Just for fun, I am going to start a thread with a number of questions from NazNet history. The first is "Who was the first GS to post on NazNet?"
Phineas Bresee
Eugene Stowe
Jim Diehl
Jerry Porter
Just for fun, I am going to start a thread with a number of questions from NazNet history. The first is "Who was the first GS to post on NazNet?"
I'm going to guess Jerry Porter.
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Phineas F. Brese
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Oh, wait . . .
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Jim Diehl?Originally Posted by Dave McClung
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us wthout end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
- C.S. Lewis
The first General Superintendent to post on NazNet was Eugene Stowe. I can't tell you the exact date, but it was back in the Prodigy days. He had not seen a personal computer and I demonstrated mine to him. He gave me permission to post for him. It was a general greeting.
My computer caused him a bit of a problem. I was the recording secretary for the Dallas District when Dr. Stowe was the G.S. I put all of the statistical information on my computer and put the monitor in front of Dr. Stowe. As each pastor gave his report, I made the monitor display the statistics. From the congregation side, the monitor looked just like a tv.
After several pastors had reported, Dr. Stowe said, "I know that some of you are wondering about this tv. Today was a really important session of As The World Turns and I didn't want to miss it." He had a good laugh, then explained that it wasn't a tv. Several of the delegates stopped listening before he explained the truth. Word went out all across the Dallas District that Dr. Stowe was watching tv during the pastor's reports. I would imagine that there are still Nazarenes on the Dallas district that believe it to be true.
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Well, I am surprised. Had Talmadge's name been on there, I would have voted for him.
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Wes
Thanks for the good laugh!
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. 1 John 4:18a
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What?? Talmadge knows how to use a computer?!
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As to historical trivia, for a while Dr. Porter used a restricted forum on NazNet. As he was having lunch at our place after he spoke in our church, I explained to him how he could access NazNet and use that forum. It's a small world.
"No scripture can mean that God is not love, or that his mercy is not over all his works" (John Wesley - Free Grace, 26)
Isn't that what secretaries are for?
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us wthout end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
- C.S. Lewis
So, Dave, do you have a record of, say, the first 5 GS's to post on NazNet?
Friend,
Wes
Wes
Just from memory, I recall that Eugene Stowe, Jim Diehl and Jerry Porter have posted. I don't recall that any others have posted here.
This could be the begining of "Naznet-Gate" ... as we break into Naznet headquarters to raid the archives for vital information stored at Hans' home under the Jerry Porter restricted Naznet site. All the proposed revisions to article X are stored there.
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Dennis Scott ...
Oh Wait!!!
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No, David Pettigrew!!!!
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. 1 John 4:18a
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