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Recent content by MartinM

  1. MartinM

    Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start

    If a Christian is breaking the rules what does it matter who tells them to stop?
  2. MartinM

    Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start

    This isn't rocket science. If you a) make something up about someone and b) say they'll probably deny it, the latter will probably be the right call.
  3. MartinM

    Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start

    That may well be true. But it's not the situation we're in now.
  4. MartinM

    Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start

    That's what usually happens when you make things up about others.
  5. MartinM

    Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start

    Ah, but when I was a child I firmly believed I wouldn't marry. How can it be lying if I believed it? Won't disagree on that point. Erwin should do more to defend his position.
  6. MartinM

    Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start

    Actually, it was largely conservative Christians who didn't like the 777 changes who argued for a name change. I didn't, nor do I care one way or the other. Ah, so I'm a hypocrite because you think you know how I'd react in a situtation that hasn't actually occurred, and if I deny it you'll...
  7. MartinM

    Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start

    But what made it a Christian site? The name? The way the rules were set? The personal beliefs of the mods? Or was it the Christian members of the site?
  8. MartinM

    Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start

    Rather depends whether you intended to buy me the chocolate when you said so, and why you didn't actually do so in the end. When I was a child, I swore I'd never get married. If I actually marry, does that make me a liar? Or does it just mean that when I was younger I honestly believed...
  9. MartinM

    Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start

    Precisely.
  10. MartinM

    Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start

    No, he simply changed his mind. People do that. Doesn't make them liars, merely human.
  11. MartinM

    Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start

    As you wish. Hope you feel better about all of this some day :hug:
  12. MartinM

    Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start

    And yet again, forum specific rules can prevent that. If you want a safe haven, make one. It's in your hands; that's what the rules system introduced on 777 means. Posting over and over about things you don't like achieves nothing. You can have the safe haven you desire, but only if you act to...
  13. MartinM

    Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start

    And that is, yet again, massive over-reaction to relatively harmless changes. Over and over again we've pointed out that it's not the name, or the way in which the rules are written, or the choice of moderators which makes a forum what it is. It is the people. And when the 777 changes took...
  14. MartinM

    Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start

    Sub-forums can still have their own rules. You can still create a safe-haven if the majority of posters in that sub-forum agree.
  15. MartinM

    Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start

    I can't help but notice that in many sub-forums this change has been all but ignored. It seems that this is yet another change whose main negative result is...the reaction to the change! Brilliant. Go back to your regular sub-forums and start posting as you did before. See what's really...