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Where did all the Open Minds Forum members go?

Fri Oct 19, 2012 12:29 pm by Admin

With Open Minds Forum restored now for almost half a year at it's new location with forumotion.com we can now turn to look at reaching out to OMF's original members who have not yet returned home. OMF's original membership was over 6,000 members strong, prior to the proboards suspension, according to the rolls of the time. We can probably safely assume that some of those accounts were unidentified socks. If we were to assume a reasonable guess of maybe as many as 30% possible sock accounts then that would leave potentially somewhere between 4800 to 4900 possible real members to locate. That is still a substantial number of people.

Who were all these people? Some were average individuals with common interests in ufology, exopolitics, globalism, corruption, earthchanges, science and technology, and a variety of other interests. Some just enjoyed being part of a vibrant and unusually interesting community. Others were representative of various insider groups participating in observation and outreach projects, while still others were bonafide intelligence community personnel. All with stake in the hunt for truth in one fashion or another. Some in support of truth, and communication. Others seeking real disclosure and forms of proof. And others highly skeptical of anything or limited subjects. The smallest division of membership being wholly anti-disclosure oriented.

So where did these members vanish to? They had many options. There are almost innumerable other forums out there on the topics of UFO's or Exopolitics, the Unexplained, and Conspiracy Theory. Did they disappear into the world-wide network of forum inhabitants? Did some go find new homes on chatrooms or individual blogs? Did they participate in ufo conventions or other public events and gatherings? How about those who represented groups in special access? Or IC and military observers? Those with academic affiliations? Where did they all go and what would be the best way to reach out and extend an invitation to return?

And what constitutes a situation deserving of their time and participation? Is the archive enough? How exactly do people within the paradigm most desire to define a community? Is it amenities, humanity or simply population size for exposure? Most of the special guests have been emailed and have expressed that population size for exposure is what most motivates them. But not all. Long-time member Dan Smith has other priorities and values motivating his participation. Should this open opportunities for unattached junior guests who have experience and dialog to contribute to the world? How best to make use of OMF's time, experience and resources?

Many skeptics would like to see the historical guardian of discourse opportunity to just up and disappear; go into permanent stasis. They think that not everyone has a right to speak about their experiences and if there is no proof involved then there can philosophically be no value to discourse. I personally would respectfully disagree with them. Discourse has always been the prelude to meaningful relationships and meaningful mutual relationships have always been the prelude to exchanges of proof. In a contentious social environment with regards to communication vs disclosure how do we best re-establish a haven for those preludes? Is it only the "if we build it they will come" answer? Well considering OMF has been largely fully functional over the last four or five months this line of reasoning is not necessarily true. So what would be the best way re-establish this? Your suggestions are sought. Please comment.





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    Post by dan Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:53 am

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    Ok, 99,

    I think we can safely say that, in this past month, we have come close enough to Disclosure, for all practical purposes.  

    You’re being the mathematician about Disclosure, and I’m being the physicist, and I’ve told this story a few times, already, but it won’t hurt to tell it again.......

    A mathematician and a physicist walk into a bar, and sit on both sides of a very attractive woman.  The mathematician can only ever get halfway closer to the woman, but the physicist can get close enough for all practical purposes.  

    Think of the physicist as Donald Trump, and think of the Boys on the Bus.  

    Donald Trump will be known as the Disclosure President, for having helped to orchestrate what has transpired in the past month, not the least of which was chicken little realizing that, very likely, he was Visitor #1.  

    Will any self respecting ufologist feel satisfied with this, Sonfish, version of Disclosure?  I would seriously doubt it.  However, will any competent historian ever come up with a better peg for Revelation?  I would seriously doubt it.  

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    Post by Alien Fri Jun 21, 2019 5:31 pm

    dan wrote:AR,

    Is it possible that Foot has briefed a president on this topic?

    Hell how should I know...And who the hell is Foot? And is it the left or right foot that does the brief?
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    Post by dan Fri Jun 21, 2019 5:37 pm

    Was there a First Coming?

    What do you make of the Anthropic Principle?


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    To the Solstice and All Nutters and Hairy Hobbits

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    Post by Alien Fri Jun 21, 2019 5:50 pm

    dan wrote:Was there a First Coming?

    What do you make of the Anthropic Principle?  

    What do you make of the Anthropic Principle?

    Don't know..I would have to sit down with Bigfoot and see what he thinks.

