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Okay, I'm at a bit of a loss here as this is the first forum board I've encountered where genuine questions are deleted or edited; it's usually abuse and insults that are redmarked.

Could somebody please explain exactly why there are so many Incredible Hulk snot trails covering seemingly innocuous questions?
I mean, exactly what is the process and how is it decided?

Is it a case of a forumite running off and telling admin and then threatening action or what?

And before I get slimed, this is a genuine question so I know how lightly to tread in future.

Thankyou kindly.

Jerry

House rules apply and if a forum participant feels aggrieved and contacts the moderator, consideration is given to their issue, especially if it has to do with matters that are of a personal or disrespectful nature.

I don't see what's so wrong about saying that a bishop might have Content removed of matters ecclesiastical and of the Church, is to be expected to Content removed holiness by any stretch of the imagination.

As for his blogs, anyone can see that Content removed, and this I find is without exception.

To summarize, all one has to do is examine his Content removed to see that it's all a big, fat, unadulterated Content removed.

^ Holy Smokes.

A post taken from the Qumrans?

Thankyou very much for the words of wisdom gentlemen. In future, I shall turn respect mode "ON" and and make it clearly visible, although this does remind me of school and the boy who'd constantly be running to a teacher.
Such is life.


Baldrycat, I had to laugh at your post as it is the equivalent of a TV beep filter. I'm sure it's nowhere near as offensive as it looks.
Perhaps you could start a thread on your blog where you post the uncensored version?

Or a small person throwing a tantrum and flinging his toys out of the pram, and getting everyone else smacked.

The Great Green One said "if a forum participant feels aggrieved and contacts the moderator..."

Years ago I read a science fiction story (can anyone identify it for me?) about a society which had just two principles: Try not to give offence, and Try not to take offence. We have all been treading very, very carefully in the last couple of days -- including all the censored text above -- not to give offence to someone we've discovered is just a little bit touchy. Perhaps he might care to consider the second of the two principles...

Or he could just employ the whole 'turn the other cheek' or simply forgive us for we know not what we do wrong?







Be vewy , vewy quiet...


Personally, I think the whole threat thing is more likely.

[quote="Jerry Dandridge
Or he could just employ the whole 'turn the other cheek' or simply forgive us for we know not what we do wrong?

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Jerry,
You've stumbled, inadvertently, into one of the great Arcadian mysteries.
There are those who practice their piety with great flourishes at every given opportunity on the Forum.
They are the ones you can rely on not to act like Christians.
Talking the talk is one thing, walking the walk is a whole other ball of wax!

Enjoy your time here, the wheat sort themselves from the chaff fairly quickly you'll find !
TD

Thankyou very much for that TD.
I believe once I've collected 200 posts, I'll find a secret sub-forum complete with masonic avatar's and Icke downloads.


...I've heard about this place you know.

Wow, really? They must be holding out on me then; I've never been to the secret sub-forum...damn. It's cause I'm a redneck, ain't it?

Of course not.
It's because you're a woman.
It's not called the Misogynistic Masonic Membership for nothing!

You get a free decoder wheel as well.

"Stranger in a Strange Land" pops right into mind and if not that the same premise is part of the protagonists philosophy.

Content removed reminds me of the Army character played by Graham Chapman, someone with no sense of humour whatsoever.

Jerry:

You would have been far better off saying it was 'cause I was a redneck.

Decoder wheel? I don't need no stinkin' decoder wheel...

How can you perform dark, sex magic rituals in an all male club?...okay, I don't wanna know.

Perhaps..perhaps...DVB is actually a code for DV8?
The plot thickens.


...and now for something completely different.

I refer you back to what I wrote earlier today, one of the bits that wasn't green-inked.

By becoming a bishop, making numerous public pronouncements and using a photo of himself in his episcopal robes as his sig, he's made himself a public figure. He makes extraordinary claims about himself and his position. Yet if anyone puts him under any sort of proper scrutiny he cries "Foul".

I don't know whether he's claiming defamation every time he goes running to the moderators, but as a journalist for many years I know the libel laws quite well. There is no defamation in asking whether his church in Glastonbury is a real church that ordinary people can go to. And there is no defamation in producing evidence (which the bishop signally fails to do) showing that he has made use of other people's text without attribution.

And if you green-ink this, Moderator, you really need to stop letting yourself be bullied by someone who won't face up to scrutiny and, as I said before, doesn't wish to have truth and openness.

Brilliant. Thank you!

...give it time my friend, give it time.

Having looked through a few other forum boards, it appears that threats are made to site owners and complaints are made to server hosts. All rather bizarre if a person has nothing to hide. It's made slightly more embarrassing if the person happens to be a public figure.

With regards to a church, I can find absolutely no proof that one exists, but I'm sure that this must be an oversight on my part.
There are a few websites that have been rather helpful but I'm still drawing a blank.

What would Enid Blyton do?

Enid Blyton would question the Site Owner me thinks...with liberal enquiries as to "forum ratings".......who pays the Moderator?

Well, supposedly "the church" is not publicised because this person is ministering to abused vampire and demon victims whose identities must be kept secret as well as the secret location where all this secret ministering takes place. Frankly I think it's all a Content removed to Content removed inland revenue taxes.

[quote="Jerry Dandridge
With regards to a church, I can find absolutely no proof that one exists, but I'm sure that this must be an oversight on my part.
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Jerry,
Maybe you've not got up to speed on other threads where one of the 'Apocalyptic Pious' is using a rather tricky piece of verbal legerdemain to pose the interesting question
When is a Church not a Church?
If I follow his line of creative reasoning it would seem that the body of Believers are what makes up a Church. Not a building nor any form of clergy.
So may be you are looking in the wrong place/dimension.
Hence, apparently there are no Priests, Curates, Deacons, Bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals or Popes in the Catholic Church.
As a result of which no one 'in' the 'Church' has any responsibility for these Offices outside of it.
I'm sure I read that as a plot device in a Dr Suess book somewhere?
Can anyone help me tie it down? It was not 'Green Eggs and Ham' for sure, but one of the others.
TD

Curiouser and curiouser.
Technically, a front room can be a church. Even if you speak to just one other person. Who may be your spouse.

Actually, the reason I asked was because the good Bishop said he couldn't keep track of all people, or something along those lines.

There's an expression that we used to use in school when listening to a dubious story.
It involved us stroking our chin, and not in the thoughtful sagelike way.


I must go read up on these other threads.

Dearly departed Baldrycat,

After much sorting and sifting through this confusing, sticky and often sordid affair I have seen this evening how you met your sad and untimely demise.

I can understand the transgressions of youth...but 9 times?

Go to the Light little one, they call you...

And I've no problem with that. The American Church I've spent the last few years studying has, as well as over 400 schismatic offshoots, dozens if not hundreds of "living-room churches", where families have decided they've had enough of hierarchies and abusive authority. The point is, they're open and above board; they're clear about what they are -- just a family and sometimes a few friends joining them. The Bishop of Glastonbury gives the impression that he has a diocese, a ministerial structure and services -- i.e. that he heads a small denomination. In reality, it seems, he's an archetypal Wandering Bishop with, as I said weeks ago, as many bishops as priests and more priests than laity.

All I'm asking for (before the Green One descends on this post) is some openness and honesty from the bishop. Is that too much to ask of a man of God?