Flora wrote:Elessarina makes a very good point and I totally support what she says.
This place has opened its doors to a bunch of very disgruntled people who have vented their collective spleen. Some of those comments have been abusive about the RDF site admin and linked back to here. Not only are they not at all representative of the RDF membership, they aren't representative of most Rationalia members either. I can therefore completely understand Elessarina's dismay at being associated with it.
In the past, I have been the target of some abusive comments (and lies) on this forum but I know that those comments don't represent the majority view. That's why I joined this place last August (and have stayed here) because I know that most people here value truth and rationality. Please don't drag them into any public sphere to be vilified just because a minority of people posted some OTT abuse directed at Josh. The members here don't deserve that at all and I won't support anyone who just registers because it's convenient and then treats this place as a platform to post their vitriol. Have some respect for your hosts please and if you have let your temper get the better of you (and who hasn't sometimes) please apologise and in future, treat this forum better because it has been generous to you.
Tops/Flora, re underline above; some of them weren't even representative of the people who made them
I don't apologise for insulting Josh except to say I should have stuck to something he has control over, rather than an accident of birth.

What Josh did is beyond insult-worthy. As for RD being tetchy about somebody's looks being used as an argument against their actions, well I think klr has pointed out in a thread here somewhere that this is form he should be able to identify with at least (British Airways/stupid face comments). At least I had a 'dog in this fight', what was his excuse?
However, I do apologise for angst caused to the frequent members here by any of my comments & just as I always conducted myself in a reasonable manner at RDF, I will do my utmost from now on to do the same here.

I told the priest, don't count on any second coming. God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumming. - Concrete Blonde
Reason is the servant of the passions - David Hume
You got to be Jesus crazy to pull a move like that. - Victor T