BCSpace, what if your wife became a disbeliever in LDS??

[_Mister Scratch]

In like manner, many of the LDS conversion stories, and certainly most that I've ever read, are most definitely part of what appears to be a standardized genre; they contain a number of similar, formatted elements and themes, and can be very much alike down even to fine details. All one has to do, if one wants a ready made conversion tale, is to slightly modify and personalize one of those already in circulation.

Based on the TBM's posting history thus far, I'm pretty satisfied that, whoever these people are (or whoever this person is), there is no possibility of taking anything they claim regarding themselves or their membership in the Church with any degree of seriousness.

If these people are actually adults, they clearly have other problems, emotional and psychological, more in need of attention than their personal love for a Church of which they very obviously have little knowledge.

Fixored.

Wow, I only had to change 4 things.

Your inability to handle the truth is only a symptom Whoknows. The real pathology runs much deeper.

But of course, we knew that.

Actually, Coggins's posts operate according to certain generic formulas as well:

1) Take a breather after getting utterly trounced.
2) Return to the board and begin issuing one-liner, dismissive posts.
3) Make claims on some subject about which you've done zero reading
4) Get completely humiliated when aforementioned lack of reading is exposed
5) Complain about the lack of "intellectual seriousness"
6) Get ridiculed for idiocy and failure to provide any semblance of "intellectual seriousness" in the first place
7) Blow up and call people names
8) Disappear for a bit and return with silly, insulting song parodies
9) Try to get engaged in a real discussion, in which sources from frontpagemag.com are cited
10) Get trounced, and retreat to lick wounds and take a breather
11) Repeat the above steps, in no particular order.

[_Coggins7]

In like manner, many of the LDS conversion stories, and certainly most that I've ever read, are most definitely part of what appears to be a standardized genre; they contain a number of similar, formatted elements and themes, and can be very much alike down even to fine details. All one has to do, if one wants a ready made conversion tale, is to slightly modify and personalize one of those already in circulation.

Based on the TBM's posting history thus far, I'm pretty satisfied that, whoever these people are (or whoever this person is), there is no possibility of taking anything they claim regarding themselves or their membership in the Church with any degree of seriousness.

If these people are actually adults, they clearly have other problems, emotional and psychological, more in need of attention than their personal love for a Church of which they very obviously have little knowledge.

Fixored.

Wow, I only had to change 4 things.

Excellent. The "Coggins in the mirror" strikes again.

You were next, after Harmony, on my exmo-who's-never-actually-been-in-the-Church poop list, given your posting history thus far, to the degree you've ever posted anything of intellectual gravity, I have long suspected that Bishopric is actually Nonmemberanti-Mormonric who thinks, as do so many in the deep bayous of anti-Mormonism, that insider status gives their animadversions greater credibility.

You're essentially marginal understanding of LDS doctrine and culture, however-easily paralleling Harmony's, might indicate something other than any such "insider" background relative to the Church and its people.

In other words Bish, keep up the pose.

[_Mister Scratch]

Excellent. The "Coggins in the mirror" strikes again.

You were next, after Harmony, on my exmo-who's-never-actually-been-in-the-Church poop list, given your posting history thus far, to the degree you've ever posted anything of intellectual gravity, I have long suspected that Bishopric is actually Nonmemberanti-Mormonric who thinks, as do so many in the deep bayous of anti-Mormonism, that insider status gives their animadversions greater credibility.

You're essentially marginal understanding of LDS doctrine and culture, however-easily paralleling Harmony's, might indicate something other than any such "insider" background relative to the Church and its people.

In other words Bish, keep up the pose.

See? Steps 6 and 7 already. LOL....

[_BishopRic]

In like manner, many of the LDS conversion stories, and certainly most that I've ever read, are most definitely part of what appears to be a standardized genre; they contain a number of similar, formatted elements and themes, and can be very much alike down even to fine details. All one has to do, if one wants a ready made conversion tale, is to slightly modify and personalize one of those already in circulation.

Based on the TBM's posting history thus far, I'm pretty satisfied that, whoever these people are (or whoever this person is), there is no possibility of taking anything they claim regarding themselves or their membership in the Church with any degree of seriousness.

