TrollPoppin Wrote:ABT fell apart last year when Dave wrongly claimed it as his site. I only posted there once since the new forum came up and I won't look back.

(07-08-2015, 09:17 PM)SickBeast Wrote: Do you guys really have nothing better to do?

SickBeast at BTR Wrote:ABT is really falling apart, I don't think I can post there any more.

SickBeast at BTR Wrote:Rollo is driving gstanford and I crazy and ocre is defending him. Both gstanford and I have ignored Rollo but he has continued. I just don't enjoy posting there any more, it's just not the same. It has become impossible to have any sort of meaningful dialogue. [

GStanford at BTR Wrote:Don't even mention the trolls name.

Now he's posted a new topic linking to apoppin's post above.

As I said over there the only way to be rid of him is to completely ignore him. I'd gleefully permaban his sorry ass, but Dave won't let me.

Trollpoppin Wrote:Sad. ABT has become a place of sadness, negativity and even hate. But there is an alternative and I am glad you are here! Let's focus on the positive and not look back except as a learning experience.
Cool
And please ... I'd rather not be reminded about the failure that ABT has become. I want to focus on the positive and on the future and not dwell on the past mistakes and the negative.

(07-09-2015, 12:50 PM)dmcowen674 Wrote: Who is the "sadness. negativity and hate" towards???

(07-09-2015, 11:01 PM)SickBeast Wrote: Hey Dave seeing as you're here, can you moderate Rollo? Or at least talk some sense into him?

(07-10-2015, 12:10 AM)dmcowen674 Wrote:

(07-09-2015, 11:01 PM)SickBeast Wrote: Hey Dave seeing as you're here, can you moderate Rollo?  Or at least talk some sense into him?

Did he post something illegal?

(07-10-2015, 12:20 AM)SickBeast Wrote:

(07-10-2015, 12:10 AM)dmcowen674 Wrote:

(07-09-2015, 11:01 PM)SickBeast Wrote: Hey Dave seeing as you're here, can you moderate Rollo?  Or at least talk some sense into him?

Did he post something illegal?

LOL no.  Just one time Dave!

(07-09-2015, 12:50 PM)dmcowen674 Wrote: Who is the "sadness. negativity and hate" towards???

(08-11-2015, 04:03 PM)gstanford Wrote: BoFox, quit polluting the forum with tons of retarded images!  save that crap for 4chan!

(08-12-2015, 08:41 AM)SickBeast Wrote: It's nonsense.

(08-12-2015, 08:47 AM)RolloTheGreat Wrote:

(08-12-2015, 08:41 AM)SickBeast Wrote: It's nonsense.

Again, there are only THREE PEOPLE who are not site staff posting here.

You want 33% of the members to leave? To what end?

(08-12-2015, 08:24 AM)SickBeast Wrote: I honestly think that BoFox's adventure at BTR was a ploy job.  I can't believe for a second that he was sincere.  He went there to try to prove a point (and he failed IMO).  He baited apoppin and when he didn't take the bait BoFox came crying over here like apoppin did something wrong to him.

(08-12-2015, 07:54 AM)gstanford Wrote:

(08-12-2015, 12:26 AM)BoFox Wrote:

(08-11-2015, 04:03 PM)gstanford Wrote: BoFox, quit polluting the forum with tons of retarded images!  save that crap for 4chan!

And your long sig is polluting the forum as well!  Is there a way for me to block your sig from displaying???

There most certainly is.

Go to the "User CP", select "Edit Options", in the "Thread View Options" panel untick "Display users' signatures in their posts."

(08-14-2015, 06:25 AM)SickBeast Wrote: They are probably spam trolls.

(08-12-2015, 11:29 PM)RolloTheGreat Wrote:

(08-12-2015, 11:18 PM)gstanford Wrote: No, I can see the IP addresses of guests and regulars who are not logged in.

Only one 1 line in my sig is even remotely connected to apoppin and It's staying because I dislike quacks in general and homeopaths are amongst the worst of the bunch.

There is nothing that should offend you in my sig.  If you want to be offended by it I could add a line that goes like this:

Religion is a crutch for the weak & ignorant, and a handy tool for the manipulative. Or, in the words of Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."

I'm not religious, but religion fills a lot of needed roles in society:

1. Vehicle for charity
2. Vehicle for community
3. Gives the downtrodden a sense of hope, reason to go on.
4. Gives a 90% good moral compass, and the rules were written 2000 years ago when we weren't nearly as smart.
5. Gives comfort to the grieving
6. Provides a sense of order to the world. Even if it turns out not to be a "true" sense of order, we're better off thinking things are the way the Bible say they are than, "Holy crap. What if we're a farmyard and aliens planted us here? When we reach a certain population and average weight they're coming back to harvest us for lunch and slave labor.".

Quote:Even observations are now interpreted through this biased filter, judged right or wrong depending on whether or not they support the big bang. So discordant data on red shifts, lithium and helium abundances, and galaxy distribution, among other topics, are ignored or ridiculed. This reflects a growing dogmatic mindset that is alien to the spirit of free scientific inquiry.

Quote:Just as Ptolemy’s ideas once reigned, so now did Darwin’s. Both men were brilliant theorists. Both offered explanations for observable phenomena. The theories of both were immediately well received because of what was known (or not known) at the time, and  because of the intellectual climate of the time. Then, for both, even as hard evidence started coming in to the contrary, it was very difficult to get the entrenched ideas out of the universities, out of the various intellectual and cultural strongholds.

Ptolemy illustrates how wrong science can be. A theory may be intelligent and highly useful, yet completely wrong. And the more brilliant the hypothesis, the more entrenched it is likely to become over the years. And Darwin, like Ptolemy, offered brilliant explanations for what we see around us. I believe that he, too, was just brilliantly wrong.

(08-15-2015, 06:45 AM)gstanford Wrote:

(08-15-2015, 06:20 AM)SickBeast Wrote: gstanford stop polluting the forum with your videos!!!!!!!!

My videos are in link form.  They do not pollute the forum unlike BoFox's gigantic retarded images that he forces everyone to see whether they want to or not!

If you don't want to look at my videos, don't follow the link to them, very simple! (although I suggest you do watch once all 4 parts are up - you may just learn something).

Quote:You have received a warning from the staff of AlienBabelTech Forums.

(08-15-2015, 07:16 AM)gstanford Wrote: No it isn't the pot calling the kettle black!

My links are on topic and you aren't forced to see them, they are not embedded into posts!  BoFox's 4chan imagery is offtopic and he embeds them into posts forcing people to see them whether they want to or not!

(08-15-2015, 07:43 AM)SteelCrysis Wrote: I've removed the warning.

(08-15-2015, 07:45 AM)gstanford Wrote:

(08-15-2015, 07:30 AM)BoFox Wrote: Gstan - it's not that serious!  SB was just playing with you - it's probably because we all already saw that video before.  I mean, we've already been indoctrinated with millions of those videos while growing up in secular public schools..

I doubt you have seen that video before.  I've found it nowhere else, even contacted the producers a few years to see if I could purchase a set of the videos and not even they have it (or any of "The Astronomers" series) anymore.

(08-20-2015, 01:14 AM)SickBeast Wrote: Perhaps there should be a separation of Rollo and Forum LOL.