Jersey Girl wrote:Maybe you guys should try to avoid dealing in revisionist history. bcspace, whether you care for his online personality and methods or not, was a pretty strong LDS poster here. How some of you guys can ignore the underhanded s*** that sometimes happens on a board like this is beyond me.
Probably because no one has done it to you.
Well, years ago it was done to me and the gloating I see here on the thread, disgusts me. It's been done to various TBM's /NOM's here over the years, with the possible exception of the first version of this board when everyone was so damn happy have this board.
My guess is that the TBM's/NOM's aren't going to handle things the same way that I did years ago. Me, I tend to dig in my heels.
bcpace has been a regular feature on this board and others. When a board loses it's opposition, it loses it's edge.
I do not know anything underhanded that happened to bcspace on this board. If you know of anything specific, please say what it was.
I engaged with bcspace on many occasions during the time he posted here. My impression is that he was an intelligent and dedicated LDS controversialist, who felt that the LDS church was so much in the right that pretty well anything he did that ended up with his claiming to be on the winning side was OK.
Basically, he could cope with any number of non-mormons or ex-mormons arguing with him; if they appeared to have won on any given point, he went away for a while and came back later to have another go with the same arguments (we must have been round the point about the date of arrival of humans in Australia being inconsistent with his 'pre-Adamites' theory at least three times.) He was coated overall in finest teflon, and proud of it.
However, so far as I recall his final departure came not long after the CoJCoLDS published the essays - which made several of his favored positions no longer tenable. In a way, I miss him. But it seems that the ecology of Mopologetics no longer has a favorable niche for his species.
But what can you do? He came here to argue, others argued back, the church cut the ground from under him, and in the end he realized he couldn't win. So he left. What were his opponents supposed to do? Not answer him? But if they did answer him, and knew what they were about, his end was inevitable.