I know, terrible topic, right?

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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Tyson, what is A.R.M?

Lot's Wife Wrote:
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> Tyson, what is A.R.M?

Ditto for me.

I'm going to go out on a limb* and guess it's short for something.


*am I one of the serial punsters now?

Lot's Wife Wrote:
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> Tyson, what is A.R.M?

A sample,

https://2think.org/hii/arm.shtml

alt.religion.mormon I'd wager. Usenet. NNTP stuff.

Thanks.

Yep.

I used to read arm. I think that's where I first read Kerry Shirts posts. I also read alt.atheism.moderated. alt.atheism was too unruly.

I have lost track of Kerry Shirts. Is he in or out now? He said he was going to start a new YouTube channel, but I haven't seen it.

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 remember that forum.

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.

I am surprised to discover that newsgroups still exist.

We had a lot of trolls, nasty trolls from there.

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> 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

Interesting that they were nasty to everyone.

Some archives . Nevermind. The links didn't work.



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http://ociologia.org/p-synd.com/asfrfaq.htm

http://www.hbkoplowitz.com/LIC/archives/1997/altsex

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet



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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.

I was on the net in 1987 when I worked at Evans & Sutherland. If my memory is correct, we got our feed from "uplherc". We were not edu or gov.