LDSToronto wrote:Ya, well, the other billion people in the world don't care much for Mormonism, either, and yet we have a great multitude of carryings-ons about that topic around here, don't we?
H.
DCP, Pahoran, and Liz do not equate to the Mormon Church. Delusions of grandeur notwithstanding, of course.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
LDSToronto wrote:Ya, well, the other billion people in the world don't care much for Mormonism, either, and yet we have a great multitude of carryings-ons about that topic around here, don't we?
H.
DCP, Pahoran, and Liz do not equate to the Mormon Church. Delusions of grandeur notwithstanding, of course.
Oh, come on, Harmony, surely you understand the appeal and place of drama within a community. It's why Corrie has lasting appeal.
And if you don't like it, you can always change the channel and watch PBS.
H.
"Others cannot endure their own littleness unless they can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level." ~ Ernest Becker "Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death." ~ Simone de Beauvoir
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Well, I certainly don't want to here anyone bitch about Dr. Scratch's informants any more...
V/R Dr. Scratch
Yes, all of the decrying Dr Scratch's informants as non-existent because they are not named. Yet, Pahoran's 'informant' goes unnamed. Where are the defenders' outcries of disbelief of the existence of Pahoran's unnamed 'informant'?
harmony wrote:I've read through this thread, and others, and I'm still left wondering: who the hell cares who Scratch is in the real world?
I can guarantee no one cares in my office, or in the office next door, or even in the city down the road, or in the next state, or the capitol of the country or any other country around the world. And I seriously don't care.
I think DCP cares. Wrongly, in my opinion.
What DCP should care about is doing his apologetics right, treating people properly, writing with honesty and integrity. If he was a good example of Mormonism in his apologetic endeavours Scratch would have nothing to post about.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
harmony wrote:I've read through this thread, and others, and I'm still left wondering: who the hell cares who Scratch is in the real world?
I can guarantee no one cares in my office, or in the office next door, or even in the city down the road, or in the next state, or the capitol of the country or any other country around the world. And I seriously don't care.
I think DCP cares. Wrongly, in my opinion.
What DCP should care about is doing his apologetics right, treating people properly, writing with honesty and integrity. If he was a good example of Mormonism in his apologetic endeavours Scratch would have nothing to post about.
Kishkumen wrote:Oh, and Shades, could you knock off the Nazi auto-correct BS?
You can turn off the auto-correct yourself:
Click on User CP toward the top of the screen, underneath the words "Liar!" "Heathen!"
Toward the left, click on Board preferences.
Underneath that, click on Edit display options.
To the right, next to Enable word censoring, select No.
Click Submit.
bspace wrote:1. All this deleting of accounts is really stupid.
I only delete accounts that have no posts after one year--a strategy to get rid of spam-bot registrants who artificially inflate our board numbers.
I only keep the most recent 1,000 accounts active--currently everyone who has registered within the past year or logged in during March of 2009 or later--all the other accounts past that 1,000 are merely disabled, not deleted. If one of them returns and wants to re-activate the account, they get my e-mail address and I reactivate it upon request. The reason I do this is for honesty's sake; I don't want to lead people believe that there are more active posters here than there really are. (In my opinion, not having logged in in over three and a half years disqualifies one as being "active.")
"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?"
Dr. Shades wrote:I only keep the most recent 1,000 accounts active--currently everyone who has registered within the past year or logged in during March of 2009 or later--all the other accounts past that 1,000 are merely disabled, not deleted. If one of them returns and wants to re-activate the account, they get my e-mail address and I reactivate it upon request. The reason I do this is for honesty's sake; I don't want to lead people believe that there are more active posters here than there really are. (In my opinion, not having logged in in over three and a half years disqualifies one as being "active.")
You should follow the standard: delete accounts only when the reach the age 110.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
Dr. Shades wrote:(In my opinion, not having logged in in over three and a half years disqualifies one as being "active.")
The Church calls these people "less active" but still includes them in their published numbers....
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
Drifting wrote:The Church calls these people "less active" but still includes them in their published numbers....
Yeah, well, I try to avoid using the church's yardstick when measuring my own integrity. :-)
"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?"
