Atheist Republic was shut down for several hours today. Does anyone know what happened? Was it maintenance, or was the site attacked by theist microbrains?
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God! If it were not for Jerry Farrell's prayers, AR would have ended forever.
@Cognostic: If it were not for Jerry Farrell's prayers
Who's Jerry Farrell?
Perhaps he meant Jerry Falwell?
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See..... Gpd omtervemed and would not even allow me to use the name in vain. Gok done it.
God took it down for a bit to let people know who's really in charge lol. REPENT!!!
Quit being such a childish, retarded, spoiled brat like your make believe Sky Faerie.
rmfr
The best an Omnipotent deity can manage is to crash a website for only a few hours. He can fuck right off in that case, even if he were real. The IT geeks in work could manage that ffs.
I guess that is more impressive than appearing on toast, and less harmful than flying planes into buildings or torturing people who fail to "repent".
At least no nine year old children were raped, for his religion that is progress of a sort.
SfT, was your post tongue in cheek? Were you serious or trying to crack a joke?
It actually never occurred to me he wasn't being facetious. That's a truly scary thought.
You mean he was being facetious? I thought he was serious. Can never tell with those self-deluded minds.
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@Searching for Truth: God took it down for a bit to let people know who's really in charge lol. REPENT!!!
So a god who stood idly by during the worst atrocities in history, such as the Roman invasion of Gaul, the 30 Years War, the Indian Mutiny, two world wars, and the Oscars, was provoked into aggressive intervention against one website?
We knew that was coming. That's why we beat you to the punch.
So do we have a reason for the unavailability of AR last evening ? ...… I had no access all evening and night....
Not so far, Watchman.
I'm afraid I have to go with the Hulkster on this one. All you godless sinners on here need Jesus! Last night was only a tiny taste of His Supreme Powers! Go to your knees NOW and BEG for His divine mercy, all you unworthy lovers of Satan! (You know who you are.) Otherwise, the Almighty GOD may be forced to more severe measures to PROVE His omnipotent POWER he uses to rule JUSTLY over ALL of Mankind! Because if you think last night was bad, you truly have NO understanding of the absolute vengeful WRATH that can be wielded by your kind, loving, all-forgiving, and ALL MERCIFUL Lord and Savior! Imagine the helpless terror and despair you will feel when He interrupts your Netflix signal in the MIDDLE of your favorite show! Search deep within your souls, my dear friends, and ask yourselves if it is really worth risking such horror and heartbreak! All it takes to earn His divine forgiveness is to simply ask Him to enter your heart and soul and cleanse your sorry asses of all the despicable SIN that clogs your senses and blinds you to His forgiving light! Amen, brothers and sisters! AMEN!!!.... (Oh, wait.... Uh, Hulkster is Muslim, isn't he?.... *looking about uncertainly*... Oh, dear... Well, gee, this is awkward...)
Awwwww Fk, My prayer rug is at the cleaners. Hey, I do have this shower curtain with the Islamic Karma Sutra on it. It's Muhammad doing it to his 42 virgins, only one of whom is 6 years old, in various positions.
Yea,,,, that should work. What time is it?
I think it was Apollo trying to post more bollocks, and the server simply couldn't handle the mammoth amount of fuck-wittery.
ROFLMAO!
rmfr
Judging by some of the posts that get loaded here its clear the AR fuck-wittery filter nor the bollocks governor has never worked properly. But never mind that. I'm still happy that the Captcha answer is still sometimes 4...as it was today.
Actually, it was not AR. It was a router that leads to AR. Something happened to it. I used PING to do a sampling through the night last night. Just checked the logfile. The router just before it got to AR was timing out and not letting packets get to AR.
At least that is the best I can deduce from when I left PING to ping and going back through the log file. I may not be an IT professional, but I ain't no dummy either. I did take some networking classes in college back in the mid-90s.
For a better explanation, it would take a true IT professional.
rmfr
Honestly, I CANNOT BELIEVE you blind and faithless heathens have not figured this out yet! All the signs are RIGHT THERE in front of your faces! How can you NOT see it??? God HATES all you deplorable atheists, and He was using His awesome loving power to disrupt your modern-day Devil-worshipping communications network as a merciful WARNING to let you see for yourselves the limitless power He has at His gently soothing fingertips!... (Ah, yes. His silky smooth, softly caressing fingertips. Ahhh...) Alas, however! His Supreme Efforts have obviously been in vain! Oh the humanity!!! Since you have failed to heed His gracious display of restrained wrath, I truly worry for your immortal souls, as the Mighty Lord of lords does not take lightly to being dissed! For the sake of JEEEE-SUS and all the little children of the world, raise your hands to the sky and praise His wonderful name! It is not too late, brothers and sisters! Amen, amen, amen!!!
*eyes blinking rapidly*.... *waking up from trance*.... *looking around confused*... What the fu-...?... *staring curiously at planchette in left hand*.... Whoa! Where am I???... *notices Ouija board on floor at feet*.... *backs away quickly*.... Okay, that's it! Never-never-never messing with another Ouija board! Holy shit! I think I just channeled the ghost of FIG!.....
Someone give Tin Man a quart of oil. obviously he is running on empty!
(Approaching cautiously) "Nice Tin Man. Cog is friend. Good tin man." (Extending the oil can.) "Good Tin man, nice Tin Man, Drink this and you will feel better. (Tin Man looks at the oil long enough for Old Man to sneak up behind him and hit him in the head with a metal pipe.) Now that we got him down we can lube his joints, and get him working again.
(Cog and Old Man give each other a High Five and walk off into the sunset. Tin Man starts to moan. The universe is once again in balance!)