Another Closed Thread? (2 Viewers)

[theBaron]

I started to add this post yesterday, but decided not to. But I do want to express this: It's a private forum and we agreed to abide by the rules, when we joined. If the owner/operator or the moderators decide that a topic is out of bounds, we have agreed to abide by those decisions. Anyone who doesn't like it can go start his own forum and apply his own rules. That's just how I feel about it.

Prost!
Brad

 

[thebritfarmer]

Are you speaking in your official capacity or as a member. There is a difference as you obviously have a conflict of interest :rolleyes2:

Regardless, following your logic, I assume that the song title thread (as well as many other non-toy soldier threads) should be deleted. Just askin' :wink2:

As a mod and now you are splitting hairs, there is a difference between that post and the song title thread and you know it.

 

[jazzeum]

As a mod and now you are splitting hairs, there is a difference between that post and the song title thread and you know it.

Scott,

I was not the one who said that this is a site "for discussion of TOY SOLDIERS." I did not raise the issue, but you can't have it both ways. It is or it isn't.

As a general rule I'm willing to agree -- and have -- with the no poitics policy but every policy has to be interpreted judiciously and this situation seems like one.

Brad

 

[Scott]

Hey guys, please remember that this is Pete and Shannon's forum. They make the rules, let's move on. Besides, I get in enough political arguments in my immediate family anyway, I certainly don't need to do so here, too.

Sorry, I just figured out that Peter Reuss is the owner AND a full fledged dues paying clergyman! Being from NE I don't know all the names and faces in the mid west.

I'm not going to be rude in the man's house if I can help it. It makes the rest of us baby eating skeptics look bad.

 

[Buster]

Sorry, I just figured out that Peter Reuss is the owner AND a full fledged dues paying clergyman! Being from NE I don't know all the names and faces in the mid west.

I'm not going to be rude in the man's house if I can help it. It makes the rest of us baby eating skeptics look bad.

Hallelujah! :wink2:^&grin

B.

 

[Jack]

Sorry, I just figured out that Peter Reuss is the owner AND a full fledged dues paying clergyman! Being from NE I don't know all the names and faces in the mid west.

I'm not going to be rude in the man's house if I can help it. It makes the rest of us baby eating skeptics look bad.

Scott

Do not worry. He cannot hold it against you. We Christians are compelled to forgive!

Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

God bless!

Jack

 

[Ragnar]

Oh my {eek3}

 

[wayne556517]

Another closed thread is going to be "Another closed thread"...........................^&grin^&grin^&grin

 

[Scott]

Scott

Do not worry. He cannot hold it against you. We Christians are compelled to forgive!

Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

God bless!

Jack

Oh No!
"I'll pray for you!" is religion-ese for go to blazes!

 

[Combat]

I think it's disagreement that is frowned upon here whether it is politics, religion, toy soldiers or the weather. Unfortunately, some people equate disagreement with rudeness. I rarely take it personal if someone holds a different opinion than mine. That is the way of the world unless we want to be limited to naming song titles or wishing one another happy birthday. Wait a minute!

 

[Jack]

Oh No!
"I'll pray for you!" is religion-ese for go to blazes!

You speak fluent 'religion-ese' - I sense a convent education or hot Sundays spent in Church lurking somewhere in your past!

 

[tdubel]

I think it's disagreement that is frowned upon here whether it is politics, religion, toy soldiers or the weather. Unfortunately, some people equate disagreement with rudeness. I rarely take it personal if someone holds a different opinion than mine. That is the way of the world unless we want to be limited to naming song titles or wishing one another happy birthday. Wait a minute!

Doug,
Agree with you 100%. ...............as long as you don't bring up a certain day in Dallas in 1963..................:tongue:

TD

 

[MarkeytMaker]

Doug,
Agree with you 100%. ...............as long as you don't bring up a certain day in Dallas in 1963..................:tongue:

TD

Assuming that your referring to the Cowboys...why did they win most games when the attendence levels were low???

 

[Scott]

You speak fluent 'religion-ese' - I sense a convent education or hot Sundays spent in Church lurking somewhere in your past!

Ha! 8 Years RC high school and college. (Good education!) Funny that there were several Christian AND Jewish ladies that broke up with me because of my free thinking yet I've been married to the most pious one of all for 28 years.

Both my parent's memorial services were clergy free.

