LifeOnaPlate: A New Kind of Mopologist?

[_Always Thinking]

Am I crazy? My understanding (from reading this board) is that Daheshist and the Temple Square guy in white are one and the same.

[_Gadianton]

The fact that he is a believing Mormon, you’re tendency to assume the worst about the things they do?

Mike, I don't think this is fair. I have seen no indication that Doctor Scratch assumes the worst about what believing Mormons do. In fact, Doctor Scratch has been a friend to the believing Mormon many times on this forum, including the times when FARMS attacks them in their Review.

Now, given the antics of many of the apologists, he might find certain things they do, and are "in the know" about, intriguing.

[_Doctor Scratch]

Wait a second here.... LoaP was "in contact with his family"? For a whole week? What's going on here? Was he (LoaP) just trying to be nice? Did he, too, assume the the man was an anti-Mormon? I know that I'm curious to know (A) why LoaP approached this individual in the first place (was it simply the seemingly anti-nature of the guy's activity/get-up?), and (B) why he was evidently digging into the guy's background and family life (and medical history).

Um... have you thought to ask LOaP? I mean... he isn't too hard to contact, since, after all, he is a registered participant on this forum.

I assume that you are suggesting that I ought to have PMed LoaP. Well, I wasn't interested in doing that, since LoaP has often been dishonest and unscrupulous in his interactions with me. Frankly, I thought it would be far more courteous and interesting to simply post a new thread.

Appallingly, some of the MADites used the event as an opportunity to gloat and to insist that Shaf had it coming to him.... In a less direct way, LoaP seems to have been thinking along similar lines

Along similar lines? What exactly in LOaP's quotes makes it "seem" this way to you?

It seemed that way because he said that he thought to himself, "that it would have been odd if it was Shaf." Why would he be privately envisioning this?

It just gets stranger and stranger. First, we learn that LoaP has apparently been hanging around Temple Square, perhaps looking for anti-Mormons.

Or "perhaps" LOaP was visiting temple square, or "perhaps" the Church History Library, when he came across Nick. I saw Nick while doing these things. Or "perhaps" LOaP is friends with the family, and out of concern for him, went to check up on him.

Calm down, Mike. I said "perhaps" for a reason. There's no need to get all worked up over this.

He has been rather heavily involved in dealing with a white-faced bipolar man who wears his temple clothes outside in full view of everyone. Then, he just happens to be standing at the scene of a crime--a crime in which a notable anti-Mormon is struck by a car. And LoaP says that he "hustled away" from the scene. As an add on, he remarks that he'd been fantasizing/thinking/daydreaming about Shaf getting hit by a car.

You know... when my Grandfather and two uncles died in a car accident (just after they dropped off my father)... my father heard the crash and thought to himself, "I wonder if that was my family?" Was my Father "fantasizing" when these thoughts came to his mind?

A pretty silly comparison, since I doubt your father had been involved in all-out polemical war with his relatives.

[_Dr. Shades]

I, too, wondered how LoaP discovered the whereabouts of Nick's family--and why he felt the need to dig that deeply.

[Guest]

Then, he just happens to be standing at the scene of a crime--a crime in which a notable anti-Mormon is struck by a car.

I am curious as to your use of the word "crime" here. Was this usage intentional? Wouldn't the word "accident" be more correct and appropriate? Do you actually believe this incident to be a crime?

[Jersey Girl]

It seemed that way because he said that he thought to himself, "that it would have been odd if it was Shaf." Why would he be privately envisioning this?

Could be that momentarily LOaP entered into another dimension. One where he could both be in the thick of things, while at the same time having his darker fantasies come true. Let us hope he has reentered the reality of the MAD zone, where things may be contentious, but injurious thoughts are seldom brought to fruition.

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[_Nomomo]

Am I crazy? My understanding (from reading this board) is that Daheshist and the Temple Square guy in white are one and the same.

Surely you jest.

[_KimberlyAnn]

Am I crazy?

Yes.

I only like crazy people.

My understanding (from reading this board) is that Daheshist and the Temple Square guy in white are one and the same.

No, you're just temporarily confused, AT. Daheshist isn't the Temple Square guy. I'm fairly certain, though, from reading his posts that he's Dallas.

KA

[_The Nehor]

I have seen no indication that Doctor Scratch assumes the worst about what believing Mormons do.

[_Doctor Scratch]

I, too, wondered how LoaP discovered the whereabouts of Nick's family--and why he felt the need to dig that deeply.

Yes, it's all very curious. I think that this is a watershed moment in this small alcove of Mopologetics, and I think that the whole incident has been revelatory in terms of LoaP's character. One of the most peculiar aspects of all of this is the boilerplate, almost zombie-like disclaimer that LoaP dispenses whenever he discusses this event. It's almost as if he was told by an attorney to recite this same thing over and over.