Well had'nt you all better behave!! Our great and sagacious leader has rumbled down the command from on high!! We must all be honoured to have heard his voice!! His £'s (not dollars), are so generous!! He has several sites and since he started this has cost him only at the very most about $100 but this is offset, (as part of a 'bundle package'), by the business ones where he does charge people for poor advice. But lets not question Master Brian!! As he says, it is his site.... it does not belong to those that fill its pages!! And if you dont behave as commanded you might even have the rules changed without warning just for you!! (Re tao).
This is the kind of sad drivel we've unfortunately had to expect from you recently, and why you ended up suspended from the forums in the first place.
When you first came, you were a constructive part of the forum - but over the past year or so you couldn't enter a discussion without getting angry and making personal attacks against others.
Often it looked like you were just posting drunk - clumsy, intolerant, and simply aggressive for the hell of it.
You made it clear you had no interest in discussing faith issues excepting to kick out against other people, their religion, and the world in general.
I made various private pleas to try and get you to calm things down, but you just ignored what I said and continued as normal - then wondered why you got kicked out for continuing your personal attacks.
It's typical of the value you perceive in this community that you'd think it costs nothing. I guess that's why you disrespect it so much.
The domain name interfaith.org cost $8,000 alone, plus we've had nearly 6 years webhosting, the software licences, etc. Contrary to what you may believe, I do not have any websites that sell any advice - so if you feel any advice posted elsewhere hasn't benefited you, it's never cost anything in the first place.
Of course, I do have a business to run and my time costs - so having to come to IO to babysit adults who can't even follow basic rules adds additional costs. Still, I'm always happy to continue to develop this site and devote time and money to it. I still believe Interfaith.org has value and worth, obviously contrary to your own opinion.
The tragedy is that you could have contributed, been a constructive member here - but in the end, you are so consumed with anger you couldn't even sit among friends without striking out at them. I'd like to think your leaving the community is our loss, but unfortunately, it is yours.
In the meantime, anyone else who thinks agreeing with me somehow constitutes "brown-nosing" is really living with very small perceptions.