arguments Shoot! missed another one <grin>

[andy1252 3,851]

I usually ignore the threads that seem destined to degenerate into the usual rubbish and name-calling after a few pages, but I was feeling like a bit of light relief just now and went to look at one and boom! It got closed while I was thinking about it! I guess God, or more accurately - Mod, is working in mysterious ways to preserve my better nature and stop me letting go with any (probably) regretable replies.

Before I moved over here from the Orbx forum, I was frequently seeing mods comments there along the lines of "if you want to behave like that there are other forums where you can do that" (is it possible to type sniffily?) but now I'm here I quite enjoy occasionally watching people get all het up about some of this stuff. It generates lovely mental images of medieval theorists getting into a rage on a 14th century version of Twitter - endless arguments, with of course a vast amount of surety, about those angels on the pinhead and the relative authenticity of the different flight models of the average witch.

I like it here!

(but there is some use of the ignore facility. It's a fine line between clever and stupid, as a wiser man than me once said)

[fppilot 4,360]

9 minutes ago, andy1252 said:

It's a fine line between clever and stupid, as a wiser man than me once said

 LOL!

Edited June 11, 2021 by fppilot

[Victoroos 205]

hehehehe, 

[Dominique_K 10,138]

3 hours ago, andy1252 said:

 It generates lovely mental images of medieval theorists getting into a rage on a 14th century version of Twitter - endless arguments, with of course a vast amount of surety, about those angels on the pinhead and the relative authenticity of the different flight models of the average witch.

I like it here!

 

 Theological discussions can be interesting as an intellectual exercise, religion wars, even verbal, are not 😄

[andy1252 3,851]

2 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

Theological discussions can be interesting as an intellectual exercise,

Not sure I'd even go that far, myself <grin>

[bernd1151 5,854]

6 minutes ago, andy1252 said:

Not sure I'd even go that far, myself <grin>

I know of a few people, who love those discussions until they are blue in their faces. I usually try to avoid their companionship 😄

[HiFlyer 9,358]

I was actually hoping that I might be proven wrong, and that that one would survive. And actually, for a while there it looked like it was holding its own and had reached a point of stability

And then in the last few pages...

BOOM!

 

[GoranM 3,764]

Where there was one, there will be others.

[Mace 1,909]

9 minutes ago, GoranM said:

Where there was one, there will be others.

I think you hit pretty close to home (as to that quote attributed to you). 

[overspeed3 410]

Don't know who first said it but this might be sound advice: "I never discuss religion or politics"

[Dominique_K 10,138]

1 hour ago, overspeed3 said:

Don't know who first said it but this might be sound advice: "I never discuss religion or politics"

What is interesting in these sorry threads is the unholy (speaking of religion) alliance of  a few  MFSers driveling about the near end of XP (and P3D) and a few XPers driveling about the superiority of  their guru's baby as ever before. They feed each other making a cacophony  of two broken records each trying to play louder than the other.  You can 'ignore' them of course but the thread goes south all the same.

[Murmur 3,941]

It happens when people make incorrect or false claims about a product. Then they get corrected and the arguing ensues.

[psolk 3,040]

5 hours ago, overspeed3 said:

Don't know who first said it but this might be sound advice: "I never discuss religion or politics"

Or Lockdowns or Vaccinations... Two more things I've added to my topics not to bring up during meetings... 

[birdguy 3,943]

Andy, I was  banned for life, apparently, from the Orbx fourm for something I said several years ago.  I still don't what it was that got under their skin.  Not only was I banned, but they removed the Hangar Talk forum, or whatever it was called, where we could discuss anything we liked.

I have also been warned by the Mods and eve had posts removed.  But all in all it's a good place to have fun.

Welcome to endless arguments of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

Noel 

Edited June 15, 2021 by birdguy

[Reader 2,021]

1 hour ago, birdguy said:

they removed the Hangar Talk forum

https://orbxsystems.com/forum/forum/259-the-neil-hill-memorial-lounge/

 

Edited June 15, 2021 by Reader