Roger Pearse

Regular readers will have noticed that poster "Mountainman" has disappeared from these threads for some months now.

Does anyone know what has become of him? Is he alright?

All the best,

Roger Pearse

stephan huller

I've wondered the same thing and I was going to start a thread asking the same question. It's sort of like marriage. You eventually miss the people who annoy the hell out of you. Masochism is a part of human nature I guess.

Mageth

I don't see the username "Mountainman" listed on the Members page:

http://www.freeratio.org/memberlist....e&ltr=M&page=2

I'm not sure what that indicates.

Duvduv

I see he has a website in Australia, but no email address associated with his posting name or any other:
www.mountainman.com.au

Toto

Just that he is inactive.

mountainman

You can email him through that page.

I don't know what happened - surf might be up, or his internet down.

ApostateAbe

Please, for God's sake, don't tempt him to come back.

DCHindley

Pete, who also goes by the nickname "Kookaburra Jack," posts his Life History at http://www.mountainman.com.au/about.html, where you will also find a link to his CV. Crazy as he may be, this guy has been around: surf bum, taxi driver, clerk, supervisor, database IT specialist, and the list goes on.

If you click the link at the bottom, "Do Kookaburras tweet?" you will see that his last tweet was 4/11/12. His posts to at least one discussion board also stop that date. His last post to this board was August 3, 2012. He is an avid surfer, so he may have got hurt pursuing his passion. Or maybe he's climbing Mt Everest again? :huh:

hjalti

That's from the future!

stephan huller

Maybe at the summit of Mount Everest he found a personal diary of Constantine admitting he invented Christianity.

avi

I learned a great deal from reading Mountainman's submissions to the forum. His strength, to me, was his enthusiasm for skepticism of claims about authorship of extant documents, such as those often cited by Stephan, e.g. by Irenaeus, or other 2nd and 3rd century writers.

We need to find "a personal diary" to demonstrate that Constantine did not invent the whole history....The big problem is, our oldest, reliably dated documents, follow, rather than precede Constantine. (no, I don't regard paleography as reliable.)

The claims regarding the writings of Irenaeus, in particular, seem to me to represent wishful thinking.

With his background in many areas, I hope that upon his return, Pete will calculate just how many different manuscripts Eusebius would have been obliged to create, out of thin air, to establish Christianity as we know it. We do not have even one manuscript from Tacitus' own hand, let alone the gospel writers. Everything we have, is a copy. Not just any copy. A forgery in nearly every instance.

Anyone seen a coin with Jesus on the cross, before the fourth century? How about a fish (icthys) symbol, perhaps in a mosaic? Christians washed, didn't they? Wouldn't they have made baths? Oldest church? Oh, Helena found it?

Thanks Pete, for your many contributions to this forum.