I thought I was aware of most of the LDS message boards out there, but this one managed to evade my notice. Maybe there are many more like it, I don't know. Has anyone else heard of LDS Freedom Forum? Seems like it would be right up the alley of bspace and Droopy.
There is a thread with a poll asking whether Joseph Fielding Smith was wrong about the moon that is getting wide publicity on some atheist boards. At least, that's how I came across it, and I notice that their record for users online was reached earlier this afternoon. The prevailing view by a wide margin is that JFS was right and the moon landings were faked.
The entire board is way out there. They even have a walled-off forum dedicated to members working on having their calling and election made sure.
LDS Freedom Forum
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_Bob Loblaw
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Sophocles wrote:They even have a walled-off forum dedicated to members working on having their calling and election made sure.
Led by Brother Schryver?
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
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_Fence Sitter
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Bob Loblaw wrote:Sophocles wrote:They even have a walled-off forum dedicated to members working on having their calling and election made sure.
Led by Brother Schryver?
Can't be, because Sophocles says it is for people "working" on it. Schryver, as I understand it, is a done deal, unless of course he is mentoring them.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
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_Bob Loblaw
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Fence Sitter wrote:Can't be, because Sophocles says it is for people "working" on it. Schryver, as I understand it, is a done deal, unless of course he is mentoring them.
True but I imagine him seeing himself as a mentor leading people toward the exalted state in which he resides.
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
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_hobo1512
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I bounced through that thread.
I bet alot of them think "The DaVinci Code" was a documentary.
I bet alot of them think "The DaVinci Code" was a documentary.
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_mercyngrace
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I posted there for a while, mainly sticking to doctrinal threads.
It's a unique message board whose members are mostly Libertarian leaning, tend toward a very literal interpretation of scripture, and hold the world and most of the church in contempt (the latter for not being "awakened to our awful situation"). When I was posting, it was typical to see discussions on the lengths to which board members would go to protect their food storage, even from other family and friends.
As Dan Peterson is to MDDB, Steven Jones is to LDSFF and Infowars.com is their version of FAIR.
When I was actively posting, there were a handful of people who seemed to think outside of the board paradigm but they were almost instantly attacked for not having their eyes opened to the evils of the conspiring men who rule the world and control everything from your awful and unnecessary vaccinations to your homogenized milk to the toys in your kid's crappy, I mean happy, meal.
I made a couple of good friends there but the overwhelming drive behind the site seemed like fear and animosity and the haughty position of being awakened to the "real" condition of the world while everyone else in the church and country sleeps in ignorant bliss was too condescending to stomach. So I left.
As my husband likes to say, "Any idiot can point out the problem. A genius works on a solution." I didn't see any effort at a solution at LDSFF. I saw persistent complaints about the condition of the world and a bunker mentality.
It's a unique message board whose members are mostly Libertarian leaning, tend toward a very literal interpretation of scripture, and hold the world and most of the church in contempt (the latter for not being "awakened to our awful situation"). When I was posting, it was typical to see discussions on the lengths to which board members would go to protect their food storage, even from other family and friends.
As Dan Peterson is to MDDB, Steven Jones is to LDSFF and Infowars.com is their version of FAIR.
When I was actively posting, there were a handful of people who seemed to think outside of the board paradigm but they were almost instantly attacked for not having their eyes opened to the evils of the conspiring men who rule the world and control everything from your awful and unnecessary vaccinations to your homogenized milk to the toys in your kid's crappy, I mean happy, meal.
I made a couple of good friends there but the overwhelming drive behind the site seemed like fear and animosity and the haughty position of being awakened to the "real" condition of the world while everyone else in the church and country sleeps in ignorant bliss was too condescending to stomach. So I left.
As my husband likes to say, "Any idiot can point out the problem. A genius works on a solution." I didn't see any effort at a solution at LDSFF. I saw persistent complaints about the condition of the world and a bunker mentality.
"In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept writing poetry across my life." ~ David N. Elkins, 1998, Beyond Religion, p. 81
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_iamse7en
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Great site and great community (a much wider variety of perspectives than you'd think). Continue to visit/post there. I do enjoy walled-off categories as it keeps the riff raff away. ;)
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_Tobin
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By MnG's description it sounds like fun and loads of bcspace clones all wearing tinfoil hats. I hope they have the sense to come in out of the rain before lightning strikes.
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_Jeneum
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Wait, has Will Schryver really said his calling and election has been made sure?
That would certainly explain...a lot
That would certainly explain...a lot
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_3sheets2thewind
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Jeneum wrote:Wait, has Will Schryver really said his calling and election has been made sure?
That would certainly explain...a lot
according to william he has. Proclaiming such, I believe, is within his first 100 posts here.
But don't point out that WS mocked a sacred ordinance.