Only In Provo - any better example?

[_Joey]

http://www.deseretnews.com/mobile/artic ... rship.html

To many classic quotes to pull out of this article to post here! Is it any surprise that the only place it gets any print is in a Provo Publication? No doubt these Mormon scholars are convincing the academic world on the credibility of Book of Mormon history and the legitimacy of Joseph Smith. Go Provo!!!

[_Daniel Peterson]

http://www.deseretnews.com/mobile/article/705376021/Richard-Bushman-on-Mormon-scholarship.html

To many classic quotes to pull out of this article to post here! Is it any surprise that the only place it gets any print is in a Provo Publication? No doubt these Mormon scholars are convincing the academic world on the credibility of Book of Mormon history and the legitimacy of Joseph Smith. Go Provo!!!

I'm really beginning to wonder about your fixation on Provo, Joey!!!!!

The Deseret News isn't "a Provo Publication [sic]"!!!! It's published in Salt Lake City!!!!!

And the conference on which the article reports was in Springville, not in Provo!!!!!!

And your choice of Richard Bushman (Ph.D., Harvard University), emeritus Gouverneur Morris Professor of American History at Columbia University (in New York City) and now emeritus Howard W. Hunter Professor of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University (in southern California), to illustrate the supposed backwoodsy isolation of the rustic rubes in Provo is simply weird!!!!!!!!

Heck, Professor Bushman was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and never even attended BYU!!!!!!!! All of his degrees are from Harvard!!!!!!

[_Simon Belmont]

Joey...


ROTFL

[_Daniel Peterson]

Joey?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[_madeleine]

Maybe "Provo" is a metaphor.

[_Joey]

Joey?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Sorry, just as you hear horns honking, I had a "wheels up" deadline I couldn't push any longer. Maybe after I land.

[_Simon Belmont]

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What, only one punctuation mark after your sentences?

What gives, man!!!!!!!!

[_hatersinmyward]

daily herald.

i had the privilege of living in provo.

the liberals down there chose to read the paper because 'it is local'

if an story or event does not fit the Mormon conservative psychopath stereotype it is laughed at.

basicly 2 paragraphs stating the event with a limited biased commentary followed by nine or ten paragraphs on how the stereotypical second councilor of the elders corrum would have done things.

its not even news, i'd take the d-news any day if i had to choose between the 2 publications.

[_Joey]

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What, only one punctuation mark after your sentences?

What gives, man!!!!!!!!

You have somehow made your way onto this list of ignorance, naïveté and the newest Peterson lap dog. Joey regrets to inform you that unless your intelligence or maturity improves, it will be very difficult for you to have respectful conversation with Joey.  If you feel any item on this statement of fact is in error, PM me when you have found a job and no longer need a message board to be your life.  

(Belmont must be the new LOAP, approaching 7,000 posts in one year,  with a nose most noticeably a shade of Provo Apologetic brown.  But as with most things from Provo - who noticed!)

[_BartBurk]

I liked this quote:

Bushman also described a new attitude toward Mormon apologetics, “not an aim to prove Mormonism true, but rather to find the truth about Mormonism.”

As an ex-Mormon Catholic I still find there is a lot of good to be had from Mormonism. Instead of trying to prove that Mormon scriptures are "true" maybe it would be best to look at what Mormon scriptures can teach us that would be universally true.