Our RD Forum accounts were re-instated by the forum administrator. They said it was a mistake made by the staff, they thought we were somebody else because our IP matches “sockpuppet’s” IP who is apparently a spammer.

Thanks to Topsy (RD forum administrator) for taking time to investigate and I apologize for the previous post. I was extremely infuriated to be permanently banned without any warning or clear explanation why we were banned. They first banned our accounts for “duplicate account” reason. When we emailed them trying to explain our case, they blocked our IP Address. After Topsy investigated he found no reason for the banning and re-instated our accounts and sent an apology email for the mistake made by the staff.

I still stand by my previous comment that many atheists in the RD forum are an embarrassment to TRUE Atheists and thinking people. I am pretty sure that Mr. Richard Dawkins himself is on the side of “open mindedness” and investigation instead of outright dismissal of any witness testimonies.

Two people in the RD Forum doesn’t believe that we have been visited by Alien life forms, but they at least took the witness testimonies seriously to actually take time to investigate. That is all I am advocating for, investigation instead of outright dismissal. If they come to a different conclusion than mine, I respect that.

What many people doesn’t know is that we all act in faith, no matter how scientific we believe we are, we still rely in witness testimonies. There are things that we can establish as fact, where we do not have to rely in witness testimonies. Gravity is a fact, you can experience it for yourself, you do not have to rely on witness testimony. The moon landing is not a fact, you have to rely on NASA’s testimony and a video that may or may not be staged. Although evolution is debatable since most of us didn’t do our own investigation instead we rely on witness testimonies who apparently investigated, we can see for our self one of it’s evidence which is our diversity.

To prove that the moon landing actually happened based on NASA’s testimony and then say that witness testimony is of no value and only deserve a howl of laughter is ridiculous.

Witness testimony is fallible and flawed, but it is ground enough to make an investigation. One may say I saw a snake under your bed, You will never know if there was in fact a snake, or if it was in fact a snake if your response is outright dismissal.

As a friend of mine says, “How many people have to tell you that your zipper is unzipped before you take a look?”

Thanks again to Topsy for re-instating our account and taking time to investigate. It shows that not everybody in the RD forum are close minded.

“Gullible are those who believe what they are told without Investigation, Misinformed are those who investigate and come to the wrong conclusion, Stupid are those who do not investigate and criticize those who do.”
- David Maddox

Update: Account on Richard Dawkins forum re-instated, read the story here.

My husband and I got banned from Richard Dawkins forum for advocating open mindedness and investigation of the witness testimonies regarding UFOs instead of ouright dismissal and dumping them all in the category of lunatics.

My husband and I were arguing with somebody who is a very strong supporter of RD (with more than 7500 posts) and got his ass kicked. He resorted into name calling and then all of a sudden, we both got banned permanently on their forum. Now how is that open minded?

My IP Address is a shared IP and it was banned too, meaning everybody in my city who uses the same ISP cannot access their forum. My husband is an atheist, but I am a humanist who believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Maybe you can view the thread to decide for yourself if we were in anyway offensive.

http://forum.richarddawkins.net/viewtopic.php?p=2372900#p2372900

My username in the forum is boniknik, my husband is maddave42 and a friend of ours is myvoice81.

When an astronaut denies UFOs, RD supporters believe them, but when another astronaut says I have in fact witnessed UFOs and the government is hiding info, he is automatically categorized as lunatic. How is that open minded? All that we were advocating for is for them to at least give them the benefit of a doubt and investigation instead of outright dismissal. They said, the only response that should be given to these people are howling laughter because they are just insane.

It is widely known that most of the people who claim to either have witnessed or have been abducted by ETs are crackpots, but what many doesn’t know is that there are also an incredible amount of credible witnesses whom we trusted before with our our National Security, people who worked for NASA, NSA, CIA and the military who claim that that the government is hiding information about ETs. More than 400 people who worked for the government already came forward testifying to this. Are we suppose to just dismiss them all as lunatics just because they spoke about ETs and UFOs? I salute those who investigate instead of ouright dismissal.

These people are the same people who otherwise if they never spoke about ETs we will continue to trust with National Security and scientific research, but after speaking, they lost all their credibility and regarded as insane.  Don’t they at least deserve the benefit of a doubt and investigation?

I am not saying witness testimonies are not fallible and flawed, but it is at least ground enough to make an investigation.

I am not asking anybody to believe, I am only asking for people to investigate. What’s is wrong with that? Is that ground enough for me to get banned?

Many of the atheists in Richard Dawkins forums are an embarrassment not only to true Atheists but ALL thinking people.

I read an article on ThinkProgress.com about Michael Schwartz, the chief of staff of Republican Senator Tom Coburn regarding Pornography and Homosexuality.

Michael Schwartz was saying that ALL pornography is homosexual and that ALL pornography can make you homosexual.

So all of you people who have seen pornography must be homosexual, if not you will one day become one. That is totally ridiculous!

I am heterosexual, I am female and I know that no amount of porn or any influence can make me lesbian/gay, if you are having doubts about yourself and you think watching pornography can change your sexuality, then you are probably gay! And the worst thing a person can do to him/herself is to live in denial, but that’s ok, it’s your life who cares! But to insist it to everybody is just wrong.

My husband told somebody this, in the argument whether sexuality is a choice or not. “When was it that you thought about sucking d*ck and decided…nah I’m just gonna eat p*ssy?” The person said, never! My husband replied, so you didn’t have a choice then huh?! 

There used to be a time, or at least at one point in our history we decided we no longer want to be in the dark ages. The time when people are elected/revered because of their intelligence and what they can do to change the world for the better. What happened to those times? It seems to me we are headed again to the dark ages.

Nowadays people like Sarah Palin seems to be the model/criteria for presidency. Is this really your criteria? How low your criteria can be? Did you even investigate who is this woman who keeps on screaming “This is no time for socialism!”. Do you even know what socialism is? Before you take a stand, why don’t you investigate first?

What about Betsy McCaughey? Does she really care about what is right and what will be good for the people? Who does she work for? Who is she? Why is she even in the news? She is very much against the Health Care Reform, why?

Before taking sides whether to support or not support the Health Care Reform, have you even read the full text of this bill? How do you know that Betsy McCaughey, Sarah Palin and Fox news are not lying to you if you haven’t even read it?

Glenn Beck kept on saying that president Obama is a Marxist, and that he never denied this. Do you even know what Marxist/Marxism is? Finally here is somebody willing to stand for the proletariat and they knew him not.

Come on people, read and educate your self. Stop making uninformed decisions. Do not be fooled by people who uses the name of God for their own selfish agenda.

America is headed for self destruction, this country is clearly a starstruck nation, where people whose achievement is being a beuty queen (like Sarah Palin) is the only criteria. While other nations are progressing, the US is regressing.

Download HR 3200 – Health Care Reform (in PDF Format) and be informed.

(Excuse me for my English as it is not my native tongue).