Author Topic: The recent rise in nutjobs. (Read 1710 times)

Napoli · « **on:** July 19, 2013, 01:59:23 PM »

Have you guys noticed that the last month or so there has beena rise in crazies joining this forum?

Either, there is a mental hospital ggiving Internet access to its patients, or, there was a big escape from a large mental hospital.

Perhaps it's something new in the water or air?

Who's the biggest nut, in everybodies opinion?

I think it's that "notforgotten" guy. He's crazy.

Telesphorus · « **Reply #1 on:** July 19, 2013, 02:19:00 PM »

I don't think it's helpful to be calling people nutjobs.

Matto · « **Reply #2 on:** July 19, 2013, 02:20:46 PM »

Quote from: Telesphorus

I don't think it's helpful to be calling people nutjobs.

It reminds me of ggreg (I think it was him) calling certain traditional Catholics "nutters".

Telesphorus · « **Reply #3 on:** July 19, 2013, 02:21:35 PM »

Not saying I approve of the new posters.

MiserereMeiDeus · « **Reply #4 on:** July 19, 2013, 02:29:44 PM »

Quote from: Telesphorus

I don't think it's helpful to be calling people nutjobs.

You're probably right. I called notfogotten a nut job on his own thread, but I was getting very frustrated not being able to get through to him. I think that particular post may in fact have penetrated; he actually responded to what I said instead of posting a Bible quote.

Napoli · « **Reply #5 on:** July 19, 2013, 04:36:51 PM »

Wasn't trying to be uncharitable. There has been a spike of questionable posts. Maybe nutjob was too severe. Although, I don't believe in being politically correct.

Matto · « **Reply #6 on:** July 19, 2013, 04:39:37 PM »

I think there have always been weird posters at cathinfo, like that guy who claimed to be pope Augustine. I haven't noticed a rise in the number of weird posters. I think we just have the normal number of weird posters like cathinfo has always had.

Where else would people who claim to have revelations from God go to talk about it?

Napoli · « **Reply #7 on:** July 19, 2013, 04:54:35 PM »

Where indeed!

Sigismund · « **Reply #8 on:** July 19, 2013, 05:15:59 PM »

Quote from: Matto

I think there have always been weird posters at cathinfo, like that guy who claimed to be pope Augustine. I haven't noticed a rise in the number of weird posters. I think we just have the normal number of weird posters like cathinfo has always had.

Where else would people who claim to have revelations from God go to talk about it?

Perhaps we could reserve "nutjob" for people who claim to be pope and aren't. For the Sede's of course, that would include the current man in white in the Vatican if he started posting here.

notforgotten · « **Reply #9 on:** July 19, 2013, 05:29:23 PM »

I call trolling!

Napoli · « **Reply #10 on:** July 19, 2013, 05:38:31 PM »

Very funny Sig.

:applause:

Frances · « **Reply #11 on:** July 20, 2013, 12:53:13 AM »

------Sometimes you feel like a nut!

:wink:------Sometimes you don't!

SoldierOfChrist · « **Reply #12 on:** July 20, 2013, 02:20:23 AM »

Please have some charity for those of us who are new around here. A lot of us haven't been raised properly, but the fact that we've found our way to this forum, says something about our corrected direction. That said, I have seen some questionable posts on here since I joined. Undoubtedly, I made some questionable posts myself in the beginning, but I've stuck around and have not posted as frequently as I did in the at first. Reading more now. It's important to remember that there has been a campaign against Truth, waged against the minds of all who are not connected with Tradition, for the past 60 years or so. Confused individuals will find there way here, and they should not be turned around to go back into the dark. Reprimand them. Admonish them. But please don't send them away. The uptick might be evidence that things are speeding up now. People who always thought that there would be time, are starting to realize that it's running out.

claudel · « **Reply #13 on:** July 21, 2013, 04:09:34 PM »

Quote from: Napoli

Maybe nutjob was too severe. Although I don't believe in being politically correct.

Don't sell yourself short. In fact, your terminology is, if anything, rather too polite. I'd love to see Matthew declare a lockdown on all those who average 5.0 posts a day or more until their average falls below that figure. Anyone aside from Matthew himself (it's his site, after all) who posts that often has far too much free time on his hands and little to no sense of how to make good use of it.

Think about it for a moment: how many threads are genuinely informative or genuinely enlightening? This site's average is far, far higher than the norm, irrespective of category, but the daily average here seldom if ever breaks the two-figure percentage ceiling, especially now that SSPX-related issues have been largely back-burnered and reduced to a simmer.

[I am well braced, by the way, for the storm of down-turned thumbs to follow.]

Iuvenalis · « **Reply #14 on:** July 21, 2013, 10:27:37 PM »

Quote from: Ryan

Please have some charity for those of us who are new around here. A lot of us haven't been raised properly, but the fact that we've found our way to this forum, says something about our corrected direction. That said, I have seen some questionable posts on here since I joined. Undoubtedly, I made some questionable posts myself in the beginning, but I've stuck around and have not posted as frequently as I did in the at first. Reading more now. It's important to remember that there has been a campaign against Truth, waged against the minds of all who are not connected with Tradition, for the past 60 years or so. Confused individuals will find there way here, and they should not be turned around to go back into the dark. Reprimand them. Admonish them. But please don't send them away. The uptick might be evidence that things are speeding up now. People who always thought that there would be time, are starting to realize that it's running out.

This is important.

I am a convert to the Faith myself, and would have said all sorts of stupid things had I *started* here at Cathinfo and gotten my face melted off.

Only fire torpedoes at those that are *obdurate* and refuse correction.

For anyone who accepts your correction, you should do so gently and patiently (and explain(!) it, that is, catechize them...), until they don't, or until they start proselytizing nonsense even when theyve been corrected, then torpedoes away.

As our new member Ryan points out (as do I) many people have never heard the Truth you take for granted! Even, or perhaps especially, nominal Catholics!