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_Boaz & Lidia
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Re: This forum lacks substance

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msnobody wrote:
Dr. Shades wrote:
msnobody wrote:Lately it seems to me that the terrestrial forum lacks substance.


So what are you, personally, doing to reverse that trend? Or do you expect everyone else to make the changes for you?

(Remember, always remember, that you must be the change you wish to see at MormonDiscussions.com.)

(Paraphrasing a famous ex-President, "Ask not what MormonDiscussions can do for you. Ask what you can do for MormonDiscussions.)


I was referring to the Terrestrial forum rather than the entire site and mainly to the active posts that night. The night I posted the thread, it seemed that most every thread I clicked on was like when my two young children argue all day. What should I personally have done to reverse the trend? Maybe I should have just sent everyone to bed. : ) Then, DCP chimes in like the third child pointing his finger at the other two.
Yet you continue to come back. Who is it that lacks what?
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Re: This forum lacks substance

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msnobody wrote:I was referring to the Terrestrial forum rather than the entire site and mainly to the active posts that night.


Then allow me to rephrase:

So what are you, personally, doing to reverse that trend in the Terrestrial Forum? Or do you expect everyone else to make the changes in the Terrestrial Forum for you?

(Remember, always remember, that you must be the change you wish to see in the Terrestrial Forum.)

(Paraphrasing a famous ex-President, "Ask not what the Terrestrial Forum can do for you. Ask what you can do for the Terrestrial Forum.)

Does that help?
"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?"

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Re: This forum lacks substance

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Dr. Shades wrote:
msnobody wrote:I was referring to the Terrestrial forum rather than the entire site and mainly to the active posts that night.


Then allow me to rephrase:

So what are you, personally, doing to reverse that trend in the Terrestrial Forum? Or do you expect everyone else to make the changes in the Terrestrial Forum for you?

(Remember, always remember, that you must be the change you wish to see in the Terrestrial Forum.)

(Paraphrasing a famous ex-President, "Ask not what the Terrestrial Forum can do for you. Ask what you can do for the Terrestrial Forum.)

Does that help?


This isn't good. You know what, Shades, msnobody is one of the nicest most decent posters on this board and you're acting like a complete and utter jerk to her, straight up.
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How do you figure?
"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?"

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Dr. Shades wrote:How do you figure?


Accurately.
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Then allow me to rephrase:

"What, exactly, should I have said differently?"

Does that help?
"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?"

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Post by _Jersey Girl »

msnobody wrote:Lately it seems to me that the terrestrial forum lacks substance. Many of the threads are like gripe sessions (trying to refrain from using an expletive).

Yeah, go ahead and throw the rotten tomatoes. Maybe I'm just frustrated because I don't' seem to be achieving eternal progression or it 's late or something. :-P



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Most of the posters here are non believers. They believe the claims made by the church lack merit. It's very difficult to sustain a substantive discussion under such conditions. How do we talk seriously about stuff we don't believe?
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Now that I read the description of the various forums, it is my opinion that much of what I read the night I made the OP, belonged in the telestial forum. Not that my opinion matters.
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Of course your opinion matters. Everyone's opinion matters. If it/they didn't, then we wouldn't have much of a discussion board.
"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?"

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