Well that didn’t last long.
Louis Midgley LaneWolfley
an hour ago
Lane:
I now have had time to think more about my decision not to respond to those who come to Dan's blog merely to pick a fight or, from the perspective of their world, thrash the faith of Latter-day Saints.
I think that they need to be answered once or twice or even perhaps ten times. "No more slam dunks."
But when one cannot befriend them, and cannot know who they are or why they hold the opinions the do, and keep on upping the rhetorical violence, even what I call the "fun factor" ceases to be relevant. And I now feel sort of ashamed of pounding away at one person who must have set a world's record that should stand as long as I am alive, for posted comments. He has never once addressed a comment in which any Latter-day Saint has tried to educated him on our faith or show the folly of his dogmatic ideology. I should have limited myself to perhaps ten responses and then ignored him.
you should definitely feel ashamed, midgley. You behave like a toddler throwing a tantrum, whose parents have never once told him NO.
But your point is that we only really have success in an exchange when their is genuine friendship. I cannot document how many years I was part of FairMormon, but it was at least five years. And my only real contribution, other then telling some stories, was responding to question sent to us. For most months I was second in responding to questions that were sent to FM. And I most often did a Google seach on the name in the hopes that I could know who they were.
WOW. So that’s what FairMormon does.
The more I knew about them, the better I could address their questions. For example, just recognizing that someone sending a question from ihug lives in New Zealand, made it possible for me to immediately befriend them. I made well over fifteen good friends in that way. We had something in common. We often knew some of the same people, and so forth. So we could trust each other. One Sunday evening I noticed a question by someone concerned about John Dehlin's antics. And, instead, of going to bed, I typed a brief reply. And offered, as I sometimes did, to have them phone me. This happened early the next morning. In this way I instantly formed a solid friendship with John Dehlin's older sister. And she is now on the FairMormon Board of Directors. And she has interview me, and many people have told me that they very much enjoyed that interview.
The three virtues that Christianity added to the famous cardinal virtues of wisdom, the love of which is philosophy, justice, courage and moderation, are faith, hope and love. And the greatest of these is love, since this is the more important divine attribute than even his power.
I don’t even know what to say. Midgley hounds people about their personal details because he just wants to be good friends? Right.
Given the tons and tons of filthy trash I’ve seen him post in just the past year, I have to believe this is some sort of a re-write to assuage his aching conscience.
In no way could the utter crap he has subjected gemli to, for example, be re-interpreted now as an overture toward friendship, in light of this post.
Midgley’s fake reasons are nothing new, but WOW, what an eye-opener about the shady methods of FairMormon members who have responded to questions from doubting members.
Link:
https://disqus.com/home/discussion/danp ... 4633896351