    Was there a First Coming?

    Religion is not my bag...
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    What is your bag?
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    Post by Alien Fri Jun 21, 2019 6:32 pm

    dan wrote:What is your bag?  

    Don't know..Let me ask it...
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    Post by 99 Fri Jun 21, 2019 7:04 pm

    Well he's definitely not Casper the Friendly Ghost... that much we do know.
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    Post by Alien Fri Jun 21, 2019 7:08 pm

    Ack wrote:It's definitely not Foot or the Princess either.

    We have narrowed it down some...

    If you're looking for your sock puppet I am not it.
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    Alien Rubble wrote:
    Ack wrote:It's definitely not Foot or the Princess either.

    We have narrowed it down some...

    If you're looking for your sock puppet I am not it.

    Point of fact, we are all entangled sock puppets, so your stuck.
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    Post by Post Eschaton Punk Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:27 pm

    Ack wrote:Yep, Russian spy

    Give Putin our best.

    ....
    Actually, I think it could be smelly's cousin.

    He seems to be here for no reason, maybe best to ignore him.

    Yah, Dan should have just ignored me.
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    Post by dan Sat Jun 22, 2019 4:30 am

    AR has a much less creepy avatar now.  

    I think we did good with AR.  Good team work, team!  We should be proud with ourselves.  

    smelly is now an official member of the God team.  Who’d a thunk it?

    We’re on a boat, heading across the Bay of Fundy.  It’s a two hour trip.  

    For all we know, AR will be the next member of the God Squad, or we may never see him/her again.  I think he might have been a little less ignorant than he was letting on.  Yes, it could have been Melania or the former Pope Benedict.  

    How many days before the world discovers the God Squad....... two days...... three days......?


    9:30.........

    Folks ought to attend to the last few chapters of Jurgen Z.  His cosmology is pretty good, but........

    But there might be too much emphasis on the merely quantitative infinity.  Yes, mind is qualitatively infinite.  We can have that infinity, without diluting our necessarily self contained personalism........ that we are, necessarily the children of God, and not merely the spawn of God.  We are all one cosmic family.  Otherwise, we’d end up with cosmic terrorists.  We definitely don’t need that.  



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    Post by Alien Sat Jun 22, 2019 6:41 am

    dan wrote:AR has a much less creepy avatar now.  

    I think we did good with AR.  Good team work, team!  We should be proud with ourselves.  

    smelly is now an official member of the God team.  Who’d a thunk it?

    We’re on a boat, heading across the Bay of Fundy.  It’s a two hour trip.  

    For all we know, AR will be the next member of the God Squad, or we may never see him/her again.  I think he might have been a little less ignorant than he was letting on.  Yes, it could have been Melania or the former Pope Benedict.  

    How many days before the world discovers the God Squad....... two days...... three days......?


    9:30.........

    Folks ought to attend to the last few chapters of Jurgen Z.  His cosmology is pretty good, but........

    But there might be too much emphasis on the merely quantitative infinity.  Yes, mind is qualitatively infinite.  We can have that infinity, without diluting our necessarily self contained personalism.  



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    No God Squad here...I told you I do not buy that religious hocus pocus....Religion is just an excuse for having to die.
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    Post by dan Sat Jun 22, 2019 6:48 am

    Sorry, AR, 

    We are the best possible God Squad.  Get over it..... get used to it!  

    You can tell that we are the best possible God Squad, because it’s very hard to tell that we aren’t just ordinary folks.  You could run into us in the supermarket, and never know the difference! 

    There are two options for the Second Coming....... we come both in glory mode and stealth mode....... whichever you prefer, whenever you prefer it.  

    Is this hocus pocus?  I don’t see any hocus pocus.  Do you see any hocus pocus, smelly?  


    11:10.......... 

    And just ask smelly, he'll tell you that I’m the captain of the God Squad.  



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    Post by Post Eschaton Punk Sat Jun 22, 2019 10:13 am

    Alien Rubble wrote:
    dan wrote:AR has a much less creepy avatar now.  

    I think we did good with AR.  Good team work, team!  We should be proud with ourselves.  

    smelly is now an official member of the God team.  Who’d a thunk it?

    We’re on a boat, heading across the Bay of Fundy.  It’s a two hour trip.  

    For all we know, AR will be the next member of the God Squad, or we may never see him/her again.  I think he might have been a little less ignorant than he was letting on.  Yes, it could have been Melania or the former Pope Benedict.  

