The Member of the Month for the month of April is gillibean. Now, gillibean and I do not agree on many things (if anything), however, she has added good conversation to the community ever since she got here in mid-March. To date, she has 409 posts on the forum, 277 being from April (the highest out of any member in April).

Here are some random excerpts from her posts in April.

I’m not forgetting anything. I’d prefer to be dead over being a mindless drone. Besides not all women in the 19th century were mindless drones. Many were…

I know what you meant but I chose to take your statement literally. If I held your beliefs I would probably agree with you. Since I don’t think anyone created us, I have no issues with allowing a…

I haven’t read much about crop circles but the complexity of some of them does raise some questions. The people with top secret clearance willing to testify is…

Members–thank you so much for your loyal participation at PTF.  We wouldn’t still be alive without you.  Please tell your friends of this wonderful growing community so they can join in on the fun as well!

This month was hard to pick.  Good luck next time to those who didn’t make it!

The member of the month on PTF for March ‘08 is knoxbox! Congratulations! There are so many other members that I would like to choose for MOTM this month, but unfortunately, I can only pick one. Thank you, active PTF members - we wouldn’t be here without you! You make PTF the best place around for online debates and discussion. Keep it up, and you could be MOTH next month!

Now some may be thinking “isn’t knoxbox that member who posts all those joke threads,” and although he does post a lot of jokes (gotta admit — some are pretty funny!) knoxbox was chosen for March ‘08 because of his dedication to the forums and his contributive posts.

He also made a really great video and posted it to YouTube for our referral contest (still time to participate, by the way).

Some examples of his posts from the last month are as follows:

i truely don’t believe that the bible especially old testament holds any reguards in today society it was written for a different time and very different place… people are smarter and more intellegent than we used to be… we have “evolved” if you will… look at what constitues female clothing of that time? is it anywhere similar to female clothing of our time? look at the opposite male clothing… look at male clothing of jesus’s time… mostly robes were worn… women wore robes too… most pictures you see of jesus not saying that he looks like them… but it had to have started somewhere.. he is in a robe and sash… does this constitute male or female clothing?…

if that makes you feel better, even though your pessemistic then fine… mr. realist… i don’t see anything real about it you can’t believe everything you read on the internet… we survived the last depression and we thrived…

just curious if any of the other members ride a motorcycle…

I’ve probably said this before…

I own:
06 Suzuki boulevard m50 (my bike)
07 Kawasaki ninja 250 (wife’s bike)…

Good luck next month!

Details from the original thread:

The point is pretty simple. Refer as many members as you can to the site and earn yourself a pretty spectacular prize. What’s the prize you ask? You’ll have to finish reading the rest of this post to find out. DON’T SKIP TO THE BOTTOM, IT RUINS IT.

Rules are as follows:

1 - Under no circumstances will you spam on other forums, or websites for that matter. It’s considered rude, not allowed here (so that would be hypocritical), and frankly, the staff doesn’t want to deal with people complaining about it to us.

2 - Each referral must post at least 10 posts to count. What’s a new member to us if they don’t post?

3 - I will be keeping track of the number of referrals. I will have them written down, so there will be no discrepancy over who got how many referrals.

4 - If someone joins, but doesn’t put you as the person that referred you here, tough luck for you. Make sure you include the your forum name wherever you advertise, so that they know what name to put down when they register.

5 - The contest will run for one month. I’m not too exactly sure on the date of when it will start, so take advantage and come up with ways to find new members. It will be in the near future, I just need some time to collect the necessary data (aka amount of referrals already for each member).

6 - *Sigh* The prize. What you guys have been waiting for. The prize is a nice $20 cash prize. If you make an exceptional effort and have an incredible amount of new members, there might be a BONUS. Who knows? Work for it!

7 - The money will be sent via Paypal or I can mail you the cash via Snail Mail. Either way I’m giving away $20, so if you chose Snail Mail and it gets lost in the mail, I will not be responsible for re-sending cash. Sorry to say, but not everyone out here is trustworthy.

Again, I personally am giving away the $20 for the benefit of getting this site more active and more enjoyable. If I hear about any cheating of any kind (aka all your referrals have locations near you, and they all have the minimum ten posts, I can tell you just had your friends sign up to post 10 times and then they leave). Please do not encourage members to post nonsensical posts just so they have 10 posts. That would honestly just defeat the whole purpose of this contest. I’m giving away money in hopes this will help the community, not hurt it.

