Depends on how you define "dead"

People are most certaintly still posting here,

As I post this the numbers are

That said, it's obvously not as active as other forums.

The RRS is not as active as some other forums, but I enjoy my time here. I rarely post anywhere else. I like the feel and layout of this forum, and I like the other posters. It feels like home.

It looks like RRS is still alive and well. People come people go. 

As the Cpt said there are typically around 30 members and 150 or so guests on-line at any given time. As I post this I see there are 30 members and 125 guests at 2:27 AM EDT.

Dead is when the website is gone, it's not gone. It's a fun place to visit and it does have impact. Even affecting one person at a time is progress and there have been several that have come back here recently telling us how the RRS helped them to become rational and give up their god-beliefs.

that's almost three years with an account.

 Dude, your post is not edited, nor is it deleted.  We are not removing all mention of Kelly.  We are removing drive-by troll posts by people who are only interested in starting shit.  If you want to know what Kelly's doing with her life, do a google search.  Nobody's stopping you, and nobody here is denying anything.  We're just not talking about it because who fucking cares.

The occupation of posters on this forum has nothing to do with anything related to religion, rationality, or critical thinking.  There are plenty of boards available if you'd like to discuss Kelly, Brian, or Rook, or me for that matter.  Feel free.  We're just not interested in discussing it here.  If you'd like to talk about theism, atheism, science, or something else, let's talk about that instead.

You had an account for nearly 3 years and your first 2 posts are tonight.

Excuse me if I don't care about your opinion since you have contributed so much in the way of content to the RRS,

My gripes with the RRS have nothing to do with their personal lives.

This isn't a gossip forum.  There are gossip forums all over the internet.  Talk about it there.  The currently active core members and the mod team still, as always, have the right to decide what we talk about and what we don't.  We've decided that what Kelly or Rook are doing with their lives right now doesn't have anything to do with whether or not theism is irrational.  So, we don't feel it's appropriate to the forums.  Last I checked, there isn't a forum called, "Talk shit about past contributors/members."

If you feel it's important, discuss it on your personal website, or on one of the boards that's changing the world by trashing RRS.  Nobody here cares.

Fine, think what you'd like.

I'm glad that I've gotten you to see reality for what it is. Mission accomplished.

You took time out of your day to write disparaging things about people you don't know, so that other people you don't know can stop posting on an internet forum that you don't post on? Somehow I suspect that what you normally do isn't very satisfying.

What am I wrong about exactly? I don't care about the people who started this website. They can all live forever or die right at this moment. It makes no difference to me. I'm only pointing out the truth about you as I see it, just as you're pointing out the truth about this website's creators as you see it. What you're doing reveals more about you than it does about anyone else.

Well, thanks for taking time out of your day I guess. I suppose now that your good deed is done you can get back to being tea-bagged by bikers.

/facepalm

.... who didnt see that coming?

Netcraft proves it.

So your saying scandals involving or questionable engagements of prominent Christians are not permissible topics on this forum? Ted Haggard, drugs, and the gay prostitute are not permissible discussions? If Kirk Cameron decided to join chip n dales, or had an affair these are not permissible topics of discussions? Or is their a double standard here, that grants individuals the ability to question prominent figures of the Christian movement, but not the evangelizing atheist one?

Secondly, in an intellectually fair forum, the topic wouldn't just be if theism is irrational or not, but if its inverse is also "irrational or not", if atheism is "bad" or "not", if it has a positive affect on the lives of people or not. The lives of prominent atheist, are fair topics of discussion, the crumbling of the christian right, with the election of Obama is a fair topic of discussion, the crumbling of the RRS with Kelly's departure and what she chose to do with her life over this, and Rook, are fair topics of discussion. 

You may in your delusional fanboyism fail to see this, and might feel the need to "protect" the RRS out of blind loyalty rather than reason. 

Now, I personally don't think the RRS is dead, I think they're in a ditch with the recent shakeup, but I'm sure they'll be back on their feet again. Rook and Kelly where the forums two most popular and well known figures, and no one yet here has risen to take up their seats of former prominence. It's trouble for the mythicist position, in that there is no longer anyone as well versed and as capable as Rook to argue in defense of it here. And what does it mean for the importance of a cause, when one of it's main leaders prefers to give head to old dudes for money, rather than fight for it? 

