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    • June 30, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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    In the near future, we will eliminate the subforums currently located within the "Principal Doctrines" and "Vatican Sayings" forums. Most of these forums only have one or two threads on each item, and we will rename each thread to start with, for example, "PDO1" or "VSO1" rather than have forty or eighty-three separate subforums that are time-consuming to scroll through. If anyone has any comment or suggestion about this reorganization before we implement it, let us know here.


    Note: It may not be possible to sort a large forum by title so as to get them in order (e.g., PD01, PD02, etc) but it will be possible to set up a page where each doctrine's post can be located by tag, which is similar to the method we are using to organize tags on this page below:

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    • June 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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    After the restructuring, if each discussion thread is linked on the top of its respective Wiki page then that could be a way to access the discussion.

    Otherwise I foresee that it will end up being difficult to locate any specific PD or VS, because they will all be out of order.

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    • June 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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    Yes I will make sure there are several different ways to find all the threads tagged with a particular doctrine number.

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    • July 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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    Good deal! I've shared the Principle Doctrines by Makridis [1] here and the Key Doctrines by A. A. Long and Sedley [2] here. The Fundamental Articles by Wallace are [3] here, and then the Authorized Doctrines by De Witt are [4] here. Of course, I've got my [5] own here, and the compilation here.

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    • July 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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    Thanks Eikadistes. I want to revamp our way of accessing and discussing the Doctrines and Sayings and I will work to incorporate those crossreferences in whatever I come up with.

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    • July 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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    I have now completed phase one of the reorganization of the Vatican Sayings and Principal Doctrines forums, and the result of the Vatican Sayings reorganization is here:

    Epicurus - The "Vatican List" of Sayings

    On both, I intend to add more links to the full list of sayings and doctrines so that you can navigate from a list (which has the full text of each doctrine/saying) to the discussion section. I plan to do that by going to the texts section and linking each saying to the tag for each saying.

    When complete this change will eliminate the looonnnggg scrolling through the full forum list by reducing 121 subforums down to four or so, and I think the material will still be findable a variety of ways.

    Please let me know what obvious problems you run into before I do the same to the Principal Doctrines. I doubt I will get to that today so no immediate rush.

    Sorry for all the "Thread Starter" notifications today, but as you can see from the number of them, many of the subforums were totally empty.

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    • July 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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    Might not hurt to add an announcement at the top about how to 'mark all as read'.

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    • July 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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    The Principal Doctrines forum reorganization is mostly complete. One thing remaining is that the "Alternate Translations" posts are in the wiki, rather than the forum, so they are not showing up automatically, and it will likely be necessary to re-create those within the forum section so that they work properly.

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    Changed the title of the thread from “Forum Reorganization Pending: Subforums Devoted To Individual Principal Doctrines and Vatican Sayings To Be Consolidated” to “Subforums Devoted To Individual Principal Doctrines and Vatican Have Been Consolidated”.

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