Apology from Rationalia

[Salviati]

Clinton Huxley, thank you, that "The Big Dawkowski" dialogue made my day. Absolutely hilarious.

[Elessarina]

Surely we gotta close with Rick....

If there's anything you need
All you have to do is say
You know you satisfy everything in me
We shouldn't waste a single day

So don't stop me falling
It's R Dawkins calling
A power I just can't deny
It's never changing
Can't you hear me, I'm saying
I want you for the rest of my life

Together forever and never to part
Together forever we two
And don't you know
I would move heaven and earth
To be together forever with you

If they ever get you down
There's always something I can do
Because I wouldn't ever wanna see you frown
I'll always do what's best for you

There ain't no mistaking
It's true love we're making
Something to last for all time
It's never changing
Can't you hear me, I'm saying
I want you for the rest of my life

So don't stop me falling
It's R Dawkins calling
A power I just can't deny
It's never changing
Can't you hear me, I'm saying
I want you for the rest of my life

[statichaos]

[klr]

[Bella Fortuna]

Brilliant.

[xrayzed]

When all of this was going down I sent a PM to RD expressing my concern about Josh banning mods, and asked if anybody who opposed the changes would be banned.

He wrote back, saying "I know what you're thinking. Did he ban six mods or only mods? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is RD.NET, the most powerful atheist website in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?"

[Bella Fortuna]

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, on the forum, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my forum and my off-topic conversations and my oasis, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, and then they take it away from you.

I want you to get mad!

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to Dawkins, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the deletions and the bannings and the Joshes and the suppurating rectums.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a forum member, goddammit! My posts have value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!!11!!"

[xrayzed]

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!!11!!"

Curiously enough I was considering doing this one as well.

[statichaos]

Dawkins Journal, 2/26/10

Suppurating rat's rectum in forum this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This community is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The threads are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the moderators and posters will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No." They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father or Carl Sagan. Decent men who believed in a day's work for a day's pay. Instead they followed the droppings of lechers and theists and didn't realize that the trail led over a precipice until it was too late. Don't tell me they didn't have a choice. Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody Hell, all those filthy-talkers and anti-intellectuals and smooth-talkers... and all of a sudden nobody can think of anything to say.

[Alan C]

I'm the bad guy?

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

[klr]

When all of this was going down I sent a PM to RD expressing my concern about Josh banning mods, and asked if anybody who opposed the changes would be banned.

He wrote back, saying "I know what you're thinking. Did he ban six mods or only mods? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is RD.NET, the most powerful atheist website in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?"

That's odd. At one point during our lengthy discussions on this fiasco, I said to him "You do realise Richard, a man's gotta know his limitations ..."

[MissingNo.]

Rationalia: We love you. You... you complete us. And we just...
Dawkins: Shut up, just shut up. You had me at "suppurating rat's rectum."

[Matt H]

Who your leader? Who your man?
Who will help you fill your hand?
Who's your friend and who's your foe?
Who's your Judas? You don't know

Night of the long knives, night of the long knives
Night of the long knives, night of the long long knife

Where's that saviour?
Where's that light when you're prayin' for your life?
Who's that fightin' back to back?
Who's defendin' who's attack?

Night of the long knives, night of the long knives
Night of the long knives, night of the long long knife

Night of the long knives
Oh stab him in the back once

It's the night of the long knives, night of the long knives
Night of the long knives
It's the night of the long long knife
It's the night of the, night of the
Night of the long long knife

[charlou]

Fucking ace thread

Rationalia: We love you. You... you complete us. And we just...
Dawkins: Shut up, just shut up. You had me at "suppurating rat's rectum."

[anthonzi]

This thread is win.

thread is epic win