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RockSlider wrote:

Jersey Girl wrote:I'm trying to make sure, as best I can, that I am not seeing what I'm looking for.

What's that? Yet another xmormon hero?

I have no idea why you are saying that.

None.

That's what happens when you choose to ignore the context from which a single statement was extracted.

Jersey Girl wrote:

Maksutov wrote:I don't know what his motives are exactly. What I've seen of him over the years seems erratic and narcissistic. What have you seen?

I have a few running hypotheses regarding him. I'm just now starting the video series that Shades posted. Regarding what I think I've seen, after I watch these and if they tend to confirm (or refute) my ideas about him, I'll tell you.

I'm trying to make sure, as best I can, that I am not seeing what I'm looking for.

Okay, I forgot that I've seen at least the first video before. I'll check out the next two. But so far, nothing new.

Jersey Girl wrote:Okay, I forgot that I've seen at least the first video before. I'll check out the next two. But so far, nothing new.

In Part 2, Norton makes a strong statement about Savannah's testimony and LGBT issues - especially concerning suicides in Mormonism. I think you will find it compelling.

Shulem wrote:

Jersey Girl wrote:Okay, I forgot that I've seen at least the first video before. I'll check out the next two. But so far, nothing new.

In Part 2, Norton makes a strong statement about Savannah's testimony and LGBT issues - especially concerning suicides in Mormonism. I think you will find it compelling.

Thanks!

RockSlider wrote:

Jersey Girl wrote:I don't see him that way. I think there's more to it. More to him.

He gives you a half a dozen ways to send him money, including a postal mailing address. Haven't you sent him some yet?

What's this? Another smart ass comment to me? What's your deal?

Your comment here, like the one I replied to previously, has positively nothing to do with what I stated.

Maksutov wrote:I don't know what his motives are exactly. What I've seen of him over the years seems erratic and narcissistic. What have you seen?

I'll answer this how I would have before I was tempted by the video series that Shades posted. I actually made a post about this on the thread to Shades and then deleted it.

What I think I see is a man who experiences very high levels of empathy.

Maksutov wrote:Goddamnit, you're supposed to leave the church, not just change your underwear. You can't move on if you're still hanging around outside your ex's apartment. You eventually just become a creepy stalker.

Well then, this board is filled with creepy stalkers.

Jersey Girl wrote:What I think I see is a man who experiences very high levels of empathy.

Interesting. I typically get a very different impression whenever I view his videos or read anything he puts out. I could see a certain Holden Caulfield quality in Norton that might include expressions of detached empathy in the same way Holden sees himself protecting children running towards a cliff as the titular catcher in the rye. But his lack of empathy for the people in his videos is apparent. In fact, there is a lot of Holden Caulfield in my view of Norton now that I think about it.

honorentheos wrote:Interesting. I typically get a very different impression whenever I view his videos or read anything he puts out. I could see a certain Holden Caulfield quality in Norton that might include expressions of detached empathy in the same way Holden sees himself protecting children running towards a cliff as the titular catcher in the rye. But his lack of empathy for the people in his videos is apparent. In fact, there is a lot of Holden Caulfield in my view of Norton now that I think about it.

I think you’ve hit on it.

Jersey Girl wrote:What I think I see is a man who experiences very high levels of empathy.

Dang, I was close. So do you feel that the ends justify the means?

He seems to have repeated illegal trespass (along with implied breaking and entering) after the guilty decree from last summer at Bill Reels Stake Center.