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Re: Mike Parker Undermines the Classic “How could he have known?” Argument

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 5:02 pm
by Marcus
Parker, captioning a photo, wrote:This is totally normal and not at all weird.
I nominate this for the 2023 Mopologist Motto. Can't you just see this phrase headlining Dr. Scratch's Top 10 of the Year post?

Eta: DCP deserves honorable mention for responding to gemli with the phrase:
"booga booga woo woo!"
multiple times in the last couple of days. What a scholar.

Re: Mike Parker Undermines the Classic “How could he have known?” Argument

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 5:32 pm
by Doctor CamNC4Me
I feel like I’m watching two factions argue over who’s more powerful, Gandalf or the Balrog. It’s the craziest crap to watch adults fight over their imaginations and which imagination is “totally normal and not at all weird.”

Also, “Nines” is a real piece of work. He’s like the genetically spliced love child of Kiwi, Midgley, and CPT Hook, a.k.a. Smoot. Lots of raged and pent up anger.

- Doc

Re: Mike Parker Undermines the Classic “How could he have known?” Argument

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 10:58 pm
by Philo Sofee
Parker is so fixated on hurting Jonathan Neville that he's forgotten what it means to be a disciple of Christ.
That's a huge assumption that he ever has been one...

Re: Mike Parker Undermines the Classic “How could he have known?” Argument

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:28 pm
by Doctor Scratch
It wouldn’t be that hard for him to start trying to patch things up. But that just not how the Mopologists operate.

Re: Mike Parker Undermines the Classic “How could he have known?” Argument

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 1:09 am
by Philo Sofee
Doctor Scratch wrote:
Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:28 pm
It wouldn’t be that hard for him to start trying to patch things up. But that just not how the Mopologists operate.
Yeah, I'm afraid you have your finger on their pulse all right. But we will continue the good work of pressuring them Mormons to become Christlike anyway. Ironic isn't it? Supposed "Apostates" helping Mormons find Christ?

Re: Mike Parker Undermines the Classic “How could he have known?” Argument

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 1:54 am
by Doctor Scratch
The blog entry is actually titled “Scholarship vs. activism.” Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this coming from somebody (I.e., Parker), who does not even have a *bachelor’s degree*?? And he’s got the chutzpah to weigh in on whether or not another Latter-day Saint is doing legitimate “scholarship”?

Re: Mike Parker Undermines the Classic “How could he have known?” Argument

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 2:31 am
by Philo Sofee
Doctor Scratch wrote:
Fri Mar 24, 2023 1:54 am
The blog entry is actually titled “Scholarship vs. activism.” Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this coming from somebody (I.e., Parker), who does not even have a *bachelor’s degree*?? And he’s got the chutzpah to weigh in on whether or not another Latter-day Saint is doing legitimate “scholarship”?
:lol:

Re: Mike Parker Undermines the Classic “How could he have known?” Argument

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 2:32 am
by malkie
Doctor Scratch wrote:
Fri Mar 24, 2023 1:54 am
The blog entry is actually titled “Scholarship vs. activism.” Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this coming from somebody (I.e., Parker), who does not even have a *bachelor’s degree*?? And he’s got the chutzpah to weigh in on whether or not another Latter-day Saint is doing legitimate “scholarship”?
The Mopologists are fine with people without academic backgrounds.

I mean, they wouldn't call Parker "butthead", or anything like that, right?

Re: Mike Parker Undermines the Classic “How could he have known?” Argument

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 3:06 am
by drumdude
malkie wrote:
Fri Mar 24, 2023 2:32 am
Doctor Scratch wrote:
Fri Mar 24, 2023 1:54 am
The blog entry is actually titled “Scholarship vs. activism.” Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this coming from somebody (I.e., Parker), who does not even have a *bachelor’s degree*?? And he’s got the chutzpah to weigh in on whether or not another Latter-day Saint is doing legitimate “scholarship”?
The Mopologists are fine with people without academic backgrounds.

I mean, they wouldn't call Parker "butthead", or anything like that, right?

He’s a professor. He teaches adult Sunday school in Hurricane.

Re: Mike Parker Undermines the Classic “How could he have known?” Argument

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 3:28 am
by malkie
drumdude wrote:
Fri Mar 24, 2023 3:06 am
malkie wrote:
Fri Mar 24, 2023 2:32 am
The Mopologists are fine with people without academic backgrounds.

I mean, they wouldn't call Parker "butthead", or anything like that, right?
He’s a professor. He teaches adult Sunday school in Hurricane.
I must have been misinformed. I assumed that I could trust FAIR for Parker's creds:
FAIR wrote:Mike Parker is a business and marketing analyst with twenty years’ experience in the financial services industry. He is a returning student currently pursuing a BS in Business Finance from Dixie State University in St. George, Utah. He also has eight years’ experience in corporate training, and currently teaches an adult religion class in the Hurricane, Utah, area. Mike and his wife, Denise, have three children.
http://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/authors/parker-mike