As usual, Midgley violates the Patheos terms of service, as quoted I; the OP:
B. Open, yet Safe. Anyone who desires to be part of the conversation can engage, but abuse will not be tolerated.
Here he disinvites Dr. Shades:
Louis Midgley Dr. Shades an hour ago
Dr Shades: I kindly request that you please stop posting on sic et non. Then you will not have to worry about my occasional use of your given name. Or you can just admit that you made a fool out of yourself in your comments about a perfectly harmless remark I made about my having also written my own PhD dissertation on something quite like what Reverend King wrote his own dissertation on.
I trust that I am not at all inclined to take abuse from you on Dan's blog. If you care to do that sort of silly thing, please do it on your own board.
You have two options: (1) no longer post on sic ed non, which would please me and others, or (2) apologize for your crude and offensive remarks. It is your choice.
Note the ultimatum he gives Shades. When he ventured off DCP’s safe space to stalk Gina Colvin, it didn’t end well, so I understand why he makes this threat from the safety of the one place that tolerates his intolerable nonsense.
I began way back when I was an undergraduate at the University keeping a file containing everything Hugh Nibley published or had written down. And also what his critics had to say about him in print. This eventually became the primary source for the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley. And when the two massive volumes of the Festschrift (essays honoring Hugh) were published, the first 80 plus pages was my very heavily annotated bibliography of all his then known published books and essays, as well as the unpublished items that I had in my files. Subsequently Shirley Ricks and I continued to add to that very long list of items, but without the annotations.
I also assembled a huge file of both published and unpublished essays and books by Paul Tillich, and all the then available dissertations on Tillich, that were available to that point. I also assembled what I believe was an exhaustive file of everything published on Tillich's thought to the point where I had finished my dissertation.
I also kept a modest file on W. Cleon Skousen. But so did the FBI, which investigated him three times. The FBI file is now fully available through the Freedom of Information Act. He was much less than he made himself out to be. And I once published essays in Dialogue that demonstrated that he was less than honest, and very poorly informed. Should anyone have taken seriously anything peddled by the John Birch Society?
And I also assembled a large file on and by John Dehlin, who was one of my former students. I had much more that Greg Smith could have drawn upon for his debunking of Dehlin.
And I have been printing, if not all, most of the items that Dr. VelhoBurrinho on sic et non, but not those he posts on a dreadful board. Hence, even though he has blocked access to what he has posted on Dan's blog, just as you have, I have a nice file on the Little Old Donkey. Why? When someone falsely claims that I have a latent hostility to Maori Latter-day Saints, that caught my attention.
Files are what historians assemble. By disposition and expert training my professional life has been writing intellectual history.
note that when answering the question WHY he collects personal information on others, his answer is, ‘because they insulted me.’ Midgley is the very definition of a creepy stalker. A writer of intellectual history is a distant second, and the way he does it? Definitely not what I would define as a professional endeavor.
Shades must have really left a mark when calling Midgley out for opportunistically using MLK Day as a way to boast, once again, about his Phd on Paul Tillich. Midgley's present threat illustrates just how badly Shades hurt his pride.
Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.
LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.
Remember, if Gemli sincerely converted to Mormonism (and adopted a non-threatening posture to their apologetics), people like Midgley and Peterson would become Gemli's biggest friends and supporters on a dime.
Lemmie wrote:Midgley gives details on how and why he stalks.
Louis Midgley Doctor Dunkenstein 5 hours ago
I began way back when I was an undergraduate at the University keeping a file containing everything Hugh Nibley published or had written down. And also what his critics had to say about him in print. This eventually became the primary source for the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley. And when the two massive volumes of the Festschrift (essays honoring Hugh) were published, the first 80 plus pages was my very heavily annotated bibliography of all his then known published books and essays, as well as the unpublished items that I had in my files. Subsequently Shirley Ricks and I continued to add to that very long list of items, but without the annotations.
I also assembled a huge file of both published and unpublished essays and books by Paul Tillich, and all the then available dissertations on Tillich, that were available to that point. I also assembled what I believe was an exhaustive file of everything published on Tillich's thought to the point where I had finished my dissertation.
I also kept a modest file on W. Cleon Skousen. But so did the FBI, which investigated him three times. The FBI file is now fully available through the Freedom of Information Act. He was much less than he made himself out to be. And I once published essays in Dialogue that demonstrated that he was less than honest, and very poorly informed. Should anyone have taken seriously anything peddled by the John Birch Society?
And I also assembled a large file on and by John Dehlin, who was one of my former students. I had much more that Greg Smith could have drawn upon for his debunking of Dehlin.
And I have been printing, if not all, most of the items that Dr. VelhoBurrinho on sic et non, but not those he posts on a dreadful board. Hence, even though he has blocked access to what he has posted on Dan's blog, just as you have, I have a nice file on the Little Old Donkey. Why? When someone falsely claims that I have a latent hostility to Maori Latter-day Saints, that caught my attention.
Files are what historians assemble. By disposition and expert training my professional life has been writing intellectual history.
note that when answering the question WHY he collects personal information on others, his answer is, ‘because they insulted me.’ Midgley is the very definition of a creepy stalker. A writer of intellectual history is a distant second, and the way he does it? Definitely not what I would define as a professional endeavor.
On a serious note it seems like Professor Midgley May be bipolar and having a bit of a manic episode.
I’m starting to wonder how much of a friend DCP is letting Midgley run loose like that. And what purpose does it serve?
I have observed him at a FAIR conference on two occasions. He seemed much more subdued.
Have you ever considered ‘Lewis’ is just a little crap who was indulged too much as a child?
- Doc
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.
Since Mr. Peterson is clearly using this frail man as his foil and won’t take measures to enforce Disqus’ rules on his blog, perhaps they need some actual adults to step in and pump the brakes on this hateful bully pulpit .
- Doc
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.
Lemmie wrote:Midgley gives details on how and why he stalks.
Louis Midgley wrote: Files are what historians assemble. By disposition and expert training, my professional life has been writing intellectual history.
I was not assuming the worst. That is your gig. I was merely pointing out that by insisting that you don't stink up the pace [sic] on sic et non, they [sic] you put it, entails that you fowl [sic] your on nest on your own thing, does it not?
I’m starting to think Mr. Peterson is purposely letting the Midge embarrass himself. Did they ever have a falling out that would cause Mr. Peterson to hold a grudge?
- Doc
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.
When he ventured off DCP’s safe space to stalk Gina Colvin, it didn’t end well, so I understand why he makes this threat from the safety of the one place that tolerates his intolerable nonsense.