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As apologists tell MDB how to change to suit them, this thread deserves a little more attention from all of us.

Moksha-- I've never been there but can honestly say I wouldn't want to participate on a discussion board where someone like you was banned. And when I was TBM I would have said the same thing.

Moksha wrote: In all seriousness, I need to be aware to not repeat being myself at Church and perhaps we as members could ask ourselves what is it about our general character that makes us so censorious that people like me would have to put on a less genuine face to survive at Church.

in my opinion, it is fear that feeds the need to censor. The more I step away the more I see how fearful Mormons are. It was a beautiful feeling to realize that I was not, in fact, going to be hit with calamity if I read what I wanted to read and thought what I wanted to think while drawing my very own conclusions that were not spelled out for me in correlated material.
(And I hope the BYU football bashing can somehow continue there because they simply stink. I love it! Go Utes!) :-)

Lucinda wrote:Moksha-- I've never been there but can honestly say I wouldn't want to participate on a discussion board where someone like you was banned. And when I was TBM I would have said the same thing.

Banning moksha is pretty extreme.

Lucinda wrote:in my opinion, it is fear that feeds the need to censor.

I agree. Especially when it reaches that degree of silliness.

They banned the Penguin of Peace. Doesn't sound like a very tolerant site to me.

Join the club. I was banned for asking the wrong questions. The extreme TBM’s there make MADB seem fair in their moderation. In a nutshell, if you’re not one of the chosen lily white trumpet-blowing cloud-floating white and delightsome types (see the main screen and vomit), you’ll be hounded out fairly quickly. One very odd aspect of that site was a conversation I had with the ex-Mo atheists. They called themselves atheists, yet believed they lived on after death in spirit form. I asked them how in the world they could conclude they had spirits, yet God didn’t exist? The answers were humorous, but I was banned after a week or so.

Lucinda wrote:in my opinion, it is fear that feeds the need to censor.

"Censorship" is a term which applies to government action.

But, using your definition, censorship exists here, albeit in a different form. Each board discussion owner gets to set his/her own rules, and Shades has set his which involve an element of "censorship." A type you all find acceptable, I imagine.

I don't believe in censorship although I am guilty of demanding that offending posts be removed. I regret that today. I'm not perfect. Better that I had just left things alone.

There should be no "censorship." There isn't any way the moderators can make this place an acceptable spot for peace-loving Christians who believe that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God. Those folks would be better off just pointing to this board as an example of the great evils of the world. Leave this place to the rants and rages of the drunken.

Yahoo Bot wrote:Those folks would be better off just pointing to this board as an example of the great evils of the world. Leave this place to the rants and rages of the drunken.

Drama queen.

Kishkumen wrote:
Drama queen.

At least your retort wasn't pretentious.

Yahoo Bot wrote:There should be no "censorship." There isn't any way the moderators can make this place an acceptable spot for peace-loving Christians who believe that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God. Those folks would be better off just pointing to this board as an example of the great evils of the world. Leave this place to the rants and rages of the drunken.

Oh goodie! I don't think I've ever been pointed out as one of the great evils of the world before. Somehow I thought I'd have more money if that were the case...

Yahoo Bot wrote:A type you all find acceptable, I imagine.

I take your continued participation as being acceptable to it as well. I noticed you haven't been banned yet, which says a lot about lack of censorship.