Topic: I miss the Dr. Robert forums
+Jeremy Walsh — 13.6 years ago #17,867
It's a shame you trolls shut it down.
+FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 13.6 years ago, 30 minutes later[T] [B] #219,356
did eels throw in the towel?
+Syntax — 13.6 years ago, 4 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #219,406
@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
The doctor did. Eels could not figure how to cut out the spam, and vet the trolls. The Dr. Roberts threw a shit fit and pulled the plug. If you want to see his parting message or messages I may be able to dig those up.
The doctor did. Eels could not figure how to cut out the spam, and vet the trolls. The Dr. Roberts threw a shit fit and pulled the plug. If you want to see his parting message or messages I may be able to dig those up.
+Anonymous D — 13.6 years ago, 7 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #219,407
+Anonymous E — 13.6 years ago, 19 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #219,416
·Syntax — 13.6 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #219,417
@219,407 (D)
Alas I dumped his parting message. I have 95 pages on Word doc - The last posts on the site before shut down. I could sample some cool shit from Roberts later in the week. The final posts as replies to people - You can tell he has had it with the forum and most of the users.
Alas I dumped his parting message. I have 95 pages on Word doc - The last posts on the site before shut down. I could sample some cool shit from Roberts later in the week. The final posts as replies to people - You can tell he has had it with the forum and most of the users.
·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 13.6 years ago, 12 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #219,424
huh.·Syntax — 13.6 years ago, 21 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #219,428
"
Molly, Bravo! It's not religion but all unsubstantiated belief which keeps people in chains. Religion, however, is a special, particularly egregious problem because none of its claims can be disproved. For example, if you tell me that smoking marijuana causes insanity, I can easily refute it with countless studies. But if you tell me that when I die I will meet Jesus and all my dead loved ones, there is no way I can even investigate that claim, much less falsify it."
• dr-robert ---
Look, if you like religion, welcome to it. I don't care one way or another what you believe. It's amazing to me how personally you all take any words which question the entire matter of belief in fairy tales. But if that's where you at, fine by me. Nothing personal in it. I calls 'em as I sees 'em, and that's the way the cookie crumbles.
dr-robert ---
By the way, Jennifer. No real scientist is "looking for evidence of God." What possible evidence could there be, footprints? And very, very few top scientists are religious at all.
• dr-robert ---
One last try, Jennifer. I am not "bashing" anyone. I am stating my views. Nothing about it is personal.
And my attitude towards religion has nothing to do with a few "fruitcakes." Is Mitt Romney a "fruitcake?" He doesn't seem to be, yet he believes (or at least says he does) that after death he will live forever on his own planet. Others imagine that after death they will be in heaven with Jesus and all their loved ones, but if they "sin," they will burn in hell for eternity. These are not the beliefs of a few fruitcakes. This is mainstream religious doctrine which mainstream Christians say they believe.
To repeat, in my experience (and I have a lot---I have even had evangelical preachers for clients), people believe this silly stuff because:
1. They are afraid to stop existing at all.
2. They are afraid that without "God" life will have no "meaning."
3. The are afraid that with "God" they will not be able to handle the ups and downs of life.
That is how it looks to me, and this is not about "bashing" anyone.
Ask yourself this, Jennifer, why should religious ideas be put into a special category, different from any other kind of ideas, so that the religious ideas are somehow seen as deserving extraordinary protection from examination and criticism? Why? In other words, somehow human beings have fallen into a kind of strange superstitious attitude which holds that calling into question ideas in this one exclusive category, religion, is somehow especially intolerant, and abusive of the so-called "faith" of the people who believe in them---what you are calling "bashing."
I owe no special respect to religious ideas which seem foolish to me, any more than I owe respect to economic or political ideas which seem foolish to me. Or is, in your view, religion something "special?"
Molly, Bravo! It's not religion but all unsubstantiated belief which keeps people in chains. Religion, however, is a special, particularly egregious problem because none of its claims can be disproved. For example, if you tell me that smoking marijuana causes insanity, I can easily refute it with countless studies. But if you tell me that when I die I will meet Jesus and all my dead loved ones, there is no way I can even investigate that claim, much less falsify it."
• dr-robert ---
Look, if you like religion, welcome to it. I don't care one way or another what you believe. It's amazing to me how personally you all take any words which question the entire matter of belief in fairy tales. But if that's where you at, fine by me. Nothing personal in it. I calls 'em as I sees 'em, and that's the way the cookie crumbles.
dr-robert ---
By the way, Jennifer. No real scientist is "looking for evidence of God." What possible evidence could there be, footprints? And very, very few top scientists are religious at all.
• dr-robert ---
One last try, Jennifer. I am not "bashing" anyone. I am stating my views. Nothing about it is personal.
And my attitude towards religion has nothing to do with a few "fruitcakes." Is Mitt Romney a "fruitcake?" He doesn't seem to be, yet he believes (or at least says he does) that after death he will live forever on his own planet. Others imagine that after death they will be in heaven with Jesus and all their loved ones, but if they "sin," they will burn in hell for eternity. These are not the beliefs of a few fruitcakes. This is mainstream religious doctrine which mainstream Christians say they believe.
To repeat, in my experience (and I have a lot---I have even had evangelical preachers for clients), people believe this silly stuff because:
1. They are afraid to stop existing at all.
2. They are afraid that without "God" life will have no "meaning."
3. The are afraid that with "God" they will not be able to handle the ups and downs of life.
That is how it looks to me, and this is not about "bashing" anyone.
Ask yourself this, Jennifer, why should religious ideas be put into a special category, different from any other kind of ideas, so that the religious ideas are somehow seen as deserving extraordinary protection from examination and criticism? Why? In other words, somehow human beings have fallen into a kind of strange superstitious attitude which holds that calling into question ideas in this one exclusive category, religion, is somehow especially intolerant, and abusive of the so-called "faith" of the people who believe in them---what you are calling "bashing."
I owe no special respect to religious ideas which seem foolish to me, any more than I owe respect to economic or political ideas which seem foolish to me. Or is, in your view, religion something "special?"
+Anonymous F — 13.6 years ago, 6 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[T] [B] #219,467
+Anonymous G — 13.6 years ago, 2 hours later, 14 hours after the original post[T] [B] #219,475
+Anonymous H — 13.6 years ago, 10 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #219,691
What was really funny was at the end he had a few users who kept sending him PMs for deletion requests, so much so that even one user threatened to commit suicide if the posts weren't deleted. His users were batshit insane and his mods were mini-Kimmos.
+Dead !Pool..v42s — 13.6 years ago, 1 day later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #220,008
Me too
Start a new topic to continue this conversation.
Or browse the latest topics.