David Bailey
Member
Paul,If it's a question of my right to be here and you don't want to grant it, then just say so.
What you people are doing is trying to appear fair while being discriminatory. Stop! Just do what you want to do. Otherwise you look like a bunch of disingenuous dicks who won't admit that you want to wall off your belief system.
Then have the balls to enforce your beliefs about me by simply disallowing me from posting in Skeptiko.
~~ Paul
The point is, nobody really wants to ban you from either forum, but I think Alex put it well with this example:
Most of us realize that you can't join in on a conversation/thread about the differences in OBEs reporting in the early 1900s versus present day with a comment about how OBEs have not been proven to your satisfaction. This is just kinda jerky... then again, we've all done it in one way or another so we gotta have some patience.
You can spoil conversations by constantly forcing them back to the "is any of this real" question. I mean you can see how silly this is by putting it in another context. Suppose you joined a seminar (or a forum) discussing the properties of (say) mini black holes. People would get quickly sick of you if you kept sidetracking the discussion into the question of whether these things exist! Some discussions are meant to be under a set of assumptions, and it is taken as obvious that you don't violate that concept.
David