[Vision2020] Response to Website Contact (rec'd from TomandRodna.com)

[Paul Rumelhart]

If these people are anonymous, how do we know they are all from the same church?

Also, I wasn't claiming that anyone here was demonizing anybody, only that 
society demonizes the concept of "sexual offender"; so much so that even being 
accused of a sex crime and proven innocent later can still screw up your life.  
It's not too much of a stretch to think that arguing against this sort of thing 
can get you into trouble, depending upon what your circumstances are.  Hence, a 
possible reason for the anonymity.

In today's world where your iPad follows your movements and multi-national 
conglomerates follow your every webpage click, I would say that privacy and 
anonymity are in need of defending upon occasion.

Paul

P.S.  Practice safe web browsing - run Adblock and NoScript or their equivalents 

and delete cookies from obvious ad agencies.


----- Original Message ----
From: Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
To: Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>
Cc: Rosemary Huskey <donaldrose at cpcinternet.com>; Moscow Vision 2020 
<vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wed, April 27, 2011 4:21:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Response to Website Contact (rec'd from 
TomandRodna.com)

If all the anonymity is coming from the same members of the same church, that's 
not a good thing. Not good because it might be hiding the true opinions and 
influence of the church or it's members.

And I can't help but note how ironic it is that you use the term "demonize." 
When NSA calls secularism "evil," when Bouma's pastor calls Mormons 
"blasphemous" -- both cases of literal demonization -- it gets counted as 
"religious" opinion. Yet pointing out that a pedophile has been left in the care 
of an unqualified pastor is "demonization."



On Apr 26, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 04/26/2011 08:09 AM, Rosemary Huskey wrote:
>> Hi Tom and Visionaries,
>> Because "Concerned" isn't concerned enough to sign his/her name we can
>> easily dismiss his/her opinions.
> 
> While I can sympathize with this statement in a lot of different 
> contexts, there are plenty of times where anonymity can be a good 
> thing.  For example, when you want to state an unpopular opinion 
> relating to a topic that is often demonized to such a degree that merely 
> stating that someone is going too far can bring unwelcome pressure to 
> bear upon yourself.
> 
> I'm not actually that "Concerned", though.
> 
> Paul
> 
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