I'm mildly flattered by your obsession with me however, I am not ex-Mo nor do you even come remotely close to The Bard much less the Jersey Boy who sings the lyrics you're using as a spin off.
I dind't imply you were an exmo. They were in the spacious building while you were dancing in the pale moonlight. No connection implied (except one of attitude or philosophy of course).
And I'm not obsessed with you. It was just your turn.
Oh, and one more thing. I can't stand The Boss or his music, so screwing with his songs bothers me little. In fact, I'd mess with the lyrics of the songs of people I have great respect for for a satirical laugh. I like to have fun...just like the exmos.
Coggins7 wrote:It really matters little whether Scratch shuts up or whether his intellectually slovenly and and mendacious criticisms of a religion and people of which he knows so little in any sugstantive way rambles on to its inevitable conslusion: human irrelevancey.
This man's pretense to have an understanding of logical reasoning, the cut-and-paste mind that alows him to throw claims of logical fallacies committed and obscure urban legends about what certain church leaders are said to have done or said at his opponents without really understanding, in either an analytic or synthetic way, just what it is he's really trying to say (and being humorously unaware of the logical or conceptual implications of much of what he says) has long ago run its course with anyone who is capable of serious, critical thought and desires both a civil and substantive dialog with critics of the church.
Scratch is a boiling cauldren of self justifications, self serving poliitical agendas, and philosophical juvenile excuses for the kind of world the philosophy of life he holds dear has created, especially in the West.
His unflinching hatred and bigotry toward faithful members of the Church he so despises is an interesting commentary on the sensitivity and tolerance he self righteously demands of others for his favorite political vicitm archtypes.
Rollo certainly runs a close second to Scratch in both the paranoia and guile department (either of these gentlemen could easily be employed overtime in the leftist blogosphere generating conspiracy theories about George Bush, the imperialist Jews who control his administration, and what really happened on 9/11), but Scratch takes the cake as a a purveyor of pure cognitive pollution.
The really sad thing about all this is that I could write an entire book about what Scratch doesn't know. Its one thing to be ignorant but quite another to be ignorant and be blissfully unaware of it. Indeed, Scratch is our own resident Jimmy Carter: uneducated and uninformed on the vast majority of the things upon which he believes himself to be expert.
Obsessive, rabble rousing demagogues like Scratch can be found in any numbe of cultural venues: in any local Union hall, any town meeting, any political party, any courtroom, or upon any number of soap boxes in in any number of social arenas. The form changes, but not the substance. This person is who and what he is, and serious diaglog with him is, for all intents and purposes, impossible. My recommendation? Give it a cookie and see if it goes away.
Loran
I think we need a dossier devoted exclusively to recording this kind of abuse from Mormons. It would be pages long, but hopefully the longer it became the more it would give them pause to think about the effectiveness of this method of representing Christ.
I'm mildly flattered by your obsession with me however, I am not ex-Mo nor do you even come remotely close to The Bard much less the Jersey Boy who sings the lyrics you're using as a spin off.
I dind't imply you were an exmo. They were in the spacious building while you were dancing in the pale moonlight. No connection implied (except one of attitude or philosophy of course).
And I'm not obsessed with you. It was just your turn.
Oh, and one more thing. I can't stand The Boss or his music, so screwing with his songs bothers me little. In fact, I'd mess with the lyrics of the songs of people I have great respect for for a satirical laugh. I like to have fun...just like the exmos.
Loran
You are free to hate "The Boss" or his music all you like however, it's likely because you're not from Jersey and have no clue what the lyrics are about.
Jersey Girl
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Oh the pain, the terrible pain. There are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of pages of such abuse by critics of the Church against the Church and individuals within it and only when one of those individuals responds in kind do the strong winds of moral opprobrium begin to blow.
Jersey Girl wrote:You are free to hate "The Boss" or his music all you like however, it's likely because you're not from Jersey and have no clue what the lyrics are about.
I believe you are correct. I do not hate 'The Boss' or his music, but I am not from Jersey and I certainly have absolutely no clue what the lyrics are about. I was in Jersey a few days ago, by the way, and found it very pleasant. Much more pleasant than New York, where everyone looks like they want to stab you in the face.
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Coggins7 wrote:Oh the pain, the terrible pain. There are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of pages of such abuse by critics of the Church against the Church and individuals within it and only when one of those individuals responds in kind do the strong winds of moral opprobrium begin to blow.
Please don't mischaracterize the situation. Just address the issue.
Jersey Girl wrote:You are free to hate "The Boss" or his music all you like however, it's likely because you're not from Jersey and have no clue what the lyrics are about.
I believe you are correct. I do not have 'The Boss' or his music, but I am not from Jersey and I certainly have absolutely no clue what the lyrics are about. I was in Jersey a few days ago, by the way, and found it very pleasant. Much more pleasant than New York, where everyone looks like they want to stab you in the face.
I disagree with your comments about the people in New York (city, I assume) in any case, this series of exchanges was inspired by Coggins injecting an off topic parody of the lyrics in my sig line. Of course he can pound salt.
Where were you in Jersey?
Jersey Girl
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Jersey Girl wrote:I disagree with your comments about the people in New York (city, I assume)...
Yeah, New York City. Second time I've been. I'm usually around the Harlem/Brooklyn/Bronx/Queens areas when I go to NYC, if that makes any difference. I will say that down the other end of the city, near the bay where you can see the Statue of Liberty, people look a lot softer. My wife's 10 years in Manhattan didn't endear the place to her, thought it was better than Detroit, where she was carjacked at gunpoint.
...in any case, this series of exchanges was inspired by Coggins injecting an off topic parody of the lyrics in my sig line. Of course he can pound salt.
He can indeed, and I would like to seem him do that instead of abusing people.
Jersey Girl wrote:I disagree with your comments about the people in New York (city, I assume)...
Yeah, New York City. Second time I've been. I'm usually around the Harlem/Brooklyn/Bronx/Queens areas when I go to NYC, if that makes any difference. I will say that down the other end of the city, near the bay where you can see the Statue of Liberty, people look a lot softer. My wife's 10 years in Manhattan didn't endear the place to her, thought it was better than Detroit, where she was carjacked at gunpoint.
...in any case, this series of exchanges was inspired by Coggins injecting an off topic parody of the lyrics in my sig line. Of course he can pound salt.
He can indeed, and I would like to seem him do that instead of abusing people.
Where were you in Jersey?
Oakland. Very appealing, even in winter.
Thanks, you just made me homesick. Oakland, I believe, is N. Jersey. I'm from the Shore. Thus the sig line. There's more money in Manhattan than the places you mentioned...perhaps that's what accounts for the softer look? I wouldn't know. I just miss it all. I would continue whining about this but the dog is throwing up. I shall return.
Jersey Girl
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
moksha wrote:I think it is a good thing that Scratch has not taken out his endowments. This happen to Pee Wee Herman and he got into a lot of trouble for it.
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