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Post by cato on Feb 24, 2020 14:21:53 GMT
It's terribly clichéd, but I decided to spend less internet time during Lent. Social media, blogging, and even this estimable forum. I'll keep an eye on it, for administrative reasons, but don't intend to post for the duration. We will behave. Promise.🐱 🐀🐀🐀
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Mar 21, 2020 15:14:16 GMT
I have minimal access to internet at home. So even after Lent my online presence will also be minimal, until this lockdown ends.
I may also be a lousy correspondent till then!
Thinking of you all and praying for you all... Thank you for keeping the forum going.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Nov 5, 2020 9:52:55 GMT
Apologies for the constant Vietnamese spam recently. There is one spammer who seems determined to spam this forum and keeps creating new accounts, which I duly ban.
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Post by hilary on Jan 4, 2021 20:19:13 GMT
How does one lose the label "junior member"?! I was thinking all the men were "senior member", "God" or "global administrator" but I see now that's not the case. Is it at the whim of the administrators (if they approve of one's posts) or is it based on the number of posts? 🧐
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jan 4, 2021 20:23:20 GMT
How does one lose the label "junior member"?! I was thinking all the men were "senior member", "God" or "global administrator" but I see now that's not the case. Is it at the whim of the administrators (if they approve of one's posts) or is it based on the number of posts? 🧐 It's just a function of how often you've posted. The forum website does it automatically, I have no control over it. If I had my way, everybody except me would be "lowly underling". 🙂
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Post by Seán Ó Murchú on Jan 4, 2021 21:07:43 GMT
How does one lose the label "junior member"?! I was thinking all the men were "senior member", "God" or "global administrator" but I see now that's not the case. Is it at the whim of the administrators (if they approve of one's posts) or is it based on the number of posts? 🧐 It's just a function of how often you've posted. The forum website does it automatically, I have no control over it. If I had my way, everybody except me would be "lowly underling". 🙂 It would be excellent if you could change the levels of member to: Guild basedapprentice, journeyman, and master. PriestPorter, Reader, Exorcist, Acolyte, Sub Deacon, Deacon and the Holy Priesthood.
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Post by cato on Jan 17, 2021 21:44:34 GMT
Global moderator sounds like the Presbyterian Pope.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jan 17, 2021 22:17:45 GMT
I had a dream last night that Stephen, who comments on this forum, challenged me to a duel to the death.
After I woke up, I spent a few moments wondering how I could get out of it, before I realized it was a dream.
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Post by Stephen on Jan 18, 2021 7:41:57 GMT
I had a dream last night that Stephen, who comments on this forum, challenged me to a duel to the death. After I woke up, I spent a few moments wondering how I could get out of it, before I realized it was a dream. That was no dream! Your honour as a gentleman demands it.
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Post by cato on Jan 18, 2021 12:11:20 GMT
I had a dream last night that Stephen, who comments on this forum, challenged me to a duel to the death. After I woke up, I spent a few moments wondering how I could get out of it, before I realized it was a dream. Anecdotally a lot of people are having weirder and more frequent dreams than normal . This is probably due to the time most of us are spending locked up and restricted due to lockdown number 3 and the generally depressing, increasingly hysterical tone of media reporting.
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Post by Tomas on Jan 18, 2021 17:24:17 GMT
I had a dream last night that Stephen, who comments on this forum, challenged me to a duel to the death. After I woke up, I spent a few moments wondering how I could get out of it, before I realized it was a dream. Anecdotally a lot of people are having weirder and more frequent dreams than normal . This is probably due to the time most of us are spending locked up and restricted due to lockdown number 3 and the generally depressing, increasingly hysterical tone of media reporting. I have had the idea to put up a thread named Nightmares for months! But since the topic is both sensitive and personal, and we have far more than enough of its contents all the same it was declined. The frequence could naturally be suspected, but the nature of the dreams may be no use discussing other than to feed the AI machinery with even more detail. As another post from someone with a stretch of humour said in regard to the Fbook owner: "the only thing we give away is your personal information" and the pity is that line is not just fun but depressing as well.....
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Feb 11, 2021 12:10:55 GMT
I'm very pleased at how this forum continues to tick over four years after its creation, and is indeed quite active. Many thanks to everybody for their contributions and especially their good humour and civility.
I do think there are some little things that might be borne in mind, though:
1) If you are writing a longer post, it's helpful to break it up into paragraphs and not to make the paragraphs themselves too long. The eye is deterred by large blocks of text. (At least, I think this is true for most people.)
