Congratulations! A very outstanding lecture (obviosly serving to know the reasons that they (detractors) might have called odd issues and "biblical Inconherencies").
A further word more, on anonymity: If I´m rich, dying with a terminal desease, I should not brag telling people how rich I am (I will be an object of prey to depradators, no matter its sex or gender. Even Orgs and churches might seek what they think I have to give, by the way).
At the end of the day, I´m responsible for what I have said, written or done. It´s easy to say things like this: I heard, a fiend of mine heard that "so and so" happened but, if something is a crime or that information can be tracked back (probably it is) I´d better say nothing. Before GOD, not only men, I have an account to give (as those who wrote the Gospel).
I really like the way Mss A. Gardner approched the subject.
yes her reasoning for as to why or why not is a good approach(I think it should be tailor made to each individual for different reasons). My own screen name "iamsoandso" is in fact anonymity, that is there are many iamsoandso's online whom I do not know and I am only one of them(some of which one should be careful,I am only one of them that use this screen name on the www) it is captive to each of our email addresses i suppose(mine is different from theirs).
I began using mine in the late 90's when the internet first took off. I began posting with the first of the christian forums on the internet when aol was the only isp and received an email back then when aol passed the 5 million users online in 1996.(lol,can you remember when there were only 5 mill. people in the world on the internet?) The www is a much safer environment today because of spyware,anti-virus ect. than it was back then. In the old days I would run my computer with the side open so I could swap out hard drives and reformat the drive I pulled (wipe out viruses) and had a floppy so I could put the rest back on.
I wish I would have began with Linux instead of windows for that reason that is linux really needs no antivirus. I started looking at it when they released freespire but even they came a long way ubuntu is my preference now. It was the strangest thing in the beginning of the www if you searched for christian,manuscripts,ect. they were categorized as controversial so you would have to wade through the other garbage to find them(in the midst i crashed my com. about once a week,lol).
Anyhow I went through a few other screen-names and then settled on iamsoandso(as far as i know i was the first one),but as time went on I found others one from spain,then a few from here(i am none of those others). A few years ago I received an email from the occupy movement asking me to pay my fee(I thought what fee?),that is I have never been to one of their rallies and have never met any of them. after a few emails they sent me my password and i went to their forums and i was already on there and had posted from the beginning(but it's not me either it's someone else using iamsoandso),lol
I researched this for about a year(and argued with them about it),but in the end this is what I found. In the archives of their forum the first year or so it was permitted for them to use the name "anonymous",or any name they chose,unlike most forums where there can only be one person with that screen-name(multiple people use the same name,just different passwords) you can tell this because anonymous will post back and forth to anonymous at times from the first post till the last post and argue,talk about things ect. and from top to bottom everyone has the same screen name(drove me crazy till i figured that out).
the name iamsoandso(on their site) I found was started in an interview between them and the news back when they were in the news a lot. The news anchor ask one of them who is the head of o.w.s. they answered "oh,so and so",,the anchor ask "who is so and so?" and one of them answered "I am so and so",,then another one of them said "I am so and so", another said "I am one two",the next "I am one also",ect.ect. The anchor ask what they meant and they said "I am so and so is a young man she is a woman,she is an old man he is everyone",the short of it is that they have no leader or all of them are "anonymous",,Now I noticed from looking at their screen names(ones from the first years in the archives) there is "iamsoandso","Iamonetwo","Iamonealso",,"Ilasoamone",ect. but that interview is why they all did that.
I should say though that i am saying all this and "i do not endorse their beliefs,web site ect.",,I just had to look for my piece of mind because they were all using my screen name. Buried in one of their post Jart(their moderator/admin) is about to undergo surgery and from the hospital posted a link to the other members. In the link is all of the master passwords,admin.,moderators ect. (so strange enough every member has full access to the entire site). for that reason they change screen names,delete post,delete threads,re-write them ect.,,,,Any way I am one "Iamsoandso", I was iamsoandso before the ows movement began(and not part of it),but it still concerns me because i am a christian man,and I notice as time has gone on there have begun to surface other iamsoandso's who are not me,nor do I think are christian.