Can I register a complaint here? Promptly at 11:00 p.m. CDT last night, I got a few emails from all of the discussion forums I frequent wishing me a happy birthday. It wasn't from a person. It was from a computer. Computers don't wish. They don't feel. They don't have a heart or a soul. They just blindly do as they're told. A birthday wish from a computer is less than meaningless and I'd like to see the practice stopped. I'm not angry, but I am offended and I expect better from thoughtful, professing Christians.

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Bill
PCA
Fort Worth, TX

Is this first post of yours intended to be taken seriously?

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Matt
Reformed Baptist
Christ Community Church

Hmm, are you sure THIS board is set to send out birthday greetings? Because I don't recall ever seeing such a thing. Also, you might get actual greetings if you took the time to interact and please let us get to know you. I understand your sentiment, but please balance it with a bit of grace

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JC - PCA - PA...homesick for SC
A we n' de Ya, ho; I mak sikker; Deus juvat

Indicabo tibi o homo quid sit bonum, et quid Dominus requirat a te: Utique facere iudicium, et diligere, misericordiam, et sollicitum ambulare cum Deo tuo. Michaeas 6:8

"Who says you can't go back, been all around the world and as a matter of fact. There's only one place left I want to go, who says you can't go home" Bon Jovi

I've never gotten a computer-generated birthday wishes from the PB. At Walmart, yes, but not the PB.

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Ivan R. Schoen, B.A., M.A., M.L.I.S.
Pastor of Maranatha Baptist Church (SBC)
Poplar Grove, IL, USA
http://maranatha-sbc.org

The board will require the option of sending birthday good wishes to be swithched on by the board admin, in doing so he has made a human decision to wish all members a happy birthday at the appropriate time. I suggest that you glow in the warmth of that human decision.

I really do not think that it is a fruit of grace to take offence too easily, especially when the intention was benign.

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Mike
London City Presbyterian Church
London
England

"Surely, we wish to be orthodox, but we must first learn what real orthodoxy is. Surely, we wish to be progressive, but we must first have a basis to progress from."

A good suggestion.

I've implemented a plugin that will create a thread for users announcing their birthdays.

The users will have to have a minimum of 5 posts and be active participants on the board in order to receive the posts.

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Rich
PCA, Northern VA
Student, New Geneva Theological Seminary

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