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Date: October 24, 2016 01:00AM
You'll have to ask others, but I regularly have people come to town and buy me lunch, etc. after connecting with me off-board. Several, including "Still Anon," met me when they were cab customers.
I'm going to keep those other confidences at this point, however, even though many of the regulars know my "inner circle," including the old-timers in ADMIN. That includes a close friend who hosts another sight and is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW).
Now given that I've acquired a fair amount of actual clinical training (grad level, honest), I'll point out that your "attention getting" ploy of asking about the "hierarchy" of the board is evidence of some perceptual issues you might want to address. If your were truly sophisticated, you would've observed the board dynamics first, rather than engage in "drama llama" tactics.
Feel free to defend Dan Vogel, however. I did engage him when he came here because he objected--on "semantic grounds"--to folks who were referring to Joseph Smith as a pedophile. But that wasn't during the initial brouha he brought down upon himself; it was much later, and he promptly ran back to the FAIR board hollering about how RFM had mistreated him.
To address the issue from a clinical and technical standpoint, JS wasn't a pedophile (since his targets weren't children but rather adolescents), but his defense of Joseph Smith as a "genuine believer"--which purveyors of "Pious Frauds" were--is ludicrous. JS was a sexual predator, period.
Here's an excellent example from the historical record, and I'm promise the don't teach it in Sunday School.
http://www.mrm.org/law-interviewFinally, to borrow some advice an old sponsor gave me ("Here's some more good advice you can ignore"), I'll suggest if you're serious about "recovering from Mormonism," you'll put the focus back on yourself and restrain from judging others until you actually have some authentic recovery under you.