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Stevie · Independentist Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Posts: 1179

Cryptic.

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mairead · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:18 am Post subject:

I've been here for quite some time, been involved in plenty of disagreements, had a few rows even, but I don't remember any of my posts being edited.
I think that it is fair comment to be able to say that a post is daft or nonsense or untrue or whatever, but posters themselves should never be abused or called names.
We ALL have opinions and the freedom to express them here, but name calling is a no no, and in my opinion indicates sheer bad manners and ignorance.
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landg · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:42 am Post subject:

Holebender · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:17 pm Post subject:

Examples please.
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Stevie · Independentist Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Posts: 1179

I'm writing to the pope to start the process of beautification for azzuri.

His patience is apparently boundless.
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Stevie · Independentist Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Posts: 1179

And who is the other Nazi?
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landg · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject:

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azzuri · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 4291

I don't condone anything. Nor am I entering discussion about the moderation status of individual users.

As a 'real-time' forum, we can often only moderate posts when it is brought to our attention. If you have an issue with any particular post, I suggest you send a private message to either myself or 'Reluctant Hero'.

If you want a rundown on the complete forum rules, check here - http://ourscotland.myfreeforum.org/about2.html

Happy to help. Smile

Please continue on topic.
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Stevie · Independentist Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Posts: 1179

Normally at least five years must pass before the process leading to “sainthood” is initiated. However, John Paul II, the current pontiff, has been accelerating Teresa’s passage.

In the Catholic system, becoming a “saint” is reserved for one whose holiness of life and heroic feats were exceptional. The prospective “saint” must be confirmed, however, and then recognized by the Church’s official processes of beatification and canonization.

Beatification involves an investigation into the supposed sanctity of a deceased Catholic. An enquiry probes the past of the candidate, looking at his or her deeds, writings, alleged miracles, etc. Usually, this phase lasts for several years. The pope makes the final decision as to the beatification confirmation. Once beatified, the candidate is acknowledged as “Blessed.”

Canonization is the subsequent procedure in which a public and official declaration of the virtue of the proposed “saint” is made. It must be established that two miracles have been effected at the behest of the candidate, subsequent to the beatification process. In Teresa’s case, a woman who prayed to the deceased “sister,” allegedly was cured of her cancer. Apparently this episode will constitute the nun’s first miracle.

This alleged “miracle” is discussed in a recent article in Time magazine (October 21, 2002). It involved a woman in India who was diagnosed with an abdominal tumor within a year after Teresa’s death. She was, in fact, undergoing medical treatment, and making improvement, according to her doctors. They even insist that she did not have a “full-grown tumor.” Nonetheless, supposedly, she applied a sacred medallion to her “tummy,” and was cured.

I think we can skip a few steps, have faith in miracles and simply canonise azzuri.

saint azzuri of the blessed moderation
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landg · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:56 pm Post subject:

mcwowzers!!
i thought it was just me that was being controlled by the saintly interwebmessageboard gods.
dissapointed.i don't feel quite so special now.

Dave Coull · Independentista Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 2809

Stevie · Independentist Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Posts: 1179

As many know, I truly believe religion is poison.

But we can have the odd saint or two.

However, the Daily Mash reports :

magister ludi · Gaining a Reputation Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Posts: 225

A debate that has got me thinking........(thanks)

Obviously I'm a pseudonominous contributor. (I only read this forum in my own name)

Should I "come out" and reveal my identity, say like Dave or Rinty?

Should I "come out" but merely reveal my name? ( say, a forename)?

( there's a distinction, I think, between giving your real name and revealing your true full identity)

I'll think about it though.......

Maybe I'll do both......and keep ML as a sock-puppet.

Meanwhile, ponder........is revealing your identity anything more than a vanity?

Stevie · Independentist Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Posts: 1179

Many are sodomous contibutors, so pseudonomininous is as justifiable as any.

Do or don't, I was getting somewhat bored with 'Bravehand' anyway. My first name is out there and it's no big deal.

But this whole vanity thing... maybe I should use a false 'real name'. I fancy Horatio Humperdinkle; I guess I'll get bored with that too...
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Dave Coull · Independentista Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 2809

I have no great objection to folk taking part in political discourse under a pseudonym, and a lot of folk who use a pseudonym (Holebender, for example, or Magister Ludi) do genuinely use this simply in order to take part in political discourse. It only becomes a problem when some folk using a pseudonym persistently make personal attacks on individuals who are more open than themselves. Behaving in such a fashion seems to me to be (1) rather cowardly, and (2) harmful to genuine political discourse. This problem does arise here on this forum, and, when discussion of topics got hijacked off-topic in the direction of (from my point of view) cowardly personal abuse, I have said that I considered such behavior unacceptable. I think I was right to say so, but Mairead considered the very act of me saying so to be itself "off topic", and that is why she started this discussion specifically about "Pseudonyms and other non thread issues".