Posters your sick of!

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Anonymous wrote:If you've posted on the last four pages, I'm sick of you. Stop, just stop. You need a time out.

There are several people here arguing with the Ranting Atheist (or pagan, or whatever). I'm one of them, but I'm not the one you just said you're sick of. Congrats, though! Apparently several people find your nasty, childish behavior abhorrent!

Yes, there are definitely several of us who view that poster's comments as totally offensive.

Which, when you think of it, is probably her goal. She covers it in a thin veneer of rationalization, as in "I'm smarter than they are, and they're also unreasonably sensitive." But really, she just needs the validation that comes with negative attention.

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Can someone make the "daycare is, raising your children poster, not you" go away please? Please? She makes me want to gouge my eyes out.

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Anonymous wrote:"Your "religious beliefs" deserve no more respect than my beliefs about who the "Best Band of the 90s" is. Seriously. I don't fucking care. You don't get to believe nonsense with zero justification, and then award yourself "special sensitivity points" on top of that. Grow a thicker skin."

Should I not respond to the ranting atheist? I suppose not, but I'm wondering why you can't understand that anyone's deeply held beliefs -- things they would die for -- deserve more respect than you show. I might not understand why someone believes in a deity, but as a fellow human being that person deserves respect. You might believe very strongly that some unproven alternative therapy will cure your dying child. I am not going to mock you for your belief. I might believe that prayer will help (either the child or me). Would you mock me in that situation?

I wish you would die for me

That was hilarious actually.

[Anonymous]

Dear "Dad of Twins",

We need to get on the ball and become more active and annoying because we are quickly losing ground here. I suggest we start by following the advice of the PP and getting a room and creating a NEW set of twins, unvaccinated, of course. And let's blog here, right no DCUM!!! It will be divine.

Love you,
Crazy anti-vaccine conspiracy woman

[Anonymous]

The "I spend 7% of my net income on my mortgage and if you spend more than that OMG you are a wasteful idiot and are headed for forclosure and bankruptcy" posters.

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The "I call bs" who believes that private schools are infallible.

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The Spring Valley Hater poster. Your constant rantings and whining about the neighborhood and chemicals etc just come off as pure jealousy.

The "it takes me 30 seconds to cross Chain Bridge from Arlington". You are also very annoying, and that's not true and we all know it. You don't live in DC so stop trying so hard and stop hitting up EVERY private school topic.

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Is DCUM really the place to break out scholarly journal articles, though?

The poster (I think it's only one) who gives 10 links to support an argument and expects us to read them all. Because, hey, providing a summary together with the link would be too much work.

Scholarly articles start with a summary. What I hate is posters who still won't budge from an ignorant point of view even when presented with 10 sources of scholarly research.

That was my quote originally. My point is, if you're trying to build an argument, don't make us do all the work. I read and write scholarly articles for a living, so yeah I could do this, but my free time is valuable. I'm not going to spend 3 hours trying to figure out this new field of study, read all the articles, and then try to figure out if they're biased or not, all in aid of helping you make your point. Do some of the work yourself, and summarize your endless links.

See....the argument has already been built in the pages leading up. They are there to prove my point is based on actual research. I don't see why anyone would have to read through and summarize articles when the summary is included in the first paragraph of all of them and the whole thread is about the topic being discussed.. Also, posts get too long if you paste information that could easily be accessed by link. You wouldn't read it anyways I'm sure.

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Should I not respond to the ranting atheist? I suppose not, but I'm wondering why you can't understand that anyone's deeply held beliefs -- things they would die for -- deserve more respect than you show. I might not understand why someone believes in a deity, but as a fellow human being that person deserves respect. You might believe very strongly that some unproven alternative therapy will cure your dying child. I am not going to mock you for your belief. I might believe that prayer will help (either the child or me). Would you mock me in that situation?

Not the PP, but I share her view that belief in the irrational does not deserve respect, particularly when religious discourse seeks to dominate political life so they can impose their childish beliefs on everyone else.

The fact that beliefs are deeply held doesn't make them worthy of respect. The Aztecs deeply believed in child sacrifice. The Nazis deeply believed in the superiority of the aryan race.

It is the fact that beliefs are founded in evidence that makes them worthy of respect.

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Scholarly articles start with a summary. What I hate is posters who still won't budge from an ignorant point of view even when presented with 10 sources of scholarly research.

Well, it is called 'faith'.

RAWPGG - Ranting Atheist Who Plays Gotcha Games. If you respond, she'll call you over-sensitive. She'll feel so pleased with herself, because this is probably the only thing going on in her sad little life that actually produces the result she wants.

So don't play her game by responding to this.

Actually I'm an entirely different poster and I don't even know who the atheist poster is. I guess I don't frequent the forums that she does.

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I'm another poster -- new to this thread -- who was accused a couple months ago of being "the Ranting Atheist" because I dared to disagree with something posted on one of those "Christmas is for Christians" threads. At the time, I had no idea what she meant, and was pretty annoyed that she started attacking me for just posting my opinion.

It seems there might be one or two posters who just accuse everyone who ever disagrees with them of being "the Ranting Atheist"!

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People.who.use.extra.periods.to.make.their.point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dear "Dad of Twins",

We need to get on the ball and become more active and annoying because we are quickly losing ground here. I suggest we start by following the advice of the PP and getting a room and creating a NEW set of twins, unvaccinated, of course. And let's blog here, right no DCUM!!! It will be divine.

Love you,
Crazy anti-vaccine conspiracy woman

Don't leave out Holton Ivy mom - she got a few votes too.

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The posters who are so concerned about the things my kids have, the cars we drive, the vacations we take.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dear "Dad of Twins",

We need to get on the ball and become more active and annoying because we are quickly losing ground here. I suggest we start by following the advice of the PP and getting a room and creating a NEW set of twins, unvaccinated, of course. And let's blog here, right no DCUM!!! It will be divine.

Love you,
Crazy anti-vaccine conspiracy woman

Newly deflated. After wading through the "Some thoughts on daycare" thread, I'm not sure that even if I worked at it, could I possibly be as annoying as the one SAHM that "pities" all the WOHM's. She's singlehandedly fanning the flames of the Mommy Wars into a raging volcano.

I'm throwing in the towel. Sorry to disappoint you, but I definitely concede.

-Dad of Twins.