Hi Libby, long time no see...
There is another topic that I started before this one , I think it's named "Fig?".
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http://www.waltermartin.com/forums/s...d.php?3310-Fig )
I started that topic in the effort to see if anyone knew where Fig was?
At some point news came that Fig had p***ed.
I was and am sorry to hear he has left us.
I'm told he had a wife and kids....
He was a good man, a nice and well-mannered member of this forum.
He will be missed.
This topic was just my effort to remember him, and a place to have others who knew him to exchange thoughts.
Yes, along the way you are going to find that not all the posts are going to be sympathetic.
Fig was a Mormon who was known to post comments on Christian-based sites, so there is going to be a few members of the message board that have a ....well, colored history with their interactions with him.
But I took from his posts that he was a quiet man, not given to heated remarks.
I remember how he would keep his comments short.
I remember how he would use a line or two of space between paragraphs (Something I try to copy from time to time too).
I remember how he used words that did not approach being insulting.
I remember when he and I would debate a point that he would keep his target the "idea" and not attack the other person in a personal way.
All such things set a good example for the rest of us.
EDIT ADDITION:
Libby on a side note, in drafting my comment above I went back to the topic ***led "Fig?" that I posted the link to and re-read all the comments.
I learned a great deal about my ability to respond to the posts of others in my re-examination of that topic just now.
I note how my reactions to the posts of others and how their reactions to me seem to have a flow to them.
It's kinda an eye-opening experience to drop back and go over a whole topic like that from time to time to see how the more frequent posters on this forum respond to each other.
And thanks for your kind words.
I will miss Fig....
In the end all I can say to both sides of the cl***ic Mormon/Christian debate is that "Alan and Fig were friends, I pray that Fig has found rest" and leave it at that.