It's just that it's been over 20 years since I was on there, and yeah, I was something like a TBM then, though if you read between the lines back then, it was pretty obvious that I was more well-balanced than that, but when you're playing a role...
Anyway, even before I broke with faith, I didn't believe that Mormonism was the only way to God, nor did I think that an omnipotent and omniscient God would punish people for exercising their free will (free agency, agency, choice, freedom of choice, whatever morgdom was selling that week, etc.), when unlike [They/She/He/Xe/It/Hir/etc.], people don't have all the deets. So that informed a lot of what I had to say.
I was just thinking some of you here were probably there too in whatever guises. If so, salutations and thanks, even if we thought we were on opposite sides of the argument back then.
Tyson, just because
P.S. Sorry about the obscurity. alt.religion.mormon was a Usenet "newsgroup" as noted below.
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I believe Kerry is now exmo. He posted here for awhile. However, I think he got over mormonism. He was making videos about chess. Search for the backyard professor.
I don't miss anything Usenet, especially alt.religion.mormonism and the subsequent soc.religion.mormonism which could be moderated. My late wife was one of the moderators. What a futile, thankless job.
Susan I/S Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We had a lot of trolls, nasty trolls from there.
We did too. Of course in those days I was moderating an LDS chatroom. I wasn't ex-LDS yet. But people from those forums liked to come in and cause trouble. I had to use my hammer a lot. LOL
I'll do you one better. My first Mormon discussion group was Mormon-L, which started in 1988 on BYU servers. Mormon-L was a UNIX based Listserv, and you got e-mails from the server once a day with all the discussions. There was no WWW back then. Also, you needed a job in the government (me) or academia to have access to e-mail. Very lively discussions until a BYU professor (Midgley) got upset at the conversatiosn and got it kicked off the BYU servers.