a separate forum for prayer/religion/bereavement threads

[beet1e]

Not a troll.

I acknowledge the value that some people ascribe to such topics as prayer and religion. But there seems to be so many such threads these days. Wouldn't it be better if they could have their own forum? Here are my reasons for suggesting this:

• Volume - would justify a separate forum.
• These threads are often about topics close to the heart, and would find sanctuary in a forum dedicated to the purpose.
• The O'Club contains a great deal of irreverent material. An emotive topic can get lost in the maelstrom of "normal" O'Club material.
• A separate forum would allow these threads to stand out, and they would be more easily found by those inclined to read them.
• The titles are often confusing, so the topic gets read by someone who would not normally read it, and the result is often that...
• These threads in the O'Club are prone to hijack.

Just a suggestion - nothing more.

[Nash]

Originally posted by beet1e
Not a troll.

I acknowledge the value that some people ascribe to such topics as prayer and religion. But there seems to be so many such threads these days. Wouldn't it be better if they could have their own forum? Here are my reasons for suggesting this:

• Volume - would justify a separate forum.[/B]

Do us a fav and tell us exactly when the last prayer thread was posted. Shouldn't be hard, in light of your concern for the matter. Do a search on "prayer" or something. When was the last one? In terms of "volume", care to crunch some numbers? Give us the alarming ratio. I don't think it's gonna help your argument.

But I could be wrong. You care. Post the math.

[Hangtime]

Beetle, there are moments when yer alligator mouth overloads yer parakeet brainstem.

[beet1e]

nash - do a search on god/prayer/religion -  I got  1373 hits, 179 in the past year. That's about 3 per week.

Like I said - it was just a suggestion, nothing more.

[Nash]

Uhm.... no... sorry.... no.

Threads mentioning god and religion and prayer do not equal prayer threads.

Take another stab at it.

[beet1e]

Like I said - 3 subtopics. Oh what the heck...

[Nash]

3 sub-topics? By that you mean god, religion and prayer?

You jam those 3 words into a search engine and come up with 3 threads a week? That's not much to complain about.

And.... like, if I say "Golly-geeN I love Dr. Pepper", that'd be included, right? Yet another religios thread included in the overwhelming 3 per week? Out of what.... 50? 75 per week?

Lets quit ignoring the obvious. Your post was inspired by Awmac's.

We've kind of put the lie to prayer thread's cramping the BBS' style. So what bothers you about Awmac asking for prayer?

[Tarmac]

Beetle, I will pray for you.  

[beet1e]

No Nash, actually it was a thread that appeared to be about snakes! AWMac asked for prayers once before, and I gave him my best wishes. He will remember that.

My suggestion was inspired in part by the fact that my Chess Club BBS does indeed have a "Spirituality" forum, which is described thus:

Debate and general discussion of the supernatural, religion, and the life after.

There's no easy way to search for threads in the genre. Even the absence of those three words (prayer/god/religion) does not define the thread as secular. Other keywords would need to be included in the search eg. Catholicism, Judaism, Protestant.

[Schaden]

God is good, God is all powerful...so why do terrible things happen to people?

hell if I could have prevented some child being killed for no reason I'd have done something about it -I don't get religion, to me JC and the boys are on a par with the tooth fairy and father xmas.

And don't even get me started on paedophilia in the church.....

[FUNKED1]

Originally posted by Nash
So what bothers you about Awmac asking for prayer?

Yesterday's troll got nipped in the bud and he needs attention badly.

[Jackal1]

How bout a seperate forum for bitter trolls who are pissed off at HTC?

[Steve]

nash - do a search on god/prayer/religion - I got 1373 hits, 179 in the past year. That's about 3 per week.

So what?

Do a search on politics... bet you get more.  Let me guess, you want a seperate forum for politics too?

This is not the first time you've whined about prayers being asked for.  If you want to be bereft of religion that's fine, you are free to spend eternity in hell.  You have no business  making thinly veiled attacks on those who wish to discuss it.

Perhaps you'd like to have a few beers w/ me in a hotel room.  I am pretty certain who would end up w/ a broken arm.

[lazs2]

I don't want us to be like a chess club BB..

In fact... I don't even want chess to be mentioned here.... god kills a puppy everytime chess is mentioned.

lazs

[Charon]

I suppose the AW Mac thread prompted this.

Personally, I'm not religious, but if someone wants to reach out to others while in pain -- well, most of us do have some human compassion. It's not like people are asking us for prayers for their upcoming history final.

Charon