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Simon,

You have related encountering picketing protesters as you walked to the LDS conference center in SLC, on your way to General Conference.

Perhaps instead of obsessing about your perspective that they detracted from your conference going experience, can you perhaps view it differently, that the world outside the conference center was cruel and cold, but inside was for you a sanctuary, away from that cold, cruel world outside?

Turn your experience into a positive for your conference going experience rather than obsessively complain about those outside protesters being a distraction.

Please view this as a constructive suggestion rather than an assault on you or your religion.

sock puppet wrote:Simon,

You have related encountering picketing protesters as you walked to the LDS conference center in Salt Lake City, on your way to General Conference.

Perhaps instead of obsessing about your perspective that they detracted from your conference going experience, can you perhaps view it differently, that the world outside the conference center was cruel and cold, but inside was for you a sanctuary, away from that cold, cruel world outside?

Turn your experience into a positive for your conference going experience rather than obsessively complain about those outside protesters being a distraction.

Please view this as a constructive suggestion rather than an assault on you or your religion.

That's actually a very good suggestion, SP. Thanks.

I admire the protesters. They aren't anonymous. They have the courage to match their positions with their public faces. Unlike you, you coward SP.

Yahoo Bot wrote:I admire the protesters. They aren't anonymous. They have the courage to match their positions with their public faces. Unlike you, you coward SP.

Who are you again?

Yahoo Bot wrote:I admire the protesters. They aren't anonymous. They have the courage to match their positions with their public faces. Unlike you, you coward SP.

I also admire the protesters. They belong to religious denominations that aren't afraid to tell their members how their contributions are spent. They belong to religious denominations that aren't embarrassed to worship in public, instead of hiding in gaudy trophy buildings where they can engage in celestial cosplay with plagiarized Freemasonry.

Unlike the cowardly LDS Church.

Darth J wrote:

Yahoo Bot wrote:I admire the protesters. They aren't anonymous. They have the courage to match their positions with their public faces. Unlike you, you coward SP.

I also admire the protesters. They belong to religious denominations that aren't afraid to tell their members how their contributions are spent. They belong to religious denominations that aren't embarrassed to worship in public, instead of hiding in gaudy trophy buildings where they can engage in celestial cosplay with plagiarized Freemasonry.

Unlike the cowardly LDS Church.

LOL

Good stuff.

Darth J wrote:

Yahoo Bot wrote:I admire the protesters. They aren't anonymous. They have the courage to match their positions with their public faces. Unlike you, you coward SP.

I also admire the protesters. They belong to religious denominations that aren't afraid to tell their members how their contributions are spent. They belong to religious denominations that aren't embarrassed to worship in public, instead of hiding in gaudy trophy buildings where they can engage in celestial cosplay with plagiarized Freemasonry.

Unlike the cowardly LDS Church.

Oh snap!

Darth J wrote:I also admire the protesters.

I am glad to see that you admire what you termed militant assholes.

They belong to religious denominations that aren't afraid to tell their members how their contributions are spent.

Really? James White has been known to show up from time to time. Where are the financial records for Alpha and Omega ministries?

They belong to religious denominations that aren't embarrassed to worship in public, instead of hiding in gaudy trophy buildings where they can engage in celestial cosplay with plagiarized Freemasonry.

I suppose you believe that physicians engage in cosplay every day, what with their funny white coats and stethoscopes. Or, for that matter, anyone who dresses differently than you do must engage in cosplay, right?

Simon Belmont wrote:

Darth J wrote:I also admire the protesters.

I am glad to see that you admire what you termed militant assholes.

What!?! Are you suggesting that I don't really admire them, and maybe I am just being a smart ass?

Gee, Simon. That logic sort of calls into question whether Yahoo Bot, as a believing member of the LDS Church, really does admire people who are dragging the Book of Mormon on the ground and stapling temple garments to protest signs.

They belong to religious denominations that aren't afraid to tell their members how their contributions are spent.

Really? James White has been known to show up from time to time. Where are the financial records for Alpha and Omega ministries?

Just a head's up, but transparency and disclosure are not the same as "financial records." And I don't know whether or not this one specific ministry discloses to its membership what it does with the money it receives from its members.

But I see that what you really want to do is imply that the exception proves the rule. That is certainly a relief, because otherwise, by stating that people who post anonymously are cowards, Yahoo Bot is also calling you a coward.

They belong to religious denominations that aren't embarrassed to worship in public, instead of hiding in gaudy trophy buildings where they can engage in celestial cosplay with plagiarized Freemasonry.

I suppose you believe that physicians engage in cosplay every day, what with their funny white coats and stethoscopes. Or, for that matter, anyone who dresses differently than you do must engage in cosplay, right?

You do not appear to understand what "cosplay" is, so let me give you a hint: when doctors dress up like doctors while they're at work, they aren't pretending.

Darth wrote:That is certainly a relief, because otherwise, by stating that people who post anonymously are cowards, Yahoo Bot is also calling you a coward.

Yes, Darth is correct. According to Yahoo Bot, all of us who post anonymously are "anonymous cowards". Now, according to Yahoo Bot's hierarchy, an anonymous coward is not nearly as bad as being a hypocrite. Critics are anonymous cowards AND hypocrites.

Such is the fascinating, warped world of Yahoo Bot.