When you and other fanboy mods prefer to censor such discussions, it only looks poor on yourselves and  on this forum and on your defense of rational discussions. The pursuit of truth here looks flaky. It's no different than fundamentalist church's that don't allow their members to question and wonder within the confines of their church, and forbidding encounters with opposing views.

Eventually questions get asked, and people begin to wonder. Left in the internet world, outside of this forums ability to confront scuttlebutt, it only gets uglier. Reputations get butchered when they don't need to. 

Don't let that desire for fanboyism to prevail, kill you. 

Let's see if I get banned or if this post gets edited by the invisible hand. 

OK, that arrived while I was working on my last post. Even so, If I want to pay some hot chick to let me stick it where she poops, I certainly don't have to do more that go a couple of miles from where I live. Personally, I find the idea of airfare to be more relevant than whether I can fuck a hooker in the ass.

The reason Haggard's situation became a scandal is because he preached against homosexuality while practicing it.

The RRS has practiced no such hypocrisy - they've just moved on with their lives. See the difference yet?

The only problem I see is people trying to create scandal where there is none so they can say "Look! It's a scandal!".

Please stop.

 Is RRS dead? No the website is still here. Is it inactive atm yes. wow thats news.... Will they come back? maybe who knows. Is kelly a hooker? I don't know if she is thats awesome if not im kinda bummed, its not really news though people have to make money and if that is how she choses to do it why should I care, I dont go writing about people being plumbers, a job is a job where is the problem? Did brain get punch in the face? who knows? We have all done things whitch the response really should be a punch in the face, im sure you have gotten into a fight before not news. And about rook people leave wow the rrs is inactive atm what use is there in being in a inactive organisation? People have left churchs before wow its really not that important. I'm sure there was a disagreement of some kind people argue still im not seeing the problem. If Brian shot rook while kelly was engaging in necraphillia then yes there would be a problem no laws broken no hipocrasy really not a problem then is it?

Still these posts shouldn't be deleted unless there sole purpose is to cause trouble.

I agree. But what if Kelly(aka Kasey) later joins 'Hookers for Jesus' and gives her life to Mr. Invisible. Is that then hypocrisy?

Actually, that would be offsetting hypocrisies, would it not?

Giving your life to God while performing acts he considers sinful.

I think if you tithe 10% or more, the church elders and treasurer receive a message from God that the hypocrisies cancel out.

Well, buddy this might have stung if I was some unattractive dude with a sheer lack of confidence, but judging that I'm not, and that most people who know me understand why, it comes off as a silly claim to even make. 

No, it's not the only group, but the real motives of one group might help us to understand the motives of other groups as well. Sociologist engage in such studies all the time. Even if all groups don't fall under these same motives. We often see in individual motives in particular instances, similarities in such instances for others as well. 

Well, I don't know much about the IG dude,  I don't even posses a membership on his site, I just remember him crying on Wife Swap. If he publicly stated why he left, why he temporally had to pursue other endeavors I'd have far more respect for him than Kelly.

I'd rather dye fighting for a cause I sincerely believed in, than abandoning it all together. As old Willy would say "Cowards die many times before their own death".

You claim that Kelly left so she could make money so she could fight another day. I highly doubt that, her silence, the RRS inclinations to remove and edit post, and ban posters (other than surprisingly so far in this thread), seems to imply that she's abandon fighting all together. I doubt her hooking is a 24hr job, that doesn't allow her to have even an iota of time to contribute even marginally here.

She left without even a goodbye, no tributed farewell, and utter silence from the remaining leaders of this forum. It doesn't seem she left on amiable terms. It doesn't look like she has a desire to continue the relationship, even so in the future, but rather like with Sapient, sees the relationship has run it's course hasn't gotten anywhere, so it's time to go, and fuck another dude.

Let's face reality folks, like a mother whose left you on the doorsteps of a stranger, she's not coming back, nor she is looking to pick up the fight once again. The sad reality is that more than likely she didn't believe much in the fight to began in with, even if you naively do. 

Judging that no where in my post did i say anything about whether kelly being a prostitute is immoral or not, you're claim above is pointless. I already defined what the hypocrisy in this situation is, and it had nothing to do with her choice of profession, in fact i referred to someone devoting their lives to video games as engaging in the same sort of hypocrisy. 

I suggest you read my previous post again. Since I was rather explicit in defining what I was claiming, and your response here seems so utterly ignorant of it.