# SDMB goes empirialistic! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2000, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-goes-empirialistic/46302 "2000-12-19T05:44:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@eggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eggo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-goes-empirialistic/46302/1 "2000-12-19T05:44:20Z")
Upon seeing [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=50929) very one sided “debate” I came to the conclusion that we here at the SDMB are running out of ignorance to fight. After further consideration, I decided that people aren’t getting any smarter, they’re just running away from those of us who want to take away their blissful ignorance. I say we track these cowards down, invade their cecilless boards and smack them over the head with the truth! Who’s with me? okaaayy… Who’s kinda interested?.. FINE! Go back to your post-count parties, and your stupid sexual references that never go anywhere, and your sentimental tree-hugging hippie crap! /me wanders off to the pit to recruit some people who know how to fight… ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-goes-empirialistic/46302/2 "2000-12-19T05:51:34Z")
I seem to recall some Dopers doing just this on the LBMB about this time last year. The results weren’t pretty - we got invaded, remember? ---
**Author:** ![eggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@eggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eggo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-goes-empirialistic/46302/3 "2000-12-19T06:32:48Z")
sorry? LBMB? I think you’ve lost me, I assume it’s another board. What type? Is it near as cool as us? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-goes-empirialistic/46302/4 "2000-12-19T11:11:25Z")
While every individual is free to post wherever the hell he wants, we (the Straight Dope Administration) have a simple request: please do not mass-invade other message boards “on behalf” of the Straight Dope, fighting ignorance, or what have you. The LBMB (Left Behind Message Board, a Christian MB affiliated with the Left Behind book series) experience has taught us that much. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-goes-empirialistic/46302/5 "2000-12-19T11:24:13Z")
**eggo** , sorry, but I’m confused! What, exactly, is your point? Are you ragging on the creationists (making excuses for the flood) or the non-creationists (pointing out that the flood seems to be anti-scientific)? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-goes-empirialistic/46302/6 "2000-12-19T14:00:27Z")
**eggo** , about this time last year, some of the Dopers discovered the “Left Behind Message Board,” or LBMB. It’s a message board devoted to talking about the “Left Behind” series of books, which are about the Rapture (i.e. - the return of Christ), and the travails of those who are “left behind” (i.e. - don’t get their options picked up during the Rapture). The people who post to that Board tend to have a fundamentalist Christian theology, and many are creationists. It’s been described as sort of an “alternative universe SDMB.” Some Dopers started posting there, challenging creationism, then reporting back on a thread here about their adventures. The folks at LBMB found out about who this group of new, and to their minds, hostile, posters were, and started coming over here. Some were thoughtful, interesting people, whom I thought were a welcome addition to this Board. Others, however, thought their Board was “under attack,” started spamming vociferously, and complaining to the SDMB managment. Eventually, everyone made nice, most of the LBMB folks left, some stayed around and chatted for a month or two. All in all, it was very disruptive. The entire sorry saga is found at the monster thread: [For David B, the good Doctor and others who are knowledgable about Creation debate](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=22165), which had 749 postings before the mods closed it. ---
**Author:** ![eggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@eggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eggo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-goes-empirialistic/46302/7 "2000-12-20T01:55:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Astroboy14 \* > \*\ ***eggo** , sorry, but I’m confused! What, exactly, is your point? Are you ragging on the creationists (making excuses for the flood) or the non-creationists (pointing out that the flood seems to be anti-scientific)? 😕 \*\* neither, I’m pointing out the fact that there seem to be no creationists left to debate with. Coldfire: I was in no way saying that we really _should_ do this, I was attempting some humor, not my forte i guess. jti:thanks for filling me in, I don’t know where the hell I was during all that – under a rock I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-goes-empirialistic/46302/8 "2000-12-20T02:58:48Z")
Oh, I realise you were joking, eggo. No problem. I just posted it as a caveat. Not everyone understands humour (or so I hear), and the LBMB saga is just something we would not like to see repeated. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-goes-empirialistic/46302/9 "2000-12-20T05:43:34Z")
**eggo** I’m a creationist… but I’m not too sure I want to debate it! Not because I don’t want my beliefs challenged (actually, I welcome that!🙂 If I’m wrong about creationism, I wanna know!!), but rather because I’m not nearly smart enough or quick enough on my feet to defend my beliefs… others seem to be doing a better job of it on both sides than I could do. I did post a few times in GD about creationism- related topics, and it quickly became apparent that others out there knew far more about it than I, so now I just lurk there (for the most part)! OTOH, if everyone restricted themselves to only posting about topics they know very well… this would be a pretty boring place! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-goes-empirialistic/46302/10 "2000-12-20T11:14:47Z")
**eggo** , I missed most of it too, since it started over the Christmas holidays and I wasn’t surfing much. First came to my attention when the spamming of GQ and GD started - very much a “WTF??” Fortunately it blew over.