Greetings...

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:40 am

I can't tell you anything about myself. Oh, I know. I live in Santa Monica...

And I love your site!!!!! Very Happy

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:58 am

To reciprocate, I can tell you some things about myself:

I do not live in Santa Monica.

I am not a doctor.

I am not listening to the Spin Doctors right now.

I, also, like the things Reggie "the infidelguy" Finley spits.

Welcome to the site.

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:26 am

Kil wrote:

I can't tell you anything about myself. Oh, I know. I live in Santa Monica...

And I love your site!!!!! Very Happy

Wow.. sarcasm and then a sucker punch. Nice. I'm glad you "love" the site.

Welcome back. Sure you can post about yourself, that's what the introduction section is all about.

However, your earlier post didn't seem like you were really interested in the community at all but just wanted to spam your site. That is all.

I could be wrong. But that's what it appeared.

That's for stopping by. However, I do find your post at your site rather childish to be honest.

Master of Logic Joined: Oct 04, 2003 Posts: 9384

Kevinthepragmaticist wrote:

To reciprocate, I can tell you some things about myself:

I do not live in Santa Monica.

I am not a doctor.

I am not listening to the Spin Doctors right now.

I, also, like the things Reggie "the infidelguy" Finley spits.

Welcome to the site.

I also do not live in Santa Monica.

I hate the Spin Doctors ( I noted the scarcasm that you were listening at the time you posted that) Razz

(Seriously, I hate their voices, nails on a chalkboard to me, admitedly personal taste)

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I, also, like the things Reggie "the infidelguy" Finley spits.

I hope he doesnt "spit" anything. Thanks for the mental immage Kevin! Shocked

TRANSLATION TO THE NEWBIE:

Welcome Cool

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 9:58 am

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infidelguy:
Wow.. sarcasm and then a sucker punch. Nice. I'm glad you "love" the site.

Well, yes. That was a bit passive aggressive of me.

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infidelguy:
Welcome back. Sure you can post about yourself, that's what the introduction section is all about.

But if I happen to be a founder of possibly the oldest skeptic site with a forum on the internet and spend much of my time there as a forum administrator, I should leave that part out? Since you had already told me, to my face, that you knew of us, which I felt complimented by, it didn’t seem like a big deal for me to let you know that we know about you too, as a representative of our organization. The only link I posted was in my signature which will always be there if you don’t punt me.

And guess what? I had already registered and was looking for a post mentioned by one of our mutual members when I saw the “introductions” folder. So I thought, “what the heck,” and posted my usual greeting at a freethought site. In fact, I thought I already was registered when I came here and found that I wasn’t when I tried to log on. I was not aware of your rule about not mentioning other websites in a first post. And again, the only reason I did was as a show of support for your site. You know, a “we dig you” kind of thing…

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infidelguy:
However, your earlier post didn't seem like you were really interested in the community at all but just wanted to spam your site. That is all.

You know what? I’m sorry you read it that way because that was never my intent. In our sandbox, when someone opens by telling us what skeptical organization they are from, we welcome them as part of the larger community. And that has been my experience with the kind of post I left here at every other skeptic site I have ever registered at. Do I really need to know someone personally to get that we are on the same side? Does the fact that I will probably not have the time to post here regularly mean that we can’t be friends? That does seem to be what you keep saying. Anyhow, you have already rejected my explanation in the rudest terms possible. So I will be amazed if you get it this time.

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infidelguy:
I could be wrong.

You are.

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infidelguy:
That's for stopping by. However, I do find your post at your site rather childish to be honest.

Well look. I made an inquiry and received a rude reply. I responded with what my intentions were and received another rude reply. One in which you basically called me a liar, if you break it down.

Had you responded with some amount of politeness, explained the rules to me without accusing me of spamming after I explained my intent, had you given me any benefit of the doubt at all, I would not have started that thread.

And by the way, I don’t know if you have checked it lately, (you may not want to, but you do have at least one defender) I did say this about you:

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Me:
Gorgo, Finely might be a good guy. I dunno. I thought he was when I registered on his site. But as you can see, that has not my experience with him so far.

I still have a lot of respect for him, being the first out there with audio interviews and such pushing freethinking. He has earned that much. His rudeness to me does not erase what he has accomplished as a visionary.

We have apparently gotten off on the wrong foot. I don’t know where this will go. I know that we have much more in common, at least worldview wise, than not…

My hope is that this post will not be deleted, and we can put all of this nonsense behind us…


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