Is it me, or is this place really boring lately?

[_Blixa]

The missing the chat feature will deprive us of Blixa's animated gifs. That demands a remedy!!!

Serving one up especially for Moksha:

[_MrStakhanovite]

When is chat projected to be fixed?

[_bcspace]

I'd won on multiple threads all at once.

This was worth the price of admission tonight.

Since I don't do pro bono entertaining, just think of how good it would have been if you had actually paid the price.

[_honorentheos]

This was worth the price of admission tonight.

Since I don't do pro bono entertaining, just think of how good it would have been if you had actually paid the price.

It was worth every penny paid. I imagine you do your own stunts during the live shows, too.

[_Falcon A]

If you think it's boring what are YOU doing to make it better!!! It's definitely you!

^^Oh Sorry, wrong board. j/k :-)

Still check in daily at the Terrestrial. Some days are better than others and I generally read the posts that catch my attention and I'll usually follow them until bc declares victory or it dies of its' own volition.
Rarely do I find nothing to read.
Many of the defenders are no longer defending (and much of the entertainment is watching the defense); that's my take anyway as a regular reader.
There are a handful of posters that are outstanding. I watch for those and I'm satisfied.

Peace.

[_RayAgostini]

The title says it all. Seems mormondiscussions has been dead lately - nothing interesting to talk about, chat all busted... sigh....

Have you guys all found better things to do?

H.

It's dead because it has become a mostly contra-Mormon monologue. It's as boring as hell to read, most of the time (I'm still undecided whether there's more dogma in Mormonism than ex-Mormonism), but obviously this thread caught my attention.

This was one of your earliest posts here:

There is so much to say - I could open up for a good hour or two on this subject and still not be done, but since it's lunch hour, let me see if I can sum up (and this summary will still be lacking)

Let's say that I have an interesting perspective, Runtu. On the one hand, you are correct - there are doctrines and policies that I believe the LDS church has wrong and to some degree I feel the LDS church of today is not the LDS church that Joseph Smith envisioned.

As per Joseph's role as a prophet, right now, all his flaws notwithstanding, I have hope that he he is a prophet. Brade, over on MADB, has a great way with words, so I'm going to paraphrase what I heard him say once - I've had a personal, mystical experience that, as near as I can approximate, confirms to me that Joseph was a prophet. In no way do I profess to know he is a prophet, at most, I have a strong hope. That may change one day, I don't know, but for now, it is where I stand on the spiritual spectrum.

I do believe in God and in Jesus Christ, but unlike most LDS I know, I can't attribute every policy, law, and doctrine to them, as I believe - actually, no, I *know* that those who profess to be prophets are fallible and have trouble discerning revelation from opinion. Thus, I stick as close to the New Testament ethical law that Christ preaches, believe in the atonement, and question most other things and put them against other ethical systems to determine if they are consistent with moral goodness.

As an organization, I feel the church does good, and wrong. Being in a stake presidency, and having served on a high council and in bishoprics, I've had the opportunity to see how sausages are made, so to speak, and a lot of what the church does is hard to reconcile against what Christ taught.

A bit of a ramble, my apologies. Fundamentally, I am a good person, I have a good family, good kids, good friends. I don't feel that I am an apostate of the LDS church; at the same time I am a realist - I know what I could lose if I expressed my views publicly, or amongst too many people. My wife knows where my belief is, where my hope is, and where my doubt is, and she loves me, and I know the same things about her. Some would call me a coward for not 'standing up'; that may be true, but I'd never pass judgment on another. Right now, life is good, and I don't think it's the right time to declare a split from my religion. Not just yet.

H.

(Emphases added)

So, since you came here, you've been "enlightened"? This board has helped you to define who you are? And what about that "personal, mystical experience"? It counts for nothing now that you've been "enlightened" by MDB posters?

[_bcspace]

Still boring.

[_Quasimodo]

when some of you had been reduced to invective against my answers. So there was nothing else to say; I'd won on multiple threads all at once.

It's your humility that I find most attractive.

[_Blixa]

So, since you came here, you've been "enlightened"? This board has helped you to define who you are? And what about that "personal, mystical experience"? It counts for nothing now that you've been "enlightened" by MDB posters?

Maybe he's had personal enlightening mystical experiences with his friendships on this board, Ray. I know I have and one of them was produced through LDST's remarkable generosity.