LAnative wrote:,,,,,,,
This is my very first forum experience and a great shock and disappointment. I didn't know that people used these things to vent and be so mean. Now I do. I also have learned a lot of new vocabulary and defintions I didn't know and that in itself made it worth the insults.,,,,,,,

DQ
ps doesn't daai maai mean "can I" in Thai. I'm studying pahsa Thai
Believe me, this forum is very, very mild, tolerant, helpful and sincere compared to the fora in general. People here are quite nice
and usually do not go out of their way to insult or belittle anybody. If you think you have been treated unkindly, seek firstly the reason
for this in yourself. This forum, like most of the interactions in the adult world, is a mirror showing you your own attitudes and actions.
When you gather more experience of the internet fora you'll see this was one of the better ones, with no built-in hate for the newcomer.
Would any of us regulars be here if this was just another vitriolic hateforum devoted to flaming and belittling?
"There's no plausible or convincing reason, certainly no evidential one, to believe that there is such an entity (= deity) and that all observable phenomena, including the cosmological ones... are explicable without the hypothesis; you don't need the assumption."