Toward a Theory of Mopologetics

[_Trevor]

In sum, you can go over this issue since it began and you will see that I've never denied speaking certain words, only the "pay lay ale" claim, which I never encountered in the Temple.

Droopy was one of those blessed to experience the 1990 temple endowment a full ten years before it was revealed to everyone else. Miracles happen.

[_Droopy]

My parents went through in the early forties, and never said the words either. Only the English words...

[_Trevor]

My parents went through in the early forties, and never said the words either. Only the English words...

Fantastic! Truly you come from a blessed lineage! The seed of Christ hidden up by the hand of the Lord until the appointed time of His vengeance.

[_LifeOnaPlate]

The reluctant, burrito-loving, refrigerator repairman, lonesome, extrovert:
This is the mopologist who simply cannot pass up a good burrito when the opportunity presents itself. Perhaps this hunger results from the chapel of his youth being built next to a Taco Bell, and his olfactory glands were especially and highly stimulated on fast Sundays, leading him to associate spirituality with the food product. He repairs refrigerators, and also is a lonesome and reluctant extrovert.

[_Trevor]

The reluctant, burrito-loving, refrigerator repairman, lonesome, extrovert:
This is the mopologist who simply cannot pass up a good burrito when the opportunity presents itself. Perhaps this hunger results from the chapel of his youth being built next to a Taco Bell, and his olfactory glands were especially and highly stimulated on fast Sundays, leading him to associate spirituality with the food product. He repairs refrigerators, and also is a lonesome and reluctant extrovert.

Surely I gave up on apologetics too quickly. This could have been me.

[_Ray A]

The reluctant, burrito-loving, refrigerator repairman, lonesome, extrovert:
This is the mopologist who simply cannot pass up a good burrito when the opportunity presents itself. Perhaps this hunger results from the chapel of his youth being built next to a Taco Bell, and his olfactory glands were especially and highly stimulated on fast Sundays, leading him to associate spirituality with the food product. He repairs refrigerators, and also is a lonesome and reluctant extrovert.

Religious Studies Review might be interested in that theory.

[_cksalmon]

Well, does the "later question" figure into Mopologetic motivation? I kind of think that it does. Don't you? I.e., don't you think that many Mopologists ask themselves this question at some point, and that their answer in part determines how they choose to act?

Not in the same you do, it seems. From where I'm sitting, it looks like you've merely constructed some psychological categories (all but one of which are negative) in order to place Mormon defenders in a poor light.

Speaking of the only neutral/neutral-positive category you propose, you wrote:

Furthermore, it seems unlikely that this is ever the sole reason why a given individual undertakes LDS apologetics.

I don't know why it seems unlikely. You haven't provided any reasons for assuming it to be unlikely.

My guess is that you subjectively constructed your categories specifically to apply to certain individual LDS defenders, rather than that certain LDS defenders just happen to fit in your "objective" categories.

Shade's categories are intended to describe general phenomena. Yours seem intended to label particular people.

That's my take, at any rate.

cks

[Guest]

Not in the same you do, it seems. From where I'm sitting, it looks like you've merely constructed some psychological categories (all but one of which are negative) in order to place Mormon defenders in a poor light.

Unbelievably astute.


M

y guess is that you subjectively constructed your categories specifically to apply to certain individual LDS defenders, rather than that certain LDS defenders just happen to fit in your "objective" categories.

yup

[_LifeOnaPlate]

Actually, I find the "theories" or "hypotheses" to be quite useful. You, for example, seem to be a combination of Righteous Warrior, Perpetual Missionary, and Wounded Nerd. Feel free to clarify, though. You seem intent on dodging the question of why you engage in Mopologetics. Could this be evidence of the Chagrin Theory in action?

I'm seeing evidence of the jackassery theory in action, in my opinion.

[_Ray A]

Shade's categories are intended to describe general phenomena. Yours seem intended to label particular people.

CK, that's not generally how TBMs define Shades' categories. Most of them find it superficial, and some even offensive. They would put this in the same category of Scratch's definitions.

I think it can have a broad application (chapel/Internet Mormon), but I prefer the "Iron Rod", "Liahona" definitions because I think they're more accurate.