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I hear what Cerek's saying, and I understand the concept behind "testing the waters", but I'd suggest an alternative option: that you can also "test the waters" using existing allowed topics in here, like homosexuality, politics, and so on.
ALL WE CARE ABOUT AS MODS IS THAT WE CAN ALL COEXIST HERE IN RELATIVE HARMONY. It's really quite simple, this thing that we want. If we're able to get along and coexist, disagreements and all, without people digging in to the point where they have to be forcibly uprooted or need a mod to intervene just so that they can save face without looking like they've backed down then conceivably there will be very little topics on this earth that you can discuss here.
Can I just say that it's really really simple what we want, this coexistence and self-respect, but really hard to give to us, it seems. Sometimes I get frustrated at how we can't achieve this simple thing, which I reckon we'd be able to do if we were in a pub discussing things face to face. [img]graemlins/awcrap.gif[/img] I don't like having to come here and lock threads and tell people to ease off and lay the law down and all that - I'd be happiest if I never had to put my mod hat on here.
Anyway, back to the topic. If we can achieve oppositive harmony and coexistence with all the other topics, then we can draw an inference that we can do that with religion as well. Unfortunately, religion has a habit of making people get up on soapboxes and pontificate (saw it starting even now). We just need people to swallow their pride a bit and recognise other people's points of view as being valid, even if they disagree with them. So we'll have to see how we go. [img]smile.gif[/img]
[ 08-27-2004, 03:44 PM: Message edited by: Memnoch ]
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