Rules of Patheos: Midgley appears to violate TOS 10x

[_Gadianton]

The reason why it's hard for me to get irritated over Kiwi is that I know that he knows exactly what he's doing. I admit that should make it worse, but for some reason, it doesn't for me personally. His peers are more irritating because they don't realize what they're doing, they are just oblivious. When Mr. Midgley goes into a meltdown over "fake doctors" and blasts Gemli over his lack of travel, he's 100% committed to everything he's say. He really does believe fake doctors will be the downfall of society. Sure, that also makes it more entertaining, but irritating and entertaining can be complementary.

[_Philo Sofee]

I think Kiwi57 is actually just kinda cute.

[_Lemmie]

I think Kiwi57 is actually just kinda cute.

He said we “OINKED.” Combine that with your testimony of his cuteness and I am calling it. That’s straight up flirtation on his part. He wants us, Philo, he wants us!!

[_Philo Sofee]

I think Kiwi57 is actually just kinda cute.

He said we “OINKED.” Combine that with your testimony of his cuteness and I am calling it. That’s straight up flirtation on his part. He wants us, Philo, he wants us!!

Oh my gosh was he watching Brett and Carson, Mormontalk with us the other night?!

[_Lemmie]

I think Kiwi57 is actually just kinda cute.

He said we “OINKED.” Combine that with your testimony of his cuteness and I am calling it. That’s straight up flirtation on his part. He wants us, Philo, he wants us!!

Oh my gosh was he watching Brett and Carson, Mormontalk with us the other night?!

sorry, I thought you said that in the mormontalk twitch thread. I was watching the feed on my phone while we were out watching a football game, trying to listen and scroll the comments on a tiny screen! Kiwi57 could stand to lighten up a bit, that’s for sure.

[_Lemmie]

Dr. VelhoBurrinho Louis Midgley
an hour ago
[quoting midgley:]
“VB (LOD): Louis Midgley ‘has in the past threatened multiple posters to this board with doxing in some form or another, including myself.’

LCM: This is simply not true.”

Actually considering your well documented past, I felt the following a veiled threat.

[quoting midgley:]
“I actually don't care all that much about those who find it necessary or useful to post without identifying themselves. Or the reasons they have, either real or imagined, that they have for doing this. Please notice that the one posting as velhoburrinho provides his own explanation for his hiding his own identity behind a handle.

‘Since I’m not retired or have tenure I don’t quite have the freedom to say or do whatever is on my mind that you may have,’

he finds it necessary to post as velhoburrinho. If he happens to be employed by the Church of Jesus Christ, and hence paid with tithing funds, which is for me like being on, then he should consider the real possibility that he will have to explain that in a court where we all will need an Advocate.”

The only think you know about genetics or population genetics is what is published by FAIR and associated organizations. And the primary author although has a PhD, their current academic position is a LDS Institute Director. Just by that I would question their findings as being biased.

Understanding Nibley (and Nibley himself) was never about faith. It was about rationalization. A frame was created where there is a certain type of logic, as long as you stay within that frame and don't discuss it with anybody outside of the frame you are using reason limited by rationalization to say you are right and then calling it faith and religious truth.

I didn't lose faith I just stopped rationalizing.

https://disqus.com/home/discussion/danp ... 4629352678

Only one of many of Midgley’s veiled threats that this Patheos/LDS blog allows.

[_Lemmie]

Louis Midgley gemli 21 minutes ago

...gemli worked for a Roman Catholic called in New Orleans, and hence was paid well for his IT services, including a pension, with part of the huge wealth of the Roman Catholic Church in the USA.

And no church can or does require tithing. Paying tithing is entirely voluntary. Just as was gemli's working for money at a Roman Catholic College.

He seems to have become gemli because he may have feared that he would be given the boot if they found out that he was a militant atheist ideologue. He can correct me if I have not set this out as he would prefer to explain all this.

https://disqus.com/home/discussion/danp ... 4629497279

MIDGLEY! Hey, old guy! QUIT MAKING UP ABUSIVE crap ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE’s PERSONAL LIVES!

Omg. Why does Peterson allow this abuse on his site? Patheos has rules governing their terms of service. Peterson is obligated to do his best to not allow others to violate those terms, including harassing other commenters. And yet, he has left up DOZENS AND DOZENS of posts where Midgley has harassed gemli. Midgley’s posting history is ridiculous, and Peterson’s non-moderation of the harassment is well-documented.

And no church can or does require tithing

That’s not true. No church that I am aware of, except for the Mormon church, limits the ability to worship if tithing is not paid. You can’t attend LDS weddings of your relatives if tithing is not paid. That’s a requirement.

[_Lemmie]

I think SeN staff writers are desperate to shut down Midgley, who has defined himself as an “intellectual historian” but starts virtually every comment with a personal dig at some other commenter, usually gemli:

...Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons;

.... We would find a person whose conversation always focused on just one of those three, or even on just two of those three, exceedingly strange. Such limitation would be unnatural. Inhuman....

Historians and journalists will necessarily concentrate on events.

There is nothing unworthy about discussing events, let alone people.

We’re not discussing professional duties, though. We’re focused, rather, on ordinary conversations and on online behavior. And we’re not talking in exclusive terms. We’re looking at propensities.

Here’s yet another quotation centered more or less on the same subject:

“Anyone who will gossip to you, will gossip about you.”

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... ideas.html

in just 2019 alone, midgley has gossiped about dozens of people, both dead and alive, from his mission, from his graduate school experience, from his time as a BYU professor, from his Maxwell Institute experiences, from his volunteer work. He has bragged about beating up a fellow middle school student (now dead) while his teacher cheered him on, about making grown men cry when he threatened their livelihood, about the (in his opinion) well-deserved tragedies of former friends who are now professed enemies, even about a youth in his congregation who had a traffic incident that he decided to make public while including his version of details (i.e. unproven, and disputed by police) about that youth’s illegal drug and excessive alcohol use. He has made up outrageous, unkind, and downright disgusting stories about multiple online anonymous posters, and he has spilled an inordinate amount of ink trying to fish private details out of other commenters.

Here’s to hoping he will take the hint from SeN staff to STOP.

[_Dr Moore]

That’s not true. No church that I am aware of, except for the Mormon church, limits the ability to worship if tithing is not paid. You can’t attend LDS weddings of your relatives if tithing is not paid. That’s a requirement.

Assuming one is literally honest in answering the "full tithe payer" question.

But, as we have seen, literally doesn't need to apply in a majority of Mormonism's claims. There are many ways to answer the question yes*.

* Caveats apply.

[Guest]

That’s not true. No church that I am aware of, except for the Mormon church, limits the ability to worship if tithing is not paid. You can’t attend LDS weddings of your relatives if tithing is not paid. That’s a requirement.

Assuming one is literally honest in answering the "full tithe payer" question.

But, as we have seen, literally doesn't need to apply in a majority of Mormonism's claims. There are many ways to answer the question yes*.

* Caveats apply.

I never saw that, and I must have left before such a strategy became necessary to those attempting to hang on.

The first time my jack Mormon sibling suggested such a caveat to me, I was truly, TRULY shocked, even though I had already been out of the LDS religion for a decade. It had never, EVER occurred to me, in all my time in the LDS church, that I could answer that question, or any others, in a non-literal way.