QUOTE(markp @ Aug 13 2008, 11:22 PM)
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I suggest we all take a few days off from this topic to rethink our modes of discourse. I'm therefore going to close this topic for a few days.
Its been a few days already! I promise to be good.

Why would you want that thread open again ? What possible purpose could it serve ?
It will only degenerate into another vehicle for self-defining behavior and sect bashing again on the part of a few individuals : thus creating cause of further offence and ensuing complaint, leading to it being closed once again. Ad nauseam
Bad idea, imo.