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Old Time Wesley
Posted: November 24th, 2005, 5:35pm Report to Moderator
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If it's a comedy you shouldn't have any problems unless it's bad, see the jesus one was a genuine attempt at retelling parts of jesus's life and I think it was done poorly in peoples eyes.

If your script is a parody/satire you'll be perfectly fine as it is meant to be funny and not a serious historical piece.

That's what I think anyway but you never know.


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I think imposing a rule against having religious or political debates wouldn't be in this boards be interest. An argument is one thing. But I think a debate once in a while can be a good thing, you know. Let's just make sure we keep them in check, and those who do decide to participate in them should do it maturely. A lot of us on this board are fully capable of writing mature and thought-provoking scripts, so whose not to say we can't have mature and thought-provoking discussions?
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Old Time Wesley
Posted: November 24th, 2005, 9:29pm Report to Moderator
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I will say it right now as most of the members aren't mature, I'm sorry to point out the truth but it is what it is.

With all the fighting over ideas for scripts and down the list of mindless things that happen I just do not see many mature thought provoking discussions in our future.


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George Willson
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Hey George you can avoid them but the aftermath is what we can't avoid... have you noticed someone is missing lately from the boards? I have and he contacted me about it.

People get banned and well if we don't care we'll just keep losing them all.

I don't blame Don for it but it keeps happening and I won't just avoid situations if it can help some people from making stupid mistakes and getting themselves banned.

The simple fact of the matter is that it won't go away if you just "avoid" it and stick to your script threads as it will eventually turn the entire message board into a place nobody wants to be.


My basic point was that people grumble about threads that go into topics they don't want to discuss. Now while these topics might get out of hand occasionally, maing a new rule (the topic of this post) will not stop these selfsame people from posting in this manner. We can warn. We can let them know how far out of line they are, but the bottom line is (and you know this as well as I do, Wesley) the outcome will likely be exactly what it would have been otherwise.

Rules are made for the betterment of those who follow them. Those who didn't follow the rules to start with aren't going to follow another one that is along the same lines as the rules which already exist. Some may recall the Columbine incident from 1999. Those kids broke 16 laws in what they did. You know what the lawmaker's solution to that problem was? Make 2 more laws. If those 2 laws were in place beforehand, what do you think would have happened? I believe they would have broken 18 laws instead of 16.

Don does a good job of patrolling the boards and helping to keep them in line. It is unfortunate that the maturity level of some (never all or most) of the participants is below the level to maintain a reasonable conversation, but that's life. For those of us who prefer to keep the boards' discussion at a mature level reading undesirable threads has really only one purpose: try to bring it back on topic and keep them from getting into more trouble than they've already caused. Will it always work? No. Might it come down to simply(tm) letting it go? Probably.

So maybe my original posting on the subject was more apathetic, but that's kind of how I felt at the time. Wesley, I know that's how you feel sometimes too, based on your variety of posts. The point, however, was get over it and move on. The troublemakers will always be discovered and put out. No need to dwell on it.



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Old Time Wesley
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No need to become a crusader, I did not start the thread but I do think that the noose Don holds should be tightended a little bit to keep this a writing community and not another garbage website.

Frankly with the variety of stuff going on it has kind of become the place you don't want to be as often, I noticed a lot of the regulars have cut back on coming here. (I mean the real members)


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Breanne Mattson
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For some reason, I missed this thread when it was originally started. I don’t want to drudge up bad feelings but I would like to set the record straight since the person who sent me the email is just a kid (only twelve I believe).

When I received the email that basically called me a Christian hater and rambled belligerently about how I’m going to hell for all eternity, I thought it was from an adult man so it was scary. Looking at it as something written by a child, it’s still a little scary but mostly because of the closed mindedness of it.

I once had an article published in a newspaper I had written about religion and received death threats from Christians so when I got the email from the young man, I was quite spooked by it.

Of course, as I said, looking at it as from a child reduces it to mere foolishness.

That said, I would like to say that I was raised with a very conservative Christian upbringing in the “Bible Belt” where there are still “sin taxes” and alcohol sales are prohibited on Sunday. Church was a must attend event. The reason I say that is because I understand why this particular young man behaves the way he does with regard to religion.

He was raised that way. He was taught these things from a very young age and we cannot underestimate the power of indoctrinating children into a certain belief system from birth. I am what’s called a “deprogrammed Christian” and have spent years trying to reverse the damage done to my mind by the insidiousness of brainwashing children without teaching them the tools of objective thought.

In any event, I would like to drop the whole letter thing and let the young man have a chance to grow and change without a foolish thing being held over his head indefinitely.

Aside from all that, however, I want to point out that it’s precisely BECAUSE religion stirs up so much divisiveness that it MUST be discussed. As long as lines of communication remain open, the truth can be fleshed out. Yes, it’s taxing to debate with a brick wall but it really does ultimately serve society for the better. People should never be afraid to seek the truth wherever it’s found.

That’s my two cents.



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I wouldn't worry about it.  The lengthy constructive criticism thread was in direct response of the actions from that same young man.  Isn't that ironic?


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George Willson
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Wow. Sounds like that little guy really knows how to generate some discussion! We should keep him around.  


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Wow.  I missed a good discussion.

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