And no, I have never seen a discussion here that even remotely reminds me of that place. It wasn't snipey one-liner packed threads. The posts were long and countered quoted points. Well thought out and respectful. Now that I think about it, by the time I fell away the major players were moving on, new posters joining were more like here and the discussion was worthless by then. Soon after it went belly up.
Like me I think that forum satisfied many of those posters from those "golden" years in regard to arguing religion.It was so thorough & well done the issue had been settled in my mind. Had seen just about every argument hashed-out by both sides more than once.
I wish I had a record of at least some of it. Those guys had brutal standards and I came away thinking I'd been rather privileged to have been able to find,read and discuss it all with them. I wasn't as knowledgeable as them at first but believe I wasinitially granted admittance in spite of this due to the fact I was on a most earnest quest.
While I've no doubt we have some very smart, disciplined thinking folks here, it's pretty clear little effort is spent applying such things here in this forum. One advantage about early days on the net was there were a lot fewer web-sites. Here in this forum many OPs are just a link, article snippet and a comment and all lineup to exchange the same remarks as the last 43,650 times. In the old days we had to mostly compose our own posts and what-not. I'm not too crazy about the newer method of kicking off religious discussion (if our DU religion forum is representative).& I suppose it is a sort of justice that the discussion that generally follows the link/article/comment OP method consists of equally effort-free one line sniper shots.
Julie
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