 

[Mitch]

that would be the sequel... Yet another closed thread!! I always like the original better though!!LOL
Mitch

Another closed thread is going to be "Another closed thread"...........................^&grin^&grin^&grin

 

[The Military Workshop]

Brett,

I did and, in fact, with Shannon I helped develop and advocated the rule, based on my experience with other forums.

However, in my thirty plus years as an attorney, negotiating agreements and dealing with bureaucracies, I've learned that policies need to be interepreted reasonably and judiciously, not inflexibly, and that on occasion there will be circumstances where there should be an exception to a rule or a policy and where policies need to adapt to the exigencies of the moment.

This is such an exception.

Brad

Brad,
It is only an exception if TF owners and the Mods say so. If you get to decide what an exception is can I pick a subject too ?

Naturally this incident is huge worldwide news and the current gun laws in the USA the subject of much debate. As a non American it is clear that this subject is highly political and sensitive and would cause heated debate. I guess you can always discuss it elsewhere if you so wish.

Brett

 

[jazzeum]

Brett,

Of course it's up to the administration to decide, which obviously they have. That's the way it works in a bureaucracy: you make an appeal and it gets voted up or down.

In my opinion, they made the wrong decision but there's really not much more I can do about it :rolleyes2:

Brad

 

[Combat]

Doug,
Agree with you 100%. ...............as long as you don't bring up a certain day in Dallas in 1963..................:tongue:

TD

LOL. Now where is that thread again? I need to dust it off for the 50th anniversary. In fairness to the mods here, there were a few posters who always seemed to be bickering and could never let it go. That gets a bit tiresome. However, I think things have gone too far in terms of shutting down every conversation that has even the potential for controversy. Particularly when they are being conducted in a civil manner.

 

[Warrior]

However, I think things have gone too far in terms of shutting down every conversation that has even the potential for controversy. Particularly when they are being conducted in a civil manner.

This.

I love this forum, I belong to several of them, this one is my favorite.

There are a great bunch of people on here, I consider many of you friends although we've never met in person (and Rob, we WILL meet in person as London is calling).

I love toy soldiers and I love talking about them.

That said, we are all adults here and should be given more credit in that we can discuss something without it digressing into nasty name calling and bickering.

The beauty of forums are they give us a place to go to talk about things; talking among friends on a forum about a tragedy like the events in CT is great therapy for me, several of the forums I belong to had very, very lengthy discussions about what happened and none of them, as in NONE, digressed into nasty name calling, I felt better reading and chiming in, it helped me wrap my head around what happened and reading what others wrote helped me get through this mess.

The whole "It's their forum, you play by their rules" makes no sense to me.

Sorry, this is OUR forum, we the members are what drives the bus.

If we all left and discussed things elsewhere like has been suggested, then there IS no forum.

As Brad said, if in fact this is a TOY SOLDIER forum, then fine; get rid of all the other sub forums then and we'll all hold hands and sing songs and talk about little metal men 24/7/365.

And we'll all be bored to death; variety is the spice of life, is it not?

That's my .02 for what it's worth.

 

[Rob]

George my friend its going to be absolute pleasure to meet you mate, drinks on me and Bob:wink2:{bravo}}

Rob

This.

I love this forum, I belong to several of them, this one is my favorite.

There are a great bunch of people on here, I consider many of you friends although we've never met in person (and Rob, we WILL meet in person as London is calling).

I love toy soldiers and I love talking about them.

That said, we are all adults here and should be given more credit in that we can discuss something without it digressing into nasty name calling and bickering.

The beauty of forums are they give us a place to go to talk about things; talking among friends on a forum about a tragedy like the events in CT is great therapy for me, several of the forums I belong to had very, very lengthy discussions about what happened and none of them, as in NONE, digressed into nasty name calling, I felt better reading and chiming in, it helped me wrap my head around what happened and reading what others wrote helped me get through this mess.

The whole "It's their forum, you play by their rules" makes no sense to me.

Sorry, this is OUR forum, we the members are what drives the bus.

If we all left and discussed things elsewhere like has been suggested, then there IS no forum.

As Brad said, if in fact this is a TOY SOLDIER forum, then fine; get rid of all the other sub forums then and we'll all hold hands and sing songs and talk about little metal men 24/7/365.

And we'll all be bored to death; variety is the spice of life, is it not?

That's my .02 for what it's worth.