Forums to be closed
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Sarcelle
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Good suggestion.
I am willing to pay.
This forum is vital to my faith life.
I am willing to pay.
This forum is vital to my faith life.
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Sarcelle
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I feel the same.
Just got a stay at home notice. The hospitals in my town are filled to capacity with people sick from COVID, and thanks to COVID I lost my job.
Now, CAF, my one lifeline to fellow Catholics is closing.
I hate 2020.
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dochawk
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if you do, I could use a dashboard in bloodwood for a 1972 Eldorado (otherewise, I need to learn to do it myself!)
that’s OK; they’re deleting their share of it at the same time as the forum (not so permanent after all, now was it?
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njlisa
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Lots of people, including myself, are re-locating to this forum.
Again, one very big thing here, is whether the forum posts that have already been created, will always be there as a legacy reference resource, or whether they will go “poof” at the end of the year.
I have to think that maintaining a perpetual archive, accessible to anyone, would have only nominal cost to Catholic Answers, if even that. If these archives disappear forever, the Church will be much poorer for it. A lot of people have spent considerable time and mental labor putting all of this together.
I have to think that maintaining a perpetual archive, accessible to anyone, would have only nominal cost to Catholic Answers, if even that. If these archives disappear forever, the Church will be much poorer for it. A lot of people have spent considerable time and mental labor putting all of this together.
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Peeps
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I’m so sorry about your job loss.I feel the same.
Just got a stay at home notice. The hospitals in my town are filled to capacity with people sick from COVID, and thanks to COVID I lost my job.
Now, CAF, my one lifeline to fellow Catholics is closing.
I hate 2020.
I hope you have resources to have your basic needs met.Do you think there’s any possibility that CAF would consider leaving the forums open until the pandemic is over (assuming that the vaccines are efficacious and make a difference)?
After all, one of the biggest crises with this pandemic is depression, despair, and loneliness, as we are all pretty much confined to our homes, a few stores (grocery), and our workplaces (if we work outside our homes).
CAF is a chance to be with other people and talk. I know a lot of people do that on other online platforms, but many of us don’t go near these.
I think it would be an act of Christian charity to leave the forums open, at least until spring when the weather is once again warm and pretty. The last few days here have been rainy, cold, and dreary–a perfect mirror of our dreary lives without music, theater, shopping, church activities, eating out, ice skating and other sports, and socializing.
Anyone else think that makes sense?
And perhaps CAF could itemize exactly how much it costs to leave the Forums open, and we would have a better idea of how much we need to give. I agree, I won’t donate money through an online platform, but if they would let me mail a check, I would do so.
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Dlee
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I always enjoyed your (name removed by moderator)ut - thanks.
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Cruciferi
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Dolphin
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Join the new forum @Tis_Bearself made! It looks very similar to here!
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Dlee
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I’m really sorry to hear this. I’d like to think that I was able to give some sound advice to new converts and those going through RCIA. I know that I’ve been able to ask questions and receive good information. I converted in 2016 and there are always questions after RCIA. I’ve prayed for many posters and have been the benefit of many prayers. CAF has truly filled a void during these times when it is difficult to be part of a faith community. I will miss so many of you.
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ChuckB
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Where’s that flag button. I’ve been triggered. I’m gonna drop a flag on po18guy!
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MNathaniel
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I don’t imagine they would have made such a firm and final-sounding announcement if the decision hadn’t already been thought through over a long period of time, and made definitively. I mean, feel free to ask them, but I imagine they put a lot of thought into this, and the fact that we’re in a pandemic is something they’re aware of and will have factored in – and still decided that on balance, it’s best to close down.
Maybe it’s time to go near one! There really are other online Catholic communities (e.g. the r/Catholicism Discord, which is moderated in part by actual priests). Perhaps it’s time for folks to branch out and seek community in one of the other (free) communities that exists for this purpose, or to form additional online groups. I don’t think we can reasonably expect an apologetics apostolate to continue hosting something so far outside of their core apostolate purpose. They exist to teach the truth in clarity and charity; hosting an often-contentious community discussion platform, where people argue over truth but no authoritative voice explains which voices are closer or further from the truth, simply doesn’t seem consistent with the reasons their donors donate. If anything, the contentiousness and confusion of community discussions here may detract from the credibility of Catholic Answers, whose name is attached.
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MNathaniel
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I don’t think we can say that. I hear what you’re saying about winter being a miserable time of year, and not wanting more misery to be added to it – but they have given us over a month to smoothly transition to other online communities if that’s something we’d like to do. And if the hosts of a forum think this particular forum does more harm than good (I’m not saying they do – but if; they commented on the contention and addictive behaviours here), they might consider it an act of Christian charity to stop enabling a net unhealthy forum. I realize that may suck for those who found they got something healthy from it – but the hosts have to look at the experience for everyone (including those who are affected negatively), not just a few (who are affected positively), and try to balance out more factors than we may be aware of.
I’m not trying to dismiss anyone’s hard feelings over this. I realize that I’m in a privileged position because I had already decided to withdraw from CAF (because I find it net-unhealthy, for me), whereas others had no such intention to stop using CAF, so something new is being removed from them that they didn’t have their own reasons to give up.
I would just encourage everyone to remember that other online Catholic communities do exist, and we have over a month still together to discuss how to find them and exchange username info, if we want to continue with online discussion groups, and if we want to keep our identities continuous across platforms.
One final thought occurs to me… If the ‘community’ built here isn’t of the type that people are willing to exchange username info and put in the minimal effort necessary to find and link to another platform to communicate on, what kind of ‘community’ is it, really? What are people mourning? So if the ‘community’ here really wants to remain a community, they can move together to another location. And if they don’t… well, what kind of ‘community’ was really lost, anyway?
Oh now I feel like singing Anatevka, Anatevka…
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po18guy
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Get in line, bud!
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frumacat
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Very sad to hear this. It’s been a good six years for me on CAF. I’ve enjoyed it.
Thank you for everyone who has ever responded on my prayer requests.
Good luck and Godspeed!
Thank you for everyone who has ever responded on my prayer requests.
Good luck and Godspeed!
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Sarcelle
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I think I will.
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phil3
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I was willing, but when I realized I was going to start getting the 5 to 20 item of junk mail in my mailbox I said to my self nope.
I wonder if they would sell the forums?
I also wonder if it could go back to the old software?
I wonder if they would sell the forums?
I also wonder if it could go back to the old software?
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po18guy
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Going to spin off a thread.
OK, anything which proclaims itself as “great” is most certainly not. Since all “world planners” tend to fall into the hall of shame, some questions to ask:
OK, anything which proclaims itself as “great” is most certainly not. Since all “world planners” tend to fall into the hall of shame, some questions to ask:
- Why is a reset needed at all? Something wrong with “recovery”? CoViD-19 is being used to advance agendas. and this “reset” has been planned since March? I smell a rat.
- Will national sovereignty be preserved?
- Will national currency be retained?
- Who will enforce against dissenters?
- The world recovered by itself - from WWI combined with the 1918-1920 pandemic. Now we need shrunken heads planning it all? Where is God in all of this?
- Is the serpent really the most subtle of all creatures?
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