Stephen Smoot's Vendetta

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Meldrum wrote:Fair board members Scott Gordan, John Lynch, Bob White, and Greg Smith (and possibly Allen Wyatt)
I wish Kerry could give us the low down on this so-called "FAIR Kabal" who get together, dress up in black plague masks and capes, and proceed to paddle one another while shouting, "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

It sounds so Freudian. I hope Stephen Smoot shuns this group and sticks with Kwaku. That level of scheming must be unhealthy even if the black plague masks fit with the medieval dungeons and oubliette motif of the BYU Honors Committee.
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An interesting new post on “Neville-Neville Land,” enthusiastically plugging the work of Spencer Kraus, who, with his stupid faux-hawk and pasty visage, looks like the unholy offspring of Allen Wyatt and Mike Parker:

https://www.nevillenevilleland.com/2022 ... n.html?m=1

Poor Boylan looks like he’s been entombed in a basement filled with books. As for Kraus: I guess the Mopologists can pat themselves on the back for managing to recruit *some*body? It is pretty alarming, in any case, that someone like Kraus would turn to the Mopologists for validation. And he should be fearful about being connected to “Neville-Neville Land,” since its main goal is to destroy the faith of other Latter-day Saints.
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Doctor Scratch wrote:
Thu Jul 21, 2022 3:30 am
An interesting new post on “Neville-Neville Land,” enthusiastically plugging the work of Spencer Kraus, who, with his stupid faux-hawk and pasty visage, looks like the unholy offspring of Allen Wyatt and Mike Parker:

https://www.nevillenevilleland.com/2022 ... n.html?m=1

Poor Boylan looks like he’s been entombed in a basement filled with books. As for Kraus: I guess the Mopologists can pat themselves on the back for managing to recruit *some*body? It is pretty alarming, in any case, that someone like Kraus would turn to the Mopologists for validation. And he should be fearful about being connected to “Neville-Neville Land,” since its main goal is to destroy the faith of other Latter-day Saints.
I'm not familiar with the Mormon apologist named R. Nygren (go to 05:22 of the interview). Is that a pseudonym?
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Your eye for men's fashion is proven again to be top of the stack, professor. How is anybody going to get through an hour and twenty-three minutes of this insult to GQ?

I'll guarantee you something. DCP didn't sit through that interview, neither did Midgley or Kiwi57. Not a chance.
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Gadianton wrote:
Thu Jul 21, 2022 4:00 pm
Your eye for men's fashion is proven again to be top of the stack, professor. How is anybody going to get through an hour and twenty-three minutes of this insult to GQ?
It looks like he’s drawing inspiration from Ricky Martin circa 2001 or thereabouts—the “Livin’ la Vida Loca” era, if you know what I mean, albeit watered down with Mormon banality.
I'll guarantee you something. DCP didn't sit through that interview, neither did Midgley or Kiwi57. Not a chance.
I’m sure you’re right. And my goodness: Boylan is an incredibly creepy individual.
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If you look at the description for this YouTube video posted in Neville Neville land: https://youtu.be/zR6bJyjU-bc
You’ll see they claim the blog is actually written by a guy named Richard Nygren, who they say is Peter Pan. This is probably why he said he was uncomfortable with the video in the blog post.
To be honest all these guys write so much with the same way that I can’t tell the difference between them anyway.
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RedCloud wrote:
Sun Jul 24, 2022 1:15 am
If you look at the description for this YouTube video posted in Neville Neville land: https://youtu.be/zR6bJyjU-bc
You’ll see they claim the blog is actually written by a guy named Richard Nygren, who they say is Peter Pan. This is probably why he said he was uncomfortable with the video in the blog post.
To be honest all these guys write so much with the same way that I can’t tell the difference between them anyway.
Thanks very much for posting this, RedCloud.
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I tried to watch it. Really I did. I only got through a few preliminary pleasantries.
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I actually got all the way through it. They appear upset with the parallels and lambast them all the while with the deepest irony not realizing they shoot themselves in the foot for their own parallels, since that is all they have when it comes to Book of Mormon authenticity! :lol: All one has to do to see this is browse in Sorenson's book Mormon Codex, and Wala! Parallelomania magnified X50.
And again, not the most exciting interview... the topic could have been done better as well, but hey, we all have to start somewhere...
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Kishkumen wrote:
Sun Jul 24, 2022 10:57 am
I tried to watch it. Really I did. I only got through a few preliminary pleasantries.
Very generous of you to make the attempt, Reverend. That said, I think the key tidbit is the one that Tom and RedCloud have provided: namely, Boylan is claiming now that “Neville-Neville Land” is operated by “Richard Nygren,” who, Boylan says, is “one of only a few African-American apologists.”

You really have to wonder what they’re up to here. Like Tom, I’ve never heard of Richard Nygren, which strikes me as strange, especially since this Nygren has exactly the same obsessive proclivities, hatreds, and writing quirks as Stephen O. Smoot. So, does this mean that a bone-headed Boylan “doxxed” “one of only a few African-American apologists” and that the Heartlanders now know who’s been operating the blog? (Boylan even tells the audience where Nygren lives…) Or is the truth being distorted here?
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