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[_Darth J]

Do you think there's something wrong about this?

Yes. The insurance is probably a nightmare, fiberglass is not the material most people would choose to shield themselves in a collision, and the maintenance is probably not that fun.

But it is a sweet ride, nonetheless. Ahh, the days when cars were not a government commodity.

[_Jersey Girl]

Yes. The insurance is probably a nightmare, fiberglass is not the material most people would choose to shield themselves in a collision, and the maintenance is probably not that fun.

But it is a sweet ride, nonetheless. Ahh, the days when cars were not a government commodity.

Disliking the stereotyping coming across the screen, can you tell? As a matter of fact it IS a sweet ride and having viewed video of Loran not long ago, were he to be behind the wheel (instead of the Jersey Boy who has owned it for 25 years), he'd look damn hot in it.

:-)

[_Darth J]

Yes. The insurance is probably a nightmare, fiberglass is not the material most people would choose to shield themselves in a collision, and the maintenance is probably not that fun.

But it is a sweet ride, nonetheless. Ahh, the days when cars were not a government commodity.

Disliking the stereotyping coming across the screen, can you tell? As a matter of fact it IS a sweet ride and having viewed video of Loran not long ago, were he to be behind the wheel (instead of the Jersey Boy who has owned it for 25 years), he'd look damn hot in it.

:-)

This is why I said you'd have to be a guy to understand. I'm not talking about buying a Corvette because it's awesome. I'm talking about buying a Corvette to compensate for something.

[_Jersey Girl]

Darth J

This is why I said you'd have to be a guy to understand. I'm not talking about buying a Corvette because it's awesome. I'm talking about buying a Corvette to compensate for something.

I know exactly what you were getting at, Darth. You alluded to potency issues, in the case of Loran, intellectual potency. You think his overly articulate/wordy posts are an effort to compensate for lack of intellectual prowess when infact, his language skills are a sign of giftedness.

That is to say, he's not trying too hard. He's not trying at all.

He doesn't have to.

[_Darth J]

Darth J

This is why I said you'd have to be a guy to understand. I'm not talking about buying a Corvette because it's awesome. I'm talking about buying a Corvette to compensate for something.

I know exactly what you were getting at, Darth. You alluded to potency issues, in the case of Loran, intellectual potency. You think his overly articulate/wordy posts are an effort to compensate for lack of intellectual prowess when infact, his language skills are a sign of giftedness.

That is to say, he's not trying too hard. He's not trying at all.

He doesn't have to.

I see. What parts of his constitutional exegesis and his giving a straight answer about Lincoln-Douglas debate standards impressed you the most?

[_Jersey Girl]

This is why I said you'd have to be a guy to understand. I'm not talking about buying a Corvette because it's awesome. I'm talking about buying a Corvette to compensate for something.

I know exactly what you were getting at, Darth. You alluded to potency issues, in the case of Loran, intellectual potency. You think his overly articulate/wordy posts are an effort to compensate for lack of intellectual prowess when infact, his language skills are a sign of giftedness.

That is to say, he's not trying too hard. He's not trying at all.

He doesn't have to.

I see. What parts of his constitutional exegesis and his giving a straight answer about Lincoln-Douglas debate standards impressed you the most?

Darth,

Why are you now moving the goal posts? Here is your original comment that I replied to:

by the way, if you wonder why Droopy always posts these walls of purple prose that don't really say anything except that he's morally and intellectually superior to everyone else, I'll give you a hint:

It has something to do with why balding middle-aged men on Viagra drive Corvettes.

You weren't referring to his position. You referred to his use of language. You implied that his use of language was a form of compensation for lack of intellectual prowess, did you not?

That is what I addressed.

[_Darth J]

You weren't referring to his position. You referred to his use of language. You implied that his use of language was a form of compensation for lack of intellectual prowess, did you not?

That is what I addressed.

No. I'm referring to using "ooh, big words" to create the illusion of actually saying something.

[_Trevor]

Obviously you don't see yourself adhering to a biased highly speculative conspiracy theory and yet you do Trevor. For you to reject all the evidence and witness statements over the span of many years, many of them unconnected with one another yet supportive of a Spalding manuscript necessitates that you believe all those many witnesses conspired against Mormonism and the Book of Mormon for no apparent personal gain at a time when Mormonism was an unimportant religion with a very small membership and had virtually no affect if any on their lives and not something they continued to pursue personally. So your theory is they all conspired, then essentially dropped their interest in continuing the conspiracy ...but according to you in this case it was an actual conspiracy apparently which you think well warranted to theorize.

Yes, well, marg, the difference between the two of us is that you are happy to engage in a lot of hand-waving because you are convinced that all of this must mean what you and your fellow Spaldingites are convinced it means, whereas I am still waiting to see where the rubber meets the road. Where is the evidence that convincingly places Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon together before and during the composition of the Book of Mormon?

I don't like fabricated missing manuscripts, and I also don't care for the meetings between Joseph and Sidney that we think had to have happened for our theory to be true. I want the manuscript or at least some convincing eyewitness testimony of its existence, just like I want the evidence that shows the early Rigdon-Smith connection. And that is just one of many problems.

We could have our usual gymnastic exercise about all of this, which will end in the usual mutual expressions of disdain, but I prefer to skip all of that, if you don't mind. We're not getting anywhere with each other on this topic. That much is obvious.

What does "inspired translation" mean? That sounds highly speculative Trevor. Are you saying that Smith was inspired by a God? If not, then why even use the word "inspired"? In what other sense are you intending that word to be taken as? He saw the papyri, and claimed he could translate it..what does inspiration have to do with anything? The evidence is he couldn't translate it.

Marg, meet thews; thews, meet marg. I have to be careful what I say, because the word police are out sniffing out any foul odor of my crypto-Mormon-ness.

[_Darth J]

I wouldn't have thought there was such a thing as an atheist jihad before I encountered marg here.

[_Trevor]

I wouldn't have thought there was such a thing as an atheist jihad before I encountered marg here.

Marg and I have kind of a "thing" for each other. Innocent bystanders have voiced their sincere concern. I try to keep it all "Terrestrial."