2) Don't assume too much knowledge. Admittedly I'm not the best-informed person in the world, but I've fairly often found myself confused by some of the oblique references here-- whether to breaking news stories or to controversies which are lively in certain circles but less well-known outside them. Of course, someone can always read up on a matter for themselves, but just setting the stage by an explanatory sentence is worthwhile, I think. Yes, this is the most erudite space on the Irish internet, but even still...
3) Remember that this is the Irish CONSERVATIVES Forum. Although virtually everybody posting here seems to be a Catholic, bear in mind that we want to keep it open to conservatives of all faiths and none. (Even Unitarians.) This especially applies outside the "Religion" sub-forum. So while it's absolutely fine to argue from a Catholic perspective (on any subject and in any sub-forum), try not to assume that everyone you are addressing shares that perspective-- even if, in practice, they do!
Apart from that, Carry On Foruming...
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Post by Séamus on Feb 12, 2021 11:24:46 GMT
I'm very pleased at how this forum continues to tick over four years after its creation, and is indeed quite active. Many thanks to everybody for their contributions and especially their good humour and civility. I do think there are some little things that might be borne in mind, though: 1) If you are writing a longer post, it's helpful to break it up into paragraphs and not to make the paragraphs themselves too long. The eye is deterred by large blocks of text. (At least, I think this is true for most people.) ! Apart from that, Carry On Foruming... I've noticed that desktop, which I don't look at often, is very different in layout. Something written one way is probably harder to read the other.
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Post by Séamus on Feb 20, 2021 8:37:42 GMT
I'm very pleased at how this forum continues to tick.....etc... Although virtually everybody posting here seems to be a Catholic, bear in mind that we want to keep it open to conservatives of all faiths and none. (Even Unitarians.) This especially applies outside the "Religion" sub-forum. So while it's absolutely fine to argue from a Catholic perspective (on any subject and in any sub-forum), try not to assume that everyone you are addressing shares that perspective-- even if, in practice, they do! Apart from that, Carry On Foruming... Bearing in mind that one of Ireland's most famous hymn-writers is, of course,the wife of a church of Ireland bishop, Cecil Alexander,it might be of interest that I came across an article about a long-running archival photography exhibition in Uganda of the brutal Amin era. One interviewed visitor was a Pheobe(Luwum) whose Anglican archbishop had been murdered during Idi Amin's tenure. When Westminster Abbey erected several statues of modern martyrs of different denominations to mark the Third Millennium some of us would have heard him mentioned in that list. Apparently he's celebrated in the Anglican communion liturgy in February as a 'lesser feast'. I'm assuming this is like a third class,or semidouble in the older liturgy,or memorial in the ordinary form. And at Westminster Janani Luwum's image stands with Catholics Maximilian Kolbe and Oscar Romero among others, including an orthodox Christian martyr related to the current British monarch's mother-in-law. Well deserved.
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Post by hilary on Feb 21, 2021 16:57:49 GMT
I'm very pleased at how this forum continues to tick.....etc... Although virtually everybody posting here seems to be a Catholic, bear in mind that we want to keep it open to conservatives of all faiths and none. (Even Unitarians.) This especially applies outside the "Religion" sub-forum. So while it's absolutely fine to argue from a Catholic perspective (on any subject and in any sub-forum), try not to assume that everyone you are addressing shares that perspective-- even if, in practice, they do! Apart from that, Carry On Foruming... Bearing in mind that one of Ireland's most famous hymn-writers is, of course,the wife of a church of Ireland bishop, Cecil Alexander,it might be of interest that I came across an article about a long-running archival photography exhibition in Uganda of the brutal Amin era. One interviewed visitor was a Pheobe(Luwum) whose Anglican archbishop had been murdered during Idi Amin's tenure. When Westminster Abbey erected several statues of modern martyrs of different denominations to mark the Third Millennium some of us would have heard him mentioned in that list. Apparently he's celebrated in the Anglican communion liturgy in February as a 'lesser feast'. I'm assuming this is like a third class,or semidouble in the older liturgy,or memorial in the ordinary form. And at Westminster Janani Luwum's image stands with Catholics Maximilian Kolbe and Oscar Romero among others, including an orthodox Christian martyr related to the current British monarch's mother-in-law. Well deserved. This reminded me of the Getty Family's trip to St. Columb's Cathedral in Derry before Christmas to learn and teach about Cecil Frances Alexander who wrote among other lovely hymns "All things bright and beautiful" and "Once in Royal David's City". The Getty's are a talented musical Christian family from Northern Ireland who were based in Nashville until just before Christmas when they returned to Northern Ireland. youtu.be/c9fCVtjqlYE
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