    How many days before the world discovers the God Squad....... two days...... three days......?


    9:30.........

    Folks ought to attend to the last few chapters of Jurgen Z.  His cosmology is pretty good, but........

    But there might be too much emphasis on the merely quantitative infinity.  Yes, mind is qualitatively infinite.  We can have that infinity, without diluting our necessarily self contained personalism.  



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    No God Squad here...I told you I do not buy that religious hocus pocus....Religion is just an excuse for having to die.

    That’s the spirit!

    Agree, don’t be fooled by any sleight of hand.

    But what is you are defending in your castle?

    I don’t have to tell you my story, but I have seen inside my self.

    That experience leaves you with nothing to say about it.

    Shrug, this happens.

    We play with religious themes here and history and philosophy and even the end of the world as we know it.

    We deconstruct them, try them on.

    Twist them around and taste and smell them.

    I would say spirituality can be akin to suicide.

    You are going to die, I’m going die, we all will die.

    I have accepted my death.

    Have you?

    Do you think we are fronting for a religion or religious view here?

    Hmmm.

    Interesting.

    Well, it’s a riddle of course.

    You have to do the work to see into the riddle.

    Guess who the biggest riddle is?

    YOU


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    Post by dan Sat Jun 22, 2019 10:21 am

    smelly, 

    Why don’t you give suicide a rest.......
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    Post by Post Eschaton Punk Sat Jun 22, 2019 10:22 am

    **BURP**

    Let’s not kill ourselves.

    We all have our views on these topics or none.

    I am watching the Lazar documentary this morning.

    I find him believable and almost unprovable.

    It is interesting when they deleted his history and Lazar was still in the Los Alamos phone book and noted as a physicist at Alamos in the newspaper.

    He also has awesome science toys too Wink

    Interesting.
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    Post by Alien Sat Jun 22, 2019 10:53 am

    smelly wrote:
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    dan wrote:AR has a much less creepy avatar now.  

    I think we did good with AR.  Good team work, team!  We should be proud with ourselves.  

    smelly is now an official member of the God team.  Who’d a thunk it?

    We’re on a boat, heading across the Bay of Fundy.  It’s a two hour trip.  

    For all we know, AR will be the next member of the God Squad, or we may never see him/her again.  I think he might have been a little less ignorant than he was letting on.  Yes, it could have been Melania or the former Pope Benedict.  

    How many days before the world discovers the God Squad....... two days...... three days......?


    9:30.........

    Folks ought to attend to the last few chapters of Jurgen Z.  His cosmology is pretty good, but........

    But there might be too much emphasis on the merely quantitative infinity.  Yes, mind is qualitatively infinite.  We can have that infinity, without diluting our necessarily self contained personalism.  



    (cont.......)

    No God Squad here...I told you I do not buy that religious hocus pocus....Religion is just an excuse for having to die.

    That’s the spirit!

    Agree, don’t be fooled by any sleight of hand.

    But what is you are defending in your castle?

    I don’t have to tell you my story, but I have seen inside my self.

    That experience leaves you with nothing to say about it.

    Shrug, this happens.

    We play with religious themes here and history and philosophy and even the end of the world as we know it.

    We deconstruct them, try them on.

    Twist them around and taste and smell them.

    I would say spirituality can be akin to suicide.

    You are going to die, I’m going die, we all will die.

    I have accepted my death.

    Have you?

    Do you think we are fronting for a religion or religious view here?

    Hmmm.

    Interesting.

    Well, it’s a riddle of course.

    You have to do the work to see into the riddle.

    Guess who the biggest riddle is?

    YOU

    You are going to die, I’m going die, we all will die.

    Most sensible thing you said since I have been here.

    Do you think we are fronting for a religion or religious view here?

    Do not know and do not care.... Very Happy
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    Alright, well that’s all I got, best of luck to you AR.

    For future reference.

    Nothing you could ever say could ever make me react in any way, you are amusing how you use standard talking monkey tactics.

    I’m practicing being a more friendly smelly goat.

    Thanks for playing.

    The dude abides it all.

    Dan can talk about most topics in interesting ways.

    Perhaps you guys should chat.

    Or not.

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    Post by Alien Sat Jun 22, 2019 11:18 am

    I get my point across weather its using monkey tactics or playing hula hoop...

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