What happened? This used to be one of Fido's busiest echos & now it's EMPTY???

I was in here some 20+ years ago, having a grand time pointing out errors in assumptions to atheists & theists alike. . .

I know "God Dan" is hanging on Facebook these days, but he's about the oly ne I've seen since Y2K. . . oh, the lady whose name I always forget, but who was a feisty debater!

Anyone left in here willing to give it a go & put your stance up for public discussion/polishing?

It used to be all about flaming believers, but I don't like that model -- I'd rather see it be a place to discuss different viewpoints of the universe, including the non-physical, equally "real," aspects. . .

& for all to take part in pointing out errors in consistency(with one's own arguments, with history, with science, with others of their belief sector, etc.)

Fine, I'll start; have at it;

I was raised without a denomoniation, mostly as a Golden Rule adherent (Do unto others as you'd prefer they do unto you.); I went to a Baptist Sunay School only because it was the closest that believed in thevalue of the family.

I spent my first 22 years as a stolid & offensive athiest.

After my brain injury & partial paralysis in 1990, I had time to reflect (& more importantly, listen) & realized that God(as a general, non-sectarian concept) is real; the only metaphor I was familiar with was Christianity, so I startred there, studied much with others & on my own, & became just as virulent a promoter as I'd been of atheism.

I've always been honest, t hough, & open to new facts, even if they counter those I believe to be solidly proven. I kept asking questions (as is my nature

-- Curious George is real) & eventually ran into too many non-answers or contradictory ones about Christianity. This led me to slowly discover & study Judaism.

In Judaismn I was delighted tolearn they're not about pat answers -- a question is as liable to ghet 10 new questions in return as an answer(said answer usually leading to other questions, too); I loved this -- more learning, more study.

When I got to the point that my Jewishness was as much a part of who I amn, as is my maleness (I'm pre gender-fluidity), I went through formal conversion to Judaism.

My practice/observance of it is evolving, but my Jewishness is still 100% real & sincere.

I still keep up the learning, of religion(s), sciences, history, & 'most anything else that catches my interest.

Go ahead attack any of this. If you use presuppositional arguments on any angle, I'll tell you right now: you're wrong.

AMA as the kids say. . . :)

But I prefer a friendlyu discourse over a flame-ladebn one, but if you prefer the latter, be ewarmned, I grwew up in Mission, BC, I can give as good & better than I get without even expending any real mental effort.

If I put the effort in, I'll reduce you to a puddle of quivering & ashamed mess of wrongness.

Or have some laughs -- crack wise, tell jokes, be funny, be punny. . .

The echo is utterly empty, I can't see there being any hard & fast rules here.

|<+]:-{)} <-- the Cyberpopicon (official signature emoticon for the Cyberpope -- me!)


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On 12/29/2021 11:49 AM, between "George Pope":

What happened? This used to be one of Fido's busiest echos & now it's EMPTY???

I was in here some 20+ years ago, having a grand time pointing out
errors in assumptions to atheists & theists alike. . .

I remember this one being pretty busy too.

This hobby needs a way to announce which echos are revisited by someone, even if there is just one post after many moons.
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On 12/29/2021 11:49 AM, between "George Pope":

What happened? This used to be one of Fido's busiest echos & now it's
EMPTY???

I was in here some 20+ years ago, having a grand time pointing out
errors in assumptions to atheists & theists alike. . .

I remember this one being pretty busy too.
This hobby needs a way to announce which echos are revisited by someone, even if there is just one post after many moons.

I agree -- it's hit or miss, if I haven't thought to tag it in the "All areas" listing. . .

You're right -- "active areas" should include all with new posts, not just tagged.

I access via the BBS -- you're using QWK, right?

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On 2/1/2022 2:37 PM, between "George Pope": & me

I remember this one being pretty busy too.
This hobby needs a way to announce which echos are revisited by someone, even
if there is just one post after many moons.

I agree -- it's hit or miss, if I haven't thought to tag it in the "All areas" listing. . .

You're right -- "active areas" should include all with new posts, not just tagged.

I access via the BBS -- you're using QWK, right?

No. I use OpenXP (my point prog) for echos that I feel that I would want to participate more often.

I use the nntp-method from (2:221/1) just to check out content and lurk for a while. (I wouldn't mind using nntp from trmb, but the login simply stopped working)

I use the webified interface (trmb.ca/bbbs) when am not not at my usual pc and if I just want to check on the status of messages in familiar echos. The latter seems to have issues, so I try to avoid it.

I played with QWK for a while. But the doing the telnet connection to the bbs, navigating through the menus and triggering a download and the reverse process to upload started to get tedious for me.

I still keep Sempoint in my back pocket though:

https://kolico.ca/fidonet/files/sempoint.avi ,or
https://kolico.ca/fidonet/files/sempoint-preview.zip
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