More Mormon Idiocy

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_Daniel Peterson
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Re: More Mormon Idiocy

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Eric wrote:DCP has a point. Everyone is responsible for their own behavior when it comes to reacting to DCP. Myself included.

Thank you.
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Joey wrote:And the number of posts I've had on this board would never be a blip on the radar either.  I have a real life that I only get compensated for if I make my investments in my own companies provide me a living.  I can't argue "tenure" to my employer to get my paycheck and spend countless hours on message boards.  And I only get paid after I pay hundreds of employees first!

On this thread alone, since my last visit,  your ratio of posts to mine is 7 to 1 in a couple of days!! And that doesn't include other threads here and all the other boards you spend countless hours posting.  Like I said - wish I had your job!  Seems like there is little downside to lack of productivity!

And we understand the swings in your posts from criticizing others to asking others to feel sorry for you.  Your agenda to self attention is fairly consistent.

But I know this flies below your radar ---- again!

Joey, you don't have to exaggerate to get a sympathetic ear here. You don't have to pretend to be CEO of Apple Computers.

And we understand that running a thriving corner Koolaid stand, with all that that entails -- the trips to the store to get more packets of the all-important powder, worrying about having enough nickels to make change, guarding your fragile card table against menacing neighborhood bullies, having to clean Mom's pitcher every afternoon -- keeps you pretty busy. I'm surprised, frankly, that you get to post as often as you do.
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In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.

Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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Re: More Mormon Idiocy

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Hi Fence sitter. I've come to explain the joke as I see it. once you have to explain the joke it doesn't seem much like a joke anymore. Anyway...

Mormon idiocy seems to be a common type of attitude here, as people post links or type out stories of how some poor Mormon sap did some seemingly idiotic thing. thus, Dr. Peterson appeared to be playing off that attitude by linking something he and apparently others saw as idiotic, and we all know Mormons do idiotic things, right? That seems to be the gist of hte joke.
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Re: More Mormon Idiocy

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Daniel Peterson wrote:"But it wasn't my fault, your honor. She shouldn't have dressed that way," says the defendant. "She wanted it."


More of that famous victimhood complex.

You give as good as you get. You just do it with a smirk and a "who me?" afterward.
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Re: More Mormon Idiocy

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stemelbow wrote:Hi Fence sitter. I've come to explain the joke as I see it. once you have to explain the joke it doesn't seem much like a joke anymore. Anyway...

Mormon idiocy seems to be a common type of attitude here, as people post links or type out stories of how some poor Mormon sap did some seemingly idiotic thing. thus, Dr. Peterson appeared to be playing off that attitude by linking something he and apparently others saw as idiotic, and we all know Mormons do idiotic things, right? That seems to be the gist of hte joke.


Thanks Stem.


(Your explanation would make sense only if Dan did not realize the girl was Catholic, which he says he did, or if the thread title were 'More Religious Idiocy".)
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Re: More Mormon Idiocy

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Daniel Peterson wrote:... most of the people here fire blanks.


Chalk it up to those gentile thongs, as opposed to the proper long underwear.
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