Coriander Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 Hello! I didn't see any 'introduce yourself' board but it seemed rude to jump in without a few words first. Live on the other side of the world to most of you. Hate coriander (the herb) passionately - reckon it is the anti-christ so why did it strike me as a good username?? Was raised in a fundie family in a bizarre pentecostal cult - CRC, last 5 years have been a gradual journey out of that cult, out of the church, out of xtianity and out of 'religion'.I'm enjoying life without a need for labels. Will post my 'testimony' sometime soon, right now I'm busy reading pages of old posts thrilled to see there are others who get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator florduh Posted July 10, 2009 Super Moderator Share Posted July 10, 2009 Welcome, Coriander. I hope you like it here. We always have a good time, even when we fight! Look forward to your input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelticWhisper Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 Wilkommen in...in...mygermansücken. Welcome aboard our freedom boat. You're sure to find some like-minded people here. And I, for one, am looking forward to your extimony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loren Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 Welcome, Coriander! I'm always delighted when a new person takes the time and shows the interest to spend time reading old posts. Even with all the frivolous, silly or "off topic" posts here, there is a real wealth of information and excellent thinking from our members. We have some extremely sharp and courageous thinkers and researchers here. If you have any problems or questions, please don't hesitate to contact one of us moderators. This is definitely not one of those sites where the mods are not active. Loren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coriander Posted July 27, 2009 Author Share Posted July 27, 2009 I'm always delighted when a new person takes the time and shows the interest to spend time reading old posts. Even with all the frivolous, silly or "off topic" posts here, there is a real wealth of information and excellent thinking from our members. We have some extremely sharp and courageous thinkers and researchers here. Oh there is, it's been refreshing. Thank you for the welcomes. I look forward to joining in (and learning how to multi-quote). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loren Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Oh there is, it's been refreshing. Thank you for the welcomes. I look forward to joining in (and learning how to multi-quote). When you hit the "reply" button, notice how the text is preceded by coding that says: In this case, I changed the final closing bracket to a closing parenthesis in order to keep the software from automatically making a quote box. The end of it should say, post='470854'] instead of post='470854'). At the end of the quote, you'll notice a [/quote). You can copy and paste those discrete parcels of coding where ever you want within the text of what you're quoting, with your own responses interspersed between. The real key to understanding it is to know that everything between the brackets is an instruction to the software, with a slash mark being the instruction to end the preceding instruction. Try highlighting a word or line, and hitting the italics key, the bold key or the underline key and see what the coding looks like that gets inserted on each side of what you highlighted. You'll get the idea of how it works. If I'm making multiple replies to different chunks of text, say in a paragraph, I'll often leave the full line of quote coding in the first box, since this leaves the time stamp, and then leave out everything in the coding line between the second single quotation mark after the person's name and the final bracket. This reduces subsequent quote boxes to being labeled with just the name of the poster. I just think it looks neater, and easier on the reader's eye. I'll do the same thing with the following text that I did before, changing the final bracket to a parenthesis, in order to show what the coding looks like, then I'll change the parentheses to brackets (the way they should be) in order to show what the end product looks like. When I first hit the "reply" button, it looks like this: Hi, everybody! I've been reading here and can see that you've all left the faith because you've been hurt by the church. Well, the Holy Spirit told me to tell you that those people who hurt you were not True Christians! If you'll just read the Bible, and trust the Lord Jesus, you can still have forgiveness in the grace of His love! Did you know that you were never really saved by the blood of the lamb, you just thought you were? If you'd really been saved, your happiness would have kept you from losing your faith! [/quote) Then, I do this with it: Hi, everybody! I've been reading here and can see that you've all left the faith because you've been hurt by the church.[/quote) No, you haven't. Don't lie to us. If you'd been reading, you'd know better than to trot out that sorry line for us. Well, the Holy Spirit[/quote)Is this the same Holy Spirit that failed to warn you what kind of people you are now dealing with? told me to tell you that those people who hurt you were not True Christians
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