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Posted by: L Tom Petty ( )
Date: March 30, 2016 09:52PM


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Posted by: anontoday ( )
Date: March 30, 2016 09:58PM

I haven't been on here much lately...so what happened to Steve Benson?

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Posted by: Dafydd ( )
Date: March 30, 2016 10:17PM

He still posts every now and then under the screen name "^"

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Posted by: dagny ( )
Date: March 30, 2016 10:00PM

Me too.

We have no professional provocateur in the house to make things more interesting. :-)

Talented guy. Glad we have a lot of his posts in history to reference.

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Posted by: summer ( )
Date: March 30, 2016 10:20PM

He's still here. Not sure why he had to go incognito, but I'm sure he has his reasons.

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Posted by: jojo ( )
Date: March 30, 2016 10:21PM

I don't have the time or patience to read his long posts.

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Posted by: Lethbridge Reprobate ( )
Date: March 30, 2016 11:33PM

+100

RB

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Posted by: Jonny the Smoke ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 01:46PM

Or the re-post of the re-post of the re-post of the post.

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Posted by: bona dea unregistered ( )
Date: March 30, 2016 10:22PM

I thought there was some question of whether that is Benson or someone reposting his stuff. There doesnt seem to be anything new although I havent followed it closely.

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Posted by: Anon for this ( )
Date: March 30, 2016 10:40PM

Someone suggested he left because he was recently re baptized in the LDS church.

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Posted by: Doxi ( )
Date: March 30, 2016 10:42PM

Anon for this Wrote:
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> Someone suggested he left because he was recently
> re baptized in the LDS church.
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And I am Queen Marie of Romania.

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Posted by: saucie ( )
Date: March 30, 2016 10:50PM

Doxi Wrote:
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> Anon for this Wrote:
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> -----
> > Someone suggested he left because he was
> recently
> > re baptized in the LDS church.
> ================================
> And I am Queen Marie of Romania.


Yeah and I'm Zoolander.

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Posted by: L Tom Petty ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 03:26PM


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Posted by: randyj ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 01:45PM

"And I am Queen Marie of Romania."

Really? I'm the long-lost Dauphin.

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Posted by: Dennis Moore ( )
Date: March 30, 2016 10:46PM

Anon for this Wrote:
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> Someone suggested he left because he was recently
> re baptized in the LDS church.

Oh yeah, and I'm Freddie Mercury reincarnated! ;)

-Freddie/Dennis

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Posted by: nitrameequc ( )
Date: March 30, 2016 11:23PM

You guys are hilarious. Thumbs up !

30 yrs ago, I lived up on the avenues on SLC . I had 7 roommates, & one of'em swore to God himself that she was Joan D'Arc. ( Only she wasn't kidding & B.S'ing) She swore in her previous life that she was Joan of Arc, & Her & Jesus had sex every night.
This was right after my mission & I got out of that apt. situation PDQ.

You guys are fun.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/30/2016 11:30PM by nitrameequc.

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Posted by: thingsithink ( )
Date: March 30, 2016 11:30PM

Me too.

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Posted by: themaster ( )
Date: March 30, 2016 11:35PM

Word on the street is Steve will be named the next Special Witness to the name of Jesus Christ.

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Posted by: eaglejedi ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 01:15AM

I think he is still engaged in finding who really killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman

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Posted by: bona dea ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 03:19PM

Uh, that isnt much of a mystery.

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Posted by: rhgc ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 04:01PM

I know the actual killer and it is NOT OJ. The proof that OJ is innocent is easy. But I can prove who was the killer right down to the reason for each piece of evidence including the blood placement, the hairs in the cap, the specific locations of blood on the Bronco, the voice calling the LAPD at 10:15, the reason killer used the specific method of killing Nicole and more.

Someday I hope to meet Steve Benson. If Steve reads this I give the authority to the forum chiefs to relay my email to him.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/31/2016 04:02PM by rhgc.

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Posted by: Tom Phillips ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 04:08AM

Steve (via his archived posts on RFM), Richard Packham and the Tanners helped me 'see the light' as a deeply indoctrinated TBM. Of course the actual evidence against TSCC is their own scriptures and the teachings of their own 'prophets. However, I could not fully see that without the help of the above and others.

Thanks Steve and I,like many others, miss your posts.

Tom

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Posted by: Mythb4meat ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 05:19AM

I miss his new posts greatly. His writing talent, intellect, and subject knowledge are off the charts! My guess is he will be actively back with us in maybe a month or three?

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Posted by: themaster ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 07:06AM

Like Tom - reading the things Steve wrote was one of the reasons I was able to admit to myself Mormonism was fake.

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Posted by: Shummy ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 09:28AM

Who is Steve Benson?

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Posted by: Kristy ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 10:13AM

PGA golf pro...apparently miss him, but as far as I know he is still swinging his putter around (I am not a golfer).

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Posted by: cricket ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 10:22AM

co-produced by John Dehlin and Richard Packham titled "Kolob Shrugged."

The longest scene in the movie is his the 65 minute address in General Conference which brings the house down, literally speaking.

I miss Steve Benson, his energy, intelligence, wit and wisdom here as well.

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Posted by: blueorchid ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 10:13AM

Mr. No Stone Unturned? Miss him.

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Posted by: iflewover ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 12:43PM

Steve was instrumental in helping me see the light.

Forever grateful.

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Posted by: shannon ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 02:02PM

Oh Lordy...he didn't go anywhere you guys. Just like one of the first posters said, his screen name is now ^.

Yup. ^ = Steve Benson.

He hasn't gone anywhere. Do an RfM search. His stuff is just as good.

Yer welcome,
;o)

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Posted by: Nightingale ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 03:48PM

The ^ posts are reposts. While excellent they are archival material, not the daily cut and thrust of the live debates.

What I really missed in 2015/16 were his Christmas and Easter treatises on why there is no God the Father, God the Son or God the Holy Ghost. And no Santa. Definitely no Easter Bunny.

Or wait. Maybe not so much with the holiday/holy day stuff. :)

Still, archives are essential to our civilization. Keeping the record straight. Preserving critical material for future hordes.

Steve definitely has the background and experience to shine a light on Mormonism in ways that few of us can do. For some Mormons/exmos, as Tom Phillips and others say, the material Steve provided helped them see what nothing else could.

I wish I could be as much help as that to anybody at all, about anything.

All I can say with regard to religion, pretty much, is that I was a dupe, a dope, a double-dipped disappointed dissenter.

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Posted by: cinda ( )
Date: March 31, 2016 03:59PM

I, too, am grateful to Steve. When I(a nevermo) first moved to Utah in 1993, I was quite active on this board, in seeking ways to understand and to deal with the shunning of our TBM neighbors and Steve was most helpful with several suggestions as well as with much insight into the Mormon mindset and attitudes.

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