Calling & Election made sure: The Case of William Schryver

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Re: C&E : The Case of William Schryver

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Kevin Graham wrote:
So everyone who hates Will less than Hitler hated Jews will accept the rather non-startling fact that Will is the sole world authority on what is in Will's mind at any time.

Whether Will is the ultimate authority on what is in his mind is irrelevant. What is at stake here is credibility. It isn't whether Will knows the truth, but rather if he is willing to tell the truth. Surely you can distinguish between the two, right?

Right.

But what Will says about his own intent is evidence about his intent.

What you assume about his intent because you hate him too much to allow him to speak for himself is only evidence of your own boundless spite.

And since we all know about that already, it's old news.

Kevin Graham wrote:My point is Will has no credibility here or anywhere else, and he has a history of denying stuff until evidence if presented to the contrary.

But when it comes to ranting about the so-called dishonesty of the many targets of your maniacal hatred, you have no credibility. As I know from personal experience, all it takes is "he said she said," and if you hate the "he," then that's enough to make him a "proven liar" in your own strange mind.

And only those who share your malice agree with your conclusions.

Kevin Graham wrote:Don't use big words you do not understand. Red herring! You mean to tell me that Will's recent history as a liar has no bearing on his credibility?

That's right. Will's "recent history as a liar" according to the swine who hate him is absolutely irrelevant when the swine have nothing but their own swill to offer in rebuttal.

And if you weren't in a constant state of near-apoplectic rage that Will continues to consume oxygen, you'd be able to see that his C&E remarks are so obviously made with tongue in cheek that nobody with a brain larger than a walnut would imagine for a moment that they were serious.

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Re: C&E : The Case of William Schryver

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Hello,

2007

However, I’m really sorry to disappoint you, but like I told you before, I’ve already got my calling and election made sure...


Not only did Mr. Schryver say this waaaaay back in 2007, but he himself said he said it before that date. Mr. Schryver has been throwing this little gem around for years.

V/R
Dr. Cameron, NC

Thank you, yes. Blessed as I am with the ability to read with comprehension -- unimpeded by the shared malice that gives the rest of you a kind of red haze whenever you see Will's name -- I did in fact notice that. In fact, if you try reading for comprehension yourself, you will notice that I even mentioned the 2007 date.

And, as I said, it dates back to a time when Will and The Dude actually got on. Who knows how far back that was?

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Re: Calling and election from The Case of William Schryver

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Pahoran wrote:
beastie wrote:Regarding Beastie's malicious false accusation that Pahoran used a horrific tragedy caused by mental illness to score a polemic point, see this old thread here:

viewtopic.php?p=250630#p250630

There. Fixed it for you.

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Oh, I know you did quite a bit of tap-dancing regarding your "imprecise" and "fuzzy" language. But that is irrelevant to the very true statement I just made. You used a tragedy caused by a mental illness to score a polemic point.

Let me help you understand.

Polemic:
an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polemic

You were aggressively attacking the principles of apostates when you stated that when apostates blame the church for the destruction of their marriages, they are lying. You then used the case of Gino to make your point.

I have no idea which part of this you do not understand. It's pretty simple English.
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Re: Calling and election from The Case of William Schryver

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Maybe mopologists are not used to simple English? Like a hitter who expects a fastball, he will swing and miss an off speed pitch. Try putting some Baroque edges to it and see if it clicks.
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Re: C&E : The Case of William Schryver

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Pahoran wrote:Okay. I asked Will about this and he has assured me that the 2009 instance was, as I surmised, a reference to his posting status. He also unequivocally stated that the earlier instance was also entirely tongue in cheek. I'd rather not say any more about that until I have his permission to do so.

Will does not claim to have his Calling and Election made sure.

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This is the first I've heard that Will has denied having his CE made sure, despite numerous references to it over the years. I'm quite willing to believe it was always a joke, because the idea that some church leader would think Will deserved that is too far-fetched for me, but Will never denied it on this board. He's also made other grandiose claims in line with this claim. He claims that he has a special gift of discernment that allows him to sniff out fifth columnists, and he claims he has been given the power to curse apostates.

All of these claims seem so grandiose and fanciful that one would normally assume he's joking. Yet he's referenced these things numerous times without any allusion to joke-making.
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Re: C&E : The Case of William Schryver

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Pahoran wrote:Thank you, yes. Blessed as I am with the ability to read with comprehension -- unimpeded by the shared malice that gives the rest of you a kind of red haze whenever you see Will's name -- I did in fact notice that. In fact, if you try reading for comprehension yourself, you will notice that I even mentioned the 2007 date.

