Posted by Lou Pilder on April 13, 2013, at 8:29:11
In reply to Re: Lou's reminder to Mr. Hsiung-psuhportihv?, posted by PartlyCloudy on December 23, 2010, at 11:12:28
> Wow, this is from a while ago.
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> I was just mentioning to a good friend of mine about how I don't post on the Faith board. Inevitably, my eyes stray to it at this time of year. I remember when I first joined Babble and was naively excited at the prospect of such a board. (Likening it, in my mind, to a place such as Belief.Net, where multiple belief systems and backgrounds are tolerated and exchanges were encouraged.) I did not find the Babble board to be an equivalent of such a place, and quickly took my leave.
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> I was dismayed, but also thought that I didn't have it in me to try to speak up about any other points of view I might have wanted to discuss. Instead, I retreated from the board.
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> At that time, and in the time since, I have watched Lou Pilder try in his way to be heard on the boards, but to no apparent avail. I'm actually stymied by the reception that someone's personal experiences and point of view is not welcome on, of all possible places, the Faith board.
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> Perhaps, since I have found my voice (at last), I could entreat others to consider that Lou has a valid voice that deserves to be heard, just as any other member of our Babble community?
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> respectfully,
> PartlyCloudyPC,
Yoou wrote the aove. If you could return to this thread, IMHHHO lives could be saved for you may be able to bring out the fact that the prohibitions to me (redacted by respondent)because they did not have the opportunity to hear from me on how they could be free from addiction and depression from a Jewish perspective as revealed to me.
Lou
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