Sucks to be you!
Posted on 08/19/2008 8:10:30 PM PDT by Mazeman
I thought censorship of dissenting opinion was largely a tactic of the Left. Well apparently Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs doesn't take criticism any better than Daily Kos.
Of late, Johnson has been devoting many of his posts to an assault on Intelligent Design theory. It's certainly not my place to discern his motivation for such vehemence, or to dictate what he posts on his own website, but because of his crusade, LGF has become a more tiresome place to visit. And not just for me; many of his commenters seem equally annoyed.
So I tried to log in today to comment on a non-ID post, and I get the message "Account Blocked". I think "OK Mazur, what the hell did you write?" ...
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I stopped reading LGF after he added the comment rating feature. Before comment rating there was too much group think and off-topic patting on the back comments made by posters who seemed to think they were important. I would imagine that comment rating has only made that worse. Also, I discovered that nobody liked my comments.
Thanks for the replies.
LGF doesn’t mean that much to me. And if I felt the need to post, I have other usernames (he.. he..). But as I’ve said, my posts tend to be tame.
I know he has every right to do what he did. I just feel it’s a terrible style for a webmaster to squelch even tame dissension.
I recently got on board at Lucianne. Now THAT’s a place I value. I’ll be very polite.
Oh shut up and deal with it.
Evolution is not just about the beginning of life. It is about the here and now. It is important to know that evolution is important to the control of disease (including an important subset, the development of vaccines) and the development of sustainable food supplies.
Of course if you want to be sick and starve to death, feel free to hope for intervention from your Intelligent Designer.
I never even said I believed in ID, did I?
You folks with small brains could learn a thing or two by keeping an open mind.
Such morally elevating commentary. I bet you are really proud of yourself.
Sucks to be you!
Nope. Not at all. I am proud for being more open to things I don’t know about, sure.
Not sure how morality comes into play with small brains and genetics. Perhaps we can find the answer in Intelligent Design.
Your faith attempts to explain the world an all that that is in it.
Your faith disregards anything outside of the self described limits of your religion
Your faith leads you to convert the non-believers and question the sanity of any who refuses to convert.
I haven’t been there since this whole crap storm started and to think, I sided with him in the Gates of Vienna wars....
On the other hand, while certain posters can contribute only boorishness others make up for this with genuine contributions to the thread.
I don’t question your sanity. I question your education.
Get your own blog! They're fun, not very expensive, and you can become famous!
Then you can enforce your own rules and watch -other- people whine.
Oops, forgot my /sarc tag. Yes, I know you have your own blog. I was trying to be funny, oh well...
The ID/evolution topic is very interesting when discussed on its own merits, without attitude and attacks. I saw attitude in his response. Nor did he make a good argument, IMO.
I’ve been to LGF a few times. Now there is need to go back.
IIRC Ann called the guys at National Review a bunch of "girlie boys" after they dropped her column. I don't think the comment was directed at Jonah personally.
Yes I have received the standard public education propaganda. However, I have also gone beyond that myopic and rather limited presentation of their humanist agenda to study religion and philosophy as my electives. I have also studied as part of my profession (IT security) large numbers and randomness.
In fact, I hold a couple of patents in that space and given the uniqueness of the conditions required to support life on a planetary body, under the rules of observable science, with the limitations of biology and with all the possible permutations required to build both the DNA and RNA codes required to create a man, find it impossible that a random series of events could possibly result in man.
It sounds, when you talk about science as faith, like you have read Thomas Kuhn’s Structures of Scientific Revolutions. Definitely one of the most influential books of the last century. I saw him in person once. A brilliant man, but symbiotically attached to his cigarettes.
I have not met or read any of his works. But I’m always looking for a good author and a good book as I travel a lot and have a fair amount of plane time.
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