How did you find the lifeboat?

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PM or avatar ad. on RDF
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28%
Facebook
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2%
rationalia
43
10%
Thinking Aloud
5
1%
Secular Cafe
3
1%
One of the other befriended forums
39
9%
Reference by friend, family member, or aquaintance
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13%
Other
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37%
 
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Mac_Guffin
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How did you find the lifeboat?

Post by Mac_Guffin »

I know that most of us are from RDF, rationalia, etc., but I'm also interested to see if anyone found us through different means.

I'm one of the refugees from RDF. :drunk:
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LIFE
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Re: How did you find the lifeboat?

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How about adding a poll to this question? ;)
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Re: How did you find the lifeboat?

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LIFE wrote:How about adding a poll to this question? ;)
Good idea.
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Re: How did you find the lifeboat?

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...but it won't let me create one.
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Re: How did you find the lifeboat?

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I swam away from the shark called Dawkins as fast as I could.
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Re: How did you find the lifeboat?

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Mac_Guffin wrote:I know that most of us are from RDF, rationalia, etc., but I'm also interested to see if anyone found us through different means.

I'm one of the refugees from RDF. :drunk:
From the avatars posted on RDF.
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Re: How did you find the lifeboat?

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LIFE recruited me on that fateful first day into his sadistic posse. Ever since then I've been pulling in survivors.
"So we're just done with phrasing?"
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Re: How did you find the lifeboat?

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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention how I found out about it.

I went to RDF, and I couldn't post. I asked one of the mods that I have on facebook what was going on... or they told me... I forget which... what happened, and they gave me a link to Peter Harrison's blog.
While I was posting in the comment section, somone informed me of rationalia (I think this was before this one was set up.). I started posting there, then found out that this site was set up to take the pressure off of rationalia. At 1st, it looked like people already got comfortable, but then the site grew, and my visiting/posting frequency grew.
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Re: How did you find the lifeboat?

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HughMcB wrote:LIFE recruited me on that fateful first day into his sadistic posse. Ever since then I've been pulling in survivors.
How about replying to my PM you lazy bastard :D
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Mac_Guffin wrote:...but it won't let me create one.
Oops!

You can now....sorry! :hide:
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Re: How did you find the lifeboat?

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LIFE wrote:
Mac_Guffin wrote:...but it won't let me create one.
Oops!

You can now....sorry! :hide:
Done. :thumbup:
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LIFE wrote:
HughMcB wrote:LIFE recruited me on that fateful first day into his sadistic posse. Ever since then I've been pulling in survivors.
How about replying to my PM you lazy bastard :D
NEVER! You leave me alone you reptilian alien overlord! :tongue2:
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Re: How did you find the lifeboat?

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HughMcB wrote:
LIFE wrote:
HughMcB wrote:LIFE recruited me on that fateful first day into his sadistic posse. Ever since then I've been pulling in survivors.
How about replying to my PM you lazy bastard :D
NEVER! You leave me alone you reptilian alien overlord! :tongue2:
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HughMcB wrote:LIFE recruited me on that fateful first day into his sadistic posse. Ever since then I've been pulling in survivors.
+1. I saw LIFE's post on Rationalia and came straight over and signed up. I think I was 6th to join.
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Re: How did you find the lifeboat?

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Nora_Leonard wrote:
HughMcB wrote:LIFE recruited me on that fateful first day into his sadistic posse. Ever since then I've been pulling in survivors.
+1. I saw LIFE's post on Rationalia and came straight over and signed up. I think I was 6th to join.
Ditto. Became #69 to join (or #68, if the dna42 test account isn't counted, which makes you #5 in that case, Nora).
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Re: How did you find the lifeboat?

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I moved to China from the states, checked RD.net and had 7 messages telling me to join here. It sort of freaked me out to be "caught up" as to what took place at RD.net, but I like it here just fine!
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Re: How did you find the lifeboat?

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Varangian wrote:
Nora_Leonard wrote:I saw LIFE's post on Rationalia and came straight over and signed up. I think I was 6th to join.
Ditto. Became #69 to join (or #68, if the dna42 test account isn't counted, which makes you #5 in that case, Nora).
:smile: I wondered about that. Actually, I would have been 2nd or 3rd if I hadn't taken the time to email Simon Gardner about it first. So he got in before me!

Still, it was wonderful then to watch all these familiar names come trickling back...
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I received a message from Nora, then rushed over to register as quickly as possible. :grin:
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Re: How did you find the lifeboat?

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I saw hack's avatar while I was hunting around RDF trying to figure out what the heck was going on. Took me a few days to get caught up, then came over here and signed up. I'm happy to see so many familar faces (names?) too!!

Thanks, Life, for setting this up so quickly to take everyone in after the explosion over there!!
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Re: How did you find the lifeboat?

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I voted "Other". I found the site through an article on Richard Dawkins' closing of the fora for tighter moderation. In the comments section there was a post saying that most of the members were moving over to www.rationalskepticism.org, and so here I am.

Wow, I can't believe that happened on the Richard Dawkins forum. That would be the LAST place I would ever think something like that would happen. I only had 30 posts or so, but I was making friends and I enjoyed visiting. Then one day I showed up and no one was home.

Glad to be here, though! :D
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