Mike Norton to sneak into temple to film porn?

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Re: Mike Norton to sneak into temple to film porn?

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RockSlider wrote:you are taking my statements too literally. I was surprised by your earlier assessment of him. viewtopic.php?p=1162691#p1162691

I'm with honorentheos. You never did respond to my final question to you in that thread.


God all freaking mighty. I take your posts as they are written. Stop mealy mouthing and stop misquoting me here.

If you have an issue with another thread, pop the goddamn thing up like a normal person by posting on it and noting that you would like a response there.

I don't always reply to a post because, I dunno, I have a freaking life and I move on.

You are misquoting me, you are dragging one thread into another, you are all over the place what the bloody hell is wrong with you?
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RockSlider wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:And no, I didn't view the entire video yet. I transferred a public Facebook post made by Sam Young to this board.


Perhaps you should listen to the first 15 or 20 minutes and then tell us how you nailed it in my previous posts link of your analysis of him.


What analysis of him?
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RockSlider wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:And no, I didn't view the entire video yet. I transferred a public Facebook post made by Sam Young to this board.


Perhaps you should listen to the first 15 or 20 minutes and then tell us how you nailed it in my previous posts link of your analysis of him.


I know you are gods gift to internet forums, but perhaps you could follow the link I just gave you. roll over it with your mouse and left click.
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RockSlider wrote:I know you are gods gift to internet forums, but perhaps you could follow the link I just gave you. roll over it with your mouse and left click.


I already did that.
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Jersey Girl wrote:I already did that.


So do you remember now your analysis of him at the time? Has your analysis now changed? Your admiration of Sam Young is well known, what was the purpose of your quoting him in this thread giving Mike the thumbs up? Does this lower your opinion of Sam, or are you going along with Sam and giving Mike a slap on the back of good job listening to others?
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RockSlider wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:I already did that.


So do you remember now your analysis of him at the time? Has your analysis now changed? Your admiration of Sam Young is well known, what was the purpose of your quoting him in this thread giving Mike the thumbs up? Does this lower your opinion of Sam, or are you going along with Sam and giving Mike a slap on the back of good job listening to others?


I believe I've stated twice already on this thread, that I haven't watched the video of the live stream. I have no comment to make regarding the video of the live stream unless and until I have time to view it.

I don't "go along" with anyone. You should know that by now.
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Jersey Girl wrote:
I believe I've stated twice already on this thread, that I haven't watched the video of the live stream. I have no comment to make regarding the video of the live stream unless and until I have time to view it.

I don't "go along" with anyone. You should know that by now.


What I'm hearing here is a DCP dodge and that you are unwilling to answer the previous threads question or any of these here and that no answers are to follow. Listening to the whole live stream is a waste of time, you will see/hear all you need to know in the first 10 minutes or so.
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Against my better judgement, I will transfer the applicable posts here. I believe these should be followed up on in the thread of origin and have little to do with the topic of this thread and may serve to derail it.

That said.

RockSlider wrote:you are taking my statements too literally. I was surprised by your earlier assessment of him. viewtopic.php?p=1162691#p1162691

I'm with honorentheos.


You never did respond to my final question to you in that thread.


Here you are linking to a post exchange between myself and honor. You say you were suprised by my assessment of Norton and that you agreed with honor in his assessment.

You mention that I didn't respond to your final question to me and have not linked to it.

These are remarks to me, not questions that warrant an answer.

I'll sort this out.
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From the link in the above post, here is the assessment that I made regarding Norton and honor's assessment which you state that you agree with.

honorentheos wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:What I think I see is a man who experiences very high levels of empathy.

Interesting. I typically get a very different impression whenever I view his videos or read anything he puts out. I could see a certain Holden Caulfield quality in Norton that might include expressions of detached empathy in the same way Holden sees himself protecting children running towards a cliff as the titular catcher in the rye. But his lack of empathy for the people in his videos is apparent. In fact, there is a lot of Holden Caulfield in my view of Norton now that I think about it.


Later in this thread (not the thread of origin for the above) I believe that you asked me if I stand by my assessment of Norton which appears in the above exchanges between myself and honor.

Yes, I do stand by it.
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Re: Mike Norton to sneak into temple to film porn?

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In this post from the other thread, you posed a question as follows.

RockSlider wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:What I think I see is a man who experiences very high levels of empathy.


Dang, I was close. So do you feel that the ends justify the means?

He seems to have repeated illegal trespass (along with implied breaking and entering) after the guilty decree from last summer at Bill Reels Stake Center.


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You are asking me if I think (feel) that the ends justify the means. I think in some cases yes, some cases no. I don't know what specific means you are referring to.

Are you talking about Norton trespassing and/or making recordings to expose the inner or hidden workings/processes in the LDS Church?

Again, that depends on the risk vs benefit of whatever activity is under consideration.

I refer to you to the Heinze dilemma developed by Kohlberg that I mentioned in a previous discussion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_dilemma

I think that in the case of recording something like whathisname's court of love, the risk outweighs the benefit.

I think that in the case of recording a lesbian porn flick the risk to others, particularly those that comprise vulnerable populations (mentioned by me previously on this thread) is far greater than any in-your-face benefit in essentially sticking it to the LDS Church.

My current series of responses here should take care of what you were asking about.

Once again, I cannot comment on whether or not my assessment of Norton has changed since he apparently decided against the lesbian porn flick. I would note, however, that having high levels of empathy does not rule out anyone making a dick move like fliming porn and essentially desecrating a house of worship.

I have high levels of empathy myself. I've made tons of stupid moves. One does not exclude the other. So far as I am concerned, we are all flawed human beings.
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