Hopefully, all the Religion Forum posters will be able to find the "niche" that fits their personal need for worship and dialog. The objective is for all RF posters to have a voice without any one group dominating over the others.
Thanks to you for all your gracious sacrificial doings for all of us and especially for The Kingdom of God.
Will check your home page again shortly.
RM: Hopefully, all the Religion Forum posters will be able to find the “niche” that fits their personal need for worship and dialog. The objective is for all RF posters to have a voice without any one group dominating over the others.
To my mind, observation and experience—that’s basic horse sense. I realize you have a more stable mind than a lot of the rest of us put together. But anyone should realize that or start over in kindergarten.
It’s fascinating that self-righteousness seems to be wedded to idolatry.
But most of us learn to put away childish things and grow up enough to realize that
OUR
family, block, neighborhood, congregation . . . whatever
simply
does
NOT
have a corner on absolute truth.
That ‘god,’ idol, perspective of thought and belief
is just toooooooooooooooooooo small for
ALMIGHTY GOD OF THE ANGEL ARMIES; OF THE BIBLE.
I wonder . . . if your definition and guidelines per each thread category . . .
COULD IT BE PLACED AT THE END OF EACH ORIGINAL POST/ARTICLE IN THAT CATEGORY???
It could eventually be made a software automatic thing . . . but until then, perhaps you could ask all of us to be disciplined and thoughtful enough to do so. I shall try to remember to do so on the threads I start.
Might be particularly helpful in establishing more clearly such guidelines in the minds of those new to the Rel Forum as well as moderators functioning in your absence who may not be all that up-to-speed on the refinements evolving on such categories.
I’m only about 20% or maybe 25-30% of my way through tabulating the first month chosen for analysis.
I don’t know if you mean “without any one group dominating over the others” in all respects for any reason in any way
or
‘merely’ no systemic stacked deck unfittingly allowing or unfittingly supporting or encouraging one group to dominate over the others.
My preliminary guesstimate is that one group will come out 60-85% dominating the Rel Forum. To me, 60% is not a big deal. Though, if we consider that there are 3-5 significant (by numbers) religious clubs routinely represented hereon, then 60% may be outrageous in some sense.
I suppose it might meet some sort of ideal to have a near equal number of posts by every represented group. But I doubt that’s your objective nor would it be mine.
I think a more reasonable objective is to remove systemic stacked deck features which have demonstrably tended to support one group having an undue, unfitting advantage over the others. On that score, in spite of all the dust and smoke in the air, I think you are doing a masterful and doggedly slowly effective job. I can’t imagine how anyone would do any better at reaching such a goal.
Herding cats is a nightmare. Training cats is about as difficult. Possible but a very long term project akin to teaching pigeons to play ping pong—only MORE difficult than that.
Below got so long, I think I’m going to cut it and start it’s own thread with it.
Thanks tons for all you model; all you tirelessly do; all you wisely sort out; all you teach us in a variety of ways.