beastie wrote:I would certainly hope he wasn't serious, but who knows. There are lots of strange people in the world, and some of those strange people can become violent. There is very little we can really know about someone based on their posts, alone, but I certainly find it troubling when someone's thoughts are continually drawn to violence, whether joking or not.
At any rate, claiming he was joking wouldn't get him off the hook with the folks who ran ezboard. He'd be gone, and gone permanently. They want to protect themselves as well as other posters. It would be over the head of any particular moderators of any given board.
The funny thing is that both he and Will have accused me of being "seriously disturbed," but then I'm not the guy making death threats. Some people are just kind of screwed up, I guess.
Runtu wrote: The funny thing is that both he and Will have accused me of being "seriously disturbed," but then I'm not the guy making death threats. Some people are just kind of screwed up, I guess.
The comments made by "Wheat" (and also "Ghost of Rockwell" on Runtu's blog) about me were also privately made to me in a PM here, by Will. It doesn't take a lot of figuring.
Ray A wrote:The comments made by "Wheat" (and also "Ghost of Rockwell" on Runtu's blog) about me were also privately made to me in a PM here, by Will. It doesn't take a lot of figuring.
So, that would seem to confirm my initial belief that they are one and the same. Seriously disturbed, indeed.
How can anyone wish ill-will on Blixa? What has Blixa done to garner anyones wrath?
I can understand a member getting their knickers in a twist over someone like infymus or Porter. Someone who takes sacred things and drags them through the dirt and decrys things like the Temple and the Book of Mormon.
But all I have ever seen of Blixa is non-confrontational discussion, and in a peaceful and intelligent manner to boot. I treasure the hard won information she gathered concerning the journal entries of the citizens of Cedar City from the time of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. That was really great stuff.
Lets save the hostilities for where they belong, and leave the honest discussors alone.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
Runtu wrote:Some people are just kind of screwed up, I guess.
Dogmatic, authoritarian religions tend to have that effect on people, if history is any guide.
"The Church is authoritarian, tribal, provincial, and founded on a loosely biblical racist frontier sex cult."--Juggler Vain "The LDS church is the Amway of religions. Even with all the soap they sell, they still manage to come away smelling dirty."--Some Schmo
The funny thing is, the comments came on the tail of some conciliatory remarks I was making to Ray, of all things! Though he and I have had our run-ins, I've found some of his recent posts refreshingly thoughtful and useful, so I was saying thanks and here's to more civil and congenial discourse!
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
moksha wrote:Strange that he would single out folks like Blixa and Ray. Wonder what his rational was?
Because Blixa and I posted on Runtu's blog. She was merely thanking me for posting interesting links here, one of which happened to be the Quinn thread. He loathes Quinn, and anyone who thinks Quinn writes "real history". (Just saw Blixa's post)
"Wheat" seems to suffer from obsessive paranoia in regards to critics who normally speak civilly and respectfully. He thinks they are the real danger. That's why he fantasizes about harming them.
He'd far prefer that critics froth at the mouth and rant and rave. That way he doesn't have to actually deal with any substance, and just dismiss them outright.
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.