It's not really about bashing but about why you are here, and that's just my opinion.
Also you can learn a great deal here. I came here with a conservative lean and have strengthened it considerably since coming here.
Did you see that terrorists have taken a bus of hostages in Greece? I think they are chechens.
The other cool thing about FR is we almost always have the news first. Just as we did in the above scenario.
Most often people are warned and given discussion in freepmail, sometimes it is in posts.
I got booted without any warnings or explanations that i was doing something wrong. Altough I suspect it had something to do with a response I gave to a catholic who made a statement in another forum who said something to the effect that all other religions were wrong and accused them of promoting homosexuality. I and some other people had pointed out the scandal surrounding the church, and I brought up some of the scriptures concerning celibacy. That was when I got booted.
I don't really have anything against catholics, i just disagree with the few who think there religion is the only true religion and all others are going to h---.
I could also have been booted for participation in a thread where someone posted asking if there was anything in the bible linking cain to the africans. I posted everything I know that it contains refuting that or that they are in anyway linked with anything that is unholy. The threatd was pulled.
The only people who are outright banned are those who come in and post immediately and say very outrageous things like this one began with.
Most of my posts have been praise or an honest back and forth that I wouldn't count as a debate, but as a sharing of points of views and intelligent conversations which I got a lot out.
Also they keep the addresses of those who sign up and apparently there are some who come, sign up and post something like this, get banned, and then return and do it all over again.
I didn't return to be offensive but, to find an answer as to what I did wrong since I couldn't find anything on the sight that explained it.
I think I found my answer though. I checked out the post my Jim Robinson that was posted previously on this site. I agree with most of what he said. But there are things in it that suggest that this is not a sight of open discussion.
I don't have an issue with that, this is a sight for people with like minded views and places like that are good places to me but, I view disagreement as healthy too. It makes me reflect and reevaluate my own positions. This is how I learn from others since I can't always articulate well, what it is that I am missing.
Sometimes I here people say things I don't understand, but I,m not sure why. So I present my point of view and listen to theirs and we go back and forth 'til I 'get it'. Many is the time I've changed my position because I have learned something from them.
I'm thinking that is too easy to take me wrong and associate me with one of the deliberate antagonists you guys must suffer with. So I may bow out and save everyone else the irritation of educating me when I'm not understanding something.
In normal forums you guys seem like a great and intelligent bunch. I wish you all well.
In other words, they just sign up to post things and make us mad or something. They fully expect to be banned immediately. We call them trolls.
Did you see that terrorists have taken a bus of hostages in Greece? I think they are chechens
no I didn't. They will be in my prayers tonight. Anytime I hear about the terrorists taking hostages, it breaks my heart to think what is going to happen to them. I'm to the point now where I can't read about it or watch the news when they are talking about it. Those people are beyond cruel.