Meet the Mopologists

[_Daniel Peterson]

This must be one of the ugliest threads you've managed to create.

I dunno, LOAP. He's been a busy little beaver for at least two years now. There's lots and lots of competition for that designation.

[_moksha]

What a dirty old man you are, Prof. P. That girl must be half your age.

In anybody else's case, I would assume that he or she was joking.

In your case, though, given your lengthy history of obsessive personal malice, I can't be sure.

Knowing who a girl is could be reason for taunting in some parallel dimensions unless she is within 5 years of your own age.

[_LifeOnaPlate]

I don't understand the personal contempt, either. From what I could see, it was just a bunch of good people enjoying each other's company. I suppose if you want to find something to pick at, you can.

My wife said the same thing. You can, quite literally, find anything about anyone in order to make fun of them and make yourself feel superior by putting others beneath your feet. One could make fun of a model for being "too skinny" or having a weird nose. You can make fun of literally everyone with relative ease. It is the easiest thing in the world, really. What you say doesn't even have to be true; but that isn't really the point of saying it. The point is placing someone else beneath you and placing yourself above.

[_SUAS]

Yes and LifeOnaPlate..cause were you not told to clean your plate before you left the table..so in fact your life is on a plate for all to see..and we have seen that too many times before.....

DC...go away and go back your very own pompous message board where can can preach to the idiots...

I thought it was cool that SHADES message board was mentioned but in FACT this is something that KEENE started..

TRue or Not True...KEENE is COOL

No No I think that Jersey Girl is in fact Juliann..now that I think about for a while...just saying

[Guest]

SUAS, I'll take my leave of this board when I feel like doing it. But thanks, anyway, for your invitation.

Knowing who a girl is could be reason for taunting in some parallel dimensions unless she is within 5 years of your own age.

Since she was in a small honors seminar that Bill Hamblin and I taught a year or so ago, it would be odd if I didn't know who she was -- and particularly so when she's been a volunteer at the FAIR conference for several years running.

Perhaps, though, Master Scartch will still find a way to condemn me for not knowing her. I've always been impressed with his capacity for condemnation.

[_Dr. Shades]

DC...go away and go back your very own pompous message board where can can preach to the idiots...

[MODERATOR NOTE by Shades: SUAS, probably the biggest "sin" one can commit on this board is to de-invite someone. I take it VERY seriously.

Please take good note: Daniel Peterson, and everyone else who disagrees with you on any subject, is perfectly welcome to post here anytime he likes. In other words, DO NOT ASK HIM (or anyone else) TO LEAVE.

Thanks in advance for your attention to this matter.]

[_consiglieri]

[b][MODERATOR NOTE by Shades: SUAS, probably the biggest "sin" one can commit on this board is to de-invite someone. I take it VERY seriously.

[b]

Say what you like about Dr. Shades, you've got to appreciate his egalitarianism.

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

[_Yoda]

I thought it was cool that SHADES message board was mentioned but in FACT this is something that KEENE started..

That is actually not correct. Shades is the founder of the board. Mormon Discussions was Shades' concept, and Shades' vision. Keene is a good friend of Shades, and Shades consulted Keene because Keene had both the technical know-how and financial means to handle the programming and financing. The vision and theme of the board, however, is Shades' concept.

TRue or Not True...KEENE is COOL

True. Keene is a sweetheart, very smart, and definitely cool.

;)

[Physics Guy]

I thought that I would begin today's review of "Pt 3 FAIR Conference" with an epigraph:

I'm not sure why you think this somehow a personal insult. Making judgments about the reliability of scholars and scholarly books is a principal and quite legitimate task of academic reviewing, just as judging the quality of films, plays, symphonies, and novels is the legitimate principal task of film, drama, music, and literary critics. ---Daniel C. Peterson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjUUFBkjjz8&feature=user

The film, once again featuring K. Shirt's signature cinema verite style, opens up with The Backyard Professor exclaiming "Eight-five bucks!" as he hefts and inspects the price of a book on Mormon history/geography. On to the highlights:

---At 30 seconds in, Jan makes an appearance. This, I believe, is the same Jan who became notorious during the whole "Murphy transcript" episode. K. Shirts urges her to "Say hello to Bill Hamblin" since he is "too snooty" to join the goings-on at the FAIR conference.
---At 1:25, Kerry Shirts addresses the camera once again, this time with his arm slung around the shoulders of Renee Olson. He tells both Renee and the camera that Bill Hamblin is busy at Oxford. Sis. Olson responds by stating, "I'm busy being the token Black." Shirts uncorks an uncomfortable laugh at this and searches Olson's face for meaning. He tries to diffuse the situation by saying, "Okay, I'll be the token White." Olson does him one better: "No, you're the token Court Jester." Well played, madame!
---2:28, we meet (in Shirts's words) the "World Famous Matt Roper." Roper, as many here will recall, was implicated by DCP as being responsible for the bogus "Florida Horse" citation on the FARMS FAQ. Roper is also believed to be on the full-time payroll as an apologist. He was also present during Louis Midgley's verbal harangue of Sandra Tanner.
---3:11, Shirts introduces us to LifeOnaPlate and his wife. Shirts says of her, "She's the better half." LoaP glumly replies, "She's the shorter half," forcing a smile and stalking off cantankerously, pretending to look at the book display. "That's the only thing impressive about her?" says Shirts, chuckling, to LoaP's back. But LoaP makes no reply.
---3:39, The Backyard Professor bashes the work of Dan Vogel: "Look at that!" he says. "We even have Dan Vogel's junk, er... 'stuff.'" "Don't ever let it be said that we're narrow-minded," he later muses.
--AT 6:00, Shirts notices a display for LDS "Women's Studies" books. "That's ridiculous!" he ejaculates. "We're supposed to be narrow-minded, and, uh, patriarchal, and---vicious! What are we doing promoting women's studies???"
---The film concludes with Alan Wyatt stepping on both of Kerry's feet. The Backyard Professor yelps in obvious pain at this. Afterwards, he mugs with LoaP, and the young man from earlier, who is now identified as "rommelator."

I have to say, this installment offered far more drama and intrigue as compared with the prior to reviewed episodes. Because of this, I am going to rate this film 2 stars (out of four). If director Shirts can maintain this caliber of filmmaking and acting, then his career---which already totals well over 400 videos on YouTube---should take off.

[_Dr. Shades]

(Thanks, consiglieri, for the kind words!)

Mister Scratch, do you have a link to video #3?