In Praise of the Catholic Answers Forum - You have blessed us

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JonNC said:
This was do kind of you, to mention me in your comments. Thank you.
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Hey, it’s all about appreciating the gift we’ve been given, the opportunity to dialog. It doesn’t matter that we hit heads once in awhile! 😆
JonNC said:
I was planning to do something like this on the 15th, which marks the 13th anniversary of my join date at CAF.
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Whew, you are an old-timer! Please do something like this on the 15th, and feel free to invite me. The people who ran CAF did the best they could, I’m sure it wasn’t easy, and for certain it was mostly thankless.
 
goout said:
Thank you for your kind and thoughtful words!
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It’s amazing. I know I’ve butted heads with you more than once, but I’ve also read some really insightful and well-thought posts of yours. Hope you going wherever I end up. Are you active somewhere else?
 
I am deeply grateful for CAF. I learned a great deal, got lots of support in my faith life.

I regret a few of my posts where I got involved in controversies and shed more heat than light but hopefully shed a little light now and then.
 
Some more names:
rinnie gurneyhalleck1
SD_Catholic
JustaServant (I already mentioned him, sort of) bpbasilphx. Bookcat
 
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goout:
Thank you for your kind and thoughtful words!
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It’s amazing. I know I’ve butted heads with you more than once, but I’ve also read some really insightful and well-thought posts of yours. Hope you going wherever I end up. Are you active somewhere else?
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I joined the Isidore lounge and look forward to seeing your posts as well. You challenged me to think outside the box.
Perhaps the new venue will be less reflexively combative. I look forward to passing the peace.
 
JonNC said:
Some more names:
rinnie gurneyhalleck1
SD_Catholic
JustaServant (I already mentioned him, sort of) bpbasilphx. Bookcat
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When you do your 12/15 thread, put the @ sign in front, so that they get the message, like @SD_Catholic or @JustaServant or @Bookcat etc.
 
ProVobis said:
you people have provided me with the mental stimulation
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I got a chuckle out of that phrase, as I was thinking of some of the “mental stimulation” I have received. It is a diplomatic phrase.
 
You’re very kind to think of me. I’ve been blessed to come to know many from this list, many of whom I consider friends outside of CAF, including you.

In fact, much of the “sparring” that I did here almost a decade ago (WOW!) was instrumental in building my interest in pursuing the public ministry. Not only because it made me examine my beliefs more deeply, but because I needed to formulate my beliefs in pastoral ways. I don’t post much anymore. There’s just not a lot of time on vicarage. But I lurk from time to time, and I smile at much of what I see.
 
I’ve got mixed feelings about the end, y’all.
But, to everyone reading this,
FOLLOW THE TRUTH. (John 14:6)
 
I was thinking about using deep brain stimulation but that’s a procedure they already use. That and deep state. 🙂
 
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CAF has blessed me as well and has been gracious enough to allow me to share my writing, which is often copied from my blog posts. I am sad to see CAF go, but I do empathize with the reasons.

I do have one concern, and that is for the people here who rely on this as a form of community, especially during this time when community in the “real world” has been taken away. I feel they will become depressed and not know what to do. Some support should be given to them in making this transition to another community. How is this to be done? There are no easy answers in this “covid culture,” but together, we must search for the answers, with prayer. We now have an entire culture built around a disease (bioweapon, 5G, whatever you think it is) and such a culture, will itself be diseased.

People need help in building new lives they can cope with. This is a ministry unto itself, which perhaps could replace this forum and provide real solutions for people, better lives than forum addiction. Some we may not be able to help, such as “shut-ins,” physically or mentally ill people. This may be the best they can do, the best they have. They will probably search for another forum. They need our prayers.

Blessings to all in this Christmas Season:)

Chiara F Mathews
New York
 
CF_Mathews said:
I do have one concern, and that is for the people here who rely on this as a form of community, especially during this time when community in the “real world” has been taken away. I feel they will become depressed and not know what to do.
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The timing of this action could not have been worse in many ways, yet one more hit from 2020, but economics plays no favorites. I am confident Catholic Answers is doing what they have to.
 
@pnewton, It has been good reading your posts over the years. Hope to occasionally see you on some other forum.
 
I enjoyed Contarini’s posts - to call them knowledgeable would be a serious understatement. He no longer posts here, since even before the switchover.
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Might this latecomer ask whatever did happen to Contarini? I remember him back when i was last here a decade or so back (i completely missed out on him taking the plunge and converting!), and he always had such insightful things to say - but apparently he’s been gone since 2017?
 
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I think he just lost interest in us, sometime just before the forum converted to Discourse.
 
LastMinute said:
I enjoyed Contarini’s posts - to call them knowledgeable would be a serious understatement. He no longer posts here, since even before the switchover.
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My understanding is he (finally) crossed the Tiber after a long time contemplating.
He was one of the most knowledgeable and enjoyable posters here.
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I’m little late to the party here, but I would like to thank @Genesis315 for his very insightful posts on many topics, especially the teachings of the Second Vatican Council; frankly, they were instrumental in keeping me from apostatizing. I am forever indebted to you.

Along the same lines, I also want to thank @Vico. I always enjoyed reading your posts. In many of them, I found resolutions to difficulties I had been facing. Thank you.
 
I have benefited a lot from this forum over the last 15 years and I am grateful to have been able to hand on to others what I learned. Despite its flaws, this was a means where truth could be shared and handed on (traditio) more easily than others in the world today.

While we don’t get as many of the classic Anti-Caths coming in here slinging verses like we seemed to get earlier on (their dwindling presence a testament itself to CAF–a lot of their classic cheesy websites seemed to have died off too), I’m glad I saved this gif that @Church_Militant used to punctuate his posts after putting them in their place lol.

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My understanding is he (finally) crossed the Tiber after a long time contemplating.
He was one of the most knowledgeable and enjoyable posters here.
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I vaguely recall a wonderful ‘essay’ essentially writing about how he couldn’t really conceive of himself in many of the more Modern Protestant iterations of Christianity (i take it he meant something more like Seventh Day Adventist than Lutheranism Jon, although he did make the claim he was an evangelical…of a sort…), his own ambivalence of staying where he was, his problems with the Catholic Church (many of them accurate issues), and the “organized chaos” he found when he flirted with forms of Orthodoxy.

I always enjoyed the amount of thought he put into his analysis - it was a true delight to read.
 
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