DCP from another angle

[_Nightingale]

I found a recent DCP thread on MADB very amusing, although do note the slur against "critics" (I dislike that characterization). Still, it made me laugh, for a number of reasons: It says, in part:

DCP:
"I've just returned from the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, where I underwent a medical procedure.

I was unconscious for roughly an hour.

This has helped me to better understand the mental state of many of my critics."


Bill Hamblin:
"Colonoscopy, right? That's another way it was like your critics."


DCP:
"No. I had that one back in October or November. ("Dignity, always dignity!" as the line goes in Singing in the Rain.) It was the kind of thing that my Malevolent Stalker fantasizes about doing to me. [LOL]

This was from the other end. Essentially routine. My enemies will be disappointed to know, however, that I appear to be pretty much fine, from both angles."


I do have that black humour the medical world is known for but still I thought this exchange was pretty darn funny. Anything to do with medical tests and the lay person's take on them always tickles my funny bone. Just like with my brother's recent kidney stones and his thorough examination from every "angle" by numerous medical students. He wasn't laughing much I noticed.

I do find it unfortunate that the word "enemies" has to creep into the discussions between LDS and ex-members as well as non-LDS I guess. I would venture to say that the number of people who actually wish physical harm on DCP is miniscule, if not zero. I have previously remarked that several of the most outspoken "critics" on this board appear to self-identify as LDS. That undermines the image of a horde of rabid "enemies" that may wish to disembowel or otherwise harm DCP, even figuratively; at least enemies of the non-LDS sort!

Still, it's funny to think of DCP undergoing a medical procedure and thinking of posters on this board in relation to it. See? It's not "just a board". Sometimes posters and our discussions do spill over into real life. That's not too weird, is it?!

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[_beastie]

Heh, I just read that thread, too. As I was reading it, I was imagining a critic posting the equivalent on MAD:

nonbeliever:

"I've just returned from the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, where I underwent a medical procedure.

I was unconscious for roughly an hour.

This has helped me to better understand the mental state of many of my critics."

How much time would lapse before I was banned? I'm guessing it would range in the seconds. And, for me, that obvious fact was the most enjoyable joke of the entire thread.

[_Nightingale]

Ha. Good point beastie.

A level playing field there is not. It takes some time for an outsider to understand what is going on. My predominant state of being at first there was one of confusion, not helped by the mods swooping in to red-ink me, every single time a total surprise to me. It took me a while but I came to the conclusion that it wasn't so much what you wrote but more what their preconceptions were of your state of mind. They expect you to be "anti" and so they see the most innocent remark as critical, not surprisingly.

I remember one innocuous post I wrote that mentioned something benign that a missionary had said to me. The main mod over there swooped in with a loud red rebuke about how could I expect them to believe anything I said and demanding CFR re whether it was really a missionary or not (or something like that; I forget the exact details now). I was very shocked and have found since that I am either ignored totally or that every sentence is examined microscopically for intentional offensiveness, when that is certainly not my mindset on the rare occasion that I post there. It made me a very nervous poster to know that J and C were lurking, it seemed, to pounce on my every remark.

Being confused and nervous totally reminded me of being an under-informed convert in a church that keeps its members so busy and stressed they don't actually welcome newbies as they see it as just another job, in my experience anyway.

So, yeah. If you want to post there you have to recognize and accept that the in-house crowd gets the leeway and the visitors have to watch their Ps and Qs. The trick is that you just can't tell which way the modding is going to go as sometimes it seems very arbitrary. However, I have seen some surprising leeway at times. I think it's just a case of needing to observe the mechanics of the board, just like any other, and recognize too that while "critics" are supposedly welcome, actual ex-member "critics" - not so much, although that is not clearly stated.

Given all that, I would expect that DCP and other posters could make statements like that with impunity. If, I, on the other hand, were to make a query along the lines of yours, beastie, I believe I would get my hand slapped. I'd be surprised if not. Either that or there would be a chorus of snarky remarks. I don't enjoy that kind of interaction. It's like being accused of something you didn't do or say or think just because you're not LDS. I don't find that all that pleasant. Certainly not an appealing way to spend my very limited posting time. I think exchanges between LDS and non-LDS, even ex-members could be mutually enjoyable. However, maybe not those LDS.

[_Danna]

I have just been loitering over there for a while, mainly watching an odd exchange between beastie and some guy who has big trouble with homophones. I think many board members try to emulate Daniel - but don't do it very well.

[_harmony]

"I've just returned from the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, where I underwent a medical procedure.

I was unconscious for roughly an hour.

This has helped me to better understand the mental state of many of my critics."

Cowardly. Base cowardice. If he wanted to call his critics braindead or unconscious, the least he could do is do it in a place where they could respond. Otherwise... it's just cowardice.

[_beastie]

I have just been loitering over there for a while, mainly watching an odd exchange between beastie and some guy who has big trouble with homophones.

You know the saddest part of this is I've already had so many odd exchanges over there I'm not sure which one you mean.

[_Mister Scratch]

I am aghast that DCP would stoop to this. I mean, did he really say and think such a thing? In his defeat, and in his over-the-top "I'm a martyr!" wallowing, is he fantasizing about me sticking something in his butt? Really, this is beyond gross. This is quite possibly the most disgusting utterance in the history of Mopologetics. Hamblin and DCP should reserve their naughty, locker-room butt talk for the skinny-l list.

[_Jason Bourne]

I am aghast that DCP would stoop to this. I mean, did he really say and think such a thing? In his defeat, and in his over-the-top "I'm a martyr!" wallowing, is he fantasizing about me sticking something in his butt? Really, this is beyond gross. This is quite possibly the most disgusting utterance in the history of Mopologetics. Hamblin and DCP should reserve their naughty, locker-room butt talk for the skinny-l list.

Hahahhahahaaaa

You do have a way with words.

[_The Nehor]

I am aghast that DCP would stoop to this. I mean, did he really say and think such a thing? In his defeat, and in his over-the-top "I'm a martyr!" wallowing, is he fantasizing about me sticking something in his butt? Really, this is beyond gross. This is quite possibly the most disgusting utterance in the history of Mopologetics. Hamblin and DCP should reserve their naughty, locker-room butt talk for the skinny-l list.

Since you are routinely aghast, shocked, and/or appalled by what he does, doesn't the shock eventually wear off for you? He's stooped to new lows in your mind so often haven't you yet accepted that there is absolutely nothing that this depraved individual won't do?

Oh right, rhetoric.

[_Nightingale]

... is he fantasizing about me sticking something in his butt?

Haha. I had a similar thought, only not so graphic. But then I thought I'd just leave it alone.

I think it's highly likely that DCP was just trying to get a rise out of you or us or whatever, knowing full well that somebody here would read what he had written. Mostly I noticed it because of the medical connection but it did strike me as funny that such an event would get him thinking about Scratch and Scratch with a long scope.