Blixa wrote:
Look in the mirror, friendo.
Everything you accuse others of is an accurate description of your own behavior.
ldsfaqs wrote:You should do that, because everything you claim of me and conservatives actually applies to you, but doesn't in fact apply to us.
You're on the side of distortion, perversion, etc. of all things, not me.
You didn't even process what I wrote if your comeback is a swift, "nuh uh,
you are!"
As several others have pointed out, you seem to be operating from within a fantasy where you speak for a monolithic "us" of conservatives and against an equally monolithic "you all" of liberals. This is not remotely real or accurate. You no more speak for or represent "conservatives" than the aggregate posters here represent "liberalism."
ldsfaqs wrote:I fully admit I'm critical.... but you people don't.
I can barely hazard a guess what you mean here, but here goes. No you are not "critical." What you write isn't criticism and it's sure as hell not critique. It's simple reaction. A knee jerk, emotional response with no thought, no shape, no conceptual development.
I don't know why you would accuse me (or others) of not admitting to being critical. I reckon a good 90+ percent of the posts on this board are critical of Mormonism in some fashion (this is not an endorsement of this criticism either, as I most often don't agree with the majority of posts the board. My interest in Mormonism is historical; the vagaries of the current institution in Salt Lake is not of much interest to me).
It's very odd, as a life long academic, to be accused of not "admitting" to criticality. Most of what I've published could loosely be called criticism. Furthermore, I
teach criticism. I teach critique. In my upper division and graduate courses, I regularly take students through immanent critique, ideology critique, materialist critique and dialectical critique using the works of both 19th and 20th century philosophers and cultural theorists (one of whom, the astonishingly eclectic Jewish Marxist, Walter Benjamin was the subject of some of your plagiarizing).
ldsfaqs wrote:Further, I'm also only responding to what you people do, I'm a mirror of your own reflection, again, it's why I even post here, to show you what you do, what you create.
Saying "I'm a mirror of your own reflection" is redundant. Mirrors reflect. It's what they do. But beyond this, it's good evidence of how you don't provide criticism, you merely react. If you took a moment to think, to re-read what you write, to care about how you communicate, you wouldn't write foolish phrases like that.
Anyway, this is getting tiresome.
Happy Holidays, ldsfaqs. I hope you have a Merry Christmas and find peace and clarity.
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered with/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."