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Simon,

You have a couple of times, and most recently here, indicated you have a 'mission' here at MDB.

I'm curious. What would be a complete mission statement for your participation at MDB?

Are you here, for example, to

1-Discuss Mo issues?
2-Set straight Mo misinformation or incomplete Mo information?
3-Stalk Dr Scratch?
4-Disrupt or derail Mo discussions by ex-mo's and never-mo's?

If more than one, please rank per priority or importance. If others, please set them forth.

Do you think the existence of MDB and Mo discussions by ex-mo's and never-mo's somehow prevents you in some way from practicing your religion, as you no doubt do about those that picket at GC? If so, how do these MDB discussion interfere with your free exercise of religion?

I am curious because you almost have the 'avenging angel' zeal of Nehor. So I am curious.

sock puppet wrote:Simon,


1-Discuss Mo issues?

I could see that

2-Set straight Mo misinformation or incomplete Mo information?

I wouldn't doubt he thinks so. To bad he has shown a real lack of knowledge about it.

3-Stalk Dr Scratch?

Maybe at the beginning, but has since changed to Joseph for some weird reason

4-Disrupt or derail Mo discussions by ex-mo's and never-mo's?

It sure looks that way with so little substance and mostly attacking the messenger all the time.

:)

Simon's "mission" is to paint the ruse that he has legitimate answers to questions asked. His ploy is to dilute the answers and ignore the questions he has no answer for. Most notably:

1) In Simon's Joseph Smith Megathread, he refuses to answer my question about Joseph Smith's translation of the Kinderhook plates.
2) Many questions asked by Paul O remain unanswered.
3) Simon refuses to even allude to the "evidence" he claims exists to support the historicity in Mormonism.

In conclusion, Simon's mission is to give hope to TBM's who actually believe he has answers to questions asked... we'll see.

thews wrote:Simon's "mission" is to paint the ruse that he has legitimate answers to questions asked. His ploy is to dilute the answers and ignore the questions he has no answer for. Most notably:

1) In Simon's Joseph Smith Megathread, he refuses to answer my question about Joseph Smith's translation of the Kinderhook plates.
2) Many questions asked by Paul O remain unanswered.
3) Simon refuses to even allude to the "evidence" he claims exists to support the historicity in Mormonism.

In conclusion, Simon's mission is to give hope to TBM's who actually believe he has answers to questions asked... we'll see.

I wholeheartedly agree.

He won't touch the Nauvoo Expositor thread either. The NE is too short and easy to read. He doesn't want to draw anyone to it because it confounds even him.

He only locks onto what he considers easy targets. And even then he'll cut and run.

It's his MO.

Inconceivable wrote:He only locks onto what he considers easy targets. And even then he'll cut and run.

It's his MO.

Which is why putting Simon on the ignore list brings instant satisfaction. When my little children used to interrupt my adult conversations, I would yell at them and get angry. It is tactic used by little children to get attention; negative attention.

Little Simon is no different, once you stop responding to him, his attention starved, he will go away.

Tchild wrote:Little Simon is no different, once you stop responding to him, his attention starved, he will go away.

Is that why he doesn't respond to my taunting?

So, for example, when I say:

"Simon, you are a poser"

Does he not see that because I have him on my ignore list?

I have some of my own questions about Simon Belmont's "mission":

---Did Simon Belmont receive a letter from the prophet calling him on this mission?

---Did Simon Belmont's stake president set him apart for this mission?

---Did Simon Belmont give up two years of his young adulthood for this mission?

---Did Simon Belmont and his family spend thousands of dollars for this mission?

---Did Simon Belmont leave behind a girl he was very much in love with for this mission?

As a world-class scholar on Joseph Smith, Simon Belmont is of course familiar with this:

A religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation; for, from the first existence of man, the faith necessary unto the enjoyment of life and salvation never could be obtained without the sacrifice of all earthly things. It was through this sacrifice, and this only, that God has ordained that men should enjoy eternal life.

I sacrificed a lot for my mission. What have you sacrificed for your "mission"?

You know... I originally had a certain goal here, but as I have posted more and more I feel I have come to know some of you and maybe, just maybe, have even made friends with a few of you. I, of course, consider some of you friends. I feel more involved in a community rather than an outsider with a different point of view than perhaps 90% of other participants here.

Still, let me answer some questions:

1-Discuss Mo issues?

Yes.

2-Set straight Mo misinformation or incomplete Mo information?

Yes.

3-Stalk Dr Scratch?

Stalk, no. Mock, yes.

4-Disrupt or derail Mo discussions by ex-mo's and never-mo's?

Although I admit I have done this, I do not consider it a goal of mine here.

Did Simon Belmont receive a letter from the prophet calling him on this mission?

---Did Simon Belmont's stake president set him apart for this mission?

---Did Simon Belmont give up two years of his young adulthood for this mission?

---Did Simon Belmont and his family spend thousands of dollars for this mission?

---Did Simon Belmont leave behind a girl he was very much in love with for this mission?

None of the above, and you know this.

I sacrificed a lot for my mission. What have you sacrificed for your "mission"?

I commend you for your sacrifice. It makes me immeasurably sad to know that you've rejected that which you once believed enough to sacrifice so much for.

TChild,

Why would you put me on ignore? Why would you want me to "go away?"

thews,

The Kinderhook plates fiasco was a mistake made by a man. Get over it.

Inconceivable,

If I remember correctly, the NE thread was started by my arch nemesis Joseph, the bigot. Why would I want to participate in any other fashion than to mock him?

Simon Belmont wrote:If I remember correctly, the NE thread was started by my arch nemesis Joseph, the bigot. Why would I want to participate in any other fashion than to mock him?

Point is, you wouldn't because you can't refute the allegations of the Nauvoo Expositor. So you resort to mocking the messenger. Your cowardess has nothing to do with Joseph.

You're a poser, Simon.

Simon Belmont wrote:You know... I originally had a certain goal here, but as I have posted more and more I feel I have come to know some of you and maybe, just maybe, have even made friends with a few of you. I, of course, consider some of you friends. I feel more involved in a community rather than an outsider with a different point of view than perhaps 90% of other participants here.

Huh. You must be a fairly forgiving soul.