Our newest member, Wayneman: Shades' missionary companion??

[_Wayneman]

I am vulnerable in ways Shades is not. He's done his best to protect me; I try to return the favor. Carry on.

Vulnerable to what? The Mormon Mafia?

Give me a break.

[_Bond James Bond]

*B23 ponders his own safety *

Anyway, welcome Wayneman.




(hopefully fat gay dating ads)

[_harmony]

I am vulnerable in ways Shades is not. He's done his best to protect me; I try to return the favor. Carry on.

Vulnerable to what? The Mormon Mafia?

Give me a break.

Perhaps you should ask Shades. Your ignorance is showing.

My TR is as good as yours, and that causes some folks who frequent this place a considerable amount of angst... enough, that if they knew my real name, they'd seek to cause mischief in my real life.

[_Wayneman]

Perhaps you should ask Shades. Your ignorance is showing.

My TR is as good as yours, and that causes some folks who frequent this place a considerable amount of angst... enough, that if they knew my real name, they'd seek to cause mischief in my real life.

Perhaps I am ignorant, Harmony. But it is apparent that you think very highly of yourself in that cryptic tone of yours.

I actually feel sorry for you, living in that paranoid little world of yours. Must be some life, eh, being all cloak-and-dagger about everything.

And frankly, I don't care what your real name is. Even if it was "Thomas S. Monson", I'll let God be the judge.

At any rate, I never intended for this to become the "love-fest" it has become, so I will say no more on the matter, Harmony. Nor will I address you again. I've said all I needed to, to you.

Shades - I'm sorry if I stirred things up. But please tell me that a guy like Harmony doesn't pull your strings.

[_harmony]

Perhaps I am ignorant, Harmony. But it is apparent that you think very highly of yourself in that cryptic tone of yours.

And you think very highly of yourself with your expectation of special treatment.

I actually feel sorry for you, living in that paranoid little world of yours. Must be some life, eh, being all cloak-and-dagger about everything.

Paranoia strikes deep in the heartland, but I think it's all overdone. And so is your analysis.

And frankly, I don't care what your real name is. Even if it was "Thomas S. Monson", I'll let God be the judge.

And I don't care what yours is. But there are those here who will use any weapon.

At any rate, I never intended for this to become the "love-fest" it has become, so I will say no more on the matter, Harmony. Nor will I address you again. I've said all I needed to, to you.

Unintended consequences.

Shades - I'm sorry if I stirred things up. But please tell me that a guy like Harmony doesn't pull your strings.

Now see, there ya go, assuming again. How many guys would use a nick like harmony?

Nobody pulls Shades' strings, least of all me. Did you think you were his only friend here?

[_msnobody]

Welcome to the board, Wayneman. I'm happy you found it and also finding Shades.

[_Gadianton]

So here's the play-by-play.

Harmony (female) says it's good not to use real names here. The context of years of board feuds escapes Wayne -- imagine that -- and Wayne mistakenly thinks she's refering to evil covert operations of a LDS SCMC-like org. While the SCMC is real, evil, and highly connected to apologetics, that wasn't what she was talking about, but rather, the more mundane oaf-like evil of a group of mid-tier to junior apologists -- Internet Mormons who could barely be regarded as Mormon at all and generally lacking the graduate degrees of FARMS -- probably now on MAD (another board) that began posting personal things about Shades publically. So hence, better to be anonymous. So Wayne, sort of on a quick draw, misunderstood Harmony. And then Harmony, instead of corrected Wayne and giving hime a chance to see what she really meant, uses the opportunity to feign an attack on her own member status and pulls the "i'm just as good a member as you" card.

[_Wayneman]

Thank you for the clarification, Gadianton. I stand corrected.

[_harmony]

So here's the play-by-play.

Harmony (female) says it's good not to use real names here. The context of years of board feuds escapes Wayne -- imagine that -- and Wayne mistakenly thinks she's refering to evil covert operations of a LDS SCMC-like org. While the SCMC is real, evil, and highly connected to apologetics, that wasn't what she was talking about, but rather, the more mundane oaf-like evil of a group of mid-tier to junior apologists -- Internet Mormons who could barely be regarded as Mormon at all and generally lacking the graduate degrees of FARMS -- probably now on MAD (another board) that began posting personal things about Shades publically. So hence, better to be anonymous. So Wayne, sort of on a quick draw, misunderstood Harmony. And then Harmony, instead of corrected Wayne and giving hime a chance to see what she really meant, uses the opportunity to feign an attack on her own member status and pulls the "i'm just as good a member as you" card.

Dang it, Gad! You had to go and ruin all my fun.

[_bcspace]

Oh, and I'm the one who had a son who served in Nagoya in a slight overlap to your own mission.

My sister served in Nagoya. Would've been about 1991.