Bond...James Bond wrote:We're compensating for our lack of knowledge with filler basically. I know I do.
DO NOT EVER DO THAT!!! STOP DOING IT NOW!!
I did NOT establish this message board to attract "filler."
Might want to switch to decaf Shades....it's Saturday Night (and I ain't got nobody...I got some money cause I just got paid-Cat Stevens good music).
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
Bond...James Bond wrote:Might want to switch to decaf Shades....it's Saturday Night (and I ain't got nobody...I got some money cause I just got paid-Cat Stevens good music).
Case in point, Bond.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
Bond...James Bond wrote:Might want to switch to decaf Shades....it's Saturday Night (and I ain't got nobody...I got some money cause I just got paid-Cat Stevens good music).
Case in point, Bond.
I love you too Grampa Grammar Nazi. ;).
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
I think one of the biggest problems is that alot of the posters aren't that knowledgeable (to the depth that Don, Blixa, you and others are), and thus we have to derail threads in favor of comic stuff and so forth. We're compensating for our lack of knowledge with filler basically. I know I do.
Bond summed me up perfectly.
That's not the problem. The problem is the need to "correct" "anti-mormons," etc. Those are the derailments that prevent discussion in favor of point scoring and "fish shooting." It's pathetic, it's sad, it's anti-intellectual and it's a million light years from discussion, conversation, engagement and dialogue.
I'm not saying I have any answers or solutions. I'd just like to be able to talk about the myriad of property deals Jospeph Smith engaged in without having to counter accusations of lying, distortions, taking things out of context, and the whole litany of aplogetic blockages of history. Or be able to discuss doctrinal shifts and changes without some juvenile "a living prophet Trump's a dead one" latter-day tom foolery or disingenous poses that doctrines were ever really doctrines. Of course that sort of thing is itself a fascinating topic for discussion...
Okay. From a leadership training I particpated in: Be the change you'd see in the world. Post what you want to see discussed. Complaining about the subject of someone else's thread, while not posting what you'd like to discuss, is counterproductive at best, and undermining at worst. So start some threads about the subjects you'd like to discuss, and don't wait for someone else to do the heavy lifting.
As an aside, the kind of discussion you're talking about would exclude 90% of the posters here. Is that the aim? That our comments would be ignored or considered "noise"? That we'd have nothing to offer? Because that's what I'm seeing.
Okay. From a leadership training I particpated in: Be the change you'd see in the world. Post what you want to see discussed. Complaining about the subject of someone else's thread, while not posting what you'd like to discuss, is counterproductive at best, and undermining at worst. So start some threads about the subjects you'd like to discuss, and don't wait for someone else to do the heavy lifting.
As an aside, the kind of discussion you're talking about would exclude 90% of the posters here. Is that the aim? That our comments would be ignored or considered "noise"? That we'd have nothing to offer? Because that's what I'm seeing.
DonBradley wrote:But the Terrestrial Forum itself could be a much better place to talk if such things as purposeful baiting of other posters were excluded, and those posting such things were banished from it until they could show that they were worthy of progression from kingdom to kingdom. ;-)
DonBradley wrote:JAK,
Thank you for the demonstration that there are posts not worth reading. I shall forthwith not bother with yours. As to my own participation, see mine other thread.
And the idea that I should set up my own board to waste more of my time moderating dingbats like you is worse than absurd.
Jersey Girl wrote:People...if a higher level of discourse is what you prefer, the Celestial Forum is yours for the taking. It's been my observation that on board with multiple forums, that the majority of posters settle into one forum such as Roundtable on ZLMB.
A board is what you make of it.
If you wish for more scholarly debate and discussion....start a thread in the Celestial Forum.
Shades has this board set up so that there is something for everyone without someone else imposing their idea of what constitutes substance on the community at large.
I actually read all of the threads in Celestial. I don't contribute 'cause I don't want to feel any more of a dummy than I already do on this board. I don't like telestial too much 'cause it's mostly nonsense and personal swipes. I used to look quite a bit and try to refrain from even peeking lately.