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[penguinofhonor]

[Rolan7]

Hehe, saved!

I think it was just that the topic was very sensitive, and people were getting heated about it.  It was devolving into personal attacks.

Someone seems to've been banned yesterday for 'lack of self-contro,l' so I'm thinking this is it.

You're a month off.

Basically, it was a sensitive topic that people disagree on and that tends to stir up feelings. Now can we let the dead rest?

Not until the discussion has run it's course. And it is abundantly clear that that will never be allowed to happen because some oversensitive idiot always gets butthurt about something and complains to the moderator before we can reach that point.

I really wish just once we could have a thread that would stay open no matter what gets said or whose feelings get hurt. Then maybe we could actually make some progress

This really is the wrong place for that.  Bay12 can handle soft discussions, or extreme liberal discussions, but really isn't a place for actual, productive debate.  For one thing it's a SMF forum.  For another, practically the only moderator is a guy working hard on an absurdly ambitious project.
It's a pretty dumb situation, but it's the real situation.  Better to find somewhere else to discuss sensitive topics.  Even Reddit or 4chan, for all their faults, are better for that.

[Spehss _]

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[Calidovi]

Hehe, saved!

I think it was just that the topic was very sensitive, and people were getting heated about it.  It was devolving into personal attacks.

Someone seems to've been banned yesterday for 'lack of self-contro,l' so I'm thinking this is it.

You're a month off.

Basically, it was a sensitive topic that people disagree on and that tends to stir up feelings. Now can we let the dead rest?

Even Reddit or 4chan, for all their faults, are better for that.

People on these sites work backwards to reach their set conclusion about the world. They're like talking to brickfirewalls. Find an actual forum.

[Graknorke]

Everyone works backwards from their conclusions, unless it's something they have absolutely no idea about. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with that mind you, it is everyone's duty to defend ideas rather than just giving up on them. If they're valid ideas they'll hold up whether you personally believe in them or not, and if they're not then they'll be shown not to be.

[Calidovi]

Everyone works backwards from their conclusions, unless it's something they have absolutely no idea about. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with that mind you, it is everyone's duty to defend ideas rather than just giving up on them. If they're valid ideas they'll hold up whether you personally believe in them or not, and if they're not then they'll be shown not to be.

Of course, but this is to absurd lengths. It's good to provide arguments to back up your ideas, but unreliable (hilariously idiotic) "studies", ad hominems, and playing make-believe will not get you anywhere. Perhaps I should have rephrased my original statement if I knew how quotes work.

And this is the internet, so take the amount of bashes it takes to get into a person's head and multiply that by 20.

[Spehss _]

aggglbagglh college classes so tired ugh

Being tired makes me think negatively, I think. I feel burned out, physically and emotionally.

[quinnr]

I stubbed my thumb moving an ironing board and it is bleeding from under the nail. My life is a joke.

[Eric Blank]

That's happened to me before, can't remember exactly what I did but the end result was blood and pain.

Hopefully it is short lived for you.

[Orange Wizard]

Stick a pin through the nail and let the blood out?

[martinuzz]

WELCOME TO EUROPE!

That is, if you can swim

warning disturbing image (which has a very good chance of becoming the world press award photo of 2015)

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Little boy from Syria abour 2 years old, washed up on the shores of the Turkish tourist beach town of Bodrum.

This African refugee crisis is the worst humanitarian crisis in a long time. Maybe this picture will make the more xenophobe nationalists in Europe shut up for a few days.

[RedKing]

Okay, NOW I haz a sad. 

He even looks somewhat like my son did at that age.

[LordSlowpoke]

Maybe this picture will make the more xenophobe nationalists in Europe shut up for a few days.

nah bro

if you want to make me sad how about you bring me some desperate women who strangle their children to death or put their newborns into barrels or just toss them into lakes or shit like that

that could work provided you gave me enough backstory

the fact that he could have made a decent european if he did make it is a bit sad tho, we do need more decent ones

[IcyTea31]

Orchestra lesson. Maybe if I wasn't so out of breath from crying, I'd attend. Right now, I doubt I could get any noise out of my horn.

E: I also only technically participated in my school's sports day earlier today. My top result at boot throwing was 1,10 meters. More like boot dropping. I'd be penalized for not participating, but it ain't no rule I have to put any effort to it.

[miauw62]

ugh, im horribly unsure and worried about something, but there's no way i can really know for sure, and i dont know what to do.