Another SeN commenter objects to Midgley’s doxxing threats, Peterson again warns the poster objecting to Midgley’s asshattery and lets Midgley’s rule violations stand.
Dr. VelhoBurrinho Louis Midgley 18 hours ago
Louis this looks an awful lot like a doxing threat. Just like you claimed not to do.
− Avatar DanielPeterson Dr. VelhoBurrinho 16 hours ago
Give it a rest, VB.
− Avatar Dr. VelhoBurrinho DanielPeterson 4 hours ago So I assume by that comment you are supporting and condoning that type of behavior?
− Avatar DanielPeterson Dr. VelhoBurrinho 3 hours ago
You can assume from my comment that I would like you to give it a rest.
− Avatar Louis Midgley Dr. VelhoBurrinho 17 hours ago For that unwarranted remark, the Little Old Donkey goes on my list of those to whom I will not again respond to their comments.
Silver lining, in theory, midgley will no longer respond to D VB. I say in theory, because midgley gets around this rule by making ugly remarks about people in the third person to others, so in reality the attacks continue.
Midgley playing cutesy games to avoid mentioning gemli:
Louis Midgley 4 hours ago I have avoided commenting on the thrashing that g---i has been taking. The reasons is that this happens every single time the word science is even mentioned. And then we get a dose of pure scientism from g---i, and he gets taken to the woodshed for another drubbing. I still think that everyone should ignore him. But I also must admit that I enjoy witnessing the drubbing.
So midgley enjoys this verbal violence, the majority of which he has posted against a fellow commenter, who has committed only the unforgivable sin of not being LDS.
I don’t think it can be said enough that the 2012 purging of Peterson and Midgley from the Maxwell Institute and BYU associated apologetics really did need to happen. They must be reading with horror midgley’s current contributions and Peterson’s defense and support of his childishness, and breathing a sigh of relief that they are no longer responsible for that.
I have argued, I realize not as often as I should, nor as well as I could, that one ought to strive to understand the faith of others as nearly as possible the way they do. And from their very best sources. One should have a kind of sympathy for the faith of others in our effort to grasp why so many others have found something genuinely soul satisfying in there faith.
These moments of bizarre piousness only serve to emphasize the disgusting way midgley regularly treats non-lds posters on SeN.
You’ll notice that Midgley posts ONLY on SeN. I’m assuming it is because it’s the only blog where he is allowed to behave so indecorously, without fear of censure. I can’t imagine him posting anywhere else and being allowed to break rules as egregiously as he does at SeN.
Way back when I was once able to visit the set where a film featuring a then very famous female movie star. Who was later famous for other unseemly stuff. So as we were standing and hardly breathing, we watched MM do her thing, over and over and over again....
Can you imagine his comments, condescension, and arrogance on his mission to the "false" culture of New Zealand" where he served several missions?!? Those POOR people. He was probably at the front of the line helping pour Clorox on them to scrub off their tattoos and helping them become "white and delightsome."
Dr CamNC4Me
"Dr. Peterson and his Callithumpian cabal of BYU idiots have been marginalized by their own inevitable irrelevancy defending a fraud."
best guess is that he's trying to say he was too good for Marilyn Monroe. He'd rather have been at a play in Ceder City with DCP and WS.
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.
Odd post. Why was he invited to watch Marylin Monroe film a scene? Which movie?
The breath holding would have been important to control background noise, because digital editing wasn’t invented yet.
He describes her not improving from take to take, but that judgment rests in the trained eye of the director, who knows precisely which nuanced performances the scene requires.
The lesson learned should have been that it takes time and study to truly appreciate the fine points of an unfamiliar craft.
Instead he compares the experience to the evidently similarly mundane task of reading the same atheist-scientist trope over and over from the likes of gemli.
The conclusion is wrong on both counts. Gemli makes good arguments, most of the time, but his audience isn’t willing to hear or learn from any of the finer points being made. It’s all the same take, over and over, offered with passion to uncaring eyes and ears.
Riding on a speeding train; trapped inside a revolving door; Lost in the riddle of a quatrain; Stuck in an elevator between floors. One focal point in a random world can change your direction: One step where events converge may alter your perception.
I actually very much agree that some information about a member of the Church, or anyone for that matter, who had rough spots, but there is any even moderately good reason to believe that they had repented, then it is not appropriate to drag up unseemly details if one is telling a general history of, for example, the Church in Utah County or the Church in Fiji or wherever. But when one has a long record of blasting away at Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon under an assumed name, while being paid with tithing funds, and also getting set aside a fine pension, and who, the moment he retired, suddenly published a book he had repeatedly told those for whom he worked that he was no longer working on that book manuscript, then those details need to be known
Wow. So, he will slur any person’s reputation he feels is an enemy, because of course that means they are “unrepentant.” But, if a person telling the history of the LDS church is a friend of the church, then the unseemly details of their lives don’t need to be brought up, because obviously if they speak well of the LDS church they have repented.
Wow. I am thinking less and less of Midgley’s character. His integrity is completely contingent on which side he thinks is involved. This also explains why he constantly fishes for real life details. It doesn’t matter about facts or truth, it only matters whether he can define a person as a friend or enemy to his religion. If they are deemed an enemy, then the attacks begin.