I hate IE. It’s so slow, it’s full of crap. Mozilla is lightweight, and has tons of add-ons that you can download. Safer, too.

okay i been surfing the net [with Firefox] it seems to get faster the more i surf… cause i guess is pre caching everything… links before i click them etc…hrm…

ErrorZilla is useful for those “cannot be displayed” pages.
FasterFox for speed.
IE Tab There are some (very few) sites (usually older ones) that don’t display correctly in firefox. Instead of waisting time switching into IE, just open it within an IE tab in Firefox.

The only main thing that I like about Opera is the start up screen, you can put all your sites right there, and thrn you just click them instead of having to type in the adress. I wish firefox had something like that that they could offer.

If you enjoy movies, I strongly urge you to take a look at our movie club. You’ll be very surprised at the in-depth discussion that we have. Below are some excerpts from this month’s discussion thread.

Carlo might not have been eating an orange, but I thought it was pretty neat that they would have Carlo wearing an orange suit.

I also noticed that the children were very rarely in the arms of the men. This portrayal kind of resembles that the Mafia men are only there for business, and the women are there for…

Remember at the beginning when the guy comes in begging him to take revenge on the young men who beat his daughter? Don Vito was insulted by his way of asking him to do it, not giving him respect as a friend and only demanding it be done with the incentive of money. I noticed that Don Vito is all about respect, while Michael never…

He denounces Satan and all his works, while his men are committing murders for him. I think this just shows that despite what Michael truly wanted, to be head of the family, he must…

Though he does certainly command respect through fear there’s also a certain vulnerability about his character that he…

Another seen that choke me up was Don Vito playing with his grandson. He seemed like such a child himself. It further proved how important family is and it also put some light and more depth into…

See more of this discussion. *Not to be confused with member of the month (MOTM)

There have been many other prophecies like this before, yet none have come true. Do you think this one is real? Join in on the discussion at the forums.

Some quick excerpts…

I don’t think it’s a big deal. It’s probably going to be the same thing like the new millenium crap on new year’s.

Have you heard of Nostradamus’ 1999 prophecy? That was based on the fact that he got many predicted things right. But it didn’t happen. There are many others, as well. The fact is that we will never know when the end will be until it happens.

TrevorL337 joined PTF in November of last year, but has become especially active lately. We are dedicating this blog post to him. There are so many other members that we would like to make member of the month, but we only choose one a month. Keep posting, and you could be the PTF MOTM next month!

Thank you, Trevor and all the other active contributers of the PTF forums. We would also like to thank Ich_Bin_Butler, another active PTF member, for referring Trevor to PTF. Thank you!

Some random posts of Trevor…

Top 5 Favorite Animals (Includes Fictional):
1. Wolves
2. Dragons
3. Gryphons
4. Meerkats
5. Lions

My Hitachi Deathstar had its moment with me today…
can you guess what it did? It caused me to lose all 250gb of data I had on it.

I tried backing it up….but the process would abort the moment it found bad sectors…so um….

2004 - 2008

The Second Amendment to the constitution is The Right to Bear Arms. By banning guns in the USA, it would be unconstitutional, which is what everyone doesnt want.

If you are a lurker, we would like to turn you into a poster. Join the PureTalkForum community!

From experience building PCs, I personally prefer Intel. I currently have an Intel Core 2 Duo in my system. They seem to be more reliable, faster, handle heat better, etc. AMDs seem to be cheaply made. Visit the AMD vs. Intel thread and join in on the discussion. In one post, AMDs actually start smoking in a video!

Do you think that AMD processors are better or Intel processors? Here, we aren’t just talking about performance but quality, performance, price and everything. For me, I would choose AMD because it gives quite decent performance, maybe a little less than Intel but it is enough for normal users. The biggest advantage in AMD processors is that it is cheap, much cheaper when compared to Intel processors of same speed. I got myself 2.6 dual core AMD processor but if I had to go for Intel, I would not get more than 2.2 or 2.4.

And making a comparison of an Intel P4 to an AMD is stupid. It depends on what chip you use. P4’s can range from super low (1.5 GHZ) to super high (3.a lot). It also depends on what other kinds of hardware you have in it. The old AMD’s may have been better than Intel (I personally was always an Intel guy, though at the time, I was biased and didn’t actually know anything). I’ve heard that the old AMD’s were better than the old Intels because they had twice as many data pipelines. I think that a Pentium D probably beats the average AMD core, but anything above that and Intel usually takes the cake. I don’t mind if you get an AMD, because unlike Apple, I don’t think that they overcharge and produce sub-par hardware.