This Board is Juuuuust Right....

[_Wilma Fingerdoo]

Just pull up your trailer and sit a spell.

I lurked for years here and learned many new and interesting things.

By the way being banned from MD&D is almost a rite of passage to post on this board.

[_ludwigm]

Cool.



Paul O

wulffmorgenthaler May 20th, 2012 [WARNING: Link not safe for work!]

The picture is able to disturb your peace of mind. Open it AYOR.

[_moksha]

The beds here at MD are neither too soft or too hard and the porridge has a delightful crunchy consistency.

[_Darth J]

Welcome. I'd advise joining one of the local gangs for protection.

He's right, Racer. I'm in the Tron gang, myself.

[_Dr. Shades]

I don't know why they can't just name the board. It's almost treated like its Voldemort or something.

They're deathly afraid of it.

I have been reading everyone's posts and am astounded at the refreshing dialogue and freedom allowed on this forum, so I decided to join.

Good! Welcome to the one true message board. :-)

Mormon Discussion - So far it seems like the right balance of everything.

And with that you're 100% correct.

[_bcspace]

Mormon Discussion - So far it seems like the right balance of everything.

It's a great format, superior to the MDD. But not enough TBMs.

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[_Quasimodo]

Welcome Racer!

I'm sure you will enjoy your time here. Everything is discussed and the moderators are wise and fair. The rules are all common sense and no subject is banned if it's in the correct forum (even then it is usually moved to the appropriate place instead of being deleted). There is even an off topic forum if you want to rant about politics unrelated to Mormonism or discuss a great movie you just viewed.

Have fun!

[_Blixa]

Hey Racer. I'd take Stak's advice if I were you : )

This board has a long history and many of the "regulars" have complicated histories with each other both on and off board. There are several communities here, in fact, and some of them have nothing at all to do with each other.

I've been away from Mormonism most of my life and now I've lived outside of Utah over half my life. A little over a decade ago, some work I was doing in contemporary art/history of photography surprisingly reawakened an interest in western Americana and the history of Utah Mormonism, two things quite far from my usual scholarly occupations. Since my new interest coincided with the birth of "Mormon studies," I've been drawn into reading and research I could have never predicted.

This is one reason why I read and write here. The other is the friendships I've been lucky enough to make.

I wrote about this in a post last year: Of Vomit and Honey: why I post at MDB.

This might also be an interesting thread for newbies.

[_Cicero]

Hi there Racer (and everyone else). I also just joined the board. I used to be very engaged in Mormon studies (as a reader mostly) in the late 90's and early 00's but I have been out of the loop for the last 6-7 years (working long hours for big law firms). I happened to be looking at RFM to read the exchange between Thomas Phillips and Elder Holland (I know Tom's son) and it was there I learned about the DCP firing, which led me to this board.

So what else did I miss for the last 7 years? ;)

The last serious thing I did for Mormon studies was attend a conference on Mormon theology at Yale, which was interesting because it had TBMs like Givens and Millet as well as apostates (Michael Quinn) and even evangelical critics (I can't remember the name of the book but a few evangelicals had just written a book challenging Mormonism on theological/doctrinal grounds, which was very interesting and of a much higher quality than your average anti-mormon tripe. It was the first conference of its kind and I thought they intended to hold more of them. Anyone know what happened with that?

Good to see Dr. Shades is still around. I remember perusing his page way back in the day.