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the road to hana wrote:Heavens, Ray. You've taunted both, whenever it suited you. One minute the exmos are your fastest friends, and those bad bad people on FAIR are your enemies, and the next, you're in the warm embrace of the FAIRites dissing the exmos. You change with the wind. And usually, fairly colorful language accompanies.


When I started posting on FAIR I, admittedly, did not make a smooth entrance. I have criticised Mormonism on FAIR, too, but I've never been nasty like the inveterate anti-Mormons. I have never changed my mind about FAIR/MAD since. To say I "change like the wind" would need some "CFR". Where have I ever joined the FAIR-bashing?

FYI, exmos were NEVER my "friends". And that goes back to RFM in 2002. Why do you think I was so attacked on Exmo-Social? Because they were "my friends"?
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So the only thing he supposedly altered were the profanities? The meaning was essentially the same? Yawn.
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Re: Drive By Posting

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amantha wrote:
Ray A wrote:
amantha wrote:I hope Mr. Scratch gives his permission in this instance as you have done. I think it is premature, however, to question Keene's integrity. Taunting the moderator is not a good way to create good will.


Constantly taunting Mormons isn't a good way to create goodwill, either.


You're right. I would like to see Keene release the PM. Let's just be respectful until he releases the information, then we can question his integrity.


Hi there, amantha. I too have lurked for quite a while. to be honest, I don't like what's being asked for here. People like you and Ray are asking the moderaters to act the way that FAIR mods act; snooping around in peoples private message boxes and whatnot. I thought this board was created precisely to go against such things.
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I have criticised Mormonism on FAIR, too, but I've never been nasty like the inveterate anti-Mormons.


Are you flat out crazy?????

"YOUR F***ING MISSIONARIES ARE DEAD" is beyond nasty, and it is beyond anything I've seen produced by "inveterate anti-Mormons".
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Post by _Mister Scratch »

beastie wrote:
I have criticised Mormonism on FAIR, too, but I've never been nasty like the inveterate anti-Mormons.


Are you flat out crazy?????

"YOUR F***ING MISSIONARIES ARE DEAD" is beyond nasty, and it is beyond anything I've seen produced by "inveterate anti-Mormons".


Yep. And please cf. the OP of the thread I just bumped, entitled, "The Many Faces of Ray A." I believe this is what may have started (or contributed, at least) to his present string of insanities.
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Arnold Friend wrote:Hi there, amantha. I too have lurked for quite a while. to be honest, I don't like what's being asked for here. People like you and Ray are asking the moderaters to act the way that FAIR mods act; snooping around in peoples private message boxes and whatnot. I thought this board was created precisely to go against such things.


I'm not "demanding" anything of Keene. And seriously, I don't think he will do this to vindicate me. And, frankly, I don't need vindication, Arnold, because I KNOW that Scratch is a deceiver.

Hope the rest of you work it out in time. Good luck.
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I'm not "demanding" anything of Keene. And seriously, I don't think he will do this to vindicate me. And, frankly, I don't need vindication, Arnold, because I KNOW that Scratch is a deceiver.


I want to make sure I understand your accusation. Are you saying that Scratch is a deceiver because he edited out his own profanities? That's it? He didn't change the meaning of his emails, just particular profane words?
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Re: Drive By Posting

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Arnold Friend wrote:
amantha wrote:
Ray A wrote:
amantha wrote:I hope Mr. Scratch gives his permission in this instance as you have done. I think it is premature, however, to question Keene's integrity. Taunting the moderator is not a good way to create good will.


Constantly taunting Mormons isn't a good way to create goodwill, either.


You're right. I would like to see Keene release the PM. Let's just be respectful until he releases the information, then we can question his integrity.


Hi there, amantha. I too have lurked for quite a while. to be honest, I don't like what's being asked for here. People like you and Ray are asking the moderaters to act the way that FAIR mods act; snooping around in peoples private message boxes and whatnot. I thought this board was created precisely to go against such things.


I agree with you that snooping is a bad idea. I just want to know if anyone is lying. If neither of them has anything to hide then it wouldn't be snooping to give permission to an independent third party to provide the rest of us with the truth. I like knowing the truth. I am not siding with Ray, but Ray is the only one who is apparently willing to have it put up for everyone to see. That says something to me. If Ray is just throwing out puffery for the effect, then we could find that out real quickly and that would go along way to correctly framing one or the other party. If Ray is lying then he'll have a hard time living this one down. If Mr. Scratch is lying then I'm at least glad to know whose words I can put stock in around here.

I like this place and I want people to be truthful here. Oh and I'm sorry for hijacking this thread. This would have been better discussed over on the "Gandhi" thread. I was just responding to Ray's post here.
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charity wrote:You guys are funny. He calls you for something, and you start hurling insults. And yet so many threads over the last few days were all about how that is what MA&D does! You can dish it out, but you can't take it.

I think somebody besides jskains needs some help.


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Post by _guy sajer »

the road to hana wrote:
charity wrote:There is nothing on the video to indicate a person needs help. Except maybe some training in videography. If you see his little speech as indications of mental illness because he is criticizing the position of many of the people on this board, then the main problem is projection on your part. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean you need help. But if it gets too much worse, then you could use a few sessions.



Clearly, if someone thought that Josh was mentally ill because he was "criticizing the position of many of the people of the board," there would be a lot more calls for professional help here.

As someone with (apparently limited) training in psychology, you're simply embarrassing yourself. A medical professional would disagree with you.

Josh is in need of professional help, and you're going to dance around it because you don't happen to like or agree with the people suggesting it? He's been told the same by friends and associates of yours who don't happen to disagree with you philosophically.


For what it's worth, I think that telling someone he "need professional help," can certainly be intended as an insult, and I'm not sure that all those recommending this are saying it only out of their concern for jskains. (I haven't watched the you-tube clip, so I cannot comment on it.)

Charity's charge that some here are recommending that jskains seek professional help stems from his position on Mormonism is ridiculous. I have seen absoultely no pattern here that suggests this accusation has any merit. Another data point suggesting that Charity either cannot or will not try to understand the skeptics and apostates she hangs out with so much. I would hope that if she ever puts her psychological training into practice, that she develop a capacity for empathy (or at least for understanding) along the way.
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