If these people are actually adults, they clearly have other problems, emotional and psychological, more in need of attention than their personal love for a Church of which they very obviously have little knowledge.

Fixored.

Wow, I only had to change 4 things.

Excellent. The "Coggins in the mirror" strikes again.

You were next, after Harmony, on my exmo-who's-never-actually-been-in-the-Church poop list, given your posting history thus far, to the degree you've ever posted anything of intellectual gravity, I have long suspected that Bishopric is actually Nonmemberanti-Mormonric who thinks, as do so many in the deep bayous of anti-Mormonism, that insider status gives their animadversions greater credibility.

You're essentially marginal understanding of LDS doctrine and culture, however-easily paralleling Harmony's, might indicate something other than any such "insider" background relative to the Church and its people.

In other words Bish, keep up the pose.

No problem coggs. If I ever meet you (I'd need to wear a bullet-proof vest, I'm sure), I'll try to bring you a mirror for you to start getting the truth of your judgments. But then you'd have to open your eyes too.

Hmmmmmm.

[_Canucklehead]

You were next, after Harmony, on my exmo-who's-never-actually-been-in-the-Church poop list, given your posting history thus far, to the degree you've ever posted anything of intellectual gravity, I have long suspected that Bishopric is actually Nonmemberanti-Mormonric who thinks, as do so many in the deep bayous of anti-Mormonism, that insider status gives their animadversions greater credibility.

You're essentially marginal understanding of LDS doctrine and culture, however-easily paralleling Harmony's, might indicate something other than any such "insider" background relative to the Church and its people.

In other words Bish, keep up the pose.

Oooh! Ooh! Ooh! Do me next! Do you think I was ever a real live Mormon? I don't post too much on here so it should be a good challenge for you!

[_BishopRic]

You were next, after Harmony, on my exmo-who's-never-actually-been-in-the-Church poop list, given your posting history thus far, to the degree you've ever posted anything of intellectual gravity, I have long suspected that Bishopric is actually Nonmemberanti-Mormonric who thinks, as do so many in the deep bayous of anti-Mormonism, that insider status gives their animadversions greater credibility.

You're essentially marginal understanding of LDS doctrine and culture, however-easily paralleling Harmony's, might indicate something other than any such "insider" background relative to the Church and its people.

In other words Bish, keep up the pose.

Oooh! Ooh! Ooh! Do me next! Do you think I was ever a real live Mormon? I don't post too much on here so it should be a good challenge for you!

Of course not! Nobody here has ever really been a Mormon...we don't have the intellect to have been one. YOu know, those Mormons are sooo dang smart!

[_Coggins7]

You're just another trite and petty provocateur setting fires and throwing bombs here and there to assuage your own internal psychological and spiritual conflicts Bish, so please don't think I respond to posts such as those you normally make for any other reason than personal amusement.

I save serious argument and reflection for those with whom it will be productive and stimulating-even if no minds are ultimately changed, on both sides.

You may, as you have shown your propensity thus far, have the balcony with Boas and Lydia, Merc, Schmo, Harmony, Kimberly, and the rest of the teenagers throwing popcorn and and Bon Bons into the front row while the rest of us are trying to watch the movie.

[_Coggins7]

Oooh! Ooh! Ooh! Do me next! Do you think I was ever a real live Mormon? I don't post too much on here so it should be a good challenge for you!

Actually, you appear to be a small, frog-like amphibious being with large eyeballs.

[_Canucklehead]

Of course not! Nobody here has ever really been a Mormon...we don't have the intellect to have been one. YOu know, those Mormons are sooo dang smart!

Shhhh! You're supposed to let Coggins figure it out based on my demonstrated intellectual vacuity.

[_Canucklehead]

Oooh! Ooh! Ooh! Do me next! Do you think I was ever a real live Mormon? I don't post too much on here so it should be a good challenge for you!

Actually, you appear to be a small, frog-like amphibious being with large eyeballs.

That may be true ... but I'm a baptised, endowed, RM frog-like amphibious being with large eyeballs!