Please return home to the LBMB. We’ve been in contact with Ed Zotti, the Admin here and he has agreed to make sure that which has been perpetrated against us is handled. Please cease posting messages here (unless you were here before today) and return to where you are wanted.
I’m sorry for the intrusion here. As our only defense I will say that if we had conspired to target specific messgae boards and flood them with preaching, you would have done the exact same thing.
I just wonder if the members of this board would ever conspire against a minority BBS, or perhaps a Jewish BBS. For some reason, these folks pick the Christians out.
Just like Jesus said they would.
I wonder how they fell knowing they helped prove the perfection of Jesus Christ.
Just look at yourselves. For your defense, you equate yourselves with the ones you deride, saying that they would have done what you did. You justify your own deeds by the deeds of those you have condemned.
Kindly stop using His name in vain.
“It is lucky for rulers that men do not think.” — Adolf Hitler
To all of the LeftBehind instigators:
L. Ron Hubbard would have been proud of you. You abandoned reasonable discourse and went straight for a pre-emptive all out strike against the “enemy”. God does have a special place for annonymous louts who strike out in his name-but don’t pack the winter clothes.
“I should not take bribes and Minister Bal Bahadur KC should not do so either. But if clerks take a bribe of Rs 50-60 after a hard day’s work, it is not an issue.” ----Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Current Prime Minister of Nepal
No need to apolgize, Mbagnall. Just leave.
Go back to your heavily-edited and censored “forum” where those of a differing opinion are called evil and satanic. If you had come over here and stated your opinion on any subject,on topic, the worst of us would have talked to you. But that ain’t the “Christian” way, is it?
mbagnell, here’s a little peace offering. I believe that The Atlantic Monthly did in fact review your series of books. I haven’t seen it, but I don’t belive that the review was a fabrication. When Tracer talked about “making it up,” he was referring to the “Special Y2K Apocalypse Edition of The Christian Coalition Newsletter.”
Given the Atlantic’s world outlook, I predict that the books didn’t fare well in the review, but they as best I can tell, it does exist. You might want to check it out so your members can be prepared if someone asks them about it.
I think it’s pretty sad that the administrator of a message board advocates spamming another message board. However, I also think it’s pretty sad that the administrator of a message board feels that he/she has the right to tell the people who use his/her board that they have to stop visiting another site. Your LBMB users might have been very welcome here–if you hadn’t instructed and/or encouraged them to attempt to disrupt the board.
No.
I wonder if you have any evidence that anyone “conspired” against your board. Or do you simply feel that anyone who disagrees with you is picking on you? I think there’s a word for that.
Which part proves the perfection of Jesus Christ? The fact that people disagree about religion or the fact that people don’t like you telling your message board users to spam this board?
I’m curious - just how is Mr. Zotti supposed to ‘handle’ this? Is he supposed to have some sort of control over where we, as individuals, choose to post messages? Nothing against Mr. Z, but I don’t answer to him - he didn’t pay for my computer, and he doesn’t pay for my internet access. Is there going to be some new rule that if you post to a ‘nonapproved’ message board, you will be banned from SDMB? I enjoy it here and try to follow the rules, etc., but not to the point that I will restrict my activities outside of this message board to whatever is approved by the administration here.
I never posted to the Left Behind board - I did go look at it but decided it wasn’t worth the effort. Now I have the urge to go post weird stuff there, just because they came here and started trouble.
This whole thing is very, very weird. Does the LBMB moderator think that we are the same kind of ‘followers’ as his group seem to be?
BTW, hope they clicked on some of the advertisements while they were here. Although they probably contacted the advertisers and pressured them to quit supporting the board.
Carpe diem - Seize the day
Carpe noctem - Seize the night
Carpe cerevisi - Seize the beer
I’ll tell you what I ‘perpetrated’ against you when I first visited your site, posting to the long-deleted “Biblical Errors?” thread. I gave specific examples of passages in the Bible that appeared to directly contradict one another. Then I held my own as at least a dozen posters tried to pick my argument apart, and as some got abusive, as I’ve already mentioned.
Nothing has been ‘perpetrated’ against you; if the hundreds of regular LBMB posters can’t handle a half-dozen people who don’t share their views, and try to argue alternative views more fairly than your regulars argue against ‘evilution’ ;), then I’d say the problem isn’t us.
Did you know, Nixon’s henchmen broke into the Watergate expecting to find evidence of the Democrats’ ‘dirty tricks’ operation? They didn’t; there wasn’t one. But Nixon and his crew just assumed that because they’d do this kind of stuff, everyone else had to be up to the same depravity.
Hello you all.I am a christian,and I doubt anyone on here can say I’ve been sanctimonious,or dogmatic. Stay on your side of the fence. Or we’ll sic Phaedrus on you…
To any of the Left Behind folks still here, and to their administration, I offer my apology for my participation in this mess. It was never our intention to attack or to spam or anything like that. As others have noted, this was an attempt to enlighten, misguided as that attempt may have been. I participated in this without the knowledge of any member of the SDMB administration – today was the first they’d heard of any of this, and they were not happy about it, to put it mildly. As a moderator here, I should have considered that my participation would reflect poorly on this message board, The Straight Dope, and The Chicago Reader. I did not really think about it. As has been noted by others, I went in as an individual, representing nobody but myself. Still, I apologize for any poor reflection on others that this may have caused.
I will do my best to make sure nothing like this ever happens again, and I certainly will not participate in anything like it in the future.
That said, I think the new year is a good time to put this behind us and move on.
Oh for heaven’s sakes, David, don’t apologize to those cretins! (Unless Ed is making you do it.) Apologize to jodi and Sue and me, now that would be called for. But not to them!
I know you are, but what am I?
Oh, and manhattan’s assessment is correct. I was making up a newsletter title that I thought paranoid fundies might read, not the Atlantic Monthly article (which I suppose does exist). In fact, until I read manhattan’s post, I didn’t think my quip of:
could possibly be mis-interpreted to mean that the Atlantic Monthly review of the Left Behind books doesn’t exist.
The truth, as always, is more complicated than that.
note to self: stop taking holidays off. I miss all the fireworks.
If there are any Left Behinders still here, welcome. We encourage the presentation of different viewpoints. We feel everyone is entitled to his or her informed opinion.
Join our discussions; we have so very few Fundamentalists here. Thank you.
Dr. Fidelius, Charlatan
Associate Curator Anomalous Paleontology, Miskatonic University
“You cannot reason a man out of a position he did not reach through reason.”
But not to them!