A Challenge

[_moksha]

Channeling Dunamis:

You have all been warned repeatedly. Take it over to Mormon Discussions were they tolerate both humor and diverse thought. WE are here for our LDS posters at the Maxwell Institute. You are now all banned. ~ Juliann

[_The Dude]

Methinks I see a little bit of bias in your position, Br Inks, and in those who think like you among the ministers of Scieigion (that's a word I've made up to express how science is just another religion, and you are one of it's high-priests).

1. Why can't you admit that bias is coloring your analysis of the kitten/woodchipper question?

2. The cracks are showing.

3. Don't ask me to get to the point, because I don't have to have one.

4. I know where you live and what car you drive. Does my heavy breathing make you paranoid?

[_Runtu]

Methinks I see a little bit of bias in your position, Br Inks, and in those who think like you among the ministers of Scieigion (that's a word I've made up to express how science is just another religion, and you are one of it's high-priests).

1. Why can't you admit that bias is coloring your analysis of the kitten/woodchipper question?

2. The cracks are showing.

3. Don't ask me to get to the point, because I don't have to have one.

4. I know where you live and what car you drive. Does my heavy breathing make you paranoid?

I have to confess that I always read his moniker as meaning one of two things:

1. He hated BYU.
2. He represented the sum total of hate emanating from BYU.

Now I know he just hates you. ;-)

[_Mister Scratch]

Channeling DCP:

While I am quite certain that, in certain circles, such as Dr. Shades' Obsession Board and the oddly named Recovery Board, I will be pilloried as being the offensive and lying swine that I am, after considerable deliberation with my colleague and friend, the esteemed Professor Hamblin, I have come to the conclusion that, while kittens are demonstrably nice, they are, in fact, appropriately holy woodchipper fodder. This is not to say, of course, that the negation of not knowing the illusory nature of this non-trial of nothingness is doctrinal, per se.

Then again, as I am frequently reminded by a certain Canadian rock musician, I am a donut-addicted slob and a liar.

[_CaliforniaKid]

You are all guilty of presentism. You are reading your twenty-first century conceptions of kitten-chipping back onto the 19th century. In the 19th century, cats had a much shorter lifespan, so they ceased to be considered "kittens" at a much younger age. Therefore, tossing a six-month-old cat into a wood chipper would not have been considered kitten-chipping in the 19th century. So Joseph Smith is not guilty of kitten-chipping.

-Nighthawke

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Nighthawke,

Regardless of whether we define a six-month old cat as a "kitten," wouldn't throwing any cat into a wood chipper have been considered immoral by all 19th-century people?

-CaliforniaKid

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CaliforniaKid,

The topic was kitten-chipping. Why are you confusing the issue with your logic? You are reading your twenty-first century conceptions of kitten-chipping back onto the 19th century. In the 19th century, cats had a much shorter lifespan, so they ceased to be considered "kittens" at a much younger age. Therefore, tossing a six-month-old cat into a wood chipper would not have been considered kitten-chipping in the 19th century. So Joseph Smith is not guilty of kitten-chipping.

You obviously harbor an anti-Mormon bias. Why are you so determined to slander an innocent man? We don't criticize you and your filthy rock-music churches, so why do you criticize ours?

-Nighthawke

[_CaliforniaKid]

Methinks I see a little bit of bias in your position, Br Inks, and in those who think like you among the ministers of Scieigion (that's a word I've made up to express how science is just another religion, and you are one of it's high-priests).

1. Why can't you admit that bias is coloring your analysis of the kitten/woodchipper question?

2. The cracks are showing.

3. Don't ask me to get to the point, because I don't have to have one.

4. I know where you live and what car you drive. Does my heavy breathing make you paranoid?

5. Say hello to your zebrafish for me.

YnotH8

[_The Dude]

5. Say hello to your zebrafish for me.

YnotH8

LOL. I'm glad you and Runtu could tell who I was channeling.

[_Who Knows]

5. Say hello to your zebrafish for me.

YnotH8

LOL. I'm glad you and Runtu could tell who I was channeling.

Man, I must be RRRREEEAAALLLL SSSLLLLOOOWWW. I was wondering wtf you guys were talking about.

[_Bond...James Bond]

Man, I must be RRRREEEAAALLLL SSSLLLLOOOWWW. I was wondering wtf you guys were talking about.

You weren't the only one.

FYI for the smart guys: You have to put (channeling *name) so that we get the joke.

(channeling charity)

You would know if you had the Spirit Bond. As it is you don't so you don't know any of the special things I know. How many fingers am I holding up? You don't know because you don't have the Spirit.

[_asbestosman]

2. The cracks are showing.