Tobin wrote:ldsfaqs wrote:From what I've noticed you seem all over the place, I have no idea how to classify you..... and I don't know you either.
Others are more clear however in their contempt of LDS and LDS subjects. You seem more open, I believe a recent change?
I believe Mormonism may have a basis in fact. So I give them the benefit of the doubt when I can. I'm mostly interested in the truth (as I hope everyone in the forum would be as well). Since this is my approach, many of the critics on this board attack me. I have placed the more rabid ones (the "real" trolls on this forum) on ignore, which only improves this forum considerably in my view.
That's Tobin's view. Others may find themselves thinking that he is obsessed by his project of interpreting Mormonism in the light of an experience he once had in a locked New York apartment some years ago, when a 'being' appeared to him and told him not to do what he was planning to do, which was (Tobin tells us) something bad. Tobin thinks this person was some kind of space alien with superpowers, and he has concluded that beings like this gave us the idea of gods. (No, I am really not joking about this.)
Hence, when he says 'see and speak with God', he is not to be understood in the sense that most religious believers would understand the phrase. So far as can be ascertained, the supposed alien visitor gave him no message of religious significance, and has never been seen or heard of since.
Frankly, I don't think Tobin is entirely well. There are signs of an obsessive personality with a huge drive to be agreed with and not to be criticized or (heavens forbid!) laughed at. I'm glad I am unlikely ever to meet him in person.