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[pianowolfi]

Now there is a new child board only for polls and what's the hardest threads. I find it hilarious to see all these banned there and listed one after the other, whats the hardest, whats the best, highest, greatest, loudest, sharpest, the guinness book of pianoforum.... lol rofl . Perhaps something like that should be arranged for religious debates as well.

[jre58591]

Perhaps something like that should be arranged for religious debates as well.

heartily seconded. im sick of reading religious posts and topics. yes i know i have the option to not look at them, but some may not appear to be religious by just the topic (for example, sissco's thread).

[ada]

This comes up all the time and let me once again add my support for a designated god botherers forum.

There is a science forum that colleagues of mine moderate and religion is banned from it.  I don't think you can ban religion from a forum like this, regretably, but it would be good to keep it separate from the other stuff.

General discussion about religion would be ok but so much of what is posted here is looney extreme right wing fundamentalism that intrudes into other stuff. I don't think the posters realise how irritating it is.

Can't we have a religion room or bible studies lounge on PF? That would solve a lot of problems.

[jre58591]

Can't we have a religion room or bible studies lounge on PF? That would solve a lot of problems.

i second that also. pianistimo could be the moderator.

[ada]

(for example, sissco's thread).

Yes, exhibit A.

This could have been an interesting philosophical discussion but the creationists just couldn't  help hijacking it for another mindlessly BORING POINTLESS and INANE blather about some marginal fruitcake version of the beginning of the world that no one except a handful of uneducated American crazies gives any credence to.

Sorry about being narky but I am going to post this. I am premenstrual today.

[debussy symbolism]

Greetings.

I solely and graciously reject the notion of having a specific room for religious debates for certain reasons. For one, no one would go there, and the talk would be primarily restricted to a handful of members, so all discussion would cease, much like in the teacher's resources room, which in fact, is the most pointless room made.

You find religious threads annoying? Why? I find many things annoying, such as the word association thread, the "what are you doing today" thread, etc. Ironically, just recently, a whole other "pointless" thread has come into being. If you should have an independent room for religious debate, might as well have a room for pointless debates, wouldn't you think?

Make Pianistimo a moderator of the religious section? Never!

[debussy symbolism]

Yes, exhibit A.

This could have been an interesting philosophical discussion but the creationists just couldn't  help hijacking it for another mindlessly BORING POINTLESS and INANE blather about some marginal fruitcake version of the beginning of the world that no one except a handful of uneducated American crazies gives any credence to.

Sorry about being narky but I am going to post this. I am premenstrual today.

Ada, if you are like this on the forum, I am truly scared of the hypothetical you outside the forum. Your boyfriend must be on his tippytoes whilst you reduce him to an insignificant medium for slaking your desires.

[ada]

Greetings.

I solely and graciously reject the notion of having a specific room for religious debates for certain reasons. For one, no one would go there, and the talk would be primarily restricted to a handful of members, so all discussion would cease, much like in the teacher's resources room, which in fact, is the most pointless room made.

Note to self: enough of this agreeing with Debussy Symbolism nonsense.

Can I solely and graciously submit that there are plenty of members who engage in regligious chit chat and I'm sure they'd welcome a special room of their own. I dunno though, we haven't heard from them, have we?

There's nothing to say that non-religious members couldn't participate in a designated religious forum. There are also plenty of long suffering and patient members who actually enjoy getting into debates with the religious mafia.

It just means that it would keep religious matters out of other threads and people wouldn't be ambushed by creationist rubbish, often when they are least expecting it.

Your boyfriend must be on his tippytoes whilst you reduce him to an insignificant medium for slaking your desires.

hahahahah  just call me madame lash 

 (I'm okay now, I've taken my prozac)

[pianolist]

I have to say I'm with Debussy on this. I suppose it would be annoying if a thread devoted to the inner tensions of Beethoven's late sonatas were taken over by Moloch, but it tends to be the less technical areas that lend themselves to religious piracy.

Anarchy is important. We don't have enough of it in our over-ordered lives. Piano playing needs it especially, but what it gets is batch after batch of the latest competition winners, all doing their utmost to jump the nice, respectable hurdles that we set for them.

Ada, if you were here in London, I'd turn my back on you, so that you could drum your fists into it. I do that sometimes for an Indian lady I'm very fond of, and her stress melts into giggles. The idea of "Creation" makes me laugh, since it is so patently absurd, but I quite like to laugh gently, so that makes it OK by me. But with a beard my size, I don't get PMT of course, so you just shout it out, girl. You got spirit.

[debussy symbolism]

Note to self: enough of this agreeing with Debussy Symbolism nonsense.

Can I solely and graciously submit that there are plenty of members who engage in regligious chit chat and I'm sure they'd welcome a special room of their own. I dunno though, we haven't heard from them, have we?

There's nothing to say that non-religious members couldn't participate in a designated religious forum. There are also plenty of long suffering and patient members who actually enjoy getting into debates with the religious mafia.

It just means that it would keep religious matters out of other threads and people wouldn't be ambushed by creationist rubbish, often when they are least expecting it.

hahahahah  just call me madame lash 

 (I'm okay now, I've taken my prozac)

Your reasoning sortof destroys the reason behind not having a religious room as separate place in the forum. The talk will be primarily boring and static, as it will not carry the tension of having to have to start from a seemingly innocent topics, much like in the anything room. The arguments would lose their values, and effete arguments aren't really fun to read.

You are disagreeing with me? Thats my girl!

[ahinton]

Unless I am misunderstanding something here, I don't think that most contributors seem fully to grasp the nettle of this problem correctly. As I see it, most cases where what "ada" calls "the religious mafia" get on their sanctimonious high horses and drag Biblical and other religious statements, arguments, facts, speculations and all the rest into topics unconcerned with religiosity are those where the writer's obvious intent is to smother the actual topic concerned with religious matter; accordingly, I rather suspect that even these religion-obsessed ones might not necessarily appreciate being given a separate sub-board and being asked to go run along to that and argue their points away from the rest of the forum members, because their purpose is to seize opportunities to provide religious slants on anything and everything rather than just discussing religion per se.

If I'm wrong about this, please say so.

I do not for one moment scoff at, or seek to undermine, the beliefs of some of these people, provided that those beliefs are not only genuinely held but result from good intellectual thinking and are not inflexible to the point of impracticality - nor do I even wish entirely to silence the believers in their religiosity (for that would be censorship of the kind that we surely don't want here). We all know what IS wanted here, from the various appeals that have been expressed; don't keep God out of the forum altogether, but PLEASE do not - as Thal rightly puts it - "hijack" threads with Him...

Best,

Alistair