The Origin of FAIR/MAD

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_Daniel Peterson
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Rollo Tomasi wrote:Dan is like the Church institution or the Brethren -- he's never made a mistake (or at least one he is willing to admit).

I've made plenty of mistakes and done plenty of wrong -- wasting time on you two obsessives is merely a minor item on the list -- but engaging in a crusade of gossip against Mike Quinn isn't one of them.

Now it's Scratch Senior's turn!
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Rollo Tomasi wrote:Ding dong, the witch is dead, the witch is dead, the witch is dead ....


I believe the tune goes

"Ding dong, the witch is dead,
which old witch? the wicked witch,
ding dong the wicked witch is dead"

End derailment
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
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Daniel Peterson wrote:
Rollo Tomasi wrote:Dan is like the Church institution or the Brethren -- he's never made a mistake (or at least one he is willing to admit).

I've made plenty of mistakes and done plenty of wrong -- wasting time on you two obsessives is merely a minor item on the list -- but engaging in a crusade of gossip against Mike Quinn isn't one of them.

Still in denial. You have my pity, Dan.
"Moving beyond apologist persuasion, LDS polemicists furiously (and often fraudulently) attack any non-traditional view of Mormonism. They don't mince words -- they mince the truth."

-- Mike Quinn, writing of the FARMSboys, in "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View," p. x (Rev. ed. 1998)
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Sethbag wrote:Boooooooooooooring. I read the first bit of this whole thread, and then jumped to Page (Holy Schnikies!) Twenty-freaking-three, and it's still more "did/didn't/did/didn't".

At some point, a topic ought to just collapse under its own weight and expire.

Shhhhhh! This topic is infinitely fascinating. Fifty or a hundred or even a thousand repetitious pages wouldn't begin to exhaust its charms.

Shame on you for suggesting otherwise.
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Sethbag wrote:Boooooooooooooring. I read the first bit of this whole thread, and then jumped to Page (Holy Schnikies!) Twenty-freaking-three, and it's still more "did/didn't/did/didn't".

At some point, a topic ought to just collapse under its own weight and expire.


I don't think this thread hit "did/didn't/did/didn't" until the 7th or 8th page. The first few pages were "I know you are but what am I?", but I'm hoping this thread moves towards PG scatalogical insults soon.
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Daniel Peterson wrote:This topic is infinitely fascinating. Fifty or a hundred or even a thousand repetitious pages wouldn't begin to exhaust its charms.

I bet that's how you and your "circles" thought of the Quinn gossip.
"Moving beyond apologist persuasion, LDS polemicists furiously (and often fraudulently) attack any non-traditional view of Mormonism. They don't mince words -- they mince the truth."

-- Mike Quinn, writing of the FARMSboys, in "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View," p. x (Rev. ed. 1998)
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Scratch Senior and Junior may soon discover that my mother wore army boots. Then watch this take off!

And they haven't yet begun to blame me for the fall of Rome, global warming, the historically poor performance of the Chicago Cubs, the Black Death, Paris Hilton, Darfur, western wildfires, AIDS, the break-up of the Beatles, Hugh Grant, or Brussels sprouts.
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Daniel Peterson wrote:And they haven't yet begun to blame me for the fall of Rome, global warming, the historically poor performance of the Chicago Cubs, the Black Death, Paris Hilton, Darfur, western wildfires, AIDS, the break-up of the Beatles, Hugh Grant, or Brussels sprouts.


I wouldn't dare blame you for the break-up of the Beatles.....

But I do think you're in on the conspiracy that requires hot dogs to be sold in packs of 10 while buns are sold in packs of 8.
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Rollo Tomasi wrote:I bet that's how you and your "circles" thought of the Quinn gossip.

You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.

Next stop, the Twilight Zone!
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Hugh Grant? And that was you?

Holy Crap, where are the torches, let's go down to BYU right now and burn the place!
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