Sunstone Naked! An Interview of Underwhelming Proportions

[methylatedghosts]

As an RF fossil, you have seen a lot of change on the website. How do you feel that posts and topics on the forums have changed since you joined? Are there times when you feel "I wish this place was like it used to be"?

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by MysticSang'ha

What was your favorite subject in school?

I couldn't get enough of about a half dozen subjects, and even spent an extra year delaying my graduation in order to take additional courses. Those subjects were Philosophy, Comparative Religious Studies, Anthropology, Biology, Psychology, and Political Science.

Have you had aspirations of travelling in the future? If so, where would you like to go?

I've never had much taste for traveling. I like to read about other places and climes, but the hassle of actual travel kind of puts me off. I used to say I had found "the poor man's way of traveling" -- that is, marrying women from different countries. My first wife was Czech. My second wife was Japanese.

Are you double jointed anywhere on your body?

Nope. My sense of humor is the most flexible thing about me.

Can you do origami? Or have you ever done origami?

I suck at it. But my second wife, Tomoko, used to make origami figures for me. I'd stick them in my brief case for good luck and to remind me of her while I was at work.

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by methylatedghosts

As an RF fossil, you have seen a lot of change on the website. How do you feel that posts and topics on the forums have changed since you joined? Are there times when you feel "I wish this place was like it used to be"?

The Forum was originally dominated by Christians and Atheists. It was about a year or two before a few Muslims caught onto it. Peace, for instance, was one of the first people on the Forum who was neither a Christian nor an Atheist, but a Muslim. Then, I seem to recall, we began to get Hindus and people of other religious beliefs as well. So the threads at first were all about Christianity -- which most still are, but not to the same extent as in the beginning.

Another big change was in the level of interaction between members. Originally, we pretty much only interacted by discussing topics in religion. Then Feathers-in-her-hair showed up. She was a bit of catalyst for changing the Forum from a site that exclusively dealt with religion, to a site that was more open to social interaction on various levels.

There were no joke threads at first. The Forum was strictly "business" -- that is, religion. I forget who started the first joke threads. It could even have been me. But they came about after Feathers showed up.

After those developments, we started a political sub-forum. There was considerable resistance to the sub-forum at first among the Staff, but those who wanted one got their way in the end.

One of the best Admins the Forum ever had, Amy (Green Gaia) oversaw most of the changes from a forum devoted exclusively to religion, to a more social forum with a variety of topics.

One thing that seems to have stayed constant is the predominant age of the members. At least it seems to me that this Forum has always attracted many more young people than it has older people. I think that might explain, to some extent, why the topics never seem to change. In many ways, young people prefer certain topics and certain approaches to them -- topics and approaches that might not be as popular with older folks.

So far as I can see, those have been the major changes.

[BSM1]

I know I'm new here, but have you seen any of my other socks?

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by BSM1

I know I'm new here, but have you seen any of my other socks?

Your other sock puppets? Not that I recall --- but then, I don't usually pay attention to such things.

[4consideration]

Do you still enjoy singing show tunes while skipping through fields of wild flowers?

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by 4consideration

Do you still enjoy singing show tunes while skipping through fields of wild flowers?

Of course. And in winter, I dance in the streets beneath the moon whenever it snows.

[4consideration]

Do you still idolize me? If so, in what way?

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by 4consideration

Do you still idolize me? If so, in what way?

How could I have missed this question the first time around? Of course I still idolize you! The very core of my being is to idolize you. I live, I breathe, but to idolize you. You are to me the eternal feminine. The mystery of mysteries. The being who surpasses understanding. And a possible source of long term no interest loans.

[dyanaprajna2011]

With this being a religious forum, I have to ask: it's been hard to pinpoint exactly what your views of religion are, and your beliefs, if you have any. Do you have any religious beliefs, and have they changed over the years that you have been here?