Where's Hillside?

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Anybody know what happened to the star of the show?

[Nearly Sane]

Anybody know what happened to the star of the show?

As noted on the Christmas thread, he has changed his name last week  to 'bluehillside Retd.'

[Robbie]

Also haven't seen Peasemold Gruntfuttock (think that's right) for a while.

[Owlswing]

Also haven't seen Peasemold Gruntfuttock (think that's right) for a while.

He was suspended for a month on 15.09.2017, but doesn't appear to have returned.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Anybody know what happened to the star of the show?

You must mean Cheapjack

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Forget Betty, Oak King, Ebenzer/Cuppa Joe, SEF, Emily, Toby Jugg, Bernard fifties joke, Major another fifties joke, Amber Knight, and the rest of them....


WHERE IS CHEAPJACK?

[Nearly Sane]

He was suspended for a month on 15.09.2017, but doesn't appear to have returned.

He returned, changed his name to A l'Eau, c'est l'Heure, and is currently again suspended.

[Owlswing]

 He returned, changed his name to A l'Eau, c'est l'Heure, and is currently again suspended.

Thanks, NS

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Forget Betty, Oak King, Ebenzer/Cuppa Joe, SEF, Emily, Toby Jugg, Bernard fifties joke, Major another fifties joke, Amber Knight, and the rest of them....


WHERE IS CHEAPJACK?

Is Bernard Fifties Joke, Bernard Quatermass? I think his duties of trawling obscure news sites for the choicest religious maniacs in an attempt to say 'this is mainstream christianity'',were distributed amongst the Non believing and pagan posterage.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Is Bernard Fifties Joke, Bernard Quatermass? I think his duties of trawling obscure news sites for the choicest religious maniacs in an attempt to say 'this is mainstream christianity'',were distributed amongst the Non believing and pagan posterage.

Yes indeed, the other fifties joke was the poster who named himself after a character in the Goons Neither of them were particularly pleasant individuals, the only time that they were amusing was when they turned on each other.

[Owlswing]

Is Bernard Fifties Joke, Bernard Quatermass? I think his duties of trawling obscure news sites for the choicest religious maniacs in an attempt to say 'this is mainstream christianity'',were distributed amongst the Non believing and pagan posterage.

One huge error in your post above - you use the phrase "I think" which is something of which you appear to be totally incapable.

[bluehillside Retd.]

Stand easy Private…

Thanks for asking after me. I guess I just got to the point where the endless repetition of nonsense, the dishonesty, the smug complacency etc I read so often in response to cogent argument got too dull to bother with. That’s not to say that there was nothing of interest - torridon and Stranger as examples consistently posted well thought out and intellectually nourishing answers - but it is to say that I’ve given up looking here for arguments for religious belief that have anything like the same degree of content or clarity. Or indeed with anything at all that isn’t logically hopeless.

And that’s a pity I think. Cock-eyed optimist that I am I cling to the notion that there could be robust arguments for god(s), albeit that no-one here seems able or willing to make them. When theists use this mb as a drunk uses a lamppost though – for support rather than illumination – then I’ve concluded that there’s nothing to talk about.

Who knows mind – maybe one day someone will post a sure fire argument for his god that looks irrefutable and I’ll return to the fray.

Until that day, my best wishes to all here. 

[Owlswing]

Stand easy Private…

Thanks for asking after me. I guess I just got to the point where the endless repetition of nonsense, the dishonesty, the smug complacency etc I read so often in response to cogent argument got too dull to bother with. That’s not to say that there was nothing of interest - torridon and Stranger as examples consistently posted well thought out and intellectually nourishing answers - but it is to say that I’ve given up looking here for arguments for religious belief that have anything like the same degree of content or clarity. Or indeed with anything at all that isn’t logically hopeless.

And that’s a pity I think. Cock-eyed optimist that I am I cling to the notion that there could be robust arguments for god(s), albeit that no-one here seems able or willing to make them. When theists use this mb as a drunk uses a lamppost though – for support rather than illumination – then I’ve concluded that there’s nothing to talk about.

Who knows mind – maybe one day someone will post a sure fire argument for his god that looks irrefutable and I’ll return to the fray.

Until that day, my best wishes to all here.

Well put, Blue!

My own feelings set out far more cogently than I could ever do myself.

Maybe a sugestion to the 'Powers that be that "Religion" in the title of the Forum be replaced with something that is debatable without an overcast of nonsense by those unable to determine the difference between faith and fact

Hope to see you back soon, until then please travel well and arrive safely.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Well put, Blue!

Shouldn't that be................. Well put, Sir?

[Humph Warden Bennett]

about.

Who knows mind – maybe one day someone will post a sure fire argument for his god that looks irrefutable and I’ll return to the fray.

Until that day, my best wishes to all here.

His God?

Rhi, sort Blue out please 

[Walt Zingmatilder]

His God?

Rhi, sort Blue out please 

Blue has retired from the forum apart from those occasions when he posts on the forum.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

FWIW this forum has moved on from having the same arguments that we had on the BBC Religion & Ethics boards.

We have evolved (deliberate pun intended)

[Shaker]

Blue has retired from the forum apart from those occasions when he posts on the forum.

Reminds me of someone ...

[Shaker]

FWIW this forum has moved on from having the same arguments that we had on the BBC Religion & Ethics boards.

I wish it could be said that it had moved on from the same old fallacious non-arguments and assertions.

[Nearly Sane]

His God?

Rhi, sort Blue out please 

It's not sexism, just a sign of the intertwined folie à deux with Vlad.

[Nearly Sane]

Well put, Blue!

My own feelings set out far more cogently than I could ever do myself.

Maybe a sugestion to the 'Powers that be that "Religion" in the title of the Forum be replaced with something that is debatable without an overcast of nonsense by those unable to determine the difference between faith and fact

Hope to see you back soon, until then please travel well and arrive safely.

As HWB notes the board is a bit different from what it started as but I suspect that a name change would dilute whatever brand we have.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

I wish it could be said that it had moved on from the same old fallacious non-arguments and assertions.

But then Shaker let's just take a look at New Atheist agreementfests passim. The Richard Dawkins forum for example.

[Shaker]

But then Shaker let's just take a look at New Atheist agreementfests passim. The Richard Dawkins forum for example.

There hasn't been one for years. Hadn't you heard?

[Humph Warden Bennett]

I wish it could be said that it had moved on from the same old fallacious non-arguments and assertions.

TBH I think that it has. It's not as if we are still arguing about abortion, "sky fairies" and whether JC/Josh existed or not.

[Shaker]

TBH I think that it has. It's not as if we are still arguing about abortion, "sky fairies" and whether JC/Josh existed or not.

And yet we still hear the same old same old logical fallacies, with a couple of members in particular being responsible for the vast majority of them.