Kevin Graham wrote:Scratch that theory, I just saw that Foundations for Interreligious Diplomacy is actually operated by a couple of Mormon guys.
I get a kick out any attempt by Dan to appear interested in inter-religious dialogue of any sort. The guy is a gadfly who has been using the existence of Mormon criticism for personal gain. Mostly to gratify his own narcissistic needs.
Someone should offer the suggestion that there be different icon/indicators based on whether the given LDS poster is a Chapel or Internet Mormon.
"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
Doctor Scratch wrote:Someone should offer the suggestion that there be different icon/indicators based on whether the given LDS poster is a Chapel or Internet Mormon.
A "sun", "moon" or "stars" emoticon type thing might be useful.....
That said, with the Book of Mormon, we are not dealing with a civilization with no written record. What we are dealing with is a written record with no civilization. (Runtu, Feb 2015)
cafe crema wrote:Why, if they are so insistent that posters at TWT reveal their religion, doesn't the foundations leadership reveal theirs?
I think if they post they would have to.
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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Probably the worst feature of The World Table is that everything you post there has to be in a single paragraph. It gives you a tiny box to write in, and even if you include line breaks, it concatenates everything together into a single paragraph. Also, there is no way to edit what you’ve posted.
How can you possibly have a serious, content-rich conversation when you aren’t allowed to write more than one paragraph? This single feature precludes it from being a place for serious discussion.
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
Analytics wrote:Probably the worst feature of The World Table is that everything you post there has to be in a single paragraph. It gives you a tiny box to write in, and even if you include line breaks, it concatenates everything together into a single paragraph. Also, there is no way to edit what you’ve posted.
How can you possibly have a serious, content-rich conversation when you aren’t allowed to write more than one paragraph? This single feature precludes it from being a place for serious discussion.
So far this is the best evidence of ulterior motives. A dialogue platform for the plebs; one controlled by the elite that they themselves would never participate in.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think I may have been asked to leave The World Table. Roger Loomis expressed his misgivings about the rating system, and I responded that I had decided I would not worry about the ratings system. In response, I received this:
With all due respect, Roger and John you are missing an important and desperately needed part of TWT. As the CNN Belief Blog noted last weekend, "holy trollers," or those who post inflammatory comments on religion stories and websites, harm fruitful discussion over important issues. Many other websites have lamented the same thing, and not only in religion. The Internet is the virtual extension of our public square. The purpose of TWT is to transform this bad behavior. You should want a good rating as it signals a desire to be involved in civil discourse. This is something that secular humanists, Mormons, Evangelicals and many others should want to support. If you don't care about the ratings and the civil discourse this site is trying to facilitate, then perhaps TWT isn't the place for you.
Wow. So it doesn't matter whether you are civil or honest -- the important thing is to convince others that you are.
World Failble
Well, since it is involved with Mormons and Mormonism whether directly or indirectly, it's all about the image......
Dr CamNC4Me
"Dr. Peterson and his Callithumpian cabal of BYU idiots have been marginalized by their own inevitable irrelevancy defending a fraud."