The Disenfranchisement of the OMIDs

[_sock puppet]

FARMS was started up by Jack Welch & Co. back in the day. A grouping of LDS apologists was formalized. It published the FARMS Review.

In the 1990s, FARMS and the FARMS Review became part of BYU, at NAMIRS.

In recent years, the FARMS Review was renamed, Mormon Studies Review. OMID Daniel C Peterson remained the Review's editor, despite the name change.

In 2012, NAMIRS and the OMIDs (those at NAMIRS whose apologetic pedigree goes back as far as pre-NAMIRS FARMS) parted ways.

In 2012, the OMIDs began their online blog, Mormon Interpreter.

The OMIDs are soliciting donations for the online Interpreter.

The OMIDs are not publishing in the vein or in the name of "FARMS Review". It is not a hard copy print. It is not a subscription service.

It is not clear but I suspect that BYU/NAMIRS owns the legal rights to the name "FARMS Review" and to the back catalog, not only that published by NAMIRS but also that published by FARMS before there was NAMIRS. Otherwise, I think the OMIDs would have resurrected the title "FARMS Review" and resumed publishing their beloved periodical of screeds.

So, kicked out of the NAMIRS clubhouse, and not able to take with them the 'bat and ball' they brought when they joined, the OMIDs seem hapless and downtrodden.

Perhaps they are at stages of their lives and careers that they do not have the energy to begin FARMS II (and FARMS II Review), or something named like it. Maybe the contributors are not willing to fund the start up of such a venture.

For whatever reasons, it seems that the disenfranchisement of the OMIDs from an effective soapbox for pontificating their LDS apologetics has been successful.

[_Kishkumen]

I believe you can buy a printed version of the Interpreter.

[_Kishkumen]

I have reported this last post.

[_TrashcanMan79]

I have reported this last post.

I'm not sure how moderators have ruled on this sort of thing in the past, but DCP's Facebook thread is available publicly to anyone with a Facebook account (hell, maybe even to those without one): https://www.Facebook.com/daniel.peterson.3701?ref=ts&fref=ts

[_Kishkumen]

I'm not sure how moderators have ruled on this sort of thing in the past, but DCP's Facebook thread is available publicly to anyone with a Facebook account (hell, maybe even to those without one): https://www.Facebook.com/daniel.peterson.3701?ref=ts&fref=ts

They can sort it out, but I am not interested in hanging around a place where people start posting screen captures from the personal Facebook pages of others. I don't think that will go anywhere good.

[_harmony]

I moved the post out of the public eye for the time being. Whether it shows up again in the public eye depends on Shades and other mods. Anyone reposting the Facebook screen shot will be suspended until further notice.

Patience, people, while we sort it out.

(this can be interpreted to be in real life...)


harmony