And, as I said, it dates back to a time when Will and The Dude actually got on. Who knows how far back that was?

Regards,
Pahoran


Hello Mr. Pahoran,

Was Mr. Schryver kidding around back in 2007 and before?

V/R
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Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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Re: C&E : The Case of William Schryver

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Pahoran wrote:Thank you, yes. Blessed as I am with the ability to read with comprehension -- unimpeded by the shared malice that gives the rest of you a kind of red haze whenever you see Will's name -- I did in fact notice that. In fact, if you try reading for comprehension yourself, you will notice that I even mentioned the 2007 date.

And, as I said, it dates back to a time when Will and The Dude actually got on. Who knows how far back that was?

Regards,
Pahoran

Hello Mr. Pahoran,

Was Mr. Schryver kidding around back in 2007 and before?

V/R
Dr. Cam

He says he was. And he is, after all, the one person who really knows.

There is no actual evidence to the contrary anywhere in view, which is why the hypocrites are trying to bury him under a truckload of ad hominem dreck.

His claim that he was is consistent with the general tenor of the post in question.

And it is far more likely that an informed, believing Latter-day Saint would joke about such a thing than that he would seriously claim it, knowing that it would ring alarm bells with other informed, believing Latter-day Saints.

Conclusion: yes.

[Edited to add:] Is The Dude still a participant here? If so, then it should be fairly easy to find out whether he can confirm the running joke that Will referred to.

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Re: Calling and election from The Case of William Schryver

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beastie wrote:Oh, I know you did quite a bit of tap-dancing regarding your "imprecise" and "fuzzy" language. But that is irrelevant to the malicious false accusation I just made. You used a tragedy caused by a mental illness to score a polemic point.

No. I did not.

beastie wrote:Let me help you understand.

Oh, so you of all people, are going to condescend to help me of all people "understand" what my own point was about?

Is there anyone, anywhere, more arrogant and presumptuous than you?

beastie wrote:Polemic:
an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polemic

You were aggressively attacking the principles of apostates when you stated that when apostates blame the church for the destruction of their marriages, they are lying. You then used the case of Gino to make your point.

I have no idea which part of this you do not understand. It's pretty simple English.

DrWertlos made an argument that sums up as "Believing Mormon doctrine logically entails mothers murdering their children," and argued extensively from the "Christine Jonsen" case to support it.

I made an argument that sums up as "People wrongly blame the Church for breaking up their families when the true cause is closer to home," and briefly mentioned four or five cases in support of that argument.

Do you deny that it is true?

Does any honest person really think the two arguments belong in the same universe of discourse?

Since you are not qualified to answer that question, I suggest you ask someone who is.

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Re: C&E : The Case of William Schryver

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Right.

Right exactly. So why are you pretending the issue is what Will knows to be true? The issue is what's true, not what Will knows.
But what Will says about his own intent is evidence about his intent.

Technically, yes. In the same way OJ Simpson's claim that he didn't kill anyone, is evidence that he didn't. But for you, all you need is Will's say so. You ignore the mountain of evidence that runs contrary to his claim.
What you assume about his intent because you hate him too much to allow him to speak for himself is only evidence of your own boundless spite.

Nobody here asked you to come here and act as Will's proxy. He hasn't been banned. Nobody here, myself included, has done anything to prevent him from defending himself, so why are you lying about this? I've done nothing to suggest I won't "allow" him to speak on his behalf. And I know you think you're getting somewhere by accusing your opponents of hatred, bigotry, boundless spite, anti-Mormonism, etc. That has always been your schtick, but it is also one of the reasons you are horrible at debate. You always take on the hopeless cases that DCP and others refuse to touch with a twenty foot pole. Maybe you do this because you use a pseudonym and feel you have nothing to lose. Either way, you've been bobbing and weaving ever since you stepped foot in the door, and now, as MsJack indicated, you're left with nothing except name-calling and attacking the messengers.
But when it comes to ranting about the so-called dishonesty of the many targets of your maniacal hatred, you have no credibility.

This is a lie too, but this thread is not about me. You're forever trying to take focus off of the subject at hand, which is Will Schryver's credibility. My credibility isn't the issue and I expect no one to take my word for anything. The evidence speaks for itself, and all I do is direct them to it. Your job is apparently to blow smoke and adjust the mirrors accordingly. Will has lied on numerous occasions on a number of topics. This is indisputable fact which neither of you can ever defend. So yes, you look like an absolute fool for coming here claiming to be in a knowledgable position to take Will's word for anything.

