I’m with you, Johanna. The last time I checked that thread, there wasn’t anything in there about homeless people or spoofs. Now it’s gone, and I have no idea what happened.
Wasn’t there another thread in the last few weeks that got very heated, and the object of the heat claimed his roommate (or somebody) had been posting under his name? This all sounds vaguely familiar.
I see there were a couple of responses between the time I viewed this thread and the time I hit “Post.” Was that the whole story? No explanation in the thread itself at all, just poof?
She posted a thread in MPSIMS saying that the original thread was not started by her.
And you’re thinking of Kel Varnsen - Latex Division. I’m not sure WHAT to think of him.
Uh, why would they care? Who’d call them on it? Are they expecting a pile-on from the governments of Iran and Egypt or something?
(And “the liberal masses who control the SDMB” don’t count, because I don’t think you really believe that anything would come out of it from anyone important if the thread remained accessible.)
hehehe, cute 
But I think you know exactly what I mean.
Mmmm. Depends who[m] you call important, huh.
Tell you what Sarah. Why don’t you start a new “Ask a muslim woman” thread and give us the straight dope about yourself this time?
If you really want to start again with a clean slate (without changing your handle), it’s the only way to clear up all the (justified) suspicion.
She’s a terrorist! :eek:
I have to come clean:
I’m the homeless man who pretended to be Sarah W. What happened was that I saw her sign up for the Straight Dope, then leave herself logged in when she left the library. After doing some impromptu research on her (through other web sites in which she wrote about her religion), I felt I had enough information to do an impersonation.
I thought it would all end there, but as I was lying in wait the next day she came back, logged in, and left again without reading any of the site. I could not resist the temptation to continue my impersonation, though given my incomplete information about her it seems I made her seem worse than she really is.
As you can guess, this pattern continued, until she finally discovered what was going on.
I do apologize. I just wanted to be someone else for a while. Things have been going really badly ever since I had an affair with Kel Varnsen’s girlfriend.
The flaming liberal anti-religious homosexual masses of the SDMB forgive you, Nightime. As long as you’re not a heterosexual conservative white American male, of course.
Just a brief warning. I spent my youth choosing what was Right over what was popular and I do not regret doing so. I’m still suspicious of what’s popular. If I’ve become popular or well-liked here, it’s not because I was trying to be; it’s simply happened. I’ve spoken my mind and asked my questions and I know full well that some of my opinions, not to mention real-life friends, have made me very unpopular with some Christians. I won’t change my views to please them, either. Other people have accused me of watering down the Gospel for the sake of popularity. I find that accusation highly insulting, not to mention about as likely as suggesting that, say, a homeless man broke into my home and posted on this message board under my id.
As for Sarahw, I’m afraid I also have my doubts, although I will point out that she didn’t post to that thread on Sunday. Still, the thread went on too long and I didn’t pick up a change in tone or language at any point in that thread which would suggest a second person was posting in it under her name. Mind you, I’m not an expert at that. I’m afraid I’m having a hard time buying her story.
CJ
(or some homeless guy sitting at her computer;))
We. You and I. The two people having this discussion. I said that I think forgiveness ought to be unconditional. You said, “I don’t think she merits forgiveness until she more honestly comes forward…”. I don’t think forgiveness is something that one merits, other than by being human.
Not hardly. I’m probably a more godless heathen than you are. I certainly merit nothing, least of all any moral position above yours.
I think what you demanded is “merit”. She has to somehow earn her forgiveness. At least that’s how I read what you said.
Palatable? I think your version is more palatable. We all want the pound of flesh to appease our indignation. It is far more difficult to forgive without condition than to pardon upon admission.
Misspellnig your name? Repeatedly? What the…? When dealing with me in the future, read the lines, not the interstices.
Naw, it was karl using her computer after kicking some homeless scum, who is an expert at posting in other people’s styles, in the teeth.
Probably not me though 
Where’s the beer and a joint smiley?
Definitely not me. I’m the athiest one of all.
You don’t know how long I’ve wanted to be able to use that one.
I was aware when I wrote what I wrote that it would appear to be a dig at you, Poly and Tom. Or even more so at ME Buckner. I took the risk not just does the Bible talk about being excluded and derided, but it happens in life. If it’s true as, I think, Paul wrote that “He who lives a Godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted”, then it doesn’t of course necessarily mean that anyone who doesn’t get persecuted is not doing so. But it rings true to me.
Oh? How about in this thread?
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=288914&highlight=excalibur
You were awfully clever to confine it to links and the quote box - heck, when quoting my messages in order to respond, you changed the spelling of my name - there can’t be much doubt that this is a deliberate action. Especially since you continued doing it in the same thread after I asked you to stop. Remember? That’s the thread that you hijacked, bringing me up when it was irrelevant to the situation. That thread won’t come up now even if you search for “Excalibur” since you were clever enough to conceal each reference to me in a link. However, using the web browser’s “search this page” function will find it, or just examining the thread for the red highlights.
Then you did it again when you posted this short-lived thread:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=289086&highlight=excalibur
My assumption, in regards to this thread, is that the misspelled name was an effort to discuss me without it coming up, in case I did a vanity search. Now, I can’t claim for certain that you did this in order to talk about me without alerting me. It’s possible that it was just your more typical back-handed insult (you did, after all, continue it after I requested that you stop.) The thread seemed to be an effort to drag out the discussion again, after your hijack killed the first thread.
So you do all that. Now you’re lying about it. You know, after your consistent strings of backhanded insults to me in other threads, I’m having a hard time accepting the veracity of your current burst of piety.
I know you don’t like me - you’ve demonstrated it clearly before. It’s not a concern of mine, since I suspect you can guess my feelings towards you aren’t all that warm either. But the cowardice of hiding your insults from the “search forums” option and than lying about them later, all while clinging to your claims about your religious beliefs, disgusts me. I just wish you’d own up, quit with the guru act, and stop with the proclamations of religious faith while acting in a manner that contradicts them. Some people call folks like that “Pharisees” - I just call 'em “hypocrites”.
The fact is that there are good and bad people affiliated with any religion, or with atheism. There are bigoted Muslims. There are tolerant atheists. There are bigoted atheists. There are tolerant Christians. There are bigoted people and tolerant people.
Tim McVeigh. The IRA. Spanish Basques. Abortion clinic bombers. The KKK. Bad people.
Cite?
My point is, I have been persecuted already, thank you, which is why I dislike the implication that I haven’t been. Indeed, the verses about being persecuted for righteousness’ sake were one of the thin threads that kept me Christian and convinced me I was doing the Right thing. Mind you, I didn’t need much at the time; I was a teenager, after all.
CJ
Well, I sure as hell don’t know what you mean. Care to fill me in?
Okay, but it wasn’t meant to be an implication. There is so much depth to Jesus’ teachings, which can be glossed over by focusing only on love God and love thy neighbour. And that is to our detriment, I believe.