2012--The Year DCP Wished Wasn't

[_3sheets2thewind]

Pahoran, run out of people to antagonize on MDDB?

If you think this place is so abhorrent, why do you keep coming back?

It would seem that no real Saint or allow himself into such a place as this. Especially no Real Saint would enter a place described, by you personal idol DCP and others as "great and spacious", clearly a Book of Mormon reference to Lehis Dream.

So what can we infer?

You are not a Real Saint?
or
This place is like online porn for you...and no Real Saint would look at porn.....

[_Pahoran]

As a matter of fact, it does. Thank you for admitting that.

As a matter of fact, it doesn't. But to a hairsplitting sophist like you the pretense is no effort.

As matter of fact, it does. I admit that it was foolish of him to assume that people like you and your worthless idol have any sense of respecting boundaries, but those who intentionally strayed from the book reviews in order to sniff out stuff that Dan didn't even know existed were not doing what he invited them to do. And that's simply a fact.

Regards,
Pahoran

[_Kishkumen]

As matter of fact, it does. I admit that it was foolish of him to assume that people like you and your worthless idol have any sense of respecting boundaries, but those who intentionally strayed from the book reviews in order to sniff out stuff that Dan didn't even know existed were not doing what he invited them to do. And that's simply a fact.

Regards,
Pahoran

Yes, I know it will haunt him for years that someone shared the intimate details of a public wishlist from Amazon.com.

The horror of it all!

Apologists will be telling the tale around campfires for generations to come.

The simple fact of the matter is that most people don't distinguish between the public parts of people's online profiles and webpages. So, you are wrong.

In other words, the way netiquette generally works is that you invite someone to look at your page, and every public link related to it is assumed to be part of the deal. No one seriously imagines that the person invited to look at their photos, for example, is not going to check out their Facebook personal information page.

If it is public, it is public.

We get that Herr Doktor Peterson was not up with the netiquette. But he can hardly expect to get much mileage with anyone who has the least horse sense about the internet.

In any case, who are you to bellyache about this petty garbage when you thought nothing of publicizing a personal message that MsJack sent to you in your signature on MDDB? Talk about hypocrisy.

[_sock puppet]

Now we know what happens when the mopologists lose the need for restraint that comes with publishing through a university. I like Bokovoy's essay, but it's been all downhill since then. If this is the kind of stuff Bradford was rejecting, my respect for him has increased exponentially.

Looks to me like a win-win situation. NAMIRS can now forge ahead to respectability, and the old FARMers can marginalize themselves to their hearts' content.

[_Spanner]

What matters is that he sent people looking at his footprint on Amazon. It is a little silly for him to bellyache about it as though it were some unexpected atrocity.

Actually for the purposes of this discussion, what matters is that the wishlist item about which your hero, the worthless Scratch, made so merry was not Dan's, but his son's. That is what the evidence tells us, and anyone who accuses him of "pretending" that is simply a liar.

I have to sympathise. Thanks to my son, half my wishlist is Thomas the Tank Engine. As is all of my extensive YouTube channel, and most of my Trade Me watchlist.

[_Kishkumen]

I have to sympathise. Thanks to my son, half my wishlist is Thomas the Tank Engine. As is all of my extensive YouTube channel, and most of my Trade Me watchlist.

Yes, and imagine it if one of your enemies got a hold of this damning information.

Oh the humiliation!

[_cafe crema]

As matter of fact, it does. I admit that it was foolish of him to assume that people like you and your worthless idol have any sense of respecting boundaries, but those who intentionally strayed from the book reviews in order to sniff out stuff that Dan didn't even know existed were not doing what he invited them to do. And that's simply a fact.

Regards,
Pahoran

Why would a wish list or any list put together by an amazon reviewer be considered out of bounds, there is no understanding of privacy with any of the amazon lists. If I enjoyed someones reviews and found we agreed on books we had both read why wouldn't I look at their lists to find other books I might like?

[_Pahoran]

Why would a wish list or any list put together by an amazon reviewer be considered out of bounds, there is no understanding of privacy with any of the amazon lists. If I enjoyed someones reviews and found we agreed on books we had both read why wouldn't I look at their lists to find other books I might like?

Again: the issue is not that anyone looked at it. The issue is that the worthless Scratch made a big song and dance about an item as if it represented Dan's taste in books -- except that it didn't.

Regards,
Pahoran

[_Pahoran]

Now we know what happens when the mopologists lose the need for restraint that comes with publishing through a university. I like Bokovoy's essay, but it's been all downhill since then. If this is the kind of stuff Bradford was rejecting, my respect for him has increased exponentially.

Looks to me like a win-win situation. NAMIRS can now forge ahead to respectability, and the old FARMers can marginalize themselves to their hearts' content.

That's one way to look at it; another way is to say that "the old FARMers" are right back to exactly where they were before President Hinckley invited them to come under the BYU umbrella, and can forge ahead independently, while Bradford, having subverted President Hinckley's vision, can now sell out for "respectability" to his heart's content.

As you say: a win-win.

Regards,
Pahoran

[_sock puppet]

Now we know what happens when the mopologists lose the need for restraint that comes with publishing through a university. I like Bokovoy's essay, but it's been all downhill since then. If this is the kind of stuff Bradford was rejecting, my respect for him has increased exponentially.

Looks to me like a win-win situation. NAMIRS can now forge ahead to respectability, and the old FARMers can marginalize themselves to their hearts' content.

That's one way to look at it; another way is to say that "the old FARMers" are right back to exactly where they were before President Hinckley invited them to come under the BYU umbrella, and can forge ahead independently, while Bradford, having subverted President Hinckley's vision, can now sell out for "respectability" to his heart's content.

As you say: a win-win.

Regards,
Pahoran

Yeah, but what is the Church's stance regarding the pecking order of the words of dead prophets vis-a-vis those of current, living ones?