And do you really think you can add a shred of credibility to your claims simply by charging them with so much emotional baggage? Maniacal hatred? My my. I know your readers at MADB eat this up and mistake it for an effective intellectual response, but over here you're addressing rational folks who think you look foolish for doing it. It seems you know little to nothing about the history between Wilbur and I. It was always he who initiated hostitilities between us, but you refuse to see the record proving this because it disrupts your presupposition that apostates are always the hostile ones. For a couple of years Will and I got along fairly well, until I noticed he started invoking my name at MAD in negative contexts, using my "apostasy" to prove something credible about his perceptions, and repeatedly insisting I was upset because I had become a nothing in the Book of Abraham debate, etc etc... This went on for months before I started publicly challenging him and began writing up formal responses to his various, idiotic apologetic arguments. In the process I caught him lying and misrepresenting his sources. This is his method, and I have proved it. When showed the proof, William thinks it is best to place me on ignore instead of explaining why he felt the need to lie so often.

But I challenge you to provide any examples, from my extensive history posting as both an apologist or critic, over the course of the past decade and a half, where I have lied. As far as I can tell, I have credibility among a broad spectrum of posters, including LDS apologists and LDS scholars. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever been challenged or called out as a liar on any given point, ever. But you can be the first Pahoran, so go for it. Show us why I have no credibility compared to William Schryver. Just do us all a favor and start another thread.
As I know from personal experience, all it takes is "he said she said," and if you hate the "he," then that's enough to make him a "proven liar" in your own strange mind.

Your personal experience with me led to an embarassment to yourself. You said you apologized to JP Holding for revealing his in real life identity in publication. The reason I didn't believe you wasn't because I hated you and not the other guy, The reason is because I owned the emails between the three of us and know for a fact that you never apologized. In short, you lied about something nearly a decade later because you didn't think there was definitive proof to the contrary. Gee, sounds familiar to what Will Schryver did recently, so it is hardly surprising you rush to help him out. You two obviously have no respect for the truth.
And only those who share your malice agree with your conclusions.

Yes that must be it Pahoran. All those LDS apologists and LDS scholars must agree with me because of the shared "malice" towards poor innocent Wilbur. The good folks at NAMI, despite their frequent lunch appointments with William, also have a shared "malice" towards him. It is never Will's fault is it. Everyone else is to blame, always.
Will's "recent history as a liar" according to the swine who hate him is absolutely irrelevant when the swine have nothing but their own swill to offer in rebuttal.

No it is according to the evidence which you will never have the courage to engage, as usual. In the slew of evidences listed by MsJack, you focus only on one where there is just enough room to claim plausible deniability, and then you ignore the other examples, or dismiss them out of hand as mere "trash talk." Right. "Trash talk" presupposes that there are two sides trash talking. But that isn't what the record shows. It shows William attacking the women here for no reason whatsoever. All you're trying to do here is minimize the significance of his antics and pretend he is some kind of victim.
And if you weren't in a constant state of near-apoplectic rage that Will continues to consume oxygen, you'd be able to see that his C&E remarks are so obviously made with tongue in cheek that nobody with a brain larger than a walnut would imagine for a moment that they were serious.

I never raised the C&E issue because I don't see how this is a crucial point to MsJack's argument. I am more concerned with his attacks against the women here, calling them whores and bitches and such. You seem intent on covering for him, which says plenty about the despicable nature of your character as well. The good folks at NAMI had the sense to know publishing this guy would eventually turn into a PR nightmare for both them and the Church.

I simply responded to your claim that the C&E reference was all a joke based on his godhood status. That argument was shot out of the water with a previous example provided by DrCam. You then had to ask Will to explain that one too. And of course Will gives you some BS explanation related to some off-forum banter between he and the Dude, which you swallow whole uncritically as usual. What matters is that it is a loyal member speaking against apostates. That's all that you need to know for you to choose who you're going to believe. You're just loyal to the tribe and/or too naïve to understand what posters here have endured with William's presence over the course of the past five years. You obviously do not have enough familiarity with his posting style. You seem to think it is impossible to be intentionally insulting while at the same time speaking "tongue in cheek". WIlliam takes pride in his ability to insult the living hell out of people here while trying to come off as humorous and witty. That doesn't make his attacks any less insulting or his method any less despicable. Your argument is ridiculous.
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Re: Calling and election from The Case of William Schryver

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Pahoran wrote:Is there anyone, anywhere, more arrogant and presumptuous than you?



Pahoran wrote:Since you are not qualified to answer that question, I suggest you ask someone who is.


Now, let me see ... maybe I can help here?
Zadok:
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That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
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