Kerry Shirts hits one out of the park

[_Jersey Girl]

You know, Loran, I just can't muster up enough interest in your rhetoric to even respond to it. I'll pass on this one.

[_Trevor]

Jersey,

Personally I think those were the very best Kerry videos I have ever seen. All of the others were in apologetic mode--using little bits from other scholars to attempt to show why the "critics" are wrong. I have never found them very persuasive. With these videos, which I think are potentially aimed at anyone who is a truth seeker, he really caught may attention. I have poked a little fun at Kerry, but give me a Kerry any day of the week over 95% of his co-religionists on these boards any day. He's a decent, intelligent, and interesting fellow.

[_Angus McAwesome]

Out of curiousity, am I the only one that at first glance thought this thread was called "Kerry Shirt craps one out of the park"?

[_Droopy]

Personally I think those were the very best Kerry videos I have ever seen. All of the others were in apologetic mode--using little bits from other scholars to attempt to show why the "critics" are wrong. I have never found them very persuasive.

Most educated, intellectually engaged apologists don't find much of what you assert in this forum particularly persuasive either, at least beyond your continual assertions that you are persuasive.

Well, at least we know what you think of your own arguments and views.

[_Jersey Girl]

Personally I think those were the very best Kerry videos I have ever seen. All of the others were in apologetic mode--using little bits from other scholars to attempt to show why the "critics" are wrong. I have never found them very persuasive.

Most educated, intellectually engaged apologists don't find much of what you assert in this forum particularly persuasive either, at least beyond your continual assertions that you are persuasive.

Well, at least we know what you think of your own arguments and views.

Do you by any chance, think you could (for a single second) take a breather from the characterizations of people and get on topic? The topic is a review of 3 Kerry Shirts videos.

Just a reminder.

[_Trevor]

Most educated, intellectually engaged apologists don't find much of what you assert in this forum particularly persuasive either, at least beyond your continual assertions that you are persuasive.

Well, at least we know what you think of your own arguments and views.

Are you personally offended that I generally don't find Kerry's videos persuasive?

[_Trevor]

Just a reminder.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to post this bit about those three Kerry videos. I was quite impressed with what he had to say in them. What I will always appreciate as a former student of Hugh Nibley was the man's expansive vision. It is clear to me that Kerry has picked up on that. He is an open-minded fellow, and thus more likely, outside of apologetic mode, to say things that I find interesting. I regularly traffic his backyard professor blog, and I find it to be quite fun.

[_TAK]

Jersey Girl:

He gives a description of his recent visit to a Deseret Book Store...

"1 shelf of really good references on the Scriptures"

"13 Shelves of crafty crap and junk for sale"

"6 shelves of LDS novels"

Proly better for another thread but really, .. doesn't that pretty much sum up Mormonism as a whole ?

[_The Nehor]

Jersey Girl:

He gives a description of his recent visit to a Deseret Book Store...

"1 shelf of really good references on the Scriptures"

"13 Shelves of crafty crap and junk for sale"

"6 shelves of LDS novels"

Proly better for another thread but really, .. doesn't that pretty much sum up Mormonism as a whole ?

Nope.

[_moksha]

I actually don't think Kerry is supporting the "many paths to God" concept so beloved of Boomer era searchers for meaning, but that appears to be how she has taken it.

While Kerry Shirts may not have come out with that exact statement, the many paths idea could easily be inferred. It is my guess that this interpretation would naturally fit with what he had to say throughout these three videos.