mentalgymnast wrote: And in an echo chamber such as this, the voice of reason/balance/questioning will be drowned out through heckling/innuendo/name calling...
And that's the way it is.
I don't think this is under debate. This forum largely exists as an island of misfit toys for their own anti-Mormon self-gratification. It is not a scholarly forum, it is not a reasonable forum, it is not a nice forum. This is the type of forum where a gay Mormon suicide is celebrated because it makes Mormonism look bad (no one really cares about the kid). It is a place for Philo to extol the virtues of science, while having a less than high school level of scientific education, all the while being patted on the head and told what a great atheist he has become. It is about reinforcing negative bigotry.
And this is all it ever will be. Oddly enough, many members would find (and have stated outright) that their activities here would seriously impair their real lives, should they come to light, but they do not see the problem.
So, you have a point, but it is sort of a hollow truth. It has never been anything other than a place for people to complain, so why expect anything more? I read here occasionally, when Church irritates me, just to remind me how much I do NOT want to be like these people. It puts things in perspective.
Aren't you the disgusting POS that recently spent several posts dissing a struggling single mother over her "special needs" kids? Yeah, that was you. In all your dishonest arrogant glory.
And you come here and sneer at us. What a lying, hypocritical, ignorant, sanctimonious douche you are. On your best day.
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moksha wrote:Mentalgymnast, good work in spotting that Grindael's use of large typeface is the work of the Adversary. Even his name is suggestive of some witchcraft stemming from the time of Beowulf. by the way, feel free to use that in any future spats with Grindael.
I have a question wrote:Based on your posts - you are demonstrably dishonest, you have been shown to lack integrity and have been shown to be untrustworthy.
Lemmie wrote:My opinions about your creepiness are based solely on how you post...
That's a bunch of malarkey. What is creepy is your constant stalking of any thread that I participate in. That's creepy. And that you accuse me of being creepy. That's creepy.
Chap wrote:In terms of dealing with historical problems, I think you could show him a time-stamped video (assuming that the technology had been there) of Joseph Smith walking the streets of Nauvoo tearing the heads off babies, and metalgymnast would say "Well, I'd need to know a lot more about the context in which that took place. And how do we know what was in Joseph's mind as he did that? He may have had the best of intentions. We just don't know."
That's crazy.
But if that's the center of gravity that you're operating from this may explain the warped view you have.
Maksutov wrote: Yes, indeed. The whining, the contortions, the excuses never seem to end. The persecution drama is especially pathetic and annoying.
Join the club. You are among friends here.
You are wrong sir. I am not making excuses. I am not performing contortions in the sense and/or with any malevolent intent that you are accusing me of. Refer to my opening post in regards to your second sentence. You, again, are just wrong. You are a poor judge of human behavior and the motivations for why folks do what they do. You don't know me. And I don't know you except to know that you have an agenda towards Mormonism. Whether or not this agenda then impacts your views of active latter day saints, I can't say. My assumption is that you would say that it doesn't.
Of course.
by the way, that's not a persecution complex coming through. It's just the way it is. Them's the facts.
Chap wrote:MG's major object seems to be to write posts that, if they are the only posts someone reads, give the impression that he is a poor persecuted person who has been set upon by a mob (he prefers 'herd', I think) of hate-filled anti-mormons with utterly closed minds programmed to think identical thoughts.
Keep in mind, that that those who believe in Satan believe he is a great puppeteer that pulls strings on all of us nonbelievers. Either believe in god, do what god tells you, or be controlled in your thinking by Satan. Those are the only 'free' choices. Two. And many think science and the scientific method are just 'logically' seductive means by which Satan 'programs' our closed minds to think 'identical thoughts.'
CameronMO wrote:...it was about the size and style of the font...
Nope. It was in regards to the fact that grindael accentuated text that he believed to be important. I came into the thread and pointed out...multiple times...that he failed to point out other text that was important to the context. Text that would support Joseph's sincerity and/or his own feelings in regards to the conditions that he found himself in.
I felt that was being overlooked/ignored...or he would have highlighted that text also.
