. Here's a modern 'polystrate telephone pole' from the Mt Pinatubo area, formed very rap...

It was a fantastic weekend. Kudos to the organisers for doing a massive amount of work with minimal budget.

And Durro, looking at your avatar: I still reckon you look cool with a goatee.

I didn't sign the letter either, despite being in agreement with most of the points made in the letter. Here are my reasons why. Firstly I found the way the argument was structured somewhat confusing. It took several reads before I was able to understand the thread of your position. Clearly I’m not ...

My understanding, from the initial announcement of the decision to close the old forums, was so that we wouldn't have to wade through hundreds of Atheism is a religion , or Evolushun is teh work ob da debbil! type threads. My understanding was also that it would make it easier to direct answers to ...

Now bear in mind that these stats are applicable just now while there's no forum/discussion area of any description. Things may begin to pick up once this new discussion area goes in, and it will at least be an indicator of how potentially popular Josh's idea always was, even while the original fol...

MCJ wrote: Take a bow, that man!

+1.

Fuck it, + another 1.

Richard: You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. (a red pill is shown in his other hand) You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. (Long pause; Josh begins to reach for the red pil...

A humble request: can everybody make their giant images smaller? I spend half my time scrolling to find the relevant text. As for the core discussion I haven't a symbol yet that quite strikes a chord with me. However that being said, as discussed in another thread somewhere I prefer not to define my...

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!!11!!" http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/l...

When all of this was going down I sent a PM to RD expressing my concern about Josh banning mods, and asked if anybody who opposed the changes would be banned. He wrote back, saying "I know what you're thinking. Did he ban six mods or only mods? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I'...