[awareness]

Aron, some years back trying to see if the local church had changed I joined a local church forum on yahoo groups.

For a couple of months I was just a lurker. Then I started posting innocent teaser posts, to see what would happen.

But all I got was cut and paste answers quoting from Life-Studies.

So I got things stirred up when I asked if the forum was a computer generated algorithm. Then we had some real discussions.

Things went well until I revealed I was an ex-local churcher. Then I got banned from the forum.

I went round and round with the forum moderators, one of them putting me back on the forum, and the other kicking me off.

I even reached out to Ron Kangas thru email, who said he tried to help me but had no power over the forum.

The good moderator told me that local churchers were told to stay away from ex-local churchers ... and that's why I got banned.

So I joined to find out if the local church had changed, and found out that it hadn't.