@El'endiaStarman That's good. Nice to see there are people out there that make me seem normal by comparison.

Congratulations to @affablegeek on being our first 20k user!

You've had an epic run. Now don't rest on your laurels!

@Caleb Congrats Affable! :D

<crosses fingers and hope we might have a JW contributor that can be coaxed into following site guidelines>

I made a major edit, but used the pieces that were there. It has all the elements of an answer: it identified it's viewpoint, summarized the relevant doctrine to the question and gave a link for further reference. I just re-arranged the pieces to up the quality a little bit.

It's still a marginal quality answer, but it's not flagrant plagiarism or off topic ranting.

Female and JW? Talk about an under-represented demographic around here...

if ( boil_to_essence($question) == "SELECT why FROM universe WHERE problem='evil' AND view LIKE '%christian%" ) { close($question, NARQ) }

Apparently being anonymous doesn't hide one's sense of humor.

@Caleb :D

@Caleb @affable, I'm not sure if it's easy to get the data from stackapps, but I was checking the info on some of the more established betas and by golly you're the Jon Skeet of the beta sites! Congrats!

That was an interesting blip

@PeterTurner lol :) odd errors on SE? naw

@PeterTurner you'd have to go through the api and it would be tedious. Sites I'd check would be parenting, money, code review, some of the other old ones

and lets not forget homebrewing

Looks like those perfidious frauds at NOM are running scared.

Anybody know if 'heterodox' means 'heretical teaching' or is just the opposite of orthodox? I was messing with the tag wiki for heresy and I realized I don't know the precise meaning of the word in an all encompassing Christian context christianity.stackexchange.com/tags/heresy/info

@PeterTurner Wikipedia says:

> Heterodoxy is also an ecclesiastical term of art, defined in various ways by different religions and churches. For example, in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches heterodoxy may describe beliefs that differ from strictly orthodox views but that fall short of heresy.

So if you believe that fairies come and clean your house at night, that might be a form of heterodoxy, but not necessarily heresy.

@TRiG lol i just meant the joke about having sex. Not a fan. Funny otherwise. ;)

@JonEricson Ahh very nice, thanks I changed up the tag wiki accordingly.

@PeterTurner Ugh. I don't like the way that's phrased. (Part of the problem is that Protestants are too diverse in theology to agree on what heresy means.)

> Any teaching that contradicts the settled doctrine of a particular denomination, tradition, or branch of Christianity.

@PeterTurner Does this ^^^ work for you?

@JonEricson yeah, that's good, my description ignored a hefty chunk of Christendom anyway.

I used @Warren's definition for heresy according to a protestant, I thought it was a little tightly scoped even for y'all.

@PeterTurner Yeah. Heresy existed before the Scripture. ;-)

@PeterTurner Heterodox is a polite way of saying heretical, without the "you're going to burn in hell"

Thanks everybody for the well-wishing! I got a screenshot, but wasn't able to do much today - you guys know that poll that Pew put out? Amongst other things, I host their servers. And they got slashdotted. Hard. Long night :(