Well, it looks to me , this board is on its last legs .

[Walter]

I hope not, what do you think?

[floo]

What a little ray of sunshine you are and no mistake! This forum is one of the better ones on the net and hopefully the activity will pick up.

[SusanDoris]

Bearing in mind that we were originally on the BBC board for years, I think we are all a little more durable than you think, Walter!

[floo]

Bearing in mind that we were originally on the BBC board for years, I think we are all a little more durable than you think, Walter!

I agree. This forum still has a reasonable turnover even if it is not as busy as it once was. However, another forum on which many of us have posted in the past does appear to have had its day.

[Harrowby Hall]

I think that some recent moderating decisions - of which I make no criticism or comment and have no opinion - may have altered the balance of activity on this forum.

[Walter]

Bearing in mind that we were originally on the BBC board for years, I think we are all a little more durable than you think, Walter!

Good morning each , yes I too was on the BBC board for many years but when you look who's active , the numbers don't look good I think .
And because of my lifestyle I don't always have an internet connection, preventing me from participating as often as I might(which some of you may be happy about). Ill be here for a few days I think 

[floo]

Good morning each , yes I too was on the BBC board for many years but when you look who's active , the numbers don't look good I think .
And because of my lifestyle I don't always have an internet connection, preventing me from participating as often as I might(which some of you may be happy about). Ill be here for a few days I think 

In that case I will take to the hills.

[Walter]

I think that some recent moderating decisions - of which I make no criticism or comment and have no opinion - may have altered the balance of activity on this forum.

Tell me more! have I missed something?

[Walter]

In that case I will take to the hills.

Don't panic, I'm reasonably house trained Floo.

[Nearly Sane]

To be fair to the board, this type of post has been appearing for three or so years. However, essentially you are right, it is and will decline, the messageboards are going out all over the internet. The larger ones will continue for sometime but this was always relatively small. At some stage it will become too quiet to continue, when I suggest we hold a small wake and say farewell to the ripples of opinion that have created it. It will have had the good innings but it will cease to  be. Dust to dust, the bytes bit the dust.

[floo]

Don't panic, I'm reasonably house trained Floo.

I hope you clean out your own litter tray!

[floo]

To be fair to the board, this type of post has been appearing for three or so years. However, essentially you are right, it is and will decline, the messageboards are going out all over the internet. The larger ones will continue for sometime but this was always relatively small. At some stage it will become too quiet to continue, when I suggest we hold a small wake and say farewell to the ripples of opinion that have created it. It will have had the good innings but it will cease to  be. Dust to dust, the bytes bit the dust.

I think you are right about a good forum closing once its sell by date has passed. It is so sad, imo, when a once lively forum stays open after it has been abandoned by most of the members and there is only a post once in a blue moon, like a couple of forums I can think of.

[Walter]

To be fair to the board, this type of post has been appearing for three or so years. However, essentially you are right, it is and will decline, the messageboards are going out all over the internet. The larger ones will continue for sometime but this was always relatively small. At some stage it will become too quiet to continue, when I suggest we hold a small wake and say farewell to the ripples of opinion that have created it. It will have had the good innings but it will cease to  be. Dust to dust, the bytes bit the dust.

To be fair your uncalled-for unfounded argumentative reply style does not help in many cases and may put off some people from even bothering .   

[Nearly Sane]

I think you are right about a good forum closing once its sell by date has passed. It is so sad, imo, when a once lively forum stays open after it has been abandoned by most of the members and there is only a post once in a blue moon, like a couple of forums I can think of.

I think so that it goes with a bang we will at an appropriate point institute a daily capricious Ban of the Day determined by Gordon of the poster who has most annoyed him that day, this to continue until only Gordon is left at which point he virtually self immolates and bans himself.

[Nearly Sane]

To be fair your uncalled-for unfounded argumentative reply style does not help in many cases and may put off some people from even bothering .

'O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.'

[floo]

I think so that it goes with a bang we will at an appropriate point institute a daily capricious Ban of the Day determined by Gordon of the poster who has most annoyed him that day, this to continue until only Gordon is left at which point he virtually self immolates and bans himself.

 

Maybe we should run a book on which poster it will be that day!

[Walter]

'O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.'

and again, in English?

[floo]

and again, in English?

In English it probably means, the pot calling the kettle black!

[Nearly Sane]

and again, in English?

Hark, everyone, the spirit of Oscar Wilde has decided to visit the forum in the guise of the avatar, Walter! Let us prepare for a veritable cornucopic feast of sharp insights and original repartee!

[Walter]

In English it probably means, the pot calling the kettle black!

to be honest Floo I read the board for about a year before joining with a specific goal in mind . that was achieved last month .
I am even more black than the pot 

[floo]

to be honest Floo I read the board for about a year before joining with a specific goal in mind . that was achieved last month .
I am even more black than the pot 

And your specific goal was, pistols at dawn?

[Walter]

still only 6 users on the board , c'mon!

[Rhiannon]

I've walked away from interesting debate on here because pedantry and point scoring has stifled what was a good discussion. It has got to the point where I tend not to bother so much. Increasingly this seems to be a place where we keep in touch with each other rather than discuss religion and ethics.

[bluehillside Retd.]

For my part, it'd be good if some honest to goodness theists joined who could set out plainly and cogently their arguments for others to discuss. I can't tell whether the theists who have joined have just been unable to do that, or whether theism itself really is devoid of content. Way back when (possibly on the old BBC Board) there was a a catholic priest called Father Patrick who made a good stab at it, but since then it's been pretty thin gruel.

Maybe someone could put up a postcard with this mb's address in their local theology college or something?
 

[Nearly Sane]

For my part, it'd be good if some honest to goodness theists joined who could set out plainly and cogently their arguments for others to discuss. I can't tell whether the theists who have joined have just been unable to do that, or whether theism itself really is devoid of content. Way back when (possibly on the old BBC Board) there was a a catholic priest called Father Patrick who made a good stab at it, but since then it's been pretty thin gruel.

Maybe someone could put up a postcard with this mb's address in their local theology college or something?

Mmm I think there is a problem that as ekim points out frequently that a rational and logical approach to theism, in general, is always going to he a bit of a false flag. When  other Alan, Alien, was posting regularly the thing that I struggled to believe was that the flakey five were anything other than post hoc rationalizations for stuff that he believed because of personal experience.  Again as I was mentioning elsewhere I think Hope was right that we tend to talk past each other on this. At least that is for the true for you theists. The true for me theists are effectively no different from you except that they might provide detail of what they believe and what experience lead them to that.


That shouldn't preclude discussion on other matters, though if someone cites holy writ on an ethical question, we are back to the different  ideas of what is valid.