Maksutov wrote: Hmm. Tell me about worldviews and Satan. I like the leftwing conspiracy stuff too. Throw a little Hal Lindsay in there, but leave the Y2K out.
Oh yeah, tell how the Mormons are now controlling the NSA. There's yer secret combinations for ya.
Maksutov, I have no problem with Mormons, as long as they act non-Mormon in public. I just don't see why I have to acknowledge their lifestyle as a "religion" in any normative sense.
Darth J wrote:Maksutov, I have no problem with Mormons, as long as they act non-Mormon in public. I just don't see why I have to acknowledge their lifestyle as a "religion" in any normative sense.
You're on a roll.
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Maksutov wrote: Hmm. Tell me about worldviews and Satan. I like the leftwing conspiracy stuff too. Throw a little Hal Lindsay in there, but leave the Y2K out.
Oh yeah, tell how the Mormons are now controlling the NSA. There's yer secret combinations for ya.
Maksutov, I have no problem with Mormons, as long as they act non-Mormon in public. I just don't see why I have to acknowledge their lifestyle as a "religion" in any normative sense.
"your reasoning that children should be experimented upon to justify a political agenda..is tantamount to the Nazi justification for experimenting on human beings."-SUBgenius on gay parents "I've stated over and over again on this forum and fully accept that I'm a bigot..." - ldsfaqs
Maksutov, Darth is just channeling his inner Droopy. But with better usage of the 50 cent words.
Darth, good job and all. You get the general outlines of the Droopster's form, but without that unique, um, je ne sais quoi.
Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen
Sethbag wrote:Maksutov, Darth is just channeling his inner Droopy. But with better usage of the 50 cent words.
Darth, good job and all. You get the general outlines of the Droopster's form, but without that unique, um, je ne sais quoi.
You mean je ne sais quoiquaje ne sais quoi.
ROFL. How could I have missed that?
Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen
This is the most important scholarly paper I've read in a long time, professor J. I'm deeply impressed. I especially liked the slippery slope you've spelled out to show the probable worship of inanimate objects by our society due to the breach of our core societal values by heterodox religious groups.
I'm so impressed that effective immediatly I'm instituting the James Buchanan Center for the study of faith, policy, and intra-office affairs right here on university grounds. I'm assigning you as presiding scholar and we will elect a board of directors, president, and all the functionaries needed to run this scholarly fortress that I believe will bring our nation back to where God has spoken it should be. I myself shall serve as treasurer -- for reasons that are internal -- and let's just get this board of directors signed up and a spot on the internet.
I think the strategy here will be to milk this presentation of yours as much as we can, publish it, make it the core content of a seminar, and then publish audio clips of the seminar and several similar online papers saying basically the same thing over and over again. To make it look like our institution isn't just an excuse to blog about our disdain for one particular religious sect and so folks will know we're a dead serious organization set for real national change, a total political overhaul of the public square, we will erect a blog viewable from just about anywhere in the world that will discuss a variety of unrelated or indirectly related subjects, throwing out not-so-subtle hints about what's really setting us off, of course. Then after a year or so of having an undergrad student blog every couple of weeks and maintaining links to the private blogs of our board of directors, we'll let the whole project go defunct but not admit our ambitions to be anything less than they are. Very serious.
Anyway, if you're worried about this being too much to take on, you're 95% done already. We just need to find a sophmore who can make a web site, frame our sanctimonious ambitions in HTML, and publish our names and self-appointed, important-sounding titles to the entire world.
