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[_maklelan]

"Just do it" was on a plaque on his desk.

Actually, it just said: "Do it." "Just do it" is from Nike.

[_Jersey Girl]

"Just do it" was on a plaque on his desk.

Actually, it just said: "Do it." "Just do it" is from Nike.

No it's not, it's from Jersey!

;-)

[_maklelan]

I love the part in Fletch Lives when Chevy Chase is on the phone and asks for all the nuclear waste sites in the country. After about a twenty second pause where he's listening to the guy rattle them off he says, "Just give me the ones that aren't in Jersey. . . There's only one?" My dad's from Jersey, and he loves Jersey jokes, so I too have grown fond of them.

[_Jersey Girl]

I love the part in Fletch Lives when Chevy Chase is on the phone and asks for all the nuclear waste sites in the country. After about a twenty second pause where he's listening to the guy rattle them off he says, "Just give me the ones that aren't in Jersey. . . There's only one?" My dad's from Jersey, and he loves Jersey jokes, so I too have grown fond of them.

Your Dad is from Jersey? Lucky you. What exit?

Jersey Girl

[_maklelan]

I don't know what exit. I'v enever been there, but it's Elizabeth, or something like that.

[_Pahoran]

I understand that your inherent need to self-protect and self-promote may force you to see things in that highly biased way.

I experienced both at FAIR -- I had a very 'thick skin' (I was attacked every day over there), but was still banned by the Mods.

The good news is, not a few people have found ways to keep from being banned from places like FAIR/MAD, and have matured such that they no longer come across as aversive or repelling to the thin or thick skinned.

You thought my posts on FAIR were "repelling"? I tried very hard to keep my posts even-keeled, including references for my positions, despite the constant personal invective thrown my way. Those insults didn't bother me (because I do have a 'thick skin'), and it drove folks nuts over there when I wouldn't bite at the personal attacks but simply continued to calmly demonstrate (with facts and citations) why their position was usually wrong.

Yes, that's what you wanted people to think you were doing.

What was really going on was that your arguments were defeated, your "facts and citations" were shown to be misused or bogus, and then you went right on repeating your discredited arguments as though they had never been addressed. If anything "drove people nuts" it was the blatant dishonesty of your monologue posing as dialogue, and the fact that the rules prevented us from calling you on your utterly shameless lying.

Regards,
Pahoran

[_wenglund]

I travel a lot for business purposes. Last night, I was online in my hotel room, checking email and such, and realized that my access to MAD was an open door. I could have registered a fake name, with a made up for the occasion email address, and posted. However, I didn't. I did, however, check the threads and found them almost entirely boring, checked the posts of the posters I recognized and found them almost entirely lame. The place lacked variety and seemed almost eerily homogenous. Was it always that way, or is this the result of the purges of those with diverse thoughts?

From my recent reading of several threads at MAD, I noticed not a few people with "differing thoughts" (proportionally more so than what I have observed here).

This causes me to wonder: "If there was a so-called 'purge' of people with 'differing thoughts', why is it that only some were purged?

Is it possible that the so-called purge may have been for reasons other than "differing thoughts"?

Could it have been, instead, about "differing behaviors"--i.e. poor people skills?

If so, it seems reasonable to expect that the level of discourse would be elevated and become more civil and mature, and in that limited sense I suppose the remaining participants may be considered more "homogenetic".

And, to those who prefer a more hostile atmosphere, I can see how the possible increase in civility and maturity may be thought "boring" and "lame".

Finally, given that there are boards with differing atmospheres (hostile or civil), and they would thus tend to draw those who prefer a given atmosphere, and therefore the respective boards may, in that limited sense, also be considered more "homogenetic" (drawing people together who prefer one kind of atmosphere over another).

Could this be a more viable explanation for certain perceptions like those expressed by "harmony"?

Thanks, -Wade Englund-

[_harmony]

Could this be a more viable explanation for certain perceptions like those expressed by "harmony"?

Thanks, -Wade Englund-

Maybe all the interesting people went to Disneyland, Wade. Or had the flu. Or took the night off. Or watched Survivor instead.

I just gave my impression. You don't like it, lump it.

[_moksha]

It is gratifying to know that this little coner of the blogsphere is not reserved for anti-Mormons; but whether in fact I want to lend it legitimacy (or taint myself by association with it) is another question entirely.

Regards,
Pahoran

No doubt if you were to have a Blog there it would lend them much prestige. Might even be written up in the Blogernacle Gazette. However, you have to admire the openness of a board that allows such a diversity of opinion. Isn't Western Civilization great?

[_wenglund]

Could this be a more viable explanation for certain perceptions like those expressed by "harmony"?

Thanks, -Wade Englund-

Maybe all the interesting people went to Disneyland, Wade. Or had the flu. Or took the night off. Or watched Survivor instead.

I just gave my impression. You don't like it, lump it.

And, I was just offering my differing impression as well.

But, given your less than favorable reaction (telling me to "lump it"), I wonder if you are ironically disinclined to hearing differing impressions, yourself?

Thanks, -Wade Englund-