I think it's hard to find any threads in this forum with the Heavenly Christian people and all those others posting a new thread every day. Why can't they just have one thread? There's a date at the topic of your entry, everyone knows what day it is. Just a suggestion...

A few years ago here at Cool Running, "Christian" themed threads--where the idea was for Christian runners to share mutual encouragement and spiritual insights--were started in The Neighborhood Forum, at the rate of basically one thread per month.

The rationale behind this was that runners self-indentifying as "Christian" would then have a place to post things of particular interest to them specifically, just as do runners from certain geographic locales like Boston or Ontario.

I have suggested to Kristab3600 that we proceed that way in the future.

Regarding all the copycat threads--noodly appendage touched, humorless, hedonistic, agnostic, Jewish, Muslim, Taoist, etc.--all I can say is, as the old expression goes: "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

Yeah, I agree it's annoying when there is a preponderance of parodies filling up the thread index in a forum. But if that simply means that, following the Christians' example, runners with similar outlooks on life are finding it attractive to confabulate together, then so be it. Let them come over to the Neighborhood too.

(Anyway, the whole process tends to dwindle of its own accord eventually. Back years ago when some of us Christians were starting our monthly "Christian Runners" threads in The Neighborhood, the number of posts began to drop and those of us who felt prompted to share our theological perspective found other venues for doing so--especially, at The Clubhouse.)



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