Anyone else creeped out by the GD forum?

[Beware the Beast Man]

Hey folks-
I told myself I was going to avoid DU for a week so my stress level would go down, but I'm just a sucker for punishment.:P My question to the lounge lizards is: does the GD forum creep you out sometimes? It seems as if lately its nothing but tinfoil hatters. When you try to give a rational basis for disagreement, you are accused of not being "real," or of blowing off the possibility of weather-changing machines, British military in Mexican caves, or holographic Jesuses. I have to admit, when I hear a conspiracy theory, there is a part of me that goes "What if?". Problem is, I've been doind a lot of "what-if" thinking lately. Perhaps I'm just overanxious. Anyone else feel this way?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Naaah...considering the worst doesn't creep me out half as much

as people who don't consider any of it because they couldn't confront if it were true.

I evaluate everything for myself and go from there.

[supernova]

2. I stay out of the tinfoil threads

except to post the occasional "Why?." It gets people out of the what if it is/what if it isn't" loop.

[truthspeaker]

3. I haven't had that experience at all in GD

?

[SheepyMcSheepster]

4. i don't mine GD one bit, no one makes me read the threads.

but maybe there is some super evil conspiracy at work making you read GD against your will? better plug up those electical sockets.

[Guy_Montag]

5. The lounge is my favourite place for sure.

For gods' sake stay out of the Israel/Palestine room. It's dangerous in there.

[Jim Sagle]

10. No kidding.

;)

[SoCalDem]

11. or the Gun Dungeon.. THAT's a scary place too..and they are armed

:scared:

[SmileyBoy]

17. The Sand Trap is REALLY volatile.

I went in there once and almost died.:)

[bif]

6. I try to avoid GD

I had a bad experience there and now avoid it like the plague. At least, I rarely post there. Sometimes I go there to see what's going on.

[geniph]

7. What have you got against holographic Jesuses?

they DO control the British military's weather changing machines, you know!

;-)

Seriously, the place has been getting on my nerves too. So I just stay the hell out of there.

[vi5]

8. Yeah...you summed my feelings up pretty well...

Sometimes going in there makes me fear that there is little difference between us and the freeps.

Sadly enough this, a liberal democrat message board is the one place where I"m guaranteed to be made to feel like less of a liberal rather than being comfortable with people who are supposed to be open minded and more or less on the same side as me.

[Pol]

9. Fairly juvenile

Frankly, it gets too much like a bunch of teenagers on a testosterone jag. Not only is it populated with a fair number of nutcase posts, but there doesn't seem to be any real discussion. I am very disappointed.

[geniph]

12. Pol, you have to learn to filter heavily

the best resource is probably the Latest Breaking News forum; you'll find links to news you won't get elsewhere. But yeah, a lot of times substantive discussion gets drowned out by name-calling, conspiracy theories, and threads about pubic hair.

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. I thought pubic hair threads were open game

in the Lounge, anyway :evilgrin:

[Ksec]

14. yes, there are people who are like 50 over there. Yuk.

:)

[catmandu57]

15. You should have seen it before there was gd primary

now gd 2004, It was like a knife fight in a dark closet. Every candidates supporters were at open war with each other, it's been pretty tame since the spring.

[SmileyBoy]

16. Yes, definitely.

Whenever I go to GD, I sift through the bull to find threads about whacko fundamentalist Christians.