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Who reads FR? How many accounts on FR? What does FR stand for? Where is FR going?
01/19/11 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 01/19/2011 10:00:05 AM PST by Jim Robinson

Edited on 01/19/2011 10:21:38 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: Jedidah

Well said.

Thanks

(I am late to this thread and just now working my way through it)


581 posted on 01/22/2011 6:25:12 AM PST by John Galt's cousin (Principled Conservatism NOW! * * * * * * * * * * Repeal the 17th Amendment!)
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To: SgtHooper

LOL

that is a keeper.


582 posted on 01/22/2011 6:28:39 AM PST by John Galt's cousin (Principled Conservatism NOW! * * * * * * * * * * Repeal the 17th Amendment!)
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To: onyx

Was bezelbub zotted?


583 posted on 01/22/2011 6:34:25 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: onyx

Cancel that last post. He’s still here.


584 posted on 01/22/2011 6:36:48 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: americanophile

Bump


585 posted on 01/22/2011 6:40:58 AM PST by John Galt's cousin (Principled Conservatism NOW! * * * * * * * * * * Repeal the 17th Amendment!)
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To: Weird Tolkienish Figure; Darksheare
"I figured I’d try that place out, give it a shot, and that’s basically all that site is... a bunch of phoney conservatives, concern trolls, liberals, malcontents, and an unhealthy obsession with FR."

Over there I've seen:

Registered guests (no stars)
New Members (one star)
Jr. Members (two stars)

But you are a "Full Member" (three stars).

How did you come so far in a short time in a place that you hold in such contempt?

586 posted on 01/22/2011 7:35:12 AM PST by Semper Mark (Vlad Tepes was a piker.)
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To: Valin

Get a dictionary.


587 posted on 01/22/2011 7:38:48 AM PST by BelegStrongbow (St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
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To: Markos33

Arguing about global warming.


588 posted on 01/22/2011 8:58:16 AM PST by Weird Tolkienish Figure
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To: Markos33

Arguing about global warming.


589 posted on 01/22/2011 8:58:19 AM PST by Weird Tolkienish Figure
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To: John Galt's cousin; Jim Robinson

What you say sends me to my original post below. When FReepers rely on their knowledge of specific areas, they can identify someone whose presentation is disconnected from objective information and provide them an unpleasant morning or afternoon suffering diminished self-esteem. After regularly encountering reason and research, they should vote themselves off the website, because affirmation is so vital to maintaining comfort within any mental disorder. (I did read the book by a professional psychiatrist or psychologist, which asserts liberalism, is a mental disorder.) As a result of this regular encounter with mental trauma, FR should not end up using it’s limited resources for liberals, etc, to ply their tawdry trade.

As you say the benefit to us also comes from helping to clarify issues. If something is important to me, I always try to ask, “Why do I believe that?” I don’t want to be in a position of having to take action and finding my moral and intellectual compasses spinning around in a circle like a magnetic compass at the North Pole.

I avoided that experience this spring when my wife and I changed churches. The pastor wrote a fifty page paper defining the operational plan for teaching and growth of our church, which relied on the Emerging Church and Seeker Friendly syndromes popular at many seminaries and with many mega-church leaders. After reading it twice, I wrote an 8 page rebuttal to myself beginning with my first reawakenings in college through C. S. Lewis to recent articles I read in World magazine. I found I had a better understanding faith relationship and the place of the church, than he had obtained by running off into that blind intellectual cul-de-sac. As a result I could be comfort able with our decision to leave a church we had attended since 1974.

“I have no problem debating with people who direct their lives by the twin principles of premeditated ignorance and practiced irrationality. I have no problem searching out the original truths proving the sound bites liberals use for their points are no more than mantras chanted for a godless orthodoxy.”


590 posted on 01/22/2011 1:09:11 PM PST by Retain Mike
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To: LomanBill

[”Oh yes, Mr. Bill. Ice always has a lower entropy and lower [heat] energy level than water.” ]

[Liar]


591 posted on 01/22/2011 1:54:38 PM PST by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: LomanBill

“[Liar]”

Hey!
You apologize to Lomanbill right now!
;-)


592 posted on 01/22/2011 2:38:58 PM PST by Darksheare (I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
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To: Darksheare

LOL - [oops!]


593 posted on 01/22/2011 3:11:24 PM PST by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: Weird Tolkienish Figure
"Arguing about global warming."

And bashing FReepers.

If you're going assail someone's character, at least have the guts to do it in a place where they have a chance to defend themselves.

594 posted on 01/22/2011 4:08:27 PM PST by Semper Mark (Vlad Tepes was a piker.)
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To: John Galt's cousin

Correction to 579. This paragraph should have been attributed to Jim’s original post:

“As an organization, we cannot be both for and against homosexuality, abortion, big government, border and national security, etc. I don’t know about others, but if we must choose, I choose to be on the right side of each and every issue. Why should FR use it’s limited resources to allow liberals, homosexualists, abortionists, big spenders, big taxers, big government solutions advocates, gun grabbers, pacifists, isolationists, environmentalists, open-borders lobbyists, etc, ply their trade on FR?”

[Sorry Jim. I didn’t scroll all the way down after having copied and pasted during drafting]


595 posted on 01/22/2011 9:21:21 PM PST by John Galt's cousin (Principled Conservatism NOW! * * * * * * * * * * Repeal the 17th Amendment!)
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To: Weird Tolkienish Figure; Markos33

Eventually the posters at truebluerino will be forced to decide which site they’re going to put their energies into, FR or the rino site.
Just like what happened to Clown Posse.
Of course, they will whine up a storm about their bannings from here, just like the CP’s did.
And then to further cement the negative view of them, they will summarily troll FR.
I’m good at finding trolls.
It’s just, you have to be able to prove it to the powers that are.
];-)


596 posted on 01/23/2011 1:52:03 PM PST by Darksheare (I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
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To: Fantasywriter
I am wondering how the Constitutional-eligibility trolls fit into this.

There does seem to be a sustained program of posting "Birther" nonsense for the apparent purpose of making conservatives look ridiculous.

597 posted on 01/23/2011 4:29:42 PM PST by Slippery Jim
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To: Slippery Jim; Red Steel; melancholy; danamco

Agreed. They [the trolls] try to make us look ridiculous; they sow confusion; they lie and lie, and then lie some more; they never advance, support or defend conservatism; they DO promote liberalism; they are disruptors and antagonists, and they leave a trail of bad feelings whenever and wherever they post.

It’s always the same ones. If anybody wants a list, all they have to do is ask. Red Steel, Melancholy and Danamco know who they are—and so do I.


598 posted on 01/23/2011 4:51:31 PM PST by Fantasywriter
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To: Fantasywriter; little jeremiah

Oops; I left one off. Little Jeremiah knows who the trolls are too. (Sorry, LJ; it wasn’t on purpose. ;)


599 posted on 01/23/2011 4:53:51 PM PST by Fantasywriter
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To: Slippery Jim; Fantasywriter

Troll.

Au contraire, 0h0m0’s peeps are getting quite nervous and even signing up as we speak to lie on his behalf.

Many are retreads, having been zotted before....
hmmm.....


600 posted on 01/23/2011 4:59:00 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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