I don't know - During a lot of the time I spent there it was a great mix....
Of the senior members there was a pretty even mix of native americans, religious-hating atheists, buddhists, jews, liberal non-denominational Christians on one side and fundies of the mormon, 7th day adventist, catholic, muslim, and bapstist varieties on the other (like that synopsis? lol). A lot of decent middle of the road people too.
It kinda worked out and there were more than enough decent people on there. I think there were even little cliques that kind of developed over time.
It actually went negative when I realized I had fallen into a "clique" myself and it contained at least one total narcissistic obsessive psycho. I think it's a large part of why I got turned off of spirituality altogether. I was having a good old time getting into all of this positive new-agey spirtuality stuff, and I even started thinking maybe I was a pantheist, but that whole experience put a bad taste in my mouth and from what I've seen and heard, including from you, it sounds like the boards just got more and more overrun with fundies. It was really awesome at one time though!- I will say that.
You should ask niki what his name was on the boards. It would be funny it's someone I knew. Anyhoo, nice meeting you! |