From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #1006 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Thursday, March 20 2003 Volume 01 : Number 1006 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:54:37 -0800 From: "Jeff Needle" Subject: RE: [AML] AML-List Moderator Practices Mormon-l is alive and well. I've been a member for many years. It's actually a direct descendant of the list that was on BYU's servers. These days it's the very antithesis of this list -- wild, contentious, free-wheeling. It's a broad mix of member, non-member (like myself), anti-member and just a lot of lurkers. They're located at mormon-l@smartgroups.com. - ---------------- Jeffrey Needle jeff.needle@general.com - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 22:11:14 EST From: RichardDutcher@aol.com Subject: Re: [AML] AML-List Moderator Practices In a message dated 3/18/2003 7:22:46 PM Mountain Standard Time, Chris.Bigelow@UnicityNetwork.com writes: << I do really appreciate AML-List's maintaining its focus on literary things. Otherwise it would probably just turn into an all-purpose Mormon list. >> The more I think about it, the more I agree with Chris on this point. However, as long as our conversations relate to Mormon arts and letters, I strongly maintain that all members should be allowed to express themselves freely. AML should operate free of the stench of authoritarian censorship. Richard Dutcher - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 20:07:10 -0600 From: "Paris Anderson" (by way of Jonathan Langford ) Subject: [AML] Re: Elizabeth Smart [MOD: It's a little embarrassing to expose my practice so baldly here, but that's okay, I guess...] > Jeff Needle wrote: > > > >> Another book could be written about her previous attempts to run away, > >> rebellion problems she was having with her family, her inexplicable > >> reluctance to either escape, or ask for help of other adults, when it > >would > >> have been so simple. >These are not my exact word. They belong to our moderator. He thought mine were a little too strong and offensive. I don't see what he's talking about, but I'm willing to trust him. That is the value of a moderator--at least, to me. "Maybe my perspective on this is a little different from everyone else's, but I feel very strongly about this." (End of moderator) The number one rule is survival. Everything else--the gospel, the church, politics, books, school, friends--that's all fluff. When you're a kid you adapt. Anything to keep the number one rule. When you're scared and survival is very much in doubt, everything goes out the window--even common sense. What Elizabeth did was try to survive. Survival has value. She's still alive, so she did a good job. In five to ten years maybe she'll find value in all that fluff. > > > >Adults get ideals mixed up with their rules, and that's where torture come into play. You have to convince them rules are more important than ideals. > > > >Hell of a thing to learn in the mission field, ain't it? > > > >Paris Anderson > > - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